Love Is Love

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LGBTQAI+ κοινότητας, που χωρίς υπερδυνάμεις προσπαθούν να ξεπεράσουν το τραγικό συμβάν και να ξανασταθούν στα πόδια τους. Αυτοί είναι και θα είναι πάντα οι πραγματικοί ήρωες. Consider, for example, the situation of a lesbian couple in late-nineteenth-century England. Suppose they are in love biologically speaking: the parts of their brains associated with romantic love are active, and they are under the influence of oxytocin, dopamine, and so on. But social norms severely curtail their ability to engage in any of the kinds of bonding associated with romantic love. I think this is the main worthwhile though in the book: "I think we are capable of striking the necessary balance: changing what needs to change without destroying romantic love entirely. Here's how. Romantic love, at the social level, could have the function of taking as input attraction and affection between adults (not necessarily a particular number or of particular genders) and outputting intimate bonds and relationships the are special and significant in people's lives. Optional Add-ons can then include sex, kids, home building, family building, agreeing not to enter into other relationships, caring for a dog together, writing love poems ... whatever floats the boat of the people in the boat. These optional extras would work like a buffet: people would be free to decide what features they wanted in their own relationships without facing stigma for what they did or didn't choose."

Kekurangan buku ini rasanya nggak ada, terus kenapa aku nggak ngasih 5 bintang? Eungg, ciyus deh nggak ada yang salah, yang salah hanyalah aku baca buku ini saat lagi jomblo. Ugh. This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin, and he was a good genealogist who made Iris the daughter of Thaumas. Everybody who knew my mom knew she was the mom everybody wanted. She always took everybody in with open arms. She loved everybody equally, no matter what.” All in all, reading this biography was a weird experience. When I started reading it, I realized that I didn't know much about Maria Bello except that I had a teenage crush on her when she appeared in the ER series, when I was about 15 years old, and I still liked her, when I watched her in Coyote Ugly, but I didn't know a thing about her life until last year, when she came out in a New York Times article as a Whatever, and it made me curious. People often idolize someone, because they don't know a thing about the other person. Now, after reading this book, I feel I know too much.Die Zeichnungen und auch die Texte, haben mich unfassbar berührt, gingen mir durch Mark und Bein, waren ihre Botschaften so stark und wichtig, dass ich fast nach jeder Kurzgeschichte eine kurze Pause einlegen musste, nicht nur um sie auf mich wirken zu lassen, sondern auch um sie zu verarbeiten. Die Tränen der letzten Geschichte mussten erst einmal versiegen, bevor ich mit der nächsten beginnen konnte. As a religious skeptic, I tend to look at preachers, bishops, and popes with caution. They are both politicians and healers, salesmen and counselors, interpreters of the words of Jesus Christ yet bound by the expectations of the people who pay their salaries. These men see us at our best during weddings, and at our worst during funerals and hospital visits. We count on them to both inspire and comfort us, but they are human beings just like us, and far from heavenly ambassadors. There's two things to note here. The first is that Jenkins has completely evaded the pretty strong point that a valuable aspect of love is union, a disruption of the lonely and separate sense of self. She might want to argue that multiple unions are possible, maybe because the psyche is fragmented and context-variant, or that a single union isn't as valuable as it's made out to be. But by ignoring it, she ignores a pretty big part of what people think makes love valuable. This later lets her say stuff like: Bishop Curry writes "Our stories have power." (pg 218). He is a master story teller and wise leader. A lot of guts and vulnerability… such a valuable resource for kids grappling with their sexuality or gender identity. I definitely wish the book had existed when I was a kid!… I was charmed.’ Goodreads reviewer

Walk the path of love with one of the warmest, most beloved spiritual leaders of our time, and learn how to put faith into action. But those two ideas simply don't follow. Just because love or the lover isn't property doesn't mean they shouldn't be "distributed". She certainly points that there are many difficult questions for someone advocating for the distribution of love: Brenda und Isaiah, Mutter und Sohn, die gemeinsam des öfteren den Club Pulse aufsuchten, um gemeinsam zu feiern und zu tanzen. Klingt komisch? War aber so. Sie waren nicht bloß Mutter und Sohn, sie waren Freunde. Brenda war eine Kämpfernatur; bereits zwei Mal hatte sie schon den Krebs besiegt. Sie liebte ihr Leben, sie liebte ihren Sohn. Als sie angeschossen wurde, schrie sie ihrem Sohn zu, zu laufen; sich in Sicherheit zu bringen. Er tat es. Er rannte los. Er brachte sich in Sicherheit. Er überlebte. Sie nicht. They share their inspirational journeys – how they each found themselves and then each other. From Tinder and the moment they met across a crowded dancefloor with Matthew dressed as an ice lolly to the joyful life they’ve created together. Brown, Tracy (19 December 2016). "Exclusive reveal of 'The Spirit' comic from the 'Love Is Love' anthology". LA Times.What Love Is and What It Could Be", is a philosophical take on romantic love. The author discusses chapter by chapter the history of love, the science of love, and how romantic love has been shaped by culture and politics. I thought this book would be a great way to get into the holiday spirit after seeing it on display for Valentine’s Day at my local bookshop. The cover shared some examples of praise the book received from various professors, journalists, and other authors; which piqued my interest even more. To return to the initial section, the reason I think Jenkins' removal of wonder entirely from love is bad is because without a sense of smallness, of respecting the givenness of love, there is bound to be a drive to mastery (See The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering for this general argument). It shows when Jenkins lays out her view of love: In Bello's quest for optimal health and happiness, never missing a day of work, she sought the counsel of channelers, healers, psychics, astrologers, as well as conventional medicine and therapists. She has participated in sweat lodges, vision quests, yoga, and lived according to tarot card readings. Diagnosed with mental illness, she understands her "hypersensitivity" the highs and lows to life around her, she is grateful for the medication, and those that "keep her tethered to the earth".

