Behind the Locked Door...again...

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 127583


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mallrat42g" <mallrat42g at s...> 
wrote:

mallrat42g:

> "The truth..is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore 
> be treated with great caution...'
> 
> Can there be more than one thing locked behind that door? Is the 
> truth being studied as well? 
> 
> One other thought, how can you study love? It is a great 
> psycological debate (I majored in psycology for 2 semesters). There 
> are so many different types of love that it would take ages to 
study 
> them all, if you really could. 

Geoff:
 
In a similar discussion, I wrote way back in message 89069....

"Turning to Love. The problem with "love" is that, certainly in the
English language, it is a word which has a wide range of meanings and
is often used very loosely. It can range from "I love chocolate ice-
cream" (which is really expressing a liking) to "I love you, my
darling" to the altruistic love which can show itself in self-
sacrifice – Lily protecting Harry as an example.

I have on two occasions at least referred to C.S.Lewis' "The Four
Loves" in which he writes on the four Greek words for love – eros,
philos, agape and the one which always slips my memory(!); each one
looking at a different facet of love."

The fourth was, of course, storge.

mallrat42g:
> What is behind that door? Truth? Wisdom? Love? Does anyone have a 
> logical answer?

Geoff:
The same problem arises with truth...

At the time of Jesus' meeting with Pilate,

'"What is truth?" Pilate asked. With this, he went out to the 
Jews....'

(John 18:38)

And, as one contributor remarked in the earlier thread, he didn't 
wait for an answer.