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| re: What Is Love? thirdeyris 21 Jun 08 10:52PM | Thread Closed |
I think this is one of the hardest questions one could challenge themselves to answer with thought.
I don't think there is one universal love by which all creatures understand it. Some birds mate for life; do They love? A plant can not survive without water; does it love nature for that; or does a plant need human emotion to love?
I say I love my children, I am infinitely more patient with them than anyone else. I believe I love them very much.
Perhaps I love them the deepest? If that is so, then why do I feel what I feel so intensely and with such specific preference? Is it because they are molecularly built from my body? Is it because I am so accustomed to having them so close for so long that I am as dependent on them as they are on me? Is that love?
Is love when one old spouse dies and the other dies just days after the first funeral an effect of love? With a solid answer to that, we might have a better clue.
There are 28 different definitions on dictionary.com. I suppose you could pick which ever applies to you or your situation at the moment involving other people. :)
When you find a solid answer, please let me know!
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| re: What Is Love? mindbodysoul 22 Jun 08 2:33PM | Thread Closed |
I like to think of such things like tacos. We try to stuff all this stuff into a shell and we call that 'love'. But if you look inside the shell, it's cheese and tomato and beef and lettuce and seasonings, and there are so many other things that could be in there; it could have chicken instead of beef, or be lacking in onions. And so for each person, the taco is different. In the same way, 'love' to you and 'love' to me are almost certainly not the same thing; there are so many common emotions we associate with this that it is impossible to truly describe or define. It is one of the more ultimate human quests to find personal meaning in this taco shell word, as we go along, adding another ingredient each day. Look at your ingredients. Think of what they mean to you. Be content in your own personal truth, and don't rely on others to find it for you.
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| re: What Is Love? unknown 23 Jun 08 11:21AM | Thread Closed |
I always thought tacos were vaginas
(after watching Me, Myself and Irene that is)
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| re: What Is Love? Cerulise 23 Jun 08 11:46AM | Thread Closed |
Personally, I suggest you read the comedia. To look on love in such an earthly fashion is a hindrance to finding divine love and divine truth.
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| re: What Is Love? unknown 23 Jun 08 11:48AM | Thread Closed |
comedia?
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| re: What Is Love? Cerulise 23 Jun 08 11:56AM | Thread Closed |
Mmhmm. By Dante.
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| re: What Is Love? Isabelle5 23 Jun 08 12:11PM | Thread Closed |
What is Love? Which kind? I think trying to define it is like attempting to remove shell from egg-white. By the time you finish, you might not want to eat eggs anymore.
It's a slippery little word that defines definition and explanation.
Good luck with your quest for authoritative commentary.
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| re: What Is Love? starr 23 Jun 08 4:43PM | Thread Closed |
Good question, though I would say the answer would pertain to individual tastes/preferences/perceptions. For me, it's everything I've never known up until the last three years. It's dedication, it's kindness, it's that touch, that sparkle within the other person's eyes that says you're in the right place for the right reason(s.) Prior to this, it was a very lonely, very frustrating 41 years. I knew they ALL couldn't be drunks, addicts and other assorted parasites. They just COULDN'T be. Finally, I see this. I'm a happy brotha as a result. :-)
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| re: What Is Love? unknown 24 Jun 08 8:46AM | Thread Closed |
The love is the culmination of inexperience and high expectations. Those who feed the common man tales of wild romance either through film or novels have rarely experience love. It's the idea of love that drives people into believing that they are in love.
Love is just a more human way of saying; perpetuation of the species without them feeling animalistically driven by instincts that perpetuated their fathers and mothers before them. The institution of marriage is based on that notion of love, one for one, because the common theory claims that my heart belongs to only one and vice versa. If we were animals we'd walk around looking for someone to screw........oh wait a second, isn't that the miracle of contraception....aka reversion to a more animalistic state. Way to go mankind......a step in the right direction.....let's hope nudity catches on too!
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| re: What Is Love? Isabelle5 24 Jun 08 9:06AM | Thread Closed |
Well, you're limiting your response to sexual love only? What about the way a baby loves its mother? What about friends loving each other?
Animals develop relationships, too, where 'love' seems to play a role.
It's a very hard thing to define, like defining energy. You can into mathematical conceptualizations but ultimately, you cannot convey it unless/until you've felt it (zap a little electricity, you'll know energy instantly) but to define it so that someone who has NOT experienced it seems impossible.
Hey, describe the color orange and then an orgasm to a blind celibate. Some things - many things, in fact - avoid definition.
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