is a rose a rose by any other name?

of course, yet, of course not

a rose is only a rose because of the name and build up we have for it. its not a daisy, or a tulip, its a friggin rose, its love, its beauty, its pure, its innocent, its passionate, its everything

is the plant the same? sure
but is the rose the same, of course not, because the name holds onto the connection to the world, the name is what maintains that connection, the name is what describes it.

we name things, such as a rose, or a friend, or an enemy, or whatever, and they don't refer to a person, or a plant, or anything, but they refer to what we connect to them

a simple thing, the connection and differences we have based on something from our perspective, but look at it not just fromones perspective, but from ones naming

that is, take a movie
i call it amazing, you call it crap....we talk about it for awhile, discuss our reasons for our naming, and yet, when we relook, we have a connotation for that movie that is now biased based on our perspectives of other things similarly named, thus the movie is up there with this book, that album, that night last year, and this person...all "Amazing"

to review your opinion of one, is to diminish the idea of the others, because they are all connected through a name....through a connection created and lived via the naming of the thing

so then we have strong beliefs....not something as petty as "i like this movie, its amazing" but something with more primacy. I call him a friend. immediatly he is associated with all friends, all people i know whom i call that....this person hasn't even met these others, but they are united through my naming of them. and unfortunatly, the reverse is true......i have named many people my friends, and when i am hurt by one, i find it hard to see the good in the rest....i become hurt by them all. i see people around me having problems with 'girls' or 'boys' due to hurt caused by some.....that name association has amplified the damage originally done

like a rock hitting a pond, the naming creates an amplified affect.

so we have a rose, its not just a rose, but a friggin r-o-s-e....which holds connections and connotations

we have religion, which is not just religion, but r-e-l-i-g-i-o-n which holds connections and connotations for me.

so other things that are named a rose have similar connotations. she has rosy cheeks [she is beautiful and passionate]......zoroastrianism is a religion [similar to christianity, and therefore morrally suspect based on the people involved]

this power of naming, its dangerous isn't it?

for i haven't given her a chance to be passionate, she just has rosy cheeks, and i haven't thought about Zoroastrianism and don't know the people involved......thus even though i understand roses, and understand christianity, i don't understand the connections to the rest

the power of naming, something we should do carefully...........lest we destroy past joy based on future issues, or future potential based on past pain.