Don't fret. I'll make some coffee, and we can talk about it.
Do people - if it be natural instinct or conditioning - reject brotherly love (note - I'm making the distinction here between love of family, and love from society/mankind)?
posted by Rob @ 11:42
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Full-time worker bee and part-time student. This is as much my release, as it is my soapbox.
Every action has a consequence, every consequence a result. These results make the marks - positive and negative - that are your life.
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Huh? What do you mean "Do people reject brotherly love?" Is it me, or is there something missing here?
Explain.
Hmm. I remember having a hard time finding the right words, and now I'm having a hard time remembering what type of headspace I was in.
Okay. Let me try to put it this way. You're walking along. You fall down and hurt yourself. Do you let a stranger help you up, or do you quickly brush them away?
I think the question I was asking - or at least, putting out there - do you think people have undue and unjust blocks against love, help, and compassion from society in their daily lives; only letting in those who are very close to them?
Ever since that night I was over at your house, and we were talking about babies and breastfeeding, I have been thinking about a comment Morgan made.
We were talking about wetnurses etc. and about how it is more likely to feed a kid cow or goats milk than another humans breast milk. And that most likely a woman wouldn't let another woman (who also happened to be lactating) to feed her child if the need arose.
I kept remember recoiling when Morgan asked me if i'd let another woman feed my child.
Even after thinking about it... and how much more sense it would make to let another human being feed my child, I still couldn't wrap my head around the idea if I had a child.
I think people are weary of trusting strangers... we rarely make that leap of faith with people we know and care about, it takes a long time to develop that trust... to give it willingly and without doubt? Safer to push the hand away than risk them pulling a fast one on you.
Sad but true. Though I am terribly trusting *cough* gullible*cough*
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