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| | what is love?Page 2 of 3 (1, 2, 3) | | Love is that warm feeling you have running down your leg, oops wrong thread | |
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| what is love?
Posted: 5/23/2012 2:02:51 AM | | splatting a squashy strawberry on someone's bald patch and laughing your head off .Spraying someone with the hose and legging it. | |
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Posted: 5/23/2012 4:03:39 PM | | Love is whatever you want it to be | |
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Posted: 5/24/2012 1:25:17 AM | love is the mind that is ill.
a condition that makes you feel like your living in a bubble of your own making.
unless of course some one pops it! | |
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Posted: 5/24/2012 11:32:09 AM | | A chemical imbalance in the brain, similar to being addicted to various other things (illegal and legal drugs for example). | |
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Posted: 5/24/2012 2:36:53 PM |
So what is love? is it something you can't describe to another unless they've been there?Is it a chemical reaction to a set of circumstances? Is it a myth? OR is it different things to each of us? Do you believe in it or is it just something those clever card and flower companies made up in order to part a fool and his or her money?!
I think yes, no, no, yes, no. What kind/s of love?
I don't really want to chat about it but here are a couple of quotes, what do you think?
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Or is love a pleasant sensation, which to experience is a matter of chance, something that one "falls into" if one is lucky? [I believe] the former premise, while undoubtedly the majority of people today believe in the latter.
Quotes from psychologists are dry as hell yeah, but some of them are on the ball! | |
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Posted: 5/24/2012 3:57:00 PM | | To me, it is what you only feel for your children...and possibly a pet. | |
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Posted: 5/24/2012 6:21:27 PM | This is love according to this guy
Published on Thursday 17 May 2012 11:54
A HEARTBROKEN mechanic is searching for the woman he fell head over heels in love with on an internet dating site.
Michael Clinton has visited Hemel Hempstead every day since he accidentally lost touch with a divorced mum-of-two called Amanda, who he met on website Plenty of Fish (POF) last Friday.
The couple communicated for almost 12 hours and felt an instant attraction towards each other – Michael says that they even told each other that they loved each other just moments after meeting on the popular dating site.
Amanda told her suitor that she lived in Hemel Hempstead, was divorced with two children, has a bull mastiff dog, likes Chinese food, and enjoys going to the cinema and spending time with her two daughters, who are about 13 and eight years old.
Michael said: “It all happened last Friday when I saw her picture and sent her a ‘wink’ and she replied and it went from there. We chatted from 4pm to about 2am.
“We just clicked. I’ve been married before but I have never felt like this about someone before.”
Michael gave Amanda his phone number and she deleted her POF account – but then afterwards Michael realised he had given her the wrong number and he has been coming from his Hampshire home to Hemel Hempstead every day trying to find her ever since.
He said: “I know it sounds sad but I’m absolutely heartbroken. I’ve been to the police station, hospital and library in Hemel Hempstead to try and find her and I even asked Heart radio to put an appeal on air. It has only been six days but I’m pining after her.”
Since Cupid’s bow struck and the love loss that followed, Michael, who lives in Yateley, says he hasn’t been able to eat, sleep or concentrate at work.
He said: “I’ve joined the website again and my picture has a message for Amanda on it so that she will see it if ever she logs on.
“I’m not going to give up on her. I’ll be in Hemel every day showing people her picture and asking if they know her. I’ll be handing out my card with my number on it in the hope that someone will give it to her.
“Amanda is 43 years old, she’s really attractive and has long brown hair with a hint of red in it.
“She also has lovely eyes. She is stunning, absolutely beautiful.”
http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/news/local/i-love-you-amanda-1-3853735 | |
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Posted: 5/24/2012 8:08:10 PM | Love, is a very tangible thing.
It's the feeling of absolute comfort, fulfillment and contentment with a partner. I've only been in love properly once before, and you know when you have because when you don't have it any more, there's a noticible hole in your psyche and general life. :( | |
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Posted: 5/24/2012 10:00:21 PM | Love...is a 2 and a quarter ton landrover discovery :O)
Ok, its erm, a very poor substitute for a woman, but...some of us cant be choosers :O) | |
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Posted: 5/24/2012 10:18:06 PM | | About as expensive either way ;) BADUM-TISH! | |
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Posted: 5/24/2012 10:22:10 PM | @ msg 39
"About as expensive either way ;) BADUM-TISH! "
Such is the price of love, wherever we find it hahahahaha :O) | |
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Posted: 6/25/2012 11:16:12 AM | | It's a smoke made with the fumes of sighs, of course! | |
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Posted: 6/25/2012 12:40:31 PM | IMO., It's a word which had become diluted in meaning, through over-use and misuse.
