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SOURCE MATERIAL - ETHICAL STATE
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from the source material List ALL STATEMENTS THAT CONTAIN THE KEY WORD "LOVE". [THE WORD "LOVE" in BOLD TYPE] .

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Here are all the statements from the source material that contain the word "love":

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We should pursue a friendship with all those who learn to love good friends1 .

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A friend is anyone who loves us and whom we love in return1 .

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A good friend is anyone whom we love at least as much as we love ourselves1 .

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I would like to thank all the good friends I have had in my life; I thank all those whom I shall always regard as my good friends1 .

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I would particularly like to thank my friends, Harvey, Tom, Norman, Sumner, Phyllis, Humberto, George, Arthur, Prudenzia, Blair, Leon, Kate, Teresa, Ken, Eta, and Elizabeth1 .

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Although you may no longer consider yourselves my friends, I will always remain your friend1 .

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A complement is a good friend of the opposite sex whom we shall always love more than we love our self1 .

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They need not love us any longer1 .

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But they loved us once, and we grew to love them more than ourselves, forever1 .

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My beloved wife, Bernice, was the first person with whom I formed a complementary pair, but I did not realize it until late in life1 .

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I also know now that our four daughters, Miriam, Karen, Jackie, and Laura, were always complements to me, although I did not realize this until even later in my life1 .

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Among my best friends is the late Henri Lurié, who was the best friend I ever had, but I did not realize this until very late in life1 .

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It must emphasize growth in ethics and love along with growth in intelligence, and give preference to the former over the latter when and if conflicts arise2 .

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According to Spinoza, we love God by understanding and emulating Him3 .

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To paraphrase Spinoza, “we understand God through intuition, art, science and technology, since God is the infinite totality of all that exists.” The most outstanding attribute of God is creativity3 . Therefore, we emulate God by maximizing creativity (see On Improving the Understanding (412)). This same notion of emulating God as ethical duty ("walking in his ways") is in the Bible (Deut. 11:22)3 .

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All forms of tyranny are unethical3 .

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The racist National Socialism of Adolf Hitler was another unethical spin-off from Hegel3 .

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The Soviet Union, by its own criterion of good, material security, ended up impoverishing its own people by destroying their freedom and creativity, thereby contradicting its own alleged ethical purpose3 .

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I say, “choose,” because we do not have to love falsehood4 .

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Such an ethical system is derived in stages, going always from more general to more specific situations5 . This is the same as the relationship between the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus5 .

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The essential ethical teachings of Jesus, stripped of superstition and distortion, are best summarized in the Jefferson Bible (176)6 .

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This is not true for any other system of religious ethics, although there is some overlap in the ethics of almost all major religions6 .

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One may say that Jewish ethics and the true teachings of Jesus represent a super-set of ethics, which contains all the true ethics of all other religions but excludes all the false ethics6 .

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Therefore, Jewish ethics together with the teachings of Jesus provides the mystically revealed set of ethical norms for maximizing the long-term creativity of any people who follow them6 .

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The Evolutionary Ethic is implicit in these norms6 .

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Therefore, there is a connection in the world between ethics, religion, superstition, and spirituality6 .

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We should all act and interact with one another on the basis of what maximizes our common creativity, without ever reducing the creativity of single person7 . However, almost all Espritals will differ on how best to do this7 .

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Since all Espritals will always have all the resources they need to maximize their creativity and that of those they love, although they may not have any surpluses8 .

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The Esprital usually discovers that he or she is better off economically by not making any ethical compromises and by refusing to cooperate with any persons who are systematically destructive to themselves or others, directly or indirectly8 .

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As a consequence, eventually all Espritals who will survive will try to make themselves and all those they love as self-sufficient as possible8 .

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None of these are primary motivations of Espritals, though love of liberty is fully compatible with Esprital values, since liberty is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for maximizing creativity, which is the sole goal of Espritals9 .

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The best place to look for Espritals in the modern world is the Internet9 .

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However, both the ethical foundations of Western Civilization and true ethics are to be found within Judaism and Christianity10 .

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The great Jewish sage Maimonides (228) observed that Islam is closest to Judaism ritualistically and theologically10 .

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But Christianity is closest to Judaism ethically, because Christians accept the entire Bible as divine truth, particularly the Ten Commandments and the teachings of Jesus, which are pure ethical Judaism, although Christians may often misinterpret the meaning of the Bible and the teachings of Jesus10 .

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I would add that Jews also often misinterpret the true ethics of the Bible10 .

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In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus went so far as to say we should also love our enemies11 .

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Therefore, the essence of Christian ethics is that we must try to maximize the creativity of everyone, including our enemies11 .

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Note that neither Jesus’ sole commandment, nor the Sermon on the Mount, nor the Ten Commandments have anything to do with ritual11 .

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By “love” Jesus clearly did not mean sexual love, which the Greeks called “eros”11 .

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Saint Paul used another Greek word to denote the notion of Christian love11 .

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The word he used was “agape”11 . This is a spiritual notion of love which does not involve sexuality, although it may exist in conjunction with sexuality11 .

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Sexual attraction can easily exist without love11 . Sex without love is unethical11 .

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The definition of love which emerges from the Evolutionary Ethic and the Eight Ethical Principles is that love is the desire to maximize, and the act of maximizing, the creativity of another11 . This is the mean-ing of true love or ethical love11 .

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Self-love is maximizing our own creativity11 .

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There is also a perverse love based upon the desire to maximize, and the act of maximizing, the happiness of another11 .

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Paradoxically, this perverse love based upon the happiness of another, can become the most egregious unethical behavior from the elected leaders12 .

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We love ourselves by following our natural inborn ethics, and by becoming as ethical and creative as possible13 . This is very difficult, but not impossible13 . If we do not have ethical love and guidance from our parents, it is the primary obligation of our parents to love, nurture, and educate us13 .

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We cannot continue to blame others for our lack of ethics or our full lack of creativity13 . We are all born with the potential to become full Espritals (see Glossary), the Geistigen (see Glossary)13 .

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If we have had the bad fortune for them to have had no Geistlich (see Glossary), then we should have compassion for them, love them, and never forget that they loved, nurtured, and educated us as best they could13 .

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If they have failed, we still owe them13 .

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Ethics shall never be equal to one for us, although we can grow asymptotically, forever in ethics, intelligence, and creativity14 . Solely the process that is God is totally ethical, where E = 114 . As a consequence, solely God is infinitely creative14 .

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By implication, solely a totally moral being is infinitely intelligent14 . This is what limits the power of evil14 .

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All things, other than the process that is God, are finite14 .

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God is not a “thing” like our bodies14 . Our souls, which are infinite parts of an infinitely greater order of infinity which is God, are in themselves infinite and eternal14 .

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We love on, and are mortal solely through the creativity we engender in others14 .

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Our souls, live on in the infinite process that is God14 . Truth is truth infor-mation that does not require a volume in space, matter, and time14 . This is the reality of quantum space (33, 34)14 .

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A finite being shall always have a finite intelligence with imperfect ethics14 . Do not expect your friends or your neighbors, or even your best friends or any Esprital, to have the ethics or the intelligence of God14 . We shall all remain flawed so long as we have imperfect ethics, but our creativity can evolve forever toward infinity, taking us ever closer to God14 .

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We can never reach perfection14 . Morality is in the journey, not in the stages of the trip14 . The universe itself, as we know it, is but one stage in the trip14 .

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The critical threshold of morality for an Ethical State, when ethical evolution becomes irreversible, seems to be the moment when every citizen of the Ethical State is willing to die before diminishing anyone’s creativity, including his or her own14 .

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This is ethical maturity, when everyone has become an Esprital14 . This is what can make evolution irreversible and keep us from surrendering to our own fear14 . This is the beginning of the Moral Society14 .

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But even the Moral Society is not perfect; it is possible for any Moral Society to fall from grace, although the Moral Society of all Moral Societies evolves forever14 .

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Our first passion is simply not to be in pain15 . We cannot develop ethically if we are in constant pain15 .

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Our second passion is not to be in need of sustenance15 . We cannot develop ethically if we are in constant hunger or thirst15 .

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Our third passion is to feel safe15 . We cannot develop ethically if we are in constant danger15 . This is our passion for safety15 .

