Love Flashcards

1
Q

Lust to the Romans was known as ….

A

Luxuria

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2
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Dorothy Sayers gives two reasons why one may end up in lust:

Lust gives opportunity for some …. not provided by the drab discomfort of their mental and physical surroundings. Stern rebukment beyond useless. Spiritual ….. where people go to bed because they have nothing better to do.

A
  1. Sheer exuberance of animal spirit
  2. Periods of disillusionment when philosophies are bankrupt and life appears without hope.

stimulus
depression

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3
Q

Love results in a type of pain and discomfort. A …… and ……

Lust is also an insatiable desire that only increases the … that is trying to be …. by it. Leads to emptiness and uninspired - just go to sleep (sex).

A

suffering and longing

chasm …. filled

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4
Q

Taste of love prompts one to go above and beyond but it is still tied to a longing and a ….

A

fear

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5
Q

Lust and loneliness. Read Bob Dylan’s …..

A

Simple Twist of Fate

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6
Q

Love has an aspect of …. that lust does not have.

A

thankfulness

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7
Q

Most extraordinary aspect of lust written in the English language about lust is 129th sonnet by Shakespeare.
Deals with the …. of lust.

A

bait

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8
Q

In the islamic tradition, the self is a bottomless pit. The Quran says they will be reduced to the lowest of the low through their …… But raise them to the highest of the heights with their …. and ……

A

appetites
intellect and soul

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9
Q

Masculinity is actually related to …..

A

chivalry

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10
Q

Masculinity is not about killing lust nor letting it reign free. High degree of mohamedian masculinity required in current culture.

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11
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Nietzsche saw that humans had these two impulses:

A

The Appolonian and Dyonsiean

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12
Q

Secular rationalist, Joseph Daniel Unwin, said Once the Dyonsiean ….. are unleashed, the creativity of a culture is lost. Only where sex was delayed until marriage that produced great literature, philosophy and art.

A

impulses

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13
Q

Thanatos impulse is the annihilation of the …. so that just the purified … is left in the next world. Sufis focused on this but in Islam, there is still a retention of personhood.

A

ego
self

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14
Q

Desire comes from a Latin word meaning of the ….

A

Heavens

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14
Q

Breaking of the heart is necessary as it requires …. to go through it. As theirs an emotional danger of being rejected or humiliated

A

courage

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15
Q

A candle shows up the darkness that never really …..
Exposes something that was never really there.

Like falsehood which by its nature is a ….. thing.

A

existed
vanishing

16
Q

Another word for fecundity is ….

A

endengers