Slave Owner/Husbandly Owner

by nextdoorgirl 15 years ago 31 Replies latest 15 years ago jw friends

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  nextdoorgirl 15 years ago

  Can you love your owner?

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  Heaven 15 years ago

  I think it's referred to as the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.

  edited to add: I'm not sure this is truly love. I think it's more preservation and survival.

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  nextdoorgirl 15 years ago

  bump

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  undercover 15 years ago

  Can you own your lover?

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  yknot 15 years ago

  ahhh paternal societies......

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  mrsjones5 15 years ago

  I don't have an owner. I have a husband.

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  LongHairGal 15 years ago

  Can't answer that question because I don't have either. It is an alien concept to me. I certainly don't want the first one.

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  serenitynow! 15 years ago

  "Can you love your owner?"

  I don't think so, it's an unequal relationship.

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  jamiebowers 15 years ago

  Can you love your owner?

  Yes,you can if you're a dog.

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  nextdoorgirl 15 years ago

  @ "can you own your lover." Well, I think you can in the Old Testamant, and maybe the New? (Man-->woman/child)

  I think ownership directly conflicts with self-determination and obviously interferes with "respect and honor, love and cherish." I mean, how can you love and cherish something when controlling them, and taking away a most precious basic right?

  I think the very act of control is what smothers out any love that could've grown. I think about this not only in the man/woman husbandly owner/ownee relationship, but also in the God/believer relationship.

  Any who believe they are slaves of Christ/God and feel they can love God, I'd like to know if that's possible.

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