| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 4:38:34 AM | Love is like a box of chocolate's...ya never know what you're gonna get. I know Forest said life...but. like life, love is a mystery.
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 5:21:53 AM |
Is love a need or a want?
A want.
Is there such a thing as Unconditional love ?
If there is, you should be first able to find it in yourself.
What does love give you?
A new pair of eyes and ears to see and hear things the way they are.
Beyond the goofy feelings most people associate with love, there is a state of mind which makes those feelings possible - like a fertile soil makes plant growth possible. That state of mind brings unmatched clarity, proper judgment and integrity. To be one with oneself is to be Love.
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
-- Robert Heinlein
I read it, but I don't know what he means. Can you explain? | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 5:37:29 AM | It seems like we all are looking for that connection with someone, we spend our time on dating sites , fixing ourselves up to go out to clubs..
Meaning of life = Reproduction
Is it love we seek or just companionship.
Whos is we? And depending on the person.
You in it to win it? Or just hit it and quit it?
Is love a need or a want?
Is money a need? Or a want?
Think about that. You might come with a solution!
Is there such a thing as Unconditional love ?
Unconditional from Humans? Only moms could i thought..?
What does love give you?
Every emotion. Yes, even pain, guilt, tears.
any thoughts ?
I have many.. Why do pornos always start out the same?
My thought on it is, Thats not how REAL relation sex is..
So its based on fictional people and fictional sex. NO wonder its #1!
Thank You
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 6:10:16 AM | | THIS IS THAT WE LOVE GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.IF WE DON'T WE HATE HIM. THAT'S TRUE LOVE.AND WHERE IS YOR ACTIONS,IF YOU DO? | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 6:25:07 AM | Let's not forget that I am happiest when my love (she) is happy.
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
-- Robert Heinlein
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 7:01:36 AM | I want companionship but I need love; they are not mutually exclusive. Companionship gives us someone to share experiences with and someone to talk to, love gives us purpose and gives us hope. Companionship gives us physical and psychological pleasures, love gives us emotional pleasures. Love makes us stronger and allows us to give, companionship gives us someone to give to.
Once that connection is built, love is unconditional; people may eventually lose that companionship but the love will always be there.
Whether love is a necessary or accidental by-product of our survival instincts or a subconcious misconception, it is still a very powerful psychological prime. | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 7:33:18 AM | Well love is different for men and woman and it is in the definitions that we learn how to treat the sex we aspire to win the heart of.. men connect thru activity .. mating being the primary way... women respond to love as to a strong emotional connection and to feel that they are the main attraction on the menu for the man that desires them .. so it is desire born of different circumstances coming together to fuse .. a great combustion engine.. so lots of connection and foreplay for women and lots of activity and action for men.. that is how you rock the boat to tuna sub land .. for a great intimate love connection.
Too many women on this site believe that men think like they do and they don't which is why so many have great difficulty creating intimacy .,.. when you understand the differences in the minds of each sex you can work to understand how to communicate what you need to make love special for you . | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 7:54:11 AM | Many will argue that men and women think the same....but, not me.
I also think that some women have an idea of what intimacy is, but may never have truely experienced it....just as some men do not know how to create intimacy...and in fact think that intimacy=sex....forgetting all other intimate interactions....
Someone told me this a long time ago, and I drag it out on occassion...soooo,
man says "no sex no love"......woman says "no love no sex"..... | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 8:03:59 AM | | tell that to the worlds leading couples therapist .. learned behaviour is genetics.. hmm but thanks for the stereo . tuning.. crank it up zeek.. we got some hottie tunes tonight.. | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 8:41:12 AM |
In its simplest form, if my beloved is unhappy, I am unhappy.
I cannot be happy if she is not happy.
Perfect. Just to clarify, her happiness does not cause mine, but her unhappiness does, and vice versa. | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 9:23:13 AM |
However, once that kid(s) get older the pendulum swings back to "conditional love". An example: "Joey clean your room and daddy/mommy will give you an allowance. That's a condition. Just ask anyone who had kids.
This part of your argument doesn't hold water. Just because "Joey" doesn't clean his room, does not mean that his parents will love him less. Joey may not get his allowance, but I seriously doubt that mom and dad will take their love away. You are using two subjective conditions to make an argument built on fallicy.
In my case, which I in no way make representation for anyone else except myself, I do have unconditional love for my children. There is nothing in this world I wouldn't do for them, nor is there anything in this world that would cause me to love them less ... up to and including murder. My only question to them would be: Do you need help hiding the body?
THAT is unconditional love, and there are very few people in this world who warrant it. | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 7:56:40 PM | Love
one expression of love is knowing you are not good for each other, or have grown in different directions, or can not fulfill one another's needs, and letting the other go their way, but still wishing them, from the bottom of your 'self', the very best life has to offer.
or watching your loved one make a mistake, one that is very painful, and NOT saying, "I told you so", but rather, "take my hand... and we can walk through this together for a while, if you want.
Kahlil Gibran wrote the most amazing poem about parenting:
On Children
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
I will have achieved what I consider real love on the day that I can apply this wisdom to a partner as well as my child.
