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Friday, 24 November 2017

Love is not blind

Nobody likes the idea of blind faith; it's so obviously a bad idea, but why are so many people okay with accepting that "love is blind"?

No, love is not blind, infatuation is blind. Hormones are blind; they don't have eyes or minds or have any consciousness of what they're doing or why.

Love illuminates, making us more able to see the good in people, but true love also sees the not-so-pretty parts too.

This was an awesome video about Infatuation vs Real Love published by Jehovah's Witnesses (url: https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/teenagers/whiteboard-animations/real-love-vs-infatuation/). The points are summed up well: attraction is based on what you see, infatuation is based on what you feel, but real love is based on what you know.

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