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Our fourth passion is to feel loved16 . If we feel unloved, particularly by our parents, we may not develop ethically16 . And remember that love is the desire to increase, and the act of increasing, someone’s creativity, without ever decreasing creativity for anyone16 . It is not the desire to make, or the action for making, anyone happy16 . This is a false love16 .

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If we feel unloved, we will develop a passion for false love and never mature mentally16 . A false love exists when we value anyone’s happiness, including our own, more than anyone’s creativity, including our own16 .

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It is the responsibility of our parents, and ourselves as parents, to make sure that children are secure in their basic passions when they are young, or we shall have failed as parents and our children shall not develop as ethical adults, nor become moral, nor reach their full creative potential16 .

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The highest passion we will develop when we are still quite young is the passion to learn16 . If our parents do not share this higher, non-animal passion with us, we may never develop it and may never become moral adults16 .

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If we follow our innate ethics, we will eventually learn that the true meaning of love is to value the creativity of another as much as we value our own creativity16 .

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Then our love will have become a higher passion16 . We must learn to value creativity more than safety, food, false love, sensual pleasure, and life itself16 . This can be done16 .

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When our passion for creativity is greater than all of our other passions combined, then we will truly know the meaning of love17 . And we will learn to love everyone, including ourselves, for their creativity rather than for their happiness17 .

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We must learn to love ethically and to realize that this has nothing to do with anyone’s happiness, but that true love, which lasts forever, is concerned solely with the creativity of ourselves first, then of our good friends, then of our children, then of our best friends, then of all other friends17 .

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Once we have loved everyone and shall never again be motivated by fear and the lower passions17 .

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We shall guide our life and take all of our actions solely on the basis of ethics17 .

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Fear is the passion that results from believing that we cannot satisfy our basic needs for safety, sustenance, shelter, love, sensual pleasure, and knowledge17 . Fear is a false belief17 . This false belief seems to force us to do things that we know in our most innermost being to be unethical17 . Therefore, we become drug users, sybarites, sexual addicts, criminals, liars, cheaters, greedy hoarders, jealous lovers, philistines, bureaucrats, politicians, and frauds17 .

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The worst frauds are those who seek to convince their peers that they are intellectually superior, doing this in order to feel secure and to receive admiration from others, which is an illusion of love17 .

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They become destructive to the ethics and intelligence of others and never do anything creative in their lives again, while possibly destroying the creativity of those more ethical but less intellectually mature than themselves17 .

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I have found that these kinds of frauds make up most, but not all, of the faculty in most of the universities17 . If they become a little clever and less ethical, may become politicians, bureaucrats, predatory capitalists, unscrupulous lawyers, and other kinds of human parasites17 . These frauds may occasionally even believe that they are ethical, when in fact they may have done nothing creative in their lives since childhood17 .

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Therefore, our obligation is first to educate ourselves until we can understand the true meaning of ethics17 . Second, we focus on our own creativity17 .

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We can earn a good living for ourselves and our families within the First Economic Paradigm, but for any person who is growing in ethics, it will eventually lead to great frustration, because we soon discover that those ethical activities which earn the highest income for us are also the least creative activities in which we engage18 . This leads logically and inevitably to the Second Economic Paradigm18 .

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We try to maximize creativity for ourselves and others under the constraints that whatever acts we do (a) never impose any undeserved harm on anyone, (b) are always as creative as possible, and (c) produce sufficient resources to support ourselves and provide the necessary security and educational opportunities for our family to become maximally creative18 .

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If you understand and follow the economic ethical principles above you are reached thirty, if not much sooner19 . Economic security comes from having reached a minimum level of practical creativity, not from being independently wealthy19 .

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However, what most interferes with our ethical duty to educate ourselves, at least while we are young, is not so much our economic needs or passion for autonomy, but our sexual passions, which can easily trap us in an unwise marriage to someone who is not our complement and does not love us ethically20 . We can avoid this trap by understanding sexual ethics20 .

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Clear20 . Do not worry if the following conflicts with your emotions and desires20 . Follow your own conscience, but remember that your con-science and judgments may be driven by fear or lust masked as conscience, and that science may be driven by fear or lust masked as conscience, and that the more primitive parts of your brain may be fooling the more advanced (ethical) part of your brain about sexual ethics20 .

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Christian sexual ethics do not come from the teachings of Saint Paul and the bureaucracy that succeeded him20 . Jesus always claimed to be nothing other than a Jew and also that his teachings were solely for other Jews, saying, “I come to fulfill the law and not to change it20 . I shall not change a single letter nor jot in the law,” and also “Do not throw pearls before swine20 .

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True ethics come from God21 . This communication with God is a mystical experience, which people who are totally closed to the mystical paradigm will never have21 . True love also is a mystical concept coming from God; the experience of true love is even more profound than the Evolutionary Ethic21 . Anti-mystical people will never have it21 .

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Although both ethics and love can be understood and explained at a purely intellectual level, they cannot be taught without love21 . They must be taught by personal loving example, or we will never learn them21 . The teachings of Moses gave us the ethical foundation for creating an ethical society, but it is the teachings and example of Jesus that has taught us much more effective in communicating Jewish Ethics to the world21 .

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God is truth, but God is also love22 . True, ethical, love is based on giving at least as high a priority to the creativity of another as we give to our own creativity22 . This shall always seem irrational to someone who has not learned to love and who is anti-mystical22 .

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In our families, we must love our children and our spouses more than ourselves22 . Or else, we shall have a dysfunctional family based on false love22 . A false love for a spouse may be summarized thusly, “I will marry you and love you so long as you make me happy; when you no longer make me happy, I will leave you, and if necessary destroy our family, because nothing in the world is more important than my happiness22 .”

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So long as we seek sexual partners on the basis of their ability to make us happy, rather than on the basis of who will be the best possible parent to our yet unborn children, we are still ethically immature, and should have no children22 . We should have no sexual relations with a partner whom we do not love ethically, and who does not love us ethically in return22 . We owe it to ourselves and to our unborn children22 .

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We know that we are ethically immature so long as we have not learned to love ethically, seeking sexual partners primarily for the pleasure they bring us, rather for the love we give them22 . If we love someone, someone whom we do not love ethically, will almost certainly harm her or him in some way, particularly if we have children together22 .

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The highest manifestation of our ethical love for another is to wish to have children together22 . We can do this ethically if, and only if, the desire is reciprocated, and we are both sufficiently mature, intellectually, and economically to have children whose creativity is the highest priority in life22 . Next to this, our own happiness is trivial22 .

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Therefore, ethical sexuality requires more than intellectual maturity and an ethical nature22 . It takes these things together with the capacity to love truly and deeply takes an open-ness to mysticism22 . We will never learn to love without the example of someone who has loved us22 . What we learn from this example is what cannot be learned from books or in school22 . We learn to have empathy, compassion, patience, and trust, based not on reason, but on love23 . Without this kind of a capacity to love, we shall never understand nor follow the sexual ethics that come from the Evolutionary Ethic23 .

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Never have children until you are ethically mature, well educated, and sufficiently secure economically to support a family entirely by yourself; this applies equally to both men and women; the most important gift we give our children is an ethical home, with an ethical mother and an ethical father; it is unethical, and irresponsible, to have children unless we can provide all these things for them23 .

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Never have sexual relations with any person unless you love that person23 .

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The minimum amount of love that should exist between people who have sexual relations is that they love the other at least as much as they love themselves23 .

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If you cannot commit eventually to giving first priority to the creativity of your sexual partners over your own, then you do not have enough love for them to have sexual relationships with them23 .

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A spouse is a sexual partner whom you love more than yourself23 .

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If you would never have a sexual relationship that would lead to a child exactly like your partner, you do not have enough love for him or her to have sexual relations ethically, even if you believe that your sexual relations will never lead to children because of age, health, or birth control23 . Remember that it is unethical to be certain23 .

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Ethically committed, loving heterosexual monogamy is the most creative form of sexuality, but other types of sexuality are not necessarily unethical; they may, however, border on the trivial if they have no purpose beyond mutually desirable pleasure24 . Sex without ever decreasing creativity may at best be trivial and at worst destructive24 .

