Let’s make a definition thread to define concepts such as: love, truth, God, energy, tautology, human, life, etc.
Let’s start with: “Trust”. What is trust? Define this in your own words, using no dictionaries, references, or other people’s definition.
I’ll start, Trust: Commonly shared expectations within a society, group, or culture.
After several people respond with their own definitions, then choose your favorite definition (can be your own), and choose a new word definition to start. Try not to start a new definition until you have given your own definition of the previous term. Also, feel free to refresh previously defined words, and bring them back to discussion again. Because rarely or never, are words permanent and set in stone. Sometimes it’s useful and fun to redefine old words in new ways, using new language, insights, and thoughts.
Trust: the level of willingness one has to assume positive future actions and attitudes in another person or entity. It is a kind of mirror image of risk assessment.
Sounds like a kind of early stage romantic love, or the love for a baby. I experience what I call love as having a variety of associated moods, including anger, concern, joy, warm intimacy, etc.
For me love includes an essentialism. That particular intidivdual’s essence - which could be thought of metaphorically as a complicated aroma or timbre - has incredible value both for me and then in and of itself. I would want it to thrive even without me.