I'll explain people have murdered/raped/cheated/abused those they love dearly makes no sense to me but it doesn't seem that it can __conquer all__ if people can do that love didn't conquer their monstrous characteristics or their anger/pain, etc.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

It does when you understand that love is the only thing that matters.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

no it's not the only thing that matters compatibility matters if you're a very liberal female and you marry a very strict, traditional guy fat chance that'll work even with all the love in the world maybe that's why marriages fail because people think love conquers all and they fail to see important compatibility cues

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I don't know what kind of love you are referring to then. I mean the "love" used in the "love your neighbor as yourself" sense. This love is selfless; it gives and expects nothing in return. This love just is, and it is has no emotion attached other than calm. It is part of being-ness and its reach encompasses all of mankind. It exists without any self-benefit.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I'm not talking about loving they neighbor I'm talking about the love people ruin themselves over the one that blinds them instead of bringing clarity

by Anonymous 10 years ago

That's not love. It is miss-named by song writers and poets.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I don't think we can determine if someone else feels the love or not we can determine it for ourselves but not for other people

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Agápe concurs all Eros is a mess Philla is a comfort Storge is an illusion You are talking about eros - dangerous stuff that.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

eros is still categorized as love though you said so yourself on that other post and I don't think Storge is an illusion why do you think that?

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I think that the occasional use of storge to describe love for your parents or children is a misnomer, that is covered by philla. Storge is more like "I love apple pie" or "I love rock and roll" or my country - not people but things. The love of money e.g. Brotherly love is also covered by philla.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

based on that wiki page I thought of it as an affection that you feel without a choice because the person you feel affection for has been chosen for you (ex: towards family members) I didn't get anything about materialism

by Anonymous 10 years ago

As I said I think this is a misnomer. It is often defined that way, however my experience in reading Greek text it has almost always used it for material or authority figures - rarely have I seem it used for "families" in ancient text. It is commonly used that way (familial) by biblical "scholars" but that usage disagrees with my experience so that's what I meant when I said it is an illusion. I think philla is this more accepted use, at least by the time of Plato. Usage in the presocratic texts is somewhat scarce.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I got served

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Love doesn't seem to be able to conquer our darker nature. Not all the time.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

yeah I'm sure that parent loved the kids still drowned them in the bathtub though it doesn't always conquer insanity either

by Anonymous 10 years ago