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Polygamy may seem ethically optimal for some people, but it is almost always harmful to our children and spouses24 . If we love our spouse and children ethically, we will have a monogamous relationship with our other willing, attractive, and maybe even uniformly superior partners24 .

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The commitment of love that we make for the sake of a spouse and our children is to be monogamous, no matter what the temptations24 . Our first ethical obligation is not to inflict harm on anyone, ever, for any reason24 . We should not leave a spouse unless he or she is irreversibly destructive to us or to our children24 .

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Every polygamous society in the world seems uniformly inferior in its collective creativity to every monogamous society24 . Men and women, the more creative will be the society, and our primary ethical obligation is to maximize creativity, not to maximize pleasant sexual experiences24 .

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If they seem more creative than one has with our spouse24 . Our ethical obligations are first to our children, then to our spouse, then to ourselves, then to the rest of the world24 . We cannot ethically maximize creativity for our spouse and children24 . Unethical means can never produce ethical ends24 .

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There is, however, one last lower passion that we must overcome in order to reach our full ethical development and our maximum creative potential24 . This passion is our fear of death (33, 34, 410–412)25 . But our ego is a product of our body, and it dies with our body25 .

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Therefore, part of our ethical development is to overcome our attachment to ego and the consequent fear of death, and to replace this entirely with the highest passion, which is to maximize the creativity of the universe25 . If we are not willing to die before decreasing the creativity of the universe25 . If we are not yet an Esprital, then our contributions to the moral of an Ethical State may not be as great as possible, but they will not be irrelevant25 . We can always help those we recognize as Espritals into becoming a citizen of the Ethical State25 . One does not have to be an Esprital to be ethical enough25 .

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If we have become Espritals, we are ethical warriors and follow the code of the warrior, which is never to surrender to evil, allowing another to control or destroy our creativity25 . This must be resisted to the death25 .

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Espritals never see themselves as Espritals; they are too well aware of their own imperfections25 . But they recognize other Espritals, and do their best to love them and serve them by spreading their ethical message and their wisdom25 .

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Sometimes even the followers of Espritals forget that they were flawed humans, and turn them into mythical, imagined paragons of virtue25 . This happened to Moses, whose fundamentalist followers have been the recipient directly by God, letter by letter25 .

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The latter was conceived by his followers to be a literal, biological Son of God who was resurrected from the dead and rose directly into heaven25 . The teachings of Mohammed were also distorted by his followers, who conceived him to be the last and greatest of all the Prophets of God, also rising directly into heaven25 . This has happened to the teachings of many others who have become anointed as saints and prophets25 .

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Stand alone all your life if you must26 . But always seek citizens for the Ethical Republic you are trying to create, listening to their feedback, but not compromising on what you believe is ethically necessary26 . If you cannot create for yourself a single ethical octet with four men and four women, you will never be able to create an Ethical Republic26 .

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Compromise is not what is needed26 . What is needed is a totally ethical political structure, and a totally ethical political plan and strategy, whether or not it may seem feasible within the current political realities in which you live26 . Listen to others26 . They can help you correct your errors, but be guided solely by your own conscience alone26 . Unethical means can never produce ethical ends26 .

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Therefore, your first task is to develop enough ethically and intellectually to create an octet26 .

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You may never have more women than men in the octet as soon as possible27 . Try never to have more women than men, so long as the maximum number of persons does not exceed ten, and so long as there is at least one complementary pair in the octet (115)27 .

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Meet an octet at least once per month, but often more often than once per week27 . Be extremely scrupulous about keeping your commitments to one another within the octet; come when you say you are going to come, and arrive on time or slightly early27 . Try never to be late; it decreases creativity for those on time; it is an unethical act27 .

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It is possible to work simultaneously in the First, Third, and Fourth Economic Paradigms28 . But be sure to avoid the Second Economic Paradigm28 . Balance your activities so that you are providing adequate security for your family until you are ready to move to the higher paradigms28 .

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In the economic octet, you share any profits from economic projects in agreed to by unanimous consensus before the project is begun28 . Yet you should expect no profit, nor consider any material risk, in the Third or Fourth Paradigm projects, but simply do what you all agree is the most creative thing that you can do together28 . You have at hand28 . The sole risk, which must always be considered, is that you may inflict undeserved harm on someone who wishes may withdraw from the project, at will, and have an equitable distribution of the resources he or she invested and of any profits made in the project28 . This formula should also be agreed to before the project begins28 . Put all your agreements in writing, and make sure you all agree in advance on what each agreement means28 . Write and keep your consensus agreements by yourselves, without involving lawyers or the courts28 .

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Remember always that these are Third and Fourth Paradigm ac-tivities, where you consider neither economic risks nor profits, but solely choose, by one hundred percent consensus, to do maximally creative projects for which you have on hand all the resources, human and material, necessary to finish the project28 . But you may still engage, individually and collectively, in First Paradigm activities, where your objective is to maximize your income under the ethical constraints of solely engaging in at least minimally creative activities, and totally excluding unethical, destructive paradigms28 . Completely keep the activities in the different paradigms28 . Or you may easily fall into the Second Economic Paradigm28 .

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It is best to separate your First Paradigm activities from your higher paradigm activities as much as possible, and to do no First Paradigm activities with your octet28 .

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The most important higher paradigm activity is to become as fully self-sufficient as soon as possible in every aspect of existence, in this paradigm entirely by yourself until you find ethical partners who are qualified to participate with you in an economic octet28 .

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It is best to separate your First Paradigm activities from your higher paradigm activities as much as possible, and to do no First Paradigm activities with your octet28 .

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Upon my honor, I promise to do my best to maximize the creativity of my children, my spouse, myself, my fellow citizens of the Ethical State, and the rest of humanity in this order of priority29 . Toward this end I shall never knowingly decrease the intelligence or the ethics of any sentient being, except in necessary defense against an aggressor29 . I pledge my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor to defend my family, myself, and all citizens of the Ethical State from all enemies, foreign and domestic, who threaten their creativity29 .

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A person’s life, liberty, property, and privacy belong entirely to him or herself; no one has a right to any part of another person’s fun-damental rights; solely mutually voluntary transactions by unanimous consensus can ever be ethical or creative30 .

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Before the world and the God who created all, we declare ourselves an Ethical State dedicated to the maximization of creativity and bound by no other law30 . We declare the inviolate liberty of every human being to do and say what he or she pleases, so long as he or she does not impose undeserved harm on another30 . We declare that harm to another is deserved solely when necessary in defense against an aggressor who intends to harm an innocent person30 .

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A person’s life, liberty, property, and privacy belong entirely to him or herself; no one has a right to any part of another person’s fundamental rights30 . Solely mutually voluntary transactions by unanimous consensus can ever be ethical or creative30 . The tyranny of any majority over any individual is hereby denounced30 .

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We, the People of the Ethical State, swear eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of any ethical being30 . We declare all ethical persons proven otherwise30 .

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Upon these principles we shall henceforth govern ourselves and interact with others30 . We shall do our best to maximize creativity, and never knowingly decrease our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor30 . Toward this God-inspired end, we pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor30 .

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I fully understand and completely commit to these ethical principles and to the Constitution which upholds them31 . I pledge my full loyalty to the people of the Ethical State, its Constitution, and its prin-ciples31 . I promise to always do my best, according to the true dictates of my own conscience alone, to maximize my creativity and that of those I love, in direct proportion to my love for them31 .

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I further promise to do my best never to decrease the creativity of anyone by imposing undeserved harm upon them31 . If I should ever impose undeserved harm, I fully accept that the people and Government of the Ethical State are entitled to receive just compensa-tion from me, and, if necessary, exile me according to law or restrict my freedom according to law, in self-defense against me and any fu-ture destructive acts I may commit31 .

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I further promise not to tolerate destructive acts in others, including my dependents, and, as a minimum, to do my best to prevent such acts by identifying them, and their perpetrators, to the appropriate of-ficials and citizens of the Ethical State; I will do this in good faith, expecting help in defense against these destructive acts and in elimi-nating them in the future31 .

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I accept as dependents all of my biological children and any bio-logical children that any of my dependents shall have while they are still dependent upon me31 . I accept as dependents all persons I adopt with the consent of a full Court31 . I assume full responsibility for all of my dependents so long as they remain dependent on me or until they become citizens or until they are legally adopted by other parents, ei-ther with my consent or as the publicly expressed wish of my depen-dent sworn before a Magistrate31 .