People now say "I love that song", or "I love those shoes/cake/hot weather etc., when clearly they don't.
It's a simple word, used to convey a very complex, and widely-differing range of "feelings".
The love you feel for a child, a parent, or a sibling or other family member, is a biological imperative, evolved over millions of years, because it's beneficial to the survival of the genes. (I think Dawkins outlines this concept in his book, "The Selfish gene")
Indeed, in some species, the parents actually become fodder for their young, sacrificing their own existence, for the future survival of their offspring.
Many humans have made similar sacrifices.
The love you feel for a partner, or 'Mate', on the other hand, is entirely self-inflicted*.
(*Though the poet in me, might protest otherwise, that you can't "help" who you love, and as Leonard Cohen put it; "It's love, that chooses You" ) 
Though it may be initiated by the post-coital release of certain endorphins etc.
It's essentially a form of bio-chemically induced self-hypnosis, which can often result in irrational thoughts and behaviour .
Again, it's likely that this 'mechanism' has probably evolved for the purpose of procreation, and the 'love' felt, as a couple, or a 'unit', increases the likelihood of the offspring's long-term survival.
There are some theories that "The Seven Year Itch" could be linked to the age at which any such offspring are relatively independent, and stand a good chance of survival, without the protection of the parent. (Speaking of humans as simply another animal species there), at which point there may be a species dependent "pre-programed" change, in the chemical balance of the brain, - the "love" cease to be felt.
Studies on primates, and other species have revealed the benefits of the widening of the gene-pool, by having a variety of different mates, so maybe the chavs with 6 kids, all by different fathers, have got it right after all!? 
However, knowing all the reasons behind it, doesn't immunize you in any way, from the devastating effects which such feelings can have on a person.
Just as it's possible, using methods like "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy" (CBT), to alter the amount of serotonin in the brain, and thus exit periods of depression, (with practice.), it's also possible (IMO) to exit the 'state of love', using similar techniques.
You "talked yourself into" love, and you can also talk yourself out of it. (As indeed, many people do, at the end of relationships).
Personally, I think that just one word, is inadequate to describe such a wide variety of conditions and emotions.
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Posted: 6/25/2012 4:04:35 PM |
You "talked yourself into" love, and you can also talk yourself out of it. (As indeed, many people do, at the end of relationships).
Agreed. | |
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Posted: 6/28/2012 4:54:22 AM | msg 39...what a pile of hogwash!!
(as per)
firstly:
MO., It's a word which had become diluted in meaning, through over-use and misuse.
People now say "I love that song", or "I love those shoes/cake/hot weather etc., when clearly they don't.
It's a simple word, used to convey a very complex, and widely-differing range of "feelings".
some people might be limited in their verbiage but in general the word 'love' expresses deep affection and true fondness and more often than not an unquantifiable feeling which cannot be expressed by any other word other than 'love' e.g. " I love God"
The word 'love' simply conveys that all encompassing 'vibe'/feeking/knowingness which makes you feel complete as a human being..a mixture of unseasonable joy, inexplicable happiness. insurmountable giddiness....a loss of reason, sheer unadulterated...pure...and simple bliss.
Us humans may well be mere mammalians physically but we are more than some kind of scientific equation. or even prime example simian ..we are actually evolved and the study of history will inform you of that should you decide to delve further...
there was a 'secondly' and a 'thirdly' but I realised I'd be wasting my breath and energy bothering to expand further... | |
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Posted: 6/28/2012 5:08:37 AM | | @33 , Man is he going to be pissed when he finds out it was a fake profile .. | |
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Posted: 6/29/2012 3:22:45 AM | msg 33
I don't think thats love! I think thats obsession/stalkerish, and if someone had printed my pictures off and handed them out around town, I would be mortified!!!!!!! she probably deleted her profile to get away from him! if she wanted to meet him that bad, surely she would have rejoined to search for him.
what is love
I think its when you snuggle someone, you feel like your one person, a kind of electric pulse you feel when you touch them. when you know what they are thinking, or you think about them, and they ring you straight away. when you look at each other, and "get" the other person. when you're not with them, it feels empty. when you can be totally yourself with them. when you can't imagine ever living without them in your life. | |
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Posted: 6/29/2012 5:27:30 AM | Love is:
A device invented by bank managers to make us overdrawn.