For each of us has a journey to make through life, and rarely is that journey neat, tidy or predictable... | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 8:15:00 PM | Love? I'd settle for a good spanking once in a while.  | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 8:36:09 PM | | Unconditional love ... while there have been many replies about it, it is a state of existance that does exist. Being through both a relationship that was less than healthy and one that was the most awesome time of my life, yes, unconditional love exists. Not everyone will allow themselves to experience it for one reason or another and thus the reason that, unconditional loves exists as a rarity instead of the norm. It requires you to give entirely of yourself realizing that the other person returns the feeling in the same intensity. Love in a relationship is something that comes from sharing of two hearts - wants, desires, goals ... everything everyone else as stated. | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/3/2009 9:32:09 PM | Love is like peeing my pants. Everyone can see it but only I know how warm it feels  | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/4/2009 7:22:38 AM |
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence"
Not to say the concept is folly or stupid, on the contrary; when objectives become subjectives, even in a non-romantic, non-sexual way, i'd like to think there's a bit of love involved.
A good way to trying to explain love as the logical sense.
And like Tina Turner sung; "What's Love got to do with It"!
imo, "When I have nothing, I have everything to Give" The Peace Corps,73 | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/4/2009 9:28:08 AM | I think there is more than one kind of love.
Unconditional love is a term that means to love someone regardless of one's actions or beliefs. It is a concept comparable to true love, a term which is more frequently used to describe love between lovers. ...
Unconditional love falls in the same category as forgiveable love.
There is the love we have for our family and the love we share between two individuals,
In both cases we are always covering up for their mistakes because often we don't see them as a wrong doing or mistakes.
Maybe we are just too blind to admitt it..,, it doesn't stop us from loving them any less..
Love Is ...
Love is the greatest feeling,
Love is like a play,
Love is what I feel for you,
Each and every day,
Love is like a smile,
Love is like a song,
Love is a great emotion,
That keeps us going strong,
I love you with my heart,
My body and my soul,
I love the way I keep loving,
Like a love I can't control,
So remember when your eyes meet mine,
I love you with all my heart,
And I have poured my entire soul into you,
Right from the very start.
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 7/4/2009 11:32:34 AM |
Please explain love.
"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain
Is love a need or a want.
Love is a need.
Is there such a thing as unconditional love?
Yes, and not just as a parent to a child. I think that it is possible to have unconditional love for another.
What does love give you?
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 8/9/2009 11:05:38 PM | The question here was,"what is Love"?There are four kinds of "love" ..... They are AGAPE, PHILEO, STORGE, and EROS.(google it). If you have read the bible and do believe in God......The scripture that I gave before on this forum page comes straight from 1st Cor. 13. ,(You can Google it.)The bible does explain God is Love...(you can Google that also)..in many scriptures. If your a Christian(which is means to be Christ Like) and a believer, you would understand. There are different types of "love" I just gave the bibles definition and what is a "true love". Love is suppose to be unconditional. The Bible says in James 1:5" If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who gives it liberally, and upbraideth not ,and it shall be given unto him."
I find that MANY people are athiest UNTIL they are on their death bed or about to die. I definetly believe there is a God and do believe in the bible its DOES work if you put it to use and take the time to read it. I have placed my trust in the Lord he has healed me of cancer twice and my liver that was failing also years ago. I don't put my FAITH in doctors they have told me several times your going to die. It did not happen God interviened, healed me with No treatments or medications because I trust him. God's real and so is his power.There are several Greek words for "love" that are regularly referred to in Christian circles.
Agape: In the New Testament, agape is charitable, selfless, altruistic, and unconditional. It is parental love, seen as creating goodness in the world; it is the way God is seen to love humanity, and it is seen as the kind of love that Christians aspire to have for one another.
Phileo: Also used in the New Testament, phileo is a human response to something that is found to be delightful. Also known as "brotherly love."
Two other words for love in the Greek language, eros (sexual love) and storge (child-to-parent love), were never used in the New Testament.....................................................anyway enough said.
have a great day! Julie | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 8/10/2009 5:56:52 AM | For men:
"Love is the feeling they get on the head of their d*ck just before they come."  | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 8/10/2009 6:00:25 AM | | A dirty trick to enforce the continuation of the species. | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 8/10/2009 6:45:18 AM | I believe love is a need. We all know what becomes of people, especially children, when they don't get it. I truly don't understand why a former poster labeled need a bad thing.
Unconditional love? Yes; for children and pets maybe, but for all others there are conditions; and should be.
That Dr. Seuss quote is great | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 8/10/2009 7:21:13 AM |
Love is the absence of fear and spans all aspects of life.
I think that this is close. I would alter it to say that, "Love is the giving over of one's self to, or on behalf of, another, while consciously putting aside one's fears."
A colleague of mine is working on a theory of love. I'll let you know how develops.
Best,
ACP | |
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| Please explain Love
Posted: 8/10/2009 8:28:59 PM |
on a nit-picky note, golfgirl, are we not always vulnerable? Fear does not make us so, nor the lack of it protect us from it. Fear is a warning device that exists because we are vulnerable.
DBB - I dont believe we are "always" vulnerable. Once we accept the source of love, and recognize that it is also the absence of fear, then in love we become enabled, renewed, valiant, successful, motivated, productive, hopeful, open to possibilities.
We can only be brave in the face of our fears...courage isnt doing what needs to be done ignoring the fear, but in spite of it. Overcoming our fears is the greatest learning we can all experience. | |
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