CDXXX

421. Artists typically deal in n^th dimensional concepts in a world whose terms of reference are (n-1)^th dimensional or less.

422. Agreeing to play football implies an agreement to play by the rules of football. (195)

423. A body in motion tends to eat at every available opportunity.

424. Food is frequently substituted for deficiencies in a variety of areas, i.e. affection, success, security, honor, sex.

425. The key ingredient to thinking irrationally, or in attempting to explain irrationality, is that nothing makes sense.

426. Opportunity is never convenient. If it were, no one would pass it up.

427. Love is a generic term which is used as a catch-all for a great many concepts. The ambiguity of its definition is one basis for emotional trauma. If I assign to one word a multitude of meanings, I increase the likelihood that I will be misconstrued when I use the word.

428. The Greeks used three words to describe different kinds of love in their ancient language: erotic, filial, and agape; to which Christian philosophers mis-assigned the overall meanings of animal, human, and god. The, then, compose a hierarchy of love. One’s goal should always be the highest.

429. The unChristianized Greek concept was actually only a little better, describing the dichotomy of the individual rather than humanity’s relation to the gods. Greek gods did not behave much differently than Greeks, after all.

430. This dichotomy would separate the individual into three parts: the physical, the emotional, and the mental or spiritual. Here again, church philosophers have split the mental a spiritual from the single Greek word, psyche. It seems that it has always been considered wrong to apply mental processes to spiritual concepts.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Wesley seems to have had a number of short quips to get off his chest before he started redefining what everyone believes about love. The diatribe on love will continue for another couple sections before he exhausts himself on this one.