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Pastimes : Another Good Reason Not To Be Married -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cgraham who wrote (4432)	2/10/1999 4:37:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6545

Gentlemen, I disagree -- listen to the ideas of Epictetus, a slave turned philosopher He demands that we understand that we inside us interpret every thing that comes from the outside. We cannot be injured by any evil, yet because we control what we believe, we can receive the greatest love imaginable. If we believe that we are loved by another who is not our spouse, then we are loved. If our lover believes that I love her, then the awful fact that we will never meet lawfully becomes nothing. If I can stand the pain of being tortured as a good stoic must, then my mind can visualize my lover loving me without a word and offset the greatest pain by the endorphins that love releases -- this is not imagination, but psychological reality. The amazing works of faith and self healing that skeptics love to ignore, are true, because our self-will is completely powerful over ourselves, although it cannot move a single grain of sand. But my ideas communicated with my lover, can give her as the same strength and pleasure that I feel if she holds the same power over her I do. These gifts of love are the most powerful things in the universe -- they let us make a hell of heaven or a heaven of hell. A martyr can hold his hand in the flame and watch it burn. A lover can lose his love in the world but hold her alive in his mind.