All you need is love?
Sounds good doesn’t it? Love is all there is. There is only love. This is a typical religious quote about love I found on the web:
Our Creator brought us into this world carrying only Love, True unconditional Love. This is what we are all made of, and this never changes. It is years of false beliefs taught to us by others who cling to those same false beliefs that make us forget our True Identities.
People are so ready to blindly accept this stuff because it sounds good, but the problem is that when you stop to think about, it’s so obviously not true.
Babies only know love?
If we are brought into this world carrying only love, how come babies and toddlers can only think about fulfilling their own needs? They cry because they are hungry, or because they need a new nappy, or because they don’t get their own way, whatever. Their not thinking ‘I won’t cry right now because my mom’s a bit stressed’. That comes later. Only when people start to mature do they then learn to empathise with others.
Love is all there is?
If love is all there is, what about other emotions such as anger, sadness, excitement, lust, greed etc? Are you going to tell me that these don’t really exist because they are false and what it all really boils down to is love? Bullshit! They do exist, they are very real, and everyone knows it.
‘Ah, but if you meditate on it, clear your mind, enter into a higher plane and become a more spiritual person you will eventually see that these things really are false and the true nature of everything really is love.’
No man, bullshit again! I know sadness, I’ve felt it, I’ve touched it. I know anger I’ve felt that too. I know joy – I’m telling you man, their real!
If there was only love, the world would be a better place?
‘Ohh, is that a paper cut on your thumb? Oh you poor boy!’
First person: ‘Please after you’
Second person: ‘No, after you please’
First person: ‘No, no. Please I insist’
Second person: ‘Oh no, I couldn’t possibly. After you please’
This is another assumption that people make without really thinking about it. But what would it really be like? I mean really? Everybody being nice to everyone else the whole time. Well it might make a refreshing change for a while, but what about after a year or two when they’re still being nice. What about when you swear at them and they just forgive you. What about when you punch them in the face and they just turn the other cheek. Aaaaagh! How annoying is that? Are we living in Noddy land?
I joke, but the point is real. We have a need to express our full range of feelings and emotions. To only express love is to stifle oneself, to only be a small part of who you REALLY are.
Cuchulain
The battle-fury of Cuchulain blazed so great that he bound the severed head of Foill to his chariot-rim, and seeing a flock of wild swans, brought down sixteen alive with his sling and tied them to the chariot.
On returning to Emain Macha, king Conor sent out a troop of naked maidens that they should soften his mood, and on bowing his head in shame, the king’s men instantly seized him and plunged him into a vat of cold water.
The water boiled around him and the staves and hoops of the vat burst asunder. They plunged him again and again, until only at last did his fury leave him and his natural form and aspect were restored.