I keeed, I keeed!
It's like some others have stated, it can mean different things to different people.
That story about the guy from Hampshire is kinda freaky though. | |
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Posted: 6/29/2012 5:32:45 AM |
That story about the guy from Hampshire is kinda freaky though
Very.. definitely something strange about that. How crazy do you have to be to believe you can be in love with someone after talking to them online for a few hours? I bet the woman in question is terrified! :-P | |
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Posted: 6/29/2012 8:57:28 AM | | I thought the same thing kags.. if thats love, I don't want it. She was probably a trucker from Devon called Dave anyway... | |
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Posted: 6/29/2012 9:21:35 AM | LOVE:
Is a made up word that we cling onto, it's a fantasy, it's a want, it's a need.
We are all individuals; we should be more positive and believe in ourselves and not get caught up into the fantasy that is the perfect soul mate, true love crap.
Because it doesn't exist. We may find a partner that the sex is great, the heart skips a beat, and we love being with each other. But that is not Love, because love doesn't exist, it's a fantasy world that insecure people try and find.
Seems to be a hell of allot of woman on this site, that's fits that to be honest, but that is another story.
So in short LOVE doesn't really exist. It’s a mixed up emotion of need, insecurity and fantasy.
That exists because we don’t know ourselves, don’t believe in who we are, and insecure people.
Yes sure we can have a partner, and have great times, and enjoy each other company, and sex is fantastic, that can definitely happen, it has happened to me on quite a few occasions. | |
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Posted: 6/29/2012 11:18:27 AM |
msg 39...what a pile of hogwash!!
Oh..?
Which bit..?
(as per)
Careful with the ad-hom's, now you're down to just the one profile... 
some people might be limited in their verbiage but in general the word 'love' expresses deep affection and true fondness and more often than not an unquantifiable feeling which cannot be expressed by any other word other than 'love' e.g. " I love God"
An excellent example of the delusionary nature of the 'condition'.
The fact that you have used an imaginary friend, who is non-existent at-worst, and a mere abstract concept, at best, as the recipient of this alleged infatuation, particularly when it's clearly impossible for the said being to reciprocate this infatuation in any way, just emphasises, or even proves the self-inflicted element, which I mentioned before.
The word 'love' simply conveys that all encompassing 'vibe'/feeking/knowingness which makes you feel complete as a human being..a mixture of unseasonable joy, inexplicable happiness. insurmountable giddiness....a loss of reason, sheer unadulterated...pure...and simple bliss.
Replace the word "love", with the word "Crack", or "heroin", and the above statement could have been written by any addict.
It's a psychological condition, and entirely treatable.
Us humans may well be mere mammalians physically but we are more than some kind of scientific equation. or even prime example simian ..we are actually evolved and the study of history will inform you of that should you decide to delve further...
I'm fascinated by history. 
Some of us have evolved, and embraced the benefits of new knowledge to base our belief systems on.
Others, less so, and they still cling to the superstitious beliefs of those early farmers. Who, in the absence of any information about fertilisers, pest-control, and air-born pathogens which can destroy a crop, attributed any such disasters to the "wrath of god", and simply threw another virgin in the volcano, or sacrificed a goat, in a vain attempt to appease the supposed angry deity.
There are still some "religious nutters" [Med. Term] around now, who attribute natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, or the Thai Tsunami, to "God's revenge for homosexuality".
- Clearly, they think that "god" wasn't impressed enough, by their alleged "Love"..?
And I suppose that being male, "god" would surely consider such declared love, by another male, to be "gay"... and hence, 'worthy' of the harshest possible punishment..?
No, I still say love is a mental disorder.
But I'm happy to 'go with the flow', and state quite unequivocally, that
"I love adjectives"
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Posted: 6/30/2012 10:22:48 AM | Love is a chemical addiction in the brain, much of it being well understood in science now, we have even made monogamous animals polygamous and vice versa, by simply manipulating the chemicals in the brain, mainly oxytocins and vasopressins if my memory serves me well.
There is some great research on it online and freely available and well worth a look, i might even have a read since its been couple of years since i looked into it in any detail.
For it being nothing more than a chemical induced feeling that does not detract from the beauty of the feeling, it is a great subjective experience and i certainly enjoy it. | |
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Posted: 6/30/2012 10:53:28 AM | what is love
20 years of hard labour, love is the biggest drug in the world it can hold you longer than any othere stimulant , it can trap you ,it can make you do thing you would not have thought about.
to love someone it to give everthing of yourself and much more. | |
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