What is Love?

in #love7 years ago

Love is the underlying force of the universe. You may put the pieces together in a different configuration, and say it is light, or space, or chaos, or order, and you will also be correct. How you choose to frame the mechanisms of the universe does not make my statement any less true, in the context it is meant.

What do I mean when I say Love? I don’t mean Love to mean a chain reaction of neurotransmitters in your brain. There is the feeling of love, and there is the act of Love. In this, I mean Love is a verb. It is the action of universal processes.

If a gardener loves his garden, he will tend and care for it. He will make the garden prosperous. He will protect it, just as he would his children. To Love something is to put its highest desires and interests in the forefront of your judgment as you proceed through life.

If we think of the universe being a process that is maximizing Love over the long run, we can see all emergent phenomena is the manifestation of greater, more complex futures. We can think of atoms coming together as the process of Love, leading to a form which allows the universe to Love itself in more meaningful ways. In this mindset, we can see the culmination of human efforts throughout history to be leading towards a future utopia.

We must Love ourselves and each other to make this dream a reality. We are not there yet, and the world grows more volatile every day. But, I have faith that we are going to make it. This faith is upheld by the countless volunteers who consistently lend a hand during disasters like Hurricane Harvey. By groups such as the Earth Nation who are manifesting novelty in our garden, opening new doors for each of us as we enter a brave new world. By the light I see people creating every single day as our world grows brighter and more aware of our oneness.

How can you Love the most you can? It starts with you. You must Love yourself. To do that, you must first know who you are. What is it you truly desire to do with your life? What are you made to do? If you do not have these answers, discovering the self is the greatest act of Love you can manifest. For when you know what you want to do, you will love doing it. It will no longer be work, as the desire to sink your time into it comes naturally. From there, mastery is inevitable.

Once you know and grow yourself, you will automatically grow the garden using your unique talents and helping those who walk a similar path find their way. As we head further into the future, and we grow increasingly more interconnected, each of our potential to impact others grows exponentially. We are at the doorstep of a great new world: one made and filled with Love. Utopia is dawning, and we are entering it together.

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CONTENT WARNING! This is an obvious sponsored content. Financed by an anonymous community member @Freedom

I don't understand whats going on here. I mean I get that someone offered a huge bid to bellyrub, but is there something else going on? Yes...it's not that great of a post. But

Isn't that the nature of SELLING VOTES? It doesn't actually matter how good the post is?



Maybe I'm missing something else. I mean if I'm not missing something else, then how the hell does anyone go about judging which posts were 'good enough' and which ones weren't?

It seems like selling votes is just a weak point in the whole system.

Use SteemTools or SteemReports to see that @freedom delegated a huge amount to this account for posts like this.

Additionally, this post was first written at https://asc.ai/2017/09/06/return-to-love/, dated September 6th, 2017 (it's a repost that they already wrote months ago) Also, @earthnation abused voting/bid bots to push this to Trending.

I dont know whats going on.. all I know your nickname is fkin legend :D

Besides the account owner sending in high bids there is nothing else.

nice post.........

It seems obvious that mercenary bid bots run steem. Don't like it? Have the developers change the rules. Theres nothing against steemit rules to use bid bots.

Yes these bots are for website purposes bud,

17.1.3. Use any robot, spider, crawler, scraper or other automated means or interface not provided by us to access our Services or to extract data;

Has nothing to do with the blockchain which is steem, as a witness you should know the difference between steem and steemit inc.

What clause makes clear that 17.1.3 only applies to Steemit.com and not to Steem? The services and data on Steemit.com are dependent on Steem. Steemit Inc. are the creators of Steem aren't they? The license for Steem makes clear that Steemit Inc. own the copyright for Steem and thus it is debatable as to whether Steem is a service of Steemit Inc. or not.

I'd say this comes down to the finer points of contract law more than it does an issue of technicality of the kind that all witnesses are required to be qualified to understand.

We are changing some things around, But the market will balance itself out. If they feel it does not deserve such a high reward it will be flagged that is the only way to fix this issue at the moment.

Ridiculous. @bellyrub should retract their vote and refund the SBD, or even not refund it. We need to make it clear that this is not permitted here.

We will be implementing a fix for this type of abuse with @bellyrub, by ether cutting the vote percentage or implementing a max bid amount.

Abuse like this is not good for the platform, we see that and will act on it.

260 bucks! Really good post(sarcasm). How people earn so much for writing nothing.

great stuff guys, thanks

I don't see their upvote. Besides, isn't every post sponsored by the SP used to upvote it? At least that's how I see the current system works


Edit: other comment has been censored.

Use SteemD or SteemReports to track delegations. @freedom delegated huge SP amount to this account.

I know that. But my other comment was censored so you didn't read it.

What does this mean?

After checking the wallet and seeing your memo

Your stake is being used without regard for content, I believe this goes against the ethos of Steem and create a toxic culture.

I get what you're saying and agree with you. I've been disheartened by all the vote buying bots that came out ever since randowhale. And nobody would voice their opinions due to the retaliation they would likely face for doing so... It seems like the network is not becoming more decentralized because instead of focusing on increasing the value of the network by rewarding user interactivity and engagement the large stake holders are just focused on increasing their stake.

I think the ethos of steem is almost forgotten the more this is accepted by the community.

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I wonder if the people using this service have considered whether the people running these bidding bots could be using the services themselves to monopolize the distribution of voting power.

Flagged for making such ignorant implications.

What do you mean by "monopolize the distribution of voting power." ?

Nobody can monopolize voting power beyond the stake they have access to.

Monopolize meaning dominate the market by bidding excessively more than everybody else. It can be done by anybody, as it's a bidding market, but if done by the person selling the bids through a "sock-puppet" account it would cost a lot less, since they are already being paid by all the other bids.

This wonderful comment has received a bellyrub 3.74 % upvote from @bellyrub.

Interesting post.

A whole generation may have not understood your comment. I will help them to understand......

HOW have I not watched this movie yet ?! :D

@vesislava it will crack you up............

Beat me to it! LOL

Well done! Beat me to it as well.

We all had the same song in our head, didn't we.. Universal meme for "love"

Lol... This part caught me the Most.

discovering the self is the greatest act of Love you can manifest. For when you know what you want to do, you will love doing it. It will no longer be work, as the desire to sink your time into it comes naturally. From there, mastery is inevitable.

This describes Self-Love the Most.

lmao i miss Chris Kattan

damm ... you got me there man

Love is the essence of goodness that dwells in the soul. He can disappear if there is something evil to him. Anyone who can keep the love that is in him, from anything close to him will love him. what about the love that is in you? is he good now?
regards @earthnation

Love can be from anyone else, from parents,friends,couple, our children, our lover,etc...

May be you may not love them as they love you,but appreciate it! You will know how beauty

Very cute!!!

Love is the most powerful emotion a human being can experience. The strange think is, that almost nobody knows what love is. Why is it so difficult to find love? That is easy to understand, if you know that the word “love” is not the same as one’s feeling of love

One has to make themselves "open" to it ♦♦ And there are different kinds of ☻ LOVE - for instance, love of animals or the environment.

When you have respect for other creatures, I think it puts you of a mind -- to love. That is, from personal experience, I take the time to place an insect that has wandered in back outside. I dont just flush it down the toilet or something.

I just don't think haters [and others who don't appreciate #NATURE & love their environs ] are in a great Frame of mind to LOVE .

Just my opinion.

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Beautiful post dear friend @earthnation !
Love is everything !