From: Dolphie Bush Date: 24 August 2001 01:52:52 To: joni Subject: the search for love njc Yes, colin, the immediate attraction and then subsequent love for another is most certainly conditional. That is not what you said. You were talking about love after the fact, after someone had been loved or was being loved. I said nothing about the stated love of which I wrote being romantic though that was surely a part of it, but most certainly not limited to that. And besides does it matter? Your love is conditional, mine is not. The stars and sun still shine. I know you said nothing about romantic love but the what you were describing was a romantic idea of love. Like I said if can carry on loving no matter what the object or your love does to you, then you are a saint. No doubt about it! I quite obviously did not explain myself clearly either. I had hoped to get across the idea that whilst my feelings of love(ie romantic for partner friends etc) is conditional. my love for people in general is not. But hat is a detached lvoing. Doing the best for others, not harming or hindering, but enabling growth in a hrealthful way Therefore to stae that my love is conditonal is a misunderstanding. bw colin