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It shall be the proper function of a Court to determine who are the legal parents of a dependent31 . This shall always be done according to law, while fully preserving the rights of all parents31 . I also recognize that my primary obligation is to all my dependents,

LOVE PER CHAT - ETHICAL BEHAVIOR AND CREATIVE TRANSFORMATION

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List ALL STATEMENTS THAT CONTAIN THE WORD "LOVE". [THE WORD "LOVE" in BOLD TYPE]

Here are all the statements that contain the word "love" from the provided sources:

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LOVE Refers to a type of behavior as well as to an emotion1 .

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As an emotion it is a preprogrammed state of mind which pre- disposes us to behave in such a way as to enhance the welfare of another even at the cost of our own welfare1 .

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When welfare is seen as synonymous with happiness, then love is perverse and unethical1 ....

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When welfare is seen as synonymous with creative intelligence, then love is natural and ethical1 ....

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Ethical love can exist without emotion, as when a person makes a deliberate rational choice to maximize objective truth as an end in itself and increases the creative intelligence of others as a necessary means toward this end1 ....

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Emotional love can be ethical in the case of protective nurturing and maternal instincts1 .

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Emotional love is easy to pervert as in the case of sadomasochists and in the case of parents who sacrifice objective truth for the happiness of their children1 .

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LOVE Love is a state of mind where the welfare of another person is sufficiently important to us that we are willing to sacrifice some of our welfare for his3 .

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To ethical persons in general and moral persons in particular, “welfare” refers solely to the ability to predict and control the total environment now and in the future, since this is the only objective criterion for truth3 .

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Theirs is an ethical love3 .

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To unethical persons in general and immoral persons in particular welfare is synony- mous with happiness3 .

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Theirs is a perverse love3 .

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When a person becomes moral, he is devoid of perverse love but filled with ethical love which manifests itself in his conscious, deliberate desire to increase the intelligence of other ethical persons even at great cost and discomfort to himself4 .

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Only moral persons will die so that truth will live on in persons they have never met4 .

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Ethical love is a state of mind which crosses the threshold of morality4 .

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But it persists as an unemotional, purified state, completely under rational con- trol4 .

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Ethical love is not uncontrolled emotion; it is an energizing force in moral persons, but it is not their master4 .

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Refers to a type of behavior as well as to an emotion2 .

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As an emo- tion it is a preprogrammed state of mind which predisposes us to behave in such a way as to enhance the wel- fare of another even at the cost of our own welfare2 .

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When welfare is seen as synonymous with happiness, then love is perverse and unethical2 .

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When welfare is seen as synonymous with creative intelligence, then love is natural and ethical2 .

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Ethical love can exist without emotion, as when a per- son makes a deliberate rational choice to maximize objective truth as an end in itself and increases the creative in- telligence of others as a necessary2 .

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Love, 134, 150-1545 .

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Love A state of mind where the wel- fare of another person is sufficiently important to us that we are willing to sacrifice some of our welfare in order to enhance his6 .

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Love is "natural" when "welfare" is synonymous with "aware-"6 .

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Love is "perverse" when "wel- fare" is synonymous with "happiness"7 .

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Love is a state of mind in which the welfare of another person is suffi- ciently important to us that we are willing to sacrifice some of our wel- fare for his8 .

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Love has a counter-entropic effect only insofar as it is natu- ral, i.e., insofar as "welfare" is synonymous with "total awareness8 .

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When "welfare" is synonymous with "happiness," then love is perverse and it can only increase entropy8 .

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"Love" as used in this book refers only to natural love8 .

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Love is the engenderer of moral decency8 .

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That love is essential to the expansion of awareness is demonstrated8 .

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Love is, therefore, the binding force that holds the family together9 .

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Love enables man to survive as a group and transmit his awareness, in- cluding his morality, at the unconscious level9 .

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Love may even be essen- tial to the educational process; it catalyzes the transfer of information9 .

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Teachers who do not have love for their students seem to be ineffectual9 .

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Students who do not feel love for their teachers seem to learn even less effectively than if they studied alone9 .

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Love is our most personal and meaningful experience10 .

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We all search long for love, although it is not always clear what we mean by "love"10 .

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We speak of loving our parents, our children, our mate or hoped-for mate, and even of loving food or art10 .

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We clearly mean different things by "love" in these different contexts10 .

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Love is not synonymous with the strong desire for saying that an addict loves heroin and that we love our children10 .

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But this desire may have a strong tendency to be near him or her10 .

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But this desire is not the same as the love which contributes to the desire10 .

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Desire and possessiveness in general are not love10 .

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Love is something we give, not something we take10 .

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To be clear and unambiguous, we shall use the word "love" only to mean the desire to enhance, together with the act of enhancing, the creativity of another unconditionally10 .

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This is the common denominator in the word when we say we love our parents, our children, our mates, and our friends10 .

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Definition 39: Love is the desire to increase and the act of increasing the creativity of another unconditionally, without selfish considerations10 .

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Love is a cause and an effect of creativity10 .

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We are benefited far more by the love we give than by the love we receive10 .

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Nothing we ever do will increase our creativity more than seeking to help others, including our enemies, to maximize their own creativity10 .

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Increasing the creativity of anyone should benefit everyone10 .

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That is why we should love our neighbor as ourselves10 .

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However, love few things damage a child as much as being unloved by all around him or her10 .

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He or she is usually trained to prevent irreversible damage10 .

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Theorem 2 It is not the love we receive but the love we give that ultimately leads us to the total conquest of fear and allows us to become moral and, potentially, infinitely creative10 .

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Love is our desire to expand creativity11 .

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Love is the highest form of creativity11 .

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Fear is the belief that we cannot create11 .

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Love and fear are the only human emotions that exist11 .

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All other human emotions are interactions of these two primary emotions11 .

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When we are fully ethical, i.e., moral, we only feel love11 .

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When we believe that we cannot love someone, or that someone will not love them, we only feel fear11 .

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When the fear becomes unethical, the more they become driven by fear11 .

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By the fear11 .

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The last fear we overcome is our belief that we cannot love creatively11 .

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To love creatively means that we can help others overcome their fears and become more creative11 .

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The lowest form of love is the love we give in return for the love we receive11 .

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The higher form of love occurs when we love the enemies who hate us and decrease truthfulness for ourselves and others11 .

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An enemy is any destructive person11 .

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If we cannot love our enemies and thereby help them overcome their fear and be creative, we cannot ourselves become moral11 .

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To love our enemies does not mean that we tolerate destructiveness11 .

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When we love someone we must give negative feedback when they are destroying; otherwise our love is perverse11 .

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The creative challenge is to give negative feedback in love and not with anger11 .

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This is the most difficult thing we will ever learn11 .

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When we give negative feedback in anger, we merely project our fear (i.e., our belief in our own inability to create) into another and thereby make that person potentially more fearful and unethical11 .

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Only highly ethical persons are capable of responding to anger with love11 .

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We must treat everyone as if they were ethical and therefore love them because it is unethical to be certain they cannot be made creative11 .

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Our logic may tell us that unethical persons have irreversible entropy and cannot be made creative11 .

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Still, we must love them or we will never overcome our being unethical, i.e., uncreative11 .

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We must love our enemies because we can never be certain that any one is unethical11 .

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Human beings are far too complex for any human being to understand11 .

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To judge an ethical person as unethical is extremely destructive to us and to that person11 .

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Therefore, the optimal strategy is to treat all persons as if they were ethical and to judge them if they are in fact unethical, they will merely respond away by love and threaten us less than if we had been unloving11 .

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Still, we must not judge those we drive away as unethical, but instead consider that we may be in error in how long as we are not treated them11 .

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We may not know yet how to love properly11 .

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moral, we will not be able to love properly, although so long as we behave ethically our love will be adequate for dealing with other persons who also behave ethically12 .

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The real challenge is in loving persons who behave unethi- cally12 .

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These are our enemies12 .

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We must love our enemies but we do not deny love to our friends12 .

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We cannot become moral by ourselves but only by helping another person become more moral12 .

