Is attachment weakness?

Emotional attachment to something correlates directly to being human. Ignoring the people and things around you, having no empathy or sympathy, are usually the characteristics of either an animal or a machine. Attachment to something usually means one loves it. To love things is to be human. Therefore, emotional atatchment is not a question of weakness or strength. It is a decision of embracing either humanity or the behavior of machines. Feeling pain after losing someone you're attached to is not weakness. That pain just means you miss something you dearly loved. To believe suffering from loss is weakness implies that love = weakness. If it is human to love, then humanity=weakness as well by those standards. I believe otherwise. To embrace one's humanity is to embrace the world around him or herself. There can be no weakness in love and grief does not make one weak. It simply makes one sad.

"If home is where the heart is, then I got evicted this week (Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains)"

it is not weakness but a lack of perception, unanalyzed fear

"dont got one"

difficult to explain in short time. real quick loss, and the thought of loss, create fear due to need. however, to analyze that fear will ultimately bring one to the understanding that there was never any need to begin with, only an illusion

"dont got one"

i think i need people in order to stay saine

"Wht cry for those that often cry? Instead, help them smile, and smile for those that smile."

i find myself being attached again. i do not think that the other person cares, but i go on wanting the satisfaction of her care any way. is that weakness, or... what do you think that is?

"Wht cry for those that often cry? Instead, help them smile, and smile for those that smile."

attachment to someone is part of being human, almost every animal needs social contact to remain sane. attachment on a deeper level, and the feeling that one would be incomplete without another person or several people is also quite normal. it can be a bit of a weakness, but for the most part it is benficial to all involved (if the feeling is mutual, or at least accepted by the other person).

"So Schrodinger's Cat is not only neither dead nor alive, but might also be sexually aroused by elbows and peanut butter?"

I think remaining in social contact and attachment are two completely different things. One is just associating. The other is reliance upon something that you could really live with out. But, just because you can live without it doesn't mean you have too. I'd say that the love you feel for someone should be great but not dependent upon.

"I love to see people struggling for their purpose in life..."

...but most people that are in love truly are dependent on the other person.

"\WHEN YOU CANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THINGS THE THINGS YOU LOOK AT CHANGE"

exactly, for most people, if they are truly in love then the loss of the person that they are attached to is a great blow, they are generally incapable of doing much for some period of time, others get to the point of seeing no point in going on. i think the latter feeling is a weakness, as there is usually something worth living for, though i can understand the feeling.

"So Schrodinger's Cat is not only neither dead nor alive, but might also be sexually aroused by elbows and peanut butter?"

People who are attached do rely on what they are attached to. So why would you want to be attached if that made you weak? If it made you stronger and didn't deabilitate the other person or you then being attached to that person makes you stronger.

Their are Four things that you need in this world to stay here
1) Air
2)Water
3)Food
4)Love from an animate object

So to be whole all those things are provided for you here on earth already. all you have to do is pertake of them.

"what if I'm a clone?"

I think love is more a luxury than necessity. You don't absolutly need it but it's certainitly nice to have. But, the above one through three are necessities the material self only need.

"I love to see people struggling for their purpose in life..."

attatchment can make you stronger, it can provide support for you, so that you can stan up to things that you normally couldnt. in extreme situations, it can give you extra strength or clarity of mind. it is inability to handle loss that is the weakness.

"So Schrodinger's Cat is not only neither dead nor alive, but might also be sexually aroused by elbows and peanut butter?"

does it matter how you handle loss. or just as long as you do.

"Wht cry for those that often cry? Instead, help them smile, and smile for those that smile."

[quote]I think love is more a luxury than necessity.

if that's the case then you would have died right in your mother's womb when she decided to abort you because she didn't love you. let me take it a step further. If love is a luxury then why is everyone with holding it when there is an abudance of it. It's not with held for people who can afford to embilsh thier life in it it is here no matter what no one can take that away from you.

If you're talking about eros or philia then we need to start a whole nother thread.

Weakness is only if you deabilitate another in the attachment if you're a leech.

"what if I'm a clone?"

your telling me there's never been a unloved baby.

"I love to see people struggling for their purpose in life..."