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Originally Posted by henry quirk
we have the dog for which it is natural not to speak.
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False - Just because YOU do not understand the communication, doesn't mean it isn't speaking.
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Originally Posted by henry quirk
If I am stricken with throat cancer and lose my voice: I can still love.
If I were born with a damaged brain that limited my ability to speak as one aspect of the damage, then, it's entirely possible I would be unable to love.
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What? Love requires the ability to speak? WTH are you talking about now?
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Originally Posted by henry quirk
Your question is awfully broad. Care to narrow it a bit?
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HA HA HA - Especially coming from the guy who wouldn't define "peace" in his own thread and continues to discuss the every increasingly redundant "I" without any concrete definition.
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Originally Posted by henry quirk
Again: what makes human love unique is that it is 'done' within an 'I'. There is deliberation and reflection. That we communicate ourselves, transmit ourselves, through speech is the tool of the 'I', but not the definer of 'I'.
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The first sentence is still opinion and has been challenged repeatedly. The latter is pure conjecture - we still have no definition of "I" but we now have a "tool" of this ever elusive "I". Ahhh progress.