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betsyshane has added 366 words, 16 lists, 12 comments, and 0 tags.

Meanings, value or even existence are up for debate

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taste   has been listed 25 times with 0 comments
reality   has been listed 12 times with 2 comments
beauty   has been listed 26 times with 1 comment
justice   has been listed 24 times with 3 comments
value   has been listed 19 times with 0 comments
alone   has been listed 19 times with 1 comment
safe   has been listed 12 times with 1 comment
ethnicity   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
race   has been listed 8 times with 1 comment
purity   has been listed 8 times with 0 comments
culture   has been listed 19 times with 0 comments
authentic   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments
real   has been listed 18 times with 2 comments
truth   has been listed 27 times with 4 comments
god   has been listed 26 times with 1 comment
love   has been listed 167 times with 8 comments
Words 1 through 16 of 16
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about 1 year ago oroboros said:

...Consider the word "love". It has many meanings which we recognize as soon as we consider the difference between romantic love and conjugal love, the difference between the love that parents readily bestow upon their children and the love that children slowly develop for their parents. All these meanings of the word — all these kinds of love — have something in common. All are related aspects of a single, very large idea — the idea of love. But as most people employ the word in ordinary speech, they have only a small part of this idea in mind; and when young people use it they seldom have in mind the same part that older people have. Few who use the word ever have the whole idea in mind, for it takes a lifetime of experience and thought to comprehend it fully...

--excerpt from "What is an Idea" by Mortimer Adler, 1958

about 1 year ago tez said:

Magnificent. This list, I mean. I'm not suggesting that the concept of "magnificence" is up for debate... Of course, after a close reading of the above, now I'm beginning to question everything.

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