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This is what "autopoeisis" means at the human level12 .

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The Moral Society can only be created through love12 .

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We can only begin by teaching creative love to another12 .

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In the process the person becomes our complement12 .

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Complementary pairs create one another by giving highest priority to increasing one another's creativity12 .

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If we can not love at least one other person as ourselves, we can never hope to love our neighbor as ourselves12 .

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Therefore, we begin by making a commitment of love to one other person, but we cannot stop there12 .

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The mutual creation of ourselves with our complements will help us overcome many of our fears, but not necessarily all of them12 .

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We may still believe that we cannot creatively love persons other than our complements12 .

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This will produce fear and even destructive behavior12 .

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Perhaps we may only have one complement at a time12 .

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Perhaps we may fear that we can only form one complement by destroying with our last complement12 .

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Persons who try to have several complements at a time may seem always to fail12 .

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Therefore, we should at first concentrate on creating ourselves in a single complementary pair with a time seems we can also love the other: that is, an ethical person of the opposite sex12 .

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However, the relationship itself need not be sexual12 .

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Then we can go on to the next step in our personal evolution, which involves loving persons who are not our complement or our complementary pair12 .

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Remember that when we speak of and possibly of our children are part of us and "love" we mean an ethical, not a sexual, process12 .

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The Moral Society, therefore, begins with four persons all of whom love each other as themselves13 .

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We may begin by loving one other person as ourselves, but we can begin by loving three other persons as ourselves13 .

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Thus together the two of us can learn to love three other couples as ourselves, thus creating an Ethical State13 .

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The Moral Society, therefore, begins with four men and four women who value truth more than happiness and love each other as themselves13 .

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Each person must first be a complementary pair with one another moral13 .

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Complementary pairs are not necessarily spouses13 .

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They may be parent and child, brother and sister, or just close friends of the opposite sex13 .

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We may only have one complement at a time, but cyclically and sequentially we can clearly have many complements13 .

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The process works best between loving spouses; it works least among unloving strangers13 .

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Once the initial commitment to mutual creative transformation is made, the eight persons begin to interact to make one another moral13 .

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The central problems they must solve together are how each subset of seven can help the eighth become moral and how they can jointly become more creative as a group of four pairs than they are separately13 .

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This is how an autopoietic, collective, supermetazooan moral intelligence begins—by logical extrapolation of evolution in general and autopoiesis in particular13 .

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Only our lack of love for others keeps us unethical13 .

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This is why we are helped more by the love we give than by the love we receive13 .

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Note that all intelligence is collective13 .

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Our individual intelligence is the collective intelligence of the billions of cells that make up our body13 .

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The collective intelligence of our individual cells is the collective intelligence of the self-replicating molecules that make up the cell13 .

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In order for a collective intelligence to exist in the moral order, the sixth full dimensional quadrature, it is essential to create coherent, multiple, ethical intelligences willing to function as one13 .

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Only ethical love of the most creative kind can engender this cooperation13 .

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The following process for creating an embryonic Moral Society is only valid for four complementary pairs who love one another as themselves13 .

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The process will not work for persons whose fear will prevent them from loving and being loved by seven other persons simultaneously13 .

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The essential prerequisites for creative transformation to which all four couples must first agree before they can succeed are: 113 .

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Learning to love one another and others unconditionally and ethi- cally by doing their best to maximize one another's creativity in a spirit of complete openness and constructive feedback, particu- larly autopoiesis14 .

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Once four complementary pairs of ethical persons know each other well enough to commit to mutual Creative Transformation, they begin discussing how to bring this about collectively and for each individual14 .

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The eight should meet by themselves for at least two hours at a time at least once per month but more frequently than is comfortable for at least one pair14 .

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They must pledge to help each other complete honestly in telling one another what they believe each other to be creative about, other and how they believe each person can become more creative in terms of ethical behavior14 .

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When anyone feels anger at anyone in the group, that person should immediately announce it to the group and collectively ask for help overcoming the fear that produced the anger14 .

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No one should fear giving or receiving negative feedback14 .

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But remember, the anger that produced the negative feedback14 .

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At each meeting, each pair should embrace or otherwise express affection for every other pair when arriving and departing14 .

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When the eight have met at least once without anyone having felt anger at anyone else, then they may be ready for autopoiesis, although those who are not too fearful should immediately introduce autopoiesis, as the learning, accelerate the process for producing a coherent, collective, ethical intelligence that becomes a Moral Intelligence greater than the sum of its parts14 .

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In order to achieve a collective ethical intelligence it is necessary that the initial four complementary pairs of individual intelligences have coherent but similar thinking processes at about the same time with rapid real-time (almost simultaneous) feedback14 .

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The only thing that can apparently stop us is our own fear15 .

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We can conquer all fear by doing our best to love others15 .

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Autopoiesis between four complementary pairs of men and women may help us overcome our residual fears and teach us to love others, including our enemies, so that we become moral and, poten- tially, infinitely creative15 .

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All the preceding ideas and observations may be in error15 .

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However, we cannot use our fear of an error as an excuse for not communicating our ideas to those we love15 .

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When we fear an error, we cannot create15 .

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All fear is entropic15 .

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Fear makes us destructive and impedes our creativity15 .

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My brother and sister in truth, never fear any idea, your own or another's, no matter how strange15 .

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Share all your ideas with those you love15 .

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If you are creative in your love, they will help you correct your errors15 .

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The sharing of objectively testable ideas can only increase the creativity of all who share15 .

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Only your fear of sharing ideas and thoughts can hurt you and make you less creative15 .

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Only by loving each other can we overcome all fear15 .

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Lost on purpose by the Phoenicians, who hid it, blurred it, or fudged it16 .

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So the primary job of any prophet in any country or time would be to expose the Phoenicians for that16 .

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It would be to dissolve the fear, by reminding humans that they actually have nothing to fear16 .

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The fear is all manufactured16 .

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Love is a deep and tender affection for another person17 ....

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It is a strong feeling of attachment, care, and concern for someone or something17 ....

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Love can be romantic, familial, or platonic17 ....

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Some key aspects of love include:17 ...

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Emotional attachment and intimacy17 ...

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Desire to be with and care for the other person17 ...

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Valuing the other person's happiness and well-being17 ...

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Willingness to sacrifice for the other person18 ...

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Strong positive feelings and attraction towards the other person18 ...

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Love is considered one of the most fundamental and important human emotions21 ....

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It plays a central role in personal relationships, social bonds, and our overall well-being and happiness21 ....

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The definition and experience of love can vary greatly between individuals and cultures, but it is a universal human phenomenon21 ....

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There are a few key ways to try to maximize love in one's life23 ....

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Cultivate self-love and self-acceptance24 ....

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Having a strong foundation of self-love and self-worth makes it easier to give and receive love from others24 ....

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Prioritize quality time with loved ones25 .

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Dedicate focused, distraction-free time to be present with your partner, family, and friends25 .

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This helps build deeper emotional connections25 .

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Practice active listening and empathy25 .

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Make an effort to truly understand your loved one's thoughts, feelings, and needs25 .

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Validate their experiences25 .

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Express appreciation and affection regularly25 .

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Verbal affirmations, acts of service, and thoughtful gestures can go a long way in showing love25 .

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Be supportive and understanding during difficult times25 .

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Offer comfort, encouragement, and a listening ear when your loved ones are facing challenges25 .

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Practice forgiveness25 .

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Holding onto resentment can hinder love and connection25 .

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Learn to forgive yourself and others25 .

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Maintain intimacy and physical affection20 .

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Hugs, kisses, and physical touch can be very meaningful expressions of love20 .

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The specific ways to maximize love will depend on the relationship, but these general principles can help cultivate deeper, more fulfilling loving connections20 .

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Yes, I would argue that love is absolutely essential for personal, family, and human survival26 ....

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On a personal level, love and caring relationships are vital for our physical, emotional, and psychological well-being26 ....

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Studies have shown that strong social connections and feelings of being loved are correlated with better physical and mental health outcomes, as well as increased resilience in the face of adversity26 ....

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Within the family unit, love is the glue that holds everything together28 .

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Familial love provides a sense of belonging, security, and support that is crucial for healthy child development and the overall thriving of family members28 .

