Saturday, December 1, 2007

Community+Coversation+Love

"Life's meaning emerges from conversation in community with people you love."
"When there is love, conversation has purpose, context, engagement, trust (while, without love, conversation is sterile and selfish)."
"The best conversations are a form of 'making love' -- empathetic, collaborative, even erotic."
"The best conversations are also polyamorous (all participants love and trust each other) -- this provides safety from hurt and cruelty, and this safety encourages openness, honesty, courage, and true innovation." (1)

"In a completely generous and genuine natural community that is emotionally healthy, where everyone loves everyone else and love is abundant not scarce, love pervades everything and is demonstrated in cooperative work, in conversation, in art and science endeavours, in discovery and imagination, and in sensory and sexual exploration of others in the community. There are no exclusive pairings, because there is no need for them. Physical and sexual caresses may be frequent, but they are also fun, casual and pleasurable, and never possessive. They are just another way of saying 'I love you'." (2)

"I think the difference between a polyamorous community and a group of promiscuous people is an important one. Commitment to community should be a deep commitment, and if a member is unable to fulfill their desires for love within the community, that suggests either the member lacks commitment or the community lacks members with certain needed qualities that would allow the member to find what s/he loves within it." (3)

2 comments:

Jeremy Smyth said...

(1) Dave Pollard presenting a 'feminine' picture of activism/revolution/'let-self-change' within a new framework of community+love+conversation. http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2007/11/27.html#a2045
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2007/11/29.html#a2047
(2) http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2007/10/31.html#a2022
(3)Dave Pollard establishing the possibilities/benefits of polyamory. http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2007/11/20.html#a2041
http://www.answers.com/polyamorous
http://www.answers.com/topic/compersion?cat=technology

Jeremy Smyth said...

I'm unsure about my ability to share a lover. Seems unlikely to occur without supreme jealousy. But is that innate or learned?