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| Links: (websites I enjoy, nothing really to do with the monthly topics) http://www.howstuffworks.com/ This is an interesting website where you can have fun educating yourself�good website too if you have absolutely nothing to do but want to learn something useful. http://www.bahiker.com/ Excellent website about where to hike around the San Francisco Bay Area. Great description of trails and plenty of pictures. http://www.terragalleria.com This is an excellent website which has beautiful pictures of different places in the world. http://www.jatbar.com/ Runned by a few ordinary people like you and me, this well-organized website has several food reviews of Bay Area restaurants. Plenty of pictures too! Check it out if you want new ideas of where to go eat. |
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| Quotes: Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. -- Erich Fromm The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. -- Mother Teresa Nothing is lovely without love itself, and nothing is lovlier than love itself. -- Devan Penegar Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -- Franklin P. Jones The purpose of quotes on this website is to provoke thought and may or may not be an endorsement of the person being quoted and his or her beliefs. |
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| Question of the month: What is the closest thing that you've seen firsthand or done that reflects what you understand the essence of love to be? a) treating someone with care, respect and kindness, regardless of who they are. b) being intimately in love with another person. c) enthusiastically pursuing and obtaining a certain goal, material possession, hobby or position in life. d) meeting the needs of those who are going through difficult times - physically and emotionally. e) being devoted to a personal belief and practice of religion, e.g., following and worshipping God. f) other |
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| LSC's BASEMENT: Here's another personal quote of mine, which I call a "likseeism". One of the sweetest transactions in life is when a good desire meets a good opportunity. ANTI-PET PEEVES: For a growing list of things I really like, click here. ARCHIVES: for website topics from previous months, click here. General Note: just to let you know, I update this website with a new topic around the beginning of each month. |
| Ready for spring? The wildflowers are blooming pretty good this year. This month's topic is titled, What is love?, a question that asks what the core essence of love is that we yearn to experience and possess in our lives...and would even say that we can't live without. Lik-See, 03-12-05 When talking about love, I'm referring to more than the commonly associated area of romantic love, but to the intrinsic and universal (?) nature of love that we desire to have whether the object of love is another person, close friends, an activity, a material possession or belief system. What is it about love - or ourselves really - that makes love so essential to (the purpose of) our lives? This is definitely a huge topic worth many, many books and discussions, but here are a couple of thoughts: I would say that one of the most basic nature of who we are is that we are so inclined or disinclined toward many things and many situations and many people and many ideas; we are not just neutral creatures who don't have intense likes and dislikes about what we experience. If we were completely neutral in this way, than it would be ok for us to just eat, sleep, go to the bathroom and work in a ho-hum manner throughout our lives without any complaints or dissatisfaction. But is living this way to just physically survive like some four-legged animal enough? Aren't we deeply wired to enjoy (or hate) something or somebody? That which makes us intensely excited about and affectionate toward? Something that touches the core of who we are and what we feel? Or desire to feel? So here is a way to understand what love is: enjoying and having an enthusiasm and affection toward something or somebody in a way that affects who we are and motivates how we act toward that object of enjoyment and affection. I'll have more thoughts next month on the topic of love. |
| Many common experiences and situations allow us to experience love in our lives, whether giving or receiving it. Which one of the following is the most important to you? What order would you put them in terms of importance? 1) Having good parents whom you trust to care and do what's best for you. 2) Having a signficant-other, i.e., spouse. 3) Having and raising a family, i.e., children. 4) Involvement in a tangible effort that benefits others in society (e.g., feeding the poor). 5) Having close friends that you can enjoy things together with, yet share personal and difficult things with too. 6) Having a wide acquaintance and circle of influence with different people (e.g., you're a public figure). 7) Having a religious belief system that affirms your relationship to a transcendent reality or supernatural being. |
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| You may have read or heard it before, maybe at a wedding: the love chapter in the Bible, I Corinthians 13. |