Love – Page 2 – Harmonia Philosophica

Seek routine. Seek happiness.

Modern day people seek more action. More adventure. More thrills.

But Yoda said it eloquently…

Adventure! Huh!

Excitement! Huh!

A Jedi craves not these things…

An interview of Archbishop Demetrios in 2011 regarding anxiety, unemployment, and old-fashioned Truth which is drowned out by the contemporary influx of information. Feeling overwhelmed? Could routine and structure be the key? (1)

If life is nothing… special.

Then, yes. Who gives a fuck.

Go ahead and break your head.

But…

If life is meant to be love, how can you express love through… bungee jumping and rock climbing? Your loved ones need you here. Not somewhere else feeding your own egoistic need for satisfaction.

If life is meant to be an attempt to reunite with One, how can you even get close to such a goal by feeding your own uniqueness by racing with cars or trying to swallow swords? The greatest philosophy needs peace of mind. Not excitement.

If life is meant to be happy and live eternally in the here and now (take a time machine and go back – you will see you are still there!), how can you feel like that when you seek ways to forget about yourself and focus on external stimuli?

Seek the routine.

Seek peace.

And you will immediately feel the thrill of the cosmos boiling inside you…

Mental trauma. Passing along generations…

Experiencing trauma early in childhood can lead to mental health problems in adolescence and adulthood, but mild to moderate trauma could also have an unexpected upside for some survivors, making them better able to cope with stressful situations later in life.

Previous research has shown that the behavioral effects of trauma can be passed down to the next generation — but this research had only demonstrated that this transmission takes place with trauma’s negative effects, such as depression. Now a study on mice, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that the adaptive benefits of trauma might also stay alive in families through the years. (1)

More and more do we see how biology can be affected by things which sound and are immaterial. Invisible connections seem to rule our visible life.
The human soul is immortal.
Love is eternal.
Be kind.
Love people.
That love will come back to you.
In ways more direct than you can ever imagine…

Love chemistry. Ending love. Killing the heart…

Love and heartache have always been inexorably tied. Recall the paranoid, lust-dizzy characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream or the tortured, memory-deprived lovers in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Wouldn’t it be nice if a pill could take away the pain of a breakup? Researchers are looking into it.

As unromantic as it sounds, love is essentially a biochemical cocktail, and a poorly understood one at that. Scientists do know that oxytocin—often called the love hormone—plays a powerful role in bonding. In one experiment, Adam Guastella, a clinical psychologist at the University of Sydney in Australia, administered oxytocin to quarreling lovers during couples’ therapy. “It does seem to help people reduce their hostility and increase their willingness to take another’s perspective,” he says. Inhibiting the hormone could have the opposite effect: When Emory University researchers injected drugs into the brains of prairie voles to block oxytocin receptors, the voles lost interest in their long-term mating partners. With the manipulation of oxytocin, a love “off button” seems possible. (1)

We were Gods.
Loving others.
Killing for love.
Getting killed for love.

Now we are educated.
Now we are evolved.
Now we are cowards.
Avoiding love.
With drugs.

Modern civilization.
Look under the surface.
Discover rot.

What truly matters in life! (or why religion kicks ass!)

John and Ann Betar weren’t supposed to get married. Her father had arranged for her to wed another man, but she and John fled Bridgeport and eloped to New York. That was more than 80 years ago. The couple is still happily married, a fact that has led to their naming as the “longest married couple” in the U.S. for 2013 by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a Christian marriage group based in San Bernardino, Calif. (1, 2)

After all, this is what really matters folks!
Not arguments for or against God.
Not debates for or against theism.

What atheists will never understand, is that life’s truly important things are the things which make us humans, the things one cannot measure. The things one cannot replicate in a lab. The things science is silent about. The things for which true and honest religion talks about.

Religion has exalted marriage to one of its greatest Mysteries. I am truly curious to see how atheists celebrate love, besides their inherent belief that it stems from… eating too much chocolate.