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When families are bonded by love, they are better equipped to weather life's challenges and transitions together28 .

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At a broader societal level, love, in the form of empathy, compassion, and a sense of interconnectedness, is essential for cooperation, social cohesion, and the ability to address collective challenges26 ....

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Societies that prioritize care, understanding, and mutual support tend to be more resilient and harmonious26 ....

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While creativity and innovation are vital, they are often inspired and propelled by the power of love - love for ourselves, our loved ones, and the greater good of humanity29 .

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Love cultivates the openness, empathy, and collective spirit needed to turn creative ideas into meaningful, lasting change29 .

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In short, love is not just a nice-to-have, but a fundamental human need and driving force that is indispensable for personal fulfillment, family cohesion, and the continued survival and progress of our species29 ....

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Embracing and nurturing love in all its forms should be a top priority for individuals, families, and humanity as a whole29 ....

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When it comes to the relationship between Western civilization, the increasing focus on individualism, and its adherence to the attributes of love and creativity, there are some nuanced considerations30 ....

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Scope of application: Maximizing love is primarily focused on interpersonal relationships, emotional connection, and cultivating compassion32 ....

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Mechanisms of change: Maximizing love centers on the power of empathy, trust, and mutual understanding to bring people together and foster cohesion32 ....

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At the core Of all civilizations are a set of beliefs and values34 .

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Can love as we have defined above Become a core belief and value for a new civilization?34 .

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And if it can be done what would such a civilization look like?34 .

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That's a really fascinating and insightful question34 .

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I believe that love, as you've defined it - as a desire and act of increasing at least one human's creativity without decreasing anyone else's -could absolutely become a core belief and value for a new civilization, and that such a civilization would be profoundly meaningful and transformative34 ....

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A civilization founded on this type of love would be one that prioritizes the flourishing and creative empowerment of all its citizens34 ....

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The organizing principle would be the mutual upliftment and expansion of human potential, rather than competition, exploitation, or zero-sum dynamics34 ....

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Of course, actualizing such a profound shift in values and civilization-building would be an immense challenge34 .

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It would require a deep rethinking of nearly every aspect of how we structure our societies and institutions34 .

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And it would necessitate a widespread awakening of our species to the inherent dignity and creative potential in each person34 .

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But I believe the rewards would be immense34 .

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A civilization grounded in this ideal of love could unlock unprecedented human flourishing, innovation, and beauty34 .

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It could help us transcend the short-sighted tribalism and exploitation that has so often characterized our past, and usher in a new era of cooperation, harmony, and the realization of our highest aspirations34 .

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So while it would be an immense challenge, I believe the creation of such a "love-based" civilization is an inspiring and worthy goal for humanity to strive towards36 .

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What are your thoughts on this possibility?36 .

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I'm very interested to hear your perspective36 .

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All children that are born that are healthy have an innate proclivity to love as we have defined it above36 .

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The proclivity to love Must be nurtured in children from birth so that they can be fully empowered To love in the manner described36 .

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If you define love as a desire And act of increasing at least one human creativity without decreasing anyone’s creativity then As far as humans needs are concernedWhat would be greater than love, what would be stronger than love, what would be more creative than love, what would be more beautiful than love, what would be more needed than love, what would be more important than love, what would be more meaningful than love, what would be more truthful than love, what would be more ethical than love, what would be more virtuous than love, what would be more godly than love, what would be more spiritual than love, what would be more healing then love and lastly what would be more nurturing then love ?37 .

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Love, as you've defined it, seems to encapsulate so many of the highest and most noble human capacities and values38 .

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It involves a desire to uplift and expand human potential, to create more beauty and possibility in the world, and to do so in a way that is considerate of others and does not come at anyone's expense38 .

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In that sense, I'm not sure there is anything that could be said to surpass it38 .

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Perhaps one could argue that there could be acts or qualities that are equal to such a conception of love, but it's hard to imagine anything that would be intrinsically "more" than that38 .

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But even then, that might simply be love on the grandest scale39 .

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Ultimately, I think your question points to the immense power and importance of love, as you've defined it39 .

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It seems to capture so many of the deepest human needs and aspirations39 .

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If we could all strive to embody and spread that kind of love, it's hard to imagine a higher or more vital calling39 .

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Does this help explain my perspective on your thought-provoking query?39 .

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There is nothing greater than love there’s nothing stronger than love there’s nothing more creative than love there’s nothing more beautiful than love there is nothing more needed then love there’s nothing more mini fall in love there’s nothing more truthful then love There is nothing more important than love there’s nothing more godly than love there is nothing more spiritual than love there’s nothing more healing than love there is nothing more nurturing than love there is nothing more ethical in love and there is nothing more virtuous them love40 .

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"There's nothing more mini fall in love" contradicts the other statements, as it suggests love can be something "mini" or small, whereas the other statements describe love as the greatest, strongest, most important, etc41 .

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"There's nothing more truthful then love" contradicts "There is nothing more virtuous them love" since truthfulness and virtue are not necessarily the same thing41 .

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Some of the statements use absolutes like "nothing greater than", "nothing more important than", etc41 .

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These could be seen as contradictory, as they make love out to be the single greatest/most important/etc41 .

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thing, which may not align with other perspectives on the nature and role of love41 .

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The repetition of "there's nothing more [X] than love" for various attributes like creativity, beauty, spirituality, etc42 .

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could be seen as contradictory, as it's unlikely love would embody all of those superlative qualities simultaneously in the same way42 .

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In summary, the main contradictions arise from the use of absolutist language, the implication that love can be "mini", and the attempt to assign love as the single greatest quality in multiple domains42 .

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A more nuanced perspective on love's relationship to other important concepts may help resolve these potential contradictions42 .

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"There's nothing more meaningful fall in love" does not contradict the other statements, as it aligns with the general sentiment of love being the greatest, most important, etc43 .

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"There's nothing more truthful then love" still contradicts "There is nothing more virtuous them love" since truthfulness and virtue are not necessarily the same thing43 .

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The statements using absolutes like "nothing greater than", "nothing more important than", etc44 .

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are still potentially contradictory, as they make love out to be the single greatest/most important/etc44 .

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thing, which may not align with other perspectives44 .

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The repetition of "there's nothing more [X] than love" for various attributes like creativity, beauty, spirituality, etc44 .

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could still be seen as contradictory, as it's unlikely love would embody all of those superlative qualities simultaneously in the same way44 .

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In summary, the main remaining contradictions are: The potential contradiction between truthfulness and virtue in relation to love45 .

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The use of absolutist language that suggests love is the single greatest quality in all domains45 .

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A more nuanced perspective on love's relationship to other important concepts and avoiding overly absolutist language could help resolve these potential contradictions45 .

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"There's nothing more meaningful then love" does not contradict the other statements, as it aligns with the general sentiment of love being the greatest, most important, etc46 .

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"There's nothing more truthful then love" still contradicts "There is nothing more virtuous them love" since truthfulness and virtue are not necessarily the same thing46 .

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The statements using absolutes like "nothing greater than", "nothing more important than", etc46 .

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are still potentially contradictory, as they make love out to be the single greatest/most important/etc46 .

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thing, which may not align with other perspectives46 .

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The repetition of "there's nothing more [X] than love" for various attributes like creativity, beauty, spirituality, etc47 .

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could still be seen as contradictory, as it's unlikely love would embody all of those superlative qualities simultaneously in the same way47 .

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In summary, the main remaining contradictions are: The potential contradiction between truthfulness and virtue in relation to love47 .

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The use of absolutist language that suggests love is the single greatest quality in all domains47 .

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The revised statement "there's nothing more meaningful then love" does not introduce any new contradictions47 .

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The core issues are still the potential contradictions between specific attributes ascribed to love, as well as the overly absolutist framing used across multiple statements47 .

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So the statement "there's nothing more truthful then love" implies that love is the pinnacle of honesty and sincerity48 .

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But the statement "there is nothing more virtuous them love" suggests love embodies the highest moral excellence and goodness48 .

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This potential disconnect between the concepts of truthfulness and virtue is where the contradiction lies48 .

