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Friendship, love, and lust

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frienship love and lust

by Jennie S. Bev

Love and lust are addicting and intoxicating. Friendship keeps things grounded. In a good marriage, all these elements are present with friendship as the underlying principle, a lot of love as the building bricks, and a few dashes of lust to spice things up.

Things can become a bit too lethal when lust dominates a friendship or even in a lovingly romantic relationship.

Infatuation is probably best described as a low-grade, momentary, unfulfilled, lusty obsession between people of opposite sexes — straight — or of the same sex — gay.

At one point, I asked a friend who seemed to be showing such an indication and he said, “What we’re having is a temporary infatuation with things we both know we can’t have.” Read the rest of this entry »

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March 5th, 2010 at 10:48 am

Aku Orang China?

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March 5th, 2010 at 10:33 am

Peaceful pluralism and nonkilling policy

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February 1st, 2010 at 2:47 pm

Bapak Pluralisme Indonesia

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Gus Dur as a defender of pluralism, religious freedom

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January 12th, 2010 at 2:58 pm

Virtue, liberty, and rational control

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January 1st, 2010 at 6:00 pm

Menghentikan Perbuatan Immoral Majority

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BRIDGING ISLAM AND THE WEST: An Indonesian View

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December 7th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

Charter for compassion and hope

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November 23rd, 2009 at 6:18 pm

Just for You: Mutiara-Mutiara Kehidupan

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November 23rd, 2009 at 5:28 pm

Ecce Homo! Kebisuan Negara, Pembisuan Korban, & Politik Kenangan*

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November 16th, 2009 at 11:40 am

Verisimilitude, bullshit, and meaning

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November 12th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

Memotret Perempuan Terpasung

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October 27th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

The Qur’an as a text of compassion, pluralism, and free will

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October 19th, 2009 at 11:39 am

Kebenaran, Keadilan, dan Ekuilibrium Reflektif

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July 23rd, 2009 at 4:11 pm