Desire, need

Front matter
Connections List
 * Happiness
 * Raw theo objects
 * Emotions and feelings
 * Evil, Sin
 * Temptation
 * Lust
 * Pleasure
 * The Heart
 * Joy
 * Healthy human
 * 170312 teddyBear
 * Decision making
 * Nodal world model
 * Chief end of man
 * Meaning of life
 * Media Theology
 * Sad (Epic)
 * Why so boring?
 * Motivations for evang

Scope
 * the word and concept "desire"
 * the fundamental desires of humans
 * Distinct from pleasure as more fundamental, less immediate physical.

Topics
 * Def/etym
 * Heirarchy of motives/desires
 * Mech
 * Changing desires
 * Desire of humans

Def/etymology
 * Desires are contained in the heart. The seek pleasure - but are probably capable of ascending layers to joy.
 * "Passion" comes from the Latin paserre = "to suffer"

Hierarchy of motives/desires Maslov - food/shelter, safety, society/lonely, accomplish/self-worth, actualization
 * Need - in order to not die or have serious problems
 * Should - moral obligation. Fear.
 * Love - it enraptures you, but clearly you will not die if you don't have it
 * Want - it would be nice

Mech
General mech
 * The spirit desires good things, the flesh desires bad things. Gal 5:16-17
 * Ecc 6:2 wealthy people lack nothing their hearts desire but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them.
 * Rom 1:24 God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity...
 * C.S Lewis our desires are too weak, we are satisfied by earthly things

Changing desires
 * Wandering eye, wandering heart. Focus on the things which you know to be valuable.
 * Ask God for his passions. They are superior in quality and magnitude to others.
 * 2 Tim 2:22 flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with [beside, "meta"] those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart

Fundamental desire of humans
 * To see/experience/rel with beauty/optimized system. Evident by movies and stuff (see media theology?). = worship?
 * But these is a strong desire to possess power, BE the optimized thing. Also hard to enjoy submitting. Maybe ask women. But god gave the world to man to control it...
 * I have a strong desire for adventure, emotionally charged adventure, power, accomplish, intimacy as a team, reward
 * Desire for rel with God, control, confidence, peace

Verses, uncategorized

 * Psalms and Isaiah, God will give the desire of your heart... =God?
 * Psalm 20:4, 21:2, 37:4