ABOUT LOVE

Very much has been written about the feeling of love in humans (few links below) and I truly cannot (according to Erik) add anything intelligent to this complex concept.

What I want to simply express is that love is a feeling uniquely human, if we see any animal taking care of the newborns or mate to have them, it’s just because their instincts somehow “force” them to do so.

As much as we descend from African monkeys (according to Darwin) we have the capacity of love feelings that make us act accordingly that’s uniquely human, therefore our mating and taking care of our newborns isn’t something coming from the “genes programming” like in any other animal, but it’s truly something that resides in the human brain (not in the heart- as commonly thought) in addition us humans do have the soul, another major difference from animals, this brings me to say what I consider to be important, or that when we die our souls continue to exist with all of our memories and go “somewhere” depending in what you believe in.

Us Catholics have embraced what the immortal poet Dante Alighieri described in his Comedy, that given that it was a “collection of popular beliefs on the streets”(he wrote) in his times (about year 1.200 -1.300) might just be a poetic fantasy.

What’s true however is that our souls end up somewhere after our bodies cease to function, there remain in eternity and – aside what the Comedy tells – if some person has caused to another to suffer or die eternity in what’s been called hell is sure.

So why would anyone trade few decades of success, importance and wealth here, at the expenses of others, with eternity in hell? I hope it's clear to you that I don't consider importance or success to be trivial, I'm just saying that they can turn out to be bad if earned at the expenses of somebody else.

I just want to mention a couple of facts consistent with this post, or that the 17^th century French mathematician Pascal Wager stated that “it’s better (more convenient) to believe that a God exists, rather than not” and what Pope Francis recently stated or that even atheists have access to heaven, as long as they never did hurt anyone else, while here.
 I could write an entire new post in reference to what several people have caused to me to be hurt and humiliated, but not now, maybe later.....

1. http://hildacharlton.com/human.htm
2. http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/articles/divinerootsoflove.html
3. http://www.reuniting.info/mysteries_of_pair_bonding_1
4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18633778
5. http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/06/06/what-love-does-to-the-human-brain/
6. https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110926160736AAlW1nk
7. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LoveIsNotAnInstinct
8. http://www.ted.com/conversations/23388/what_is_love_is_love_uniquely.html
9. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/pope-francis-good-atheists_n_3320757.html
10. http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Pope-Francis-atheist-conscience/2013/09/12/id/525304/