> When one loves someone passionately, there are many who want to portray
> such a thing as a sin and tell them instead to love everything.
>
> When that is done, someone like Gail Klein (ed. note: poster on another
> group) comes in to say that when one loves everything what one loves is
> really oneself, as according to her ideology everything is reflection
> of self and what one loves when one loves everyone ultimately then is
> oneself.
>
> This attitude she then equates with narcissism.
>
> But you have just said that preferential love is a sin! And then you go
> and say that general love is nothing more than narcissism!
>

>Good morning. How many of you have lost some sleep watching the World Cup
>Soccer? I had a novel idea about all that this week. ItÂ’s a shame 22 grown
>men have to chase just one ball: why donÂ’t we provide each team with their
>own ball? Both can be kicked around between the teams at the same time. It
>would be much more exciting, though I guess the referees have a difficult
>enough job as it is!

> When one loves someone passionately, there are many who want to portray
> such a thing as a sin and tell them instead to love everything.
>
> When that is done, someone like Gail Klein (ed. note: poster on another
> group) comes in to say that when one loves everything what one loves is
> really oneself, as according to her ideology everything is reflection
> of self and what one loves when one loves everyone ultimately then is
> oneself.
>
> This attitude she then equates with narcissism.
>
> But you have just said that preferential love is a sin! And then you go
> and say that general love is nothing more than narcissism!
>
> In light of such manipulations, it becomes requisite then to bring back
> the preferential, passionate, human love, in which one loves someone or
> something outside of oneself, or outside any expanded concept of
> oneself, for their inherent worth and inherent magnificence. To love,
> that is, someone or something that is quite, quite different from ...