Moncur’s escape from the manse, to take on a position at his employer’s Parisian showroom, leads to a keenly observed saga revolving around both his infatuation with Lika and his troubled relationship with her tempestuous pianist lover, “the Irish Liszt”, John Kilbarron, and his malevolent brother, Malachi. The novel is hugely readable, entirely engaging and frequently funny Bisexuality is not portrayed very well. Few of the comics mention it, and one strip is devoted solely to someone switching identities. The message of this was that everyone is valid and should be loved, despite this identity-- but it ends up resembling the "bisexuals can decide" stereotype Overall the book is correct and offers some nice insights and perspectives but it's very much common sense/obvious shit. I think them majority of the early chapters could have been just stories/examples of different relationships in different societies/time periods. So people reading it can relate and be like, wow. That's exactly what my relationship was like. Or, damn. that really was how things were for my parents or for people 100 years ago.

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But under her vision, where all of the romantic mystique is gone, what reason isn't there for distribution? I suspect Jenkins will suggest that autonomy and choice are important. This isn't a bad reason, but if love is stripped of mystique and is just a social and biological reality in the particular senses she specifies, why not redistribution? At the minimum this involves moral principles external to her idea of love,which she hasn't defended here. A romantic mystique meanwhile would have shot down the idea simply because part of love's mystery is that is can't be yoked to such a base calculus, so I'm counting it as a win for it in this regard. Perhaps the call for contributors came too soon after the shooting, so there was not time to reflect? Many of the stories are raw, and hurting. How strong are you, Maria Bello? Personally, I think you are the strongest Hollywood actress I have ever known. But I wonder if it's enough.

Bello spent 3 years in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake that killed 350,000 people and left millions homeless. With humanitarian relief, Bello helped build a health clinic, she also acquired a intestinal parasitic infection that left her hospitalized with a 3 month recovery. Bello has also traveled abroad to Kenya, Bosnia, and Nicaragua. In furthering the spirit of feminism Bello recalled the courage of Malala Yousafzai who nearly lost her life fighting for her education, and was the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. Current social sciences that explore the human experience consistently call for use of the biopsychosocial model, often regarding any individualized focus in one or two areas as insufficient to draw significant claims from. May I start off by saying this is in the Top 3 Books I Have Ever Read? It is. Jut wow. I am all for breaking out of molds people try to put me in. But Maria has a better idea. Put me in a box, but I determine what label goes on it. As a published author (and a Goodreads author at that), does that MAKE me an author? I write poetry as well? Am I a poet? According to Maria, it's what is in my heart, not on my W2. So yes, I am unconventional. I believe you can have a soul mate and not necessarily be married to them (see her part about partners), I believe in fate, but only to the fact that what happens is what is meant to happen based on the choices we make. The section about being Catholic.... I'm not catholic, I'm protestant. But does that even matter? I have friends that are openly gay. Does being friends with them make me a bad Christian? Before you answer that, remember that Jesus ate with both tax collectors and lepers (the outright horror, right?!) Maybe it's not within "church doctrine", but I do believe by being friends with all manner of people, you are actively demonstrating God's love. And, of course, the question every woman asks....Am I Enough? The Episcopal Church is far from America's biggest church, currently ranking at 14th with maybe 1% of the population. Mainline Protestant churches have taken a beating over the past few decades, as has the Catholic Church, and it was nice to see something different than the typical entreaties to give your life over to someone who died 2000 years ago while giving your money to people who are very much still alive. This feels like the end of the world, but it's not. It's just the struggle continuing. ... Our job is to do our job in God's great movement of love in this world." (p 135)

I just wanted to include some of the stories from the beginning of the book that I shared with my friends and family. I apologize for the blurriness, so I'll include the hyperlinks too. Hopefully this piques someone's interest. The first one shows the darker side of this comic and the second shows the uplifting side. The second, uplifting story changed me. Ontmoet onze naamloze hoofdpersoon, ik noem haar hierbij Lily (of Lila). Terwijl ze buitenspeelt ontmoet ze een klein eendje die blijkbaar weg is gelopen van zijn ouders (want vlinders zijn ook té mooi om niet naar toe te gaan). Lily besluit hem te adopteren en hem alle liefde (en eten) geven die hij maar nodig heeft om te groeien. Ondertussen verteld de schrijver ons de verschillende vormen van liefde. Zoals dat liefde is dat je elke keer opstaat om iemand te voeren, of op te ruimen als diegene een zooi heeft gemaakt (en het zelf niet kan opruimen). I struggled a bit to finish this. In the end, it was okay; some strips were amazing, the art beautiful, the mini-plot on point, etc. Others not so much, but the intention behind them all is the same. Dozens of artists came together in the name of love, created their own stories and put them all in one book to support all the survivors of the horrible Orlando shooting of 2016, where 49 people were killed in a gay club because they were not afraid to love who they loved.