Can you love all people?

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This would be all from young to old, known to unknown, friend or foe, relative or stranger, saint to sinner, humanitarian to terrorist, serial killer to rehabilitated convict, abuser to preacher minister, teacher to molester, neighbor to sex offender, Christian to buddhist, theist to atheist, Jesus Christ to Donald J. Trump, Frederick Douglass to Adolf Hitler, Bin Laden, etc., etc., on and on and on, you can love all people is that so, why not?

I read on another post, making the world a better place. Love in your heart, aboard the love train. Tell all the folks in Israel too, that this train is riding, riding on through.
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I love all people. Jesus commands me to.

For example, I hate seeing anyone suffering, no matter how evil  are they.
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No, in fact the human brain is only capable of genuinely befriending and liking up to around 21ish people (this is the apex extravert amount) at any given time, you literally forget to unlike people as you make psychological room for new ones.

People have this delusion you can like a childhood friend you lost touch with or distant relative but actually you unliked or even unloved them until you got back in touch, unless you somehow triggered memories constantly.
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My memories dont stop unless I drink.
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There was a girl in my High School who loved all people, her nickname was "Snatch".
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You can juggle memories but at any time you're thinking of one, it may be a fusion of more though (this is how dreams and acid trips happen, they are based on fused memories).
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True, I cant think of many things at same time.

I usually go one memory at the time.
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Love is a subjective word. If I can love subjectively, then yes I can love all people. If you mean the kind of love as in I love my wife, then no I can not love all people, I can only love one person.
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You old romantic.
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Love variously describes an internal electro-chemical response to an external stimuli.

Like a person.

Or a bowl of apple pie and ice cream.

With a bit of custard perhaps.

To name but two.


Currently I love neither Vladimir Putin or cat shit.

Even with custard.

To name but two.
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Ya maybe so, but with that said, many people are only alive simply because its against the law to kill them. I consider that a subjective interpretation of love also.
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Spot on.
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Perhaps it takes God to have you love all people.

There really is no such thing as different types of love.
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Why can't you love all people?
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"There really is no such thing as different types of love."  BS I don't love my children the same way I love my wife. If forced to choose  between my children or my wife, the wife wins every time. A wife is forever, children grow up, leave and start their own lives.
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Assuming that a GOD 's data processing systems were the same as human systems.

Then a hypothetical GOD would perhaps look upon it's creation and come to an overall conclusion, which it might regard as love.


Whereas at a human level, as Sadolite also points out, love is resultant of a subjective data assessment process.

A process rife with variables.
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Why can't you love all people?
Because some of them are immigrants, some are transgender, and some are Democrats.

You gotta hate who Fox News tells you to hate, or you could lose your MAGA card.


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There's a way to love all. 
Would you like to know how you could start going that way?
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Do you think it takes God for you to live all?
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No it's true. It's just love.

Now a spouse can be divorced, separated from so it's not just children that leaves Father and mother. Spouses die so forget about forever. 

A person ought not to love more than another. Sometimes a person has to remain with a parent for situational reasons.

Just because there's a sexual relationship, doesn't make two types of love. You love your spouse and offspring. One relationship just involves a sexual aspect which is physically expressed.
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There's a way to love all. 
Would you like to know how you could start going that way?
Would you like to know how you can stop being so prejudiced?


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"No it's true." Uh no its not, we agree to disagree 100%
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People there are no different types of love. Accept or go on wrong.
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Hang up on the prejudice thing huh.

The way you can love all people including prejudice folks is to simply not hate. You have no dislike for anybody that would prevent you from doing right by them and making pre-judgments without knowing them. You don't hold grudges or get hung up. You move on free because you don't have emotions that people can control you with . So you'll be free in peace.

Peace be.
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Do you think that it takes for you to live all.
I assume that's a typo.


Well I could mull that data over, but I'm currently predisposed to conclude that the biblical creator hypothesis is unreasonable.


Nonetheless, answer me this:

What exactly is this "love" that you keep referring to?

Other than an electro-chemical response to a stimulus.
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Love is not hating doing right by the individual.
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@Mall
A bit of a generalisation then.

Which is what I suggested originally.


So I don't hate apple pie and custard.

And you will be doing right by me if you include a scoop of ice-cream.


I'm in love.
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So you can love all people and there's no different types of love.
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Did I say that?

Don't think so.
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Well I can say it, no problem.