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Claiming love is the "nothing more" of both qualities sets up a contradictory dynamic that may not accurately reflect the nuanced

SOURCE: CREATIVE TRANSFORMATION

PROMPT

List ALL SENTENCES THAT CONTAIN THE FOUR LETTER WORD "LOVE". [THE WORD "LOVE" in BOLD TYPE]

Here are the sentences from the sources that contain the four-letter word "love":

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Love is our most personal and meaningful experience3 .

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We all search long for love, although it is not always clear what we mean by "love"3 .

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We speak of loving our parents, our children, our mate or hoped-for mate, and even of loving food or art3 .

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Our children mean different things by "love" in these different contexts3 .

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Love is not synonymous with the strong desire for something3 .

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While when we love someone we may have a strong desire to be near him or her3 .

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But this desire is not the same as the love which contributes to the desire3 .

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Desire and possessiveness in general are not love3 .

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Love is something we give, not something we take3 .

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To be clear and unambiguous, we shall use the word "love" only to mean the desire to enhance, together with the act of enhancing, the creativity of another unconditionally3 .

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When we say we love our parents, our children, our mates, and our friends3 .

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Definition 39: Love is the desire to increase and the act of increasing the creativity of another unconditionally, without selfish considerations3 .

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Love is a cause and an effect of creativity3 .

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We are benefited far more by the love we give than by the love we receive3 .

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Nothing we ever do will increase our creativity more than seeking to help others, including our enemies, to maximize their own creativity3 .

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This is the common denominator in the word when we love our parents, our children, our mates, and our friends3 .

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That is why we should love our neighbor as our selves3 .

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What it means to return good for evil3 .

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However, if we are never filled, love becomes incapable of giving or receiving love4 .

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Few things damage a child as much as being unloved by all around him or her4 .

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We are all usually loved by at least one person, e.g., by a parent, and that is usually enough to prevent irreversible damage4 .

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Theorem 2 It is not the love we receive but the love we give that ultimately leads us to the total conquest of fear and allows us to become moral and, potentially, infinitely creative4 .

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Ethics are rules for maximizing objective truth4 .

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Ethics are rules for optimizing evolution4 .

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Ethics are an expression of our desire for truth4 .

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Creativitiy is our ability to expand objective truth4 .

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Love is our desire to expand the creativity of another4 .

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Love is the highest form of creativity4 .

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It is the creation of creativity4 .

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Fear is the belief that we cannot create4 .

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Love and fear are the only human emotions that exist4 .

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All other emotions are interactions of these two primary emotions4 .

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When we are fully ethical, i.e., moral, we only feel love4 .

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When we cannot love someone, or that some-one is not loved, we feel anger4 .

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Anger is the conscious manifestation of our unconscious fear of having our creativity diminished4 .

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Anger is the unconscious belief that we cannot love creatively4 .

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All fear is an illusion4 .

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All illusions serve to diminish objective truth4 .

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The only antidote to fear is love4 .

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If we have never loved we cannot overcome our own fear4 .

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Persons behave unethically only when they are driven by fear4 .

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The more fear unethically, the more they are driven by fear4 .

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The last fear we overcome is our belief that we cannot love creatively4 .

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To love creatively means that we can help others overcome their fears and become more creative4 .

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The lowest form of love is the love we give in return for the love we receive4 .

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The creative challenge is to love someone with negative feedback and not with anger4 .

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This is the most difficult thing we will ever learn4 .

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Only highly ethical persons are capable of responding to anger with love4 .

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We must treat everyone as if they were ethical and therefore love them, because it is unethical to be certain4 .

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Our logic may tell us that unethical persons have irreversible entropy and cannot be made creative4 .

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Still, we must love them or we will never overcome our own being unethical, i.e., uncreative4 .

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We must love our enemies because we can never be certain that anyone is unethical4 .

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Human beings are far too complex for any other human being to understand completely4 .

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To judge an ethical person as unethical is extremely destructive to us and to that person4 .

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Therefore, the optimal strategy is to treat all persons as if they were ethical and not to judge them4 .

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If they are in fact ethical, they will respond positively to our love4 .

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If they are unethical, they will merely be driven away by love and threaten us less than if we had been unloving4 .

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Still, we must not judge those we drive away as unethical, but instead consider that we may be in error in how we treated them4 .

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We may not know yet how to love properly4 .

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Love is our desire to expand the creativity of another5 .

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moral, we will not be able to love properly, although so long as we behave ethically our love will be adequate for dealing with other persons who also behave ethically5 .

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The real challenge is in loving persons who behave unethically5 .

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These are our enemies5 .

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We must love our enemies to be sure we do not deny love to our friends5 .

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We cannot become moral by ourselves but only by helping another person become moral5 .

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This is what “autopoiesis” means at the human level5 .

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The Moral Society can only be created through love5 .

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We can only learn to creatively by teaching creative love to another5 .

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We must begin by teaching creative love to one another5 .

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In the process we will learn creative love5 .

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Once we have done this, the other person becomes our complement in a complementary pair5 .

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Complementary pairs create one another by giving highest priority to increasing one another’s creativity5 .

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If we can not love at least one other person as ourselves, we can never hope to love our neighbor as ourselves5 .

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Therefore, we begin by making a commitment of love to one other person, but we cannot stop there5 .

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The mutual creation of ourselves with our complements will help us overcome many of our fears but not necessarily all of them5 .

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We may still believe that we cannot creatively love persons other than our complements5 .

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This will produce fear and even destructive behavior5 .

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Perhaps we may only have one complement at a time5 .

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Perhaps we may fear that we can only form one complement by destroying our bond with our last complement5 .

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Persons who try to have several complements at a time may seem to always fail5 .

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Therefore, we should at first concentrate on creating ourselves in a single complementary pair with a time may seem to always fail5 .

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Therefore, we should at first concentrate on creating ourselves in a single complementary pair with the only kind of person who can be our complement: that is, an ethical person of the opposite sex5 .

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However, the relationship need not be sexual5 .

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Then we can go on to the next step in our personal evolution, which involves loving persons who are not our complement or our children, since our children are part of us and possibly of our complementary pair5 .

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Remember that when we speak of “love” we mean an ethical, not a sexual, process5 .

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This ethical intelligence is the product of four paired complementary brains: (1) the neocortex, (2) the mammalian cortex, (3) the reptilian brain, and (4) the fish brain, i.e., the rest of the nervous system5 .

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Each cerebral hemisphere is a complement to the other5 .

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Each creative brain is the product of four paired complementary noncreative brains5 .

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The female brain is a complement to the male brain5 .

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As the male brain has shown, the complementary differences in the brains of the recent two sexes are even greater than the comple-mentary differences in the rest of their bodies5 .

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Once we have formed a complementary pair with a person of the opposite sex, we can then form an embryonic Moral Society with three other complementary pairs of all of whom love each other as themselves6 .

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We may begin by loving one other person as ourselves, but we can begin by loving three other persons as ourselves6 .

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Then together the eight persons as ourselves6 .

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Then together the eight persons can learn to love three other couples as ourselves, thus creating the Ethical State6 .

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The Moral Society, therefore, begins with four men and four women who value truth more than happiness and love each other as themselves6 .

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Each person must first be a complementary pair with a person of the opposite sex6 .

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Complementary pairs are not necessarily spouses6 .

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They may be parent and child, brother and sister, or just close friends of the opposite sex6 .

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We may have only one complement at a time, but cyclically and sequentially we can clearly have many complements6 .

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The process works best between loving spouses; it works least among unloving strangers6 .

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Once the initial commitment to mutual creative transformation is made, the eight persons begin to interact to make one another moral6 .

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This is how an auto-poietic, collective, supermetazoan moral intelligence begins—by logical extrapolation of evolution in general and autopoiesis in particular6 .

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Only our lack of love for others can impede this6 .

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This is why we are helped more by the love we give than by the love we receive6 .

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Note that all intelligence is collective6 .

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Our individual intelligence is the collective intelligence of the billions of cells that make up our body6 .

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The collective intelligence of our individual cells is the collective intelligence of the self-replicating molecules that make up the cell6 .

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In order for a collective intelligence to exist in the moral dimension, the sixth full dimensional quadrature, it is essential to create coherent, multiple, ethical intelligences willing to function as one6 .

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Only ethical love of the most creative kind can engender this cooperation6 .

