Love and Hate are two constants that live side by side but which is more powerful?
Hate is the Almighty
Some may say that hate is far stronger than love. Love is usually confused with desire, but hate is a thing of its own. Hate consumes our natural reticence and opens us to previously unthinkable actions to "even the score". It is something that brews inside of us, getting stronger and stronger while we try to repress it and be content.
On the other hand, love can be ended by a thoughtless word or action, but hate is unswerving in its single-mindedness. Does that make it more precious then? Something we are more likely to envy, giving it power and sustenance?
I guess hate requires little complex thought or understanding, and it receives support from the selfish ego which is where most people choose to house their minds letting it sit and settle as it starts to manifest their minds with rage and turmoil.
It is a rash impetuous thing that springs up to defend against the new and strange before the rational mind can determine whether the threat is real or not, and it blocks understanding once an initial threat is perceived, hazing the mind in this cloud of rampage.
Love is the True Victor
However, hate and love only have the amount of power the person expressing it gives it. Both love and hate, in my opinion, are intertwined and it is difficult to have one without experience the other. I've often heard the saying that if you hate someone you will have to forgive that person because that hate will eat and sap your energy and destroy their life. However, from this animosity love and tenderness can be achieved over-ruling detestation.
Aversion is surely a powerful feeling but love, in turn, is more familiar and desirable in human beings which we crave and yearn for.
It is something which is beneficial for everyday life, and unlike hate, it benefits our well-being. So in this sense, love is more powerful.
All in all judging both of these emotions by their 'strength' is a pretty complex and subjective variable. I don't think there can be one clear answer to this question.
There is one thing that does become clear in the end and from my own general experiences with love and hate, is that love tends to be a deliberate and voluntary response to life, while hatred seems to be more visceral and involuntary. Both as contagious as each other but both also having different stimulus and triggers to activate one or the other.
We have the choice to give our love to someone, while we are often impulsively bewitched by our own hatred. From this, I would say that love provides us with the greater power because it gives us more active options rather than being restrained by the ever rupturing hate.
Well I think that both love and hate are important and necessary. We should love what is lovable, but hate everything that is hateful.
I would rather never have to hate nothing, but this is not possible, unfortunately.
It is great to have a balance of everything and I think that it is true that they are both on equal grounds with the same capabilities.
The dream is to never hate but it seems like it will never become a reality.
Thank you for your comment!
The history books say hate is more powerful.....people are getting smarter all the time....hopefully love will win going forward.
As time goes on and people learn that war, rage, bloodshed and conflict are futile, we start to realise that we should love and solve thing mutually and modestly rather than with hatred and resentment.
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Great post and entry into my @popcontest ! Love& hate / Yin Yang / it really can be quite the dillema ! I do agree with you that Love is more powerful as it benefits our well being ! And I truly believe that Love will overcome evil or hatred every time for the normal person ! Haha ! Thanks so much for sharing your positive post in my contest , best of luck to you !!πβππ
I guess it fluctuates. Hate can temporarily be a stronger force. But in the end 'love' will prevail. What kind of mumbo jumbo did I just write? Of course, the selfish gene is the most powerful force:)! Nice post! Are you a philosopher?
Love is great. People often says love breaks hearts. It's not the love only ego does that.
I guess self-conceit and desires are often mixed up with love.
Thank you for reading!
Hate can be just as empowering and emancipating as love.
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Hatred will never win. Love is more powerful than any hates in the world Good for the soul and heart and good for the world. Love Is Love πΊοΈβ₯
I've thought about this a lot in my life. I honestly feel that it is fear not hate, which is the opposite of love. Of course my opinion might stem from the fact that I don't understand hate as I don't experience it. I dislike things, sometimes strongly, but hatred eludes me. That kind of negative energy would be exhausting and therefore waste my valuable time :) Though I do like your conclusion about the reason you see love as more powerful.
And it reminds me of a song:
Resteemed :-)
As I've expressed here, love and hate are often two sides of the same coin. For example, if you love your child, and somebody harms it, you will feel hatred toward that person. It seems to me every love is a potential hate, and every hate is a scorned/assaulted love. If you love your freedom you will hate prison, if you love good music you'll hate it when hollow music tops the charts, etc. So asking which one is more powerful is maybe the wrong thing to ask. Probably our default state is love, and we hate when the thing we love is challenged or assaulted. And that thing might just be ourselves, our own ego! After all, we don't always love the right thing. Not all love is good.
We should not suppress the emotions as they are just a form of energy, if you love someone express it and let them know and if you hate someone either show your anger or forgive them. Do not hold any emotions for a longer time. It is like having pus inside our body for a long itme.