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Randall · 26-30, M
The really esoteric answer is that these are metaphysically different things.
Love, broadly speaking, is a connection to a thing or set of things. Disappointment is a disconnection from something.
This is hard because self-awareness is tricky. Our brains are basically like iced cream sundaes, with the newer (intelligent-making) layers stacked on top of the older (primal) parts.
What we call love is often the result of a pretty complex interaction between the primal and the intellectual. Disappointment, generally speaking, is more visceral. It's not a fuzzy, obscure feeling the way love sometimes is.
In my personal experience, it's pretty easy to say why I'm disappointed in myself, because the feeling comes rocketing to the surface. "I didn't say what I should have said then." or "I didn't think she was the type of person to say that."
Hopefully you can make sense of my ramblings!
Love, broadly speaking, is a connection to a thing or set of things. Disappointment is a disconnection from something.
This is hard because self-awareness is tricky. Our brains are basically like iced cream sundaes, with the newer (intelligent-making) layers stacked on top of the older (primal) parts.
What we call love is often the result of a pretty complex interaction between the primal and the intellectual. Disappointment, generally speaking, is more visceral. It's not a fuzzy, obscure feeling the way love sometimes is.
In my personal experience, it's pretty easy to say why I'm disappointed in myself, because the feeling comes rocketing to the surface. "I didn't say what I should have said then." or "I didn't think she was the type of person to say that."
Hopefully you can make sense of my ramblings!
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Randall · 26-30, M
@SW-User No pardons needed! I actually subscribe to your definition of knowledge, in part. The reason i don't want to say I know these things is because I don't understand them adequately enough to know them to be true.
If you're interested, the Phiosophical study of how we know what we know --
or when we can say that we "know" something, is called Epistemology.
There's also lots of work in rhetoric being done with respect to how narrative and other forms of language create knowledge. If you're interested in this topic, you might look at Michael Foucault's concept of the discursive formation, or read Paulo Freire's work, The Pedigogy of the Oppressed.
Great discussion. Cheers!
If you're interested, the Phiosophical study of how we know what we know --
or when we can say that we "know" something, is called Epistemology.
There's also lots of work in rhetoric being done with respect to how narrative and other forms of language create knowledge. If you're interested in this topic, you might look at Michael Foucault's concept of the discursive formation, or read Paulo Freire's work, The Pedigogy of the Oppressed.
Great discussion. Cheers!
UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
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@UndeadPrivateer But what leads to a development of language in such a manner?
UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
@SW-User The ancient world was intensely cruel and unforgiving. I think that's really all it comes down to, there was a lot more negative than positive going on and when there were positives you didn't need to be as precise about it, it was less important. Happiness and love wasn't a matter of life and death. Pretty much everything else was.
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@UndeadPrivateer That's an interesting perspective and makes sense. Thank you.
Equanimous · 51-55, M
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@Fluffybull Someone finally understood the context. :)
popmol · 22-25, M
@SW-User indeed. i'm probably wrong :p
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@yondu Oh the sensitive butt syndrome.
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@yondu 😜
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InOtterWords · F
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@InOtterWords No I've not read it. I just think it's easier to express the negative than the positive.
And even here, look around and see. More of the content is with the lack of content with the people in their lives than of appreciation.
And even here, look around and see. More of the content is with the lack of content with the people in their lives than of appreciation.
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