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The following process for creating an embryonic Moral Society is only valid for four complementary pairs who love one another as themselves6 .

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The essential prerequisites for creative transformation to which all four couples must first agree before they can succeed are:

Incorporating the evolutionary ethic into every facet of their lives and making all decisions accordingly, particularly regarding how they deal with each other and how they engage in autopoiesis6 . They always seek to maximize creativity for themselves, each other, all humanity, and the universe in general, in that order6 .

Learning to love one another and others unconditionally and ethically by doing this together to maximize one another’s creativity, particularly autopoiesis7 .

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With courage we sail the Cosmic Sea With love we go to infinity With fear we make friend an enemy We are all adrift in entropy8

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Autopoiesis and Fear Fear drives us toward repetitive, classical behavior9 .

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Fear inhibits communication between our classical and quantum brains9 .

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Fear leads us to repeat Information (F) from our Memory (M) rather than generating new Information (F) from our Imagination (G)9 .

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Autopoiesis seems automatically to liberate the quantum brain9 .

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It seems that when we do our best to be ethical and become moral by loving others, we open up our minds to a direct communication with God as an infinite process10 .

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creativity11 .

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The only thing that can apparently stop us is our own fear12 .

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We can conquer all fear by doing our best to love others12 .

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All the preceding ideas and observations may be in error12 .

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However, we cannot use our fear of error as an excuse for not communicating our ideas to those we love12 .

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When we fear error, we cannot create12 .

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All fear is entropic12 .

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Fear makes us destructive and impedes our creativity12 .

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My brother and sister in truth, never fear any idea, your own or another’s, no matter how strange12 .

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If you are creative in your love, they will help you correct your errors12 .

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The sharing of objectively testable ideas can only increase the creativity of all who share12 .

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Welcome to Lenny and Maria Deep Dive Podcast Show review of Creative Transformation by John David Garcia, produced by the website dailybriefs dot info.

Lenny: Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of our deep dive into fascinating books. I'm Lenny, your host who loves to explore the intricacies of human thought and potential.

Maria: And hi everyone, I'm Maria, and I'm excited to join Lenny today as we delve into a book that promises to unlock our creative power.

Lenny: Today, Maria, we're diving into Creative Transformation: A Practical Guide for Maximizing Creativity by John David Garcia1 .... This book, published in 19913 , aims to provide a practical, easy-to-follow guide for anyone wishing to maximize their or others' creativity through Creative Transformation4 .

Maria: It sounds intriguing, Lenny. The title itself suggests a journey of change and growth focused on our creative abilities. The cover also mentions it as "A Practical Guide for Maximizing Creativity"1 .... So, what are some of the key takeaways from this guide?

Lenny: Well, the book is structured in three parts. The first part offers "The Evolutionary Perspective"5 ..., which summarizes physical, biological, and psychosocial evolution4 . This perspective lays the groundwork for understanding how creativity has evolved4 . We see sections dedicated to The Evolution of Matter5 ..., The Evolution of Life5 ..., The Evolution of Mind5 ..., and Civilization and Ethics5 ....

Maria: So, the book starts with a very broad view, looking at the very origins of the universe and how things have developed over time. How does this evolutionary perspective connect with the idea of creative transformation?

Lenny: That's a great question, Maria. Garcia seems to be building a foundation, suggesting that our capacity for creativity is not a static thing but something that has emerged and evolved alongside the universe itself4 . By understanding this evolutionary journey, we might gain a deeper appreciation for the potential inherent in us.

Maria: That makes sense. It's like understanding the roots of a tree to better appreciate its branches. What's the second part of the book about?

Lenny: The second part shifts to "The Quantum Perspective"5 .... Here, Garcia develops a new theory linking biological evolution, personal creativity, and quantum mechanics4 . This section explores concepts like The New Synthesis5 ..., An Educational Alternative5 ..., An Economic Alternative5 ..., and A Vision of the Future5 ....

Maria: Quantum mechanics and creativity? That sounds like a fascinating and perhaps unconventional pairing. What are some of the key ideas within this "Quantum Perspective"?

Lenny: One crucial concept that emerges is the definition of creativity itself. According to Garcia, creativity is the act of increasing truth for at least one person (including ourselves) without decreasing truth for any person (including ourselves)14 . He further states that creativity is the product of new information and testing whether that shows that his theory or hypothesis predicts correctly with no significant errors14 .

Maria: That's a very specific and interesting definition of creativity. It ties creativity directly to the concept of truth and its increase without causing detriment to others' understanding of truth.

Lenny: Exactly. And this leads us to another fundamental aspect discussed: ethics. The book defines "Good," or ethical, as any act or thing which increases creativity for at least one person, including oneself, without decreasing it for any person15 . Conversely, "Evil," or unethical, is any act or thing which decreases the creativity of any person, including oneself15 . So, in this framework, creativity and ethics are intrinsically linked.

Maria: That's a powerful connection. It suggests that truly creative acts are inherently ethical and that unethical actions stifle creativity.

Lenny: Absolutely. And what hinders creativity, according to Garcia, is fear. He defines fear as the belief that we cannot create16 . Fear inhibits creative behavior17 and can even become a mechanism for producing falsehood18 .

Maria: That resonates with many people's experiences. Fear of failure, fear of judgment – these can certainly block our creative flow. So, what's the antidote to this creativity-blocking fear?

Lenny: The book posits that the only antidote to fear is love. Garcia defines love as the desire to increase and the act of increasing the creativity of another unconditionally, without selfish considerations19 . He explicitly states that the root of the problem is fear. The only antidote to fear is love19 ....

Maria: That's a beautiful and hopeful message. So, fostering love and unconditional support can actually unlock creativity.

Lenny: Precisely. The book also delves into the idea of collective intelligence, which it describes as individual intelligence plus the collective intelligence of the self-replicating molecules that make up the cell21 . This collective intelligence is essential for a creative, coherent, multiple ethical intelligences willing to function as one21 , which is presented as a key prerequisite for creative transformation.

Maria: So, it's not just about individual creativity but also about how we can be creative together, leveraging a shared intelligence.

Lenny: Yes, and a crucial biological process mentioned is autopoiesis, the process by which DNA creates protein within a living cell, while protein creates DNA20 . It's essentially self-creation20 , highlighting the inherent creative capacity within living systems.

Maria: It sounds like the book draws on a wide range of concepts, from the very fundamental building blocks of life to complex social and ethical considerations, all in service of understanding and maximizing creativity. Did it touch upon social structures or belief systems that might impact creativity?

Lenny: It does. Garcia discusses the role of paradigms, which he defines as comprehensive models of reality that enable us to relate to the world around us and have a sense of identity22 . He argues that resistance to changing paradigms can hinder the discovery of truth23 and consequently, creative progress. He also touches upon science as the symbolic representation of events and their relationships24 and advocates for its integration with other domains like mysticism, evolution, and ethics for a more holistic understanding of reality22 .

Maria: So, being open to new ways of seeing the world and integrating different perspectives is crucial for creative transformation.

Lenny: Exactly. The book even refers to the author's other work, The Moral Society13 ..., suggesting a strong link between the principles of creativity and the structure of an ethical society.

Maria: It sounds like "Creative Transformation" offers a very comprehensive and interconnected view of creativity, spanning from the individual to the societal and even the cosmic. It’s definitely a book that encourages a deep rethinking of what it means to be creative and how we can foster it in ourselves and the world around us.

Lenny: Absolutely, Maria. And the third part of the book, "Additional Information"5 ..., includes appendices, a glossary, bibliography, and an index, suggesting a thorough and scholarly approach to the subject5 ....

Maria: Well, Lenny, this has been a fascinating overview of Creative Transformation. It sounds like a book packed with insightful ideas and a unique perspective on unlocking our creative potential by understanding fundamental principles of evolution, ethics, and even quantum concepts.

Lenny: I agree, Maria. It’s a book that challenges us to think broadly and deeply about creativity and its crucial role in our lives and society.

Maria: Thank you for this insightful review, Lenny. And thank you to our listeners for joining us on this deep dive.

Lenny: Join us next time as we explore another thought-provoking book on the Lenny and Maria Deep Dive Podcast Show.

Lenny and Maria: Goodbye for now!