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[infirmaryblues]

What are they?
I've thought long and hard over this one. Where does one end and the other begin?

[LostSoul3412]

infirmaryblues wrote: What are they?

Emotions, feelings, ideals, and dreams.

[infirmaryblues]

I understand your assertion topically, but dissect your post.

If someone loves something, can it be discerned from passion or addiction?

If someone has a passion for someone/something, is it necessarily a love?

Can addiction of the given love or passion be seperated?
What challenges me is- do these things exist seperately first? Before another can enter the equation?

[LostSoul3412]

infirmaryblues wrote: I understand your assertion topically, but dissect your post.

If someone loves something, can it be discerned from passion or addiction?

If someone has a passion for someone/something, is it necessarily a love?

Can addiction of the given love or passion be seperated?
What challenges me is- do these things exist seperately first? Before another can enter the equation?

All of your questions have the same answer:

Yes.

[infirmaryblues]

For the sake of my understanding, can you provide an example?

[Fido]

Love is an emotion, and the other two are conditions.

[Green]

infirmaryblues wrote: What are they?
I've thought long and hard over this one. Where does one end and the other begin?

No clue. I really like icecream, but am I addicted to it? or do I have a passion for ice cream?

If anybody has good answers for this, then please respond.

[infirmaryblues]

Let me say this-

When you love something, have a passion for something, or are addicted to something, do you enjoy the activity first without thinking about it? Or in order for these to exist, do you need to logically determine reasons to love, have passion, or be addicted?

If you love music, did you decide upon reasoning through advantages or loving music or do you love it without even thinking for reasons?

Sure, later on if asked why you love something, you might be able to explain, but isn't the knowledge of loving it more accessible than the why?

Love, passion, and addiction are visceral aren't they? There is no intellectual process required beforehand.

So my question is: are these terms interchangeable?

A wife keeps truly loving her husband even though he abuses her?
An addict keeps using a drug even though that addict knows it is harmful?
A person with a lifelong passion for any given habit/practice/activity keeps coming back to it?

Am I making any sense?

[LostSoul3412]

infirmaryblues wrote: For the sake of my understanding, can you provide an example?

No.

If you wish to understand love, then you're seeking the impossible.

[Korimyr the Rat]

You can be passionate about any emotion, or any interest-- or generally, about anything. Passion is life and vitality, and should be cultivated throughout your entire existence.

I would say that love is a desire-- not the desire to be with someone, but to want the best for them. To want them to be happy, and healthy, and strong.

Addiction, then, is the need to have something, and the inability to function properly without it. It often goes hand-in-hand with love... but by nature, it tends to interfere with love, when it keeps the beloved person from growing.

[sapphire7]

infirmaryblues wrote: What are they?
I've thought long and hard over this one. Where does one end and the other begin?
Love is affection, passion is a strong love, and addiction is dependency and/or passion for something trivial such as money, video games, drugs, or other things that don't quite deserve such affection/dependence.

[infirmaryblues]

I suppose I just haven't been very specific. From the outside, they look distinct. I understand their differences seperately at a metaphysical level, but the visceral feeling of each seems to be very similar.

I probably over-generalized too when thinking abstractly about this.

Anyone care to discuss how very closely related they are?