Originally posted by Imperial_Samura
Surely it wouldn't be that easy to kill HK-47.
Its Sev.
1. He's a clone (which makes him infinately better than any droid)
2. He's 1000 years more advanced with weapons.
3. Hes an RC.
4. Droids suck...especailly annoging ones...that talk too much.
5. And never undersetimate Sev's hatred of Droids.
Originally posted by debbiejo
Love IS self sacrificing is it not? Isn't that what Jesus taught?
Love is not ‘liking’ some one. It is not compassion or respect. Love contains all of these things but is somehow more. Unfortunately, many people in our present society confuse love with liking some one, or with hormonal attraction. They are not the same things.
If you’ve ever had the good fortune to be around a stable marriage then you have seen the face of one kind of love. My parents have been married about twenty-five years now so I grew up in a house with that kind of love in it.
I grew up with another kind of love as well. My family is devoted to spreading the Dharma/Buddhism and we spend much of our time and resources doing that all across in our province. This kind of love is the best kind because it is extended to all people everywhere.
Christian love and Buddhist compassion are quite similar to each other. Buddha's life are filled with so much compassion for all living beings. By compassion the Buddha did not mean that you should throw yourself into a pit of wild animals because they are hungry and have not been fed. He meant that when you have the opportunity to help somebody, you should do it.
The word for compassion comprises two Chinese characters. It is pronounced ci bei in Chinese and jihi in Japanese. The first character, ci or ji, is a translation of the Sanskrit work maitri, meaning “to give happiness.” The second, bei or hi, comes from the Sanskrit karuna, meaning “to remove suffering.” Taken together they describe the function of relieving living beings of suffering and giving them happiness. It is true sympathy and kindness.
The compassion of Buddhist enlightenment--the desire to “remove suffering and give happiness”--is expressed in the human behavior of a Buddha or bodhisattva. My great teacher Nichiren Daishonin writes, “Even a heartless villain loves his wife and children. He too has a portion of the bodhisattva world within him.”
This statement makes it clear that anyone and everyone possesses the potential of a bodhisattva--the potential to behave with compassion toward another person. Yet, it is an ordinary human tendency to place concern for ourselves first and foremost. This may be the strongest human impulse. Furthermore, there long have been those who hold the view that compassion is a sign of weakness; that generosity only spoils the receiver of kindness.
There may be a grain of truth to his assertion. Kindness that does not empower the receiver creates little lasting value. From the Buddhist view, true compassion is that which has the power to root out the cause of misery in people's lives and direct them to the cause of happiness. Such compassion by its very nature requires courage and strength.
How then can ordinary people, who are governed by the impulse for self-interest, express compassion in a constructive and meaningful way?
A natural example is the actions of a mother toward her child. A mother will do anything she can to protect her child, even if it means braving flames or flood.
Originally posted by Alliance
Its Sev.1. He's a clone (which makes him infinately better than any droid)
2. He's 1000 years more advanced with weapons.
3. Hes an RC.
4. Droids suck...especailly annoging ones...that talk too much.5. And never undersetimate Sev's hatred of Droids.
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof agaisnt the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as i speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
Love exists as a concept and emotion, and both go hand in hand. Their are also varying degrees of love, so I'll just go for 'true love' because I'm a lazy prick.
Concept: Willingness to perform the greatest good for the significant other at any expense to yourself, including your life.
Emotions: All emotions from both spectrums (Fear, Jealousy, Anger, Happiness, Calm, etc).
In application, generally selflessness is required, not thinking of yourself, leaps of faith, and quite a few other things. Love is blind for a reason.