We might search for our divided part, as I. And mine might be you, Amalia, though, if I meet you once somewhere, sometime, no guarantee for the Platonic love 😉 ❤ :* Great post again ❤ ❤
♠Plato´s Dialogue, “The Symposium”:
“On Platonic Love and The Myth of the Androgyne”:
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“The Symposium” ( Συμπόσιον) is a dialogue by Plato dated c. 385–380 BC.
Plato sets the action in a symposium hosted by the poet Agathon to celebrate his first victory in a dramatic competition, the Dionysia of 416 BC. Each man must deliver an encomiun, a speech in praise of Love (Eros). Each participant, by means of very personal expositions, adds something to a body that at the end is developed by Socrates.
The dialogue concerns itself at one level with the genesis, purpose and nature of love, and (in latter-day interpretations) is the origin of the concept of Platonic Love.
Platonic love is a type of Love that is chaste and non-sexual. This idea is also examined in this dialogue. Of particular importance is the speech of Socrates, relating the ideas attributed to the prophetess Diotima, which present love as…
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lampmagician 
It is a wonderful post.
Unfortunately it’s almost a year since Aquileana last published a new article.
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Yes true! I missed also her wonderful post though, she might take a breath and will come with a surprise 😉 ❤
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Platonic love is often in modern times comparable to friendship
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Nice and beautiful piece😁🦋🤓😇
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Platonic love’s modern term is mostly friendship…but by the way the phrase is formed it seems so obvious that the author will never meet Amalia and if he does he will never be in a position to claim her own…
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it is just complicated; the author is Amalia!?!
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Okie both ways I guess…it’s just always the other person whoever it is….have a nice day or evening…🤗🥳
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you the same dear, it was a nice talk 🙂 ❤
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It’s just that my previous comments are somehow not visible hence I retyped again😀😀
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just take it easy, I know what it means… stay cool and enjoy reading 🙂
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Really! Wow lot of people know what it means when I say but I don’t think you exactly do know what I mean….most often what seems to be the meaning is not what it means….generally 🥳🤗and staying cool…so I have faced hot furnaces…your post was a nice warm morning when I read Plato on the breakfast table
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Thank you dear, it is always warming to meet Plato in the morning 🙂 ❤
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I even wrote more…just that the way the verse goes both would never meet each other and if they do…sadly he will not be in a position to go beyond…it’s a nice point
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I wonder how he could know…this and not many of us know it….well friendship and other forms of love should never meet and if they do, they should do good to a civilisation and the woman….
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the experience maby do good, about love I know a much and it helps to love more than hate 🙂
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Hahaha…nice talking though and great thoughts bulged out of my head at once reading it
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👍👍👏👏🤗🤗
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Woman suffer more in such hands…and often they suffer defeat, revenge and so much more of unnecessary pain….and then woman are done with such stuffs….mostly…so the winds change and the ship sets sail in different directions and dimensions often too late to move anywhere they were before that point of time
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And I will be a woman 🙂
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Thanks so much for the share, my friend….
🙌🤗 Platonic love might come in many ways, I guess … it has to do with feeling someone else completes you, as the Myth goes, hence I tend to believe one could have more than a soulmate, in the platonic sense. 👍🤗 sending love and best wishes 😘
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That’s true my dearest, and also still a mystery. As you say; love might come in many ways 😊🙏❤😘😘❤❤🥰
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