I've always thought that all friendships eventually end, for one reason or another. Perhaps it's that you grow apart, or have different expectations, or you just get used to each other and the relationship loses substance. One can argue that all friendships end with death; however, what happens if you exclude death, would they all go on forever? Anyway, somewhere along the line I got confused, and the response I got was that no friendship ending is not the same as some friendships not ending and his argument was as follows:
find a reason that a friendship might end (R) unless you can prove that R is inevitable, for all R, you can't say that all friendships end
that does seem sound, but not complete.
Opinions?
*Kiss*
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SUN GODDE'SS (The Earth Mother , Queen of Africa and Warrior Activist and Conqueror Ancestral Spirit and Revolutionary Mayibuye!)
I think all friendships do end and not just in death. People get older, wiser, stupidier(is there such a word?) and also people move.
I mean the ultimate end of friendship is death but dying is the last thing anyone of us will ever do(at least i hope for some of you it is) so of course that would be the end of a lot of things BUT how many friendships would have ended before that? A lot i would say.
So in ma opionion friendships do end and not just in death.
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Miss Thang
"To educate a man is to educate an individual but to educate a woman is to educate a whole nation and people" MALCOM X
Miss Thang but dont you think that In some sense friendship never ends.
For even when you just know someone, or just part of that person, such as here, in only the things we write, it is inevitable that part of that someone becomes part of you.
Specifically my thoughts have impinged on yours, and whether you like it or not, your thoughts are changed. For even if you rejected what I said, it is changed for the fact that it has interacted with yours.
What more friends, where you are more likely to be less critical in accepting and believing the person.
So the knowledge of another leads to a new creation altogether: two new persons, who otherwise will never be. And although friends may go and grow apart physically, they are eternally embodied in new living spirits.
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SUN GODDE'SS (The Earth Mother , Queen of Africa and Warrior Activist and Conqueror Ancestral Spirit and Revolutionary Mayibuye!)
How do i become a part of you when i just know you from here? I mean when i leave this site i completely forget about until the next time i'm on.
Ok. Can you define friendship for me?
And interacting with you isn't going to change ma thoughts. Might make me think a bit more but that doesn't neccesarily mean that i'm going to change ma views.
If something will never be then isn't that the end of that something?
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Miss Thang
"To educate a man is to educate an individual but to educate a woman is to educate a whole nation and people" MALCOM X
Miss Thang , no need to be so combative , like i said thats my oppinion
and am sure as smart as you seem you should know the definition of friendship and the 3 basis that it has : 1)Pleasure, 2)Usefulness and 3)Virtue.
but then again There are countless humans who could prove by example that some friendships end. There are countless humans who could prove by example that some friendships last a lifetime.
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SUN GODDE'SS (The Earth Mother , Queen of Africa and Warrior Activist and Conqueror Ancestral Spirit and Revolutionary Mayibuye!)
Not being combative at all, let's just say you gat me thinkin.
But as you've said we can debate this until the end of days but stil not come up with the same conclusion.
Pleasure, usefulness and virtue- I've seen people with complete opposites of these but they still claim to be friends. Funny ain't it but as you said a human being is a very complex "thing".
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Miss Thang
"To educate a man is to educate an individual but to educate a woman is to educate a whole nation and people" MALCOM X
XCUSE ME?...... FORGIVE ME AS WELL IF AM GONNA SOUND STUPID. BEFORE I GO ON AND ON I NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOUR DEFINITION OF FRIENDSHIP IS. PLIZ.................
IF IT IS WHAT I THINK IT IS, THEN FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS. YOU CAN BE RICH OR POOR BUT FRIENDS REMAIN EVEN WHEN YOUR STATUS CHANGES. A FRIEND IS ALWAYS THERE NO MATTER HOW MANY FIGHTS YOU'VE HAD. THRU THICK AND THIN, FRIENDS ARE ALWAYS THERE. AS I SAID , IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MEAN BY FRIENDSHIP. AM I YOUR FRIEND COS WE HAVE THE SAME OPINION? PUT ME STRAIGHT.