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Posted: 9/7/2004 4:37:32 PM |
Subject: Alert
Police are warning all men who frequent clubs, parties and local pubs to be alert and stay cautious when offered a drink from any woman.
Many females use a date rape drug on the market called "Beer". The drug is found in liquid form and available anywhere. It comes in bottles, cans, from taps and in large "kegs". "Beer" is used by female sexual predators at parties and bars to persuade their male victims to go home and have sex with them.
A woman needs only to get a guy to consume a few units of "Beer" and then simply ask him home for no strings attached sex. Men are rendered helpless against this approach.
After several "Beers", men will often succumb to the desires to perform sexual acts on horrific looking women whom they would never normally be attracted. After drinking "Beer", men often awaken with only hazy memories of exactly what happened to them the night before, often with just a vague feeling that "something bad" occurred.
At other times, these unfortunate men are swindled out of their life's savings, in a familiar scam known as "a relationship."
In extreme cases, the female may even be shrewd enough to entrap the unsuspecting male into a longer term form of servitude and punishment referred to as "marriage".
Men are much more susceptible to this scam after "Beer" is administered and sex is offered by the predatory females.
Please forward this warning to every male you know.
If you fall victim to this "Beer" and the women administering it, there are male support groups where you can discuss the details of your shocking encounter with similarly affected like-minded guys. For the support group nearest you, just look up "Golf Courses" in the phone book.
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| Re: Is LOVE, SPIRITUAL OR PHYSICAL?
Posted: 9/8/2004 4:29:00 AM | | Mr. Simple brought a story of love's physical acts with an inducer/seducer called 'beer'. Wow. Anyone have any comments on this? | |
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| Re: Is LOVE, SPIRITUAL OR PHYSICAL?
Posted: 10/5/2006 2:02:33 PM | Body= Physical Love/Sexual (very common)
Heart= Emotional Love/Romantic (common)
Soul= Spiritual Love/Intuitive (rare)
Devine =All three at once (Very Rare)
my 2 cents *sigh*
True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.
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Posted: 10/5/2006 2:20:46 PM | Love is when we lose ourselves in a cnnection back to that from which we were sperated to form our individual. We reconnect with wholeness even while remaining seperate. We can do this with a lover, a family member, a pet, or just one of those moments when all the thoughts and stories and worry drop from our mind and we experience the pure joy of being in an ever changing and resoundingly perfect reality.  | |
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| Re: Is LOVE, SPIRITUAL OR PHYSICAL?
Posted: 10/5/2006 2:21:40 PM | I remember seeing this article, It was very interesting. Enjoy.....
Love More Powerful than Sex, Study Claims....
Sex and romance may seem inextricably linked, but the human brain clearly distinguishes between the two, according to a new study. The upshot: Love is the more powerful emotion.
The results of brain scans speak to longstanding questions of whether the pursuit of love and sex are different emotional endeavors or whether romance is just warmed over sexual arousal.
"Our findings show that the brain areas activated when someone looks at a photo of their beloved only partially overlap with the brain regions associated with sexual arousal," said Arthur Aron of the State University of New York-Stony Brook. "Sex and romantic love involve quite different brain systems."
The study, announced today, will be detailed in the July issue of the Journal of Neurophysiology.
Left side, right side
The study was small, however, involving 17 young men and women, all of whom had recently fallen madly in love. They filled out questionnaires while their brains were hooked up to a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) system.
Romance seems to steep in parts of the brain that are rich in dopamine, a chemical known to affect emotions. These brain regions are also linked by other studies to the motivation for rewards.
"To our surprise, the activation regions associated with intense romantic love were mostly on the right side of the brain, while the activation regions associated with facial attractiveness were mostly on the left," said Lucy Brown of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
The study also revealed that as a romance matures, so does the mind.
"We found several brain areas where the strength of neural activity changed with the length of the romance," Brown said. "Everyone knows that relationships are dynamic over time, but we are beginning to track what happens in the brain as a love relationship matures."
Love wins
The processing of romantic feelings involves a "constellation of neural systems." The researchers -- neuroscientists, anthropologists and social psychologists -- declare love the clear winner versus sex in terms of its power over the human mind.
"Romantic love is one of the most powerful of all human experiences," said study member Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University. "It is definitely more powerful than the sex drive."
Fisher said the study might suggest some of the physiology of stalking behavior. Other studies suggest that up to 40 percent of people who are rejected in love slip into clinical depression, she said.
"Rejected men and women in societies around the world sometimes kill themselves or someone else," Fisher said.
Animals, too
There are hints in the study that romance is not a uniquely human trait.
Some of the changes seen with mature romances were in regions of the brain also associated with pair-bonding in prairie voles. Other studies have found that expressions of attraction in a female prairie vole are linked to a 50 percent hike in dopamine activity in the brain region that corresponds to the location where human romance is processed.
"These and other data indicate that all mammals may feel attraction to specific partners, and that some of the same brain systems are involved," Fisher said. | |
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| Re: Is LOVE, SPIRITUAL OR PHYSICAL?
Posted: 10/5/2006 2:32:17 PM | Body= Physical Love/Sexual (very common)
Heart= Emotional Love/Romantic (common)
Soul= Spiritual Love/Intuitive (rare)
Devine =All three at once (Very Rare)
my 2 cents *sigh*
True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.
Wise and insightful words from you, RiverGoddess and I add to it….
It can be argued that without a body we cannot have a heart and without a heart we cannot have a soul. Some or many believe that the soul exists apart from the body, so the answer as to whether love is spiritual or physical is that it is either spiritual or it is both - and it all depends on what we mean by the word, "love." (by the way, "either" is not the same as "neither" as has become popular in American use of words)
Let me just say one more thing. Some people have a problem with anything to do with the physical but in reality the idea of “the flesh” is only wrong when it’s referring to selfishness - because selfishness isn’t love. | |
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Posted: 10/5/2006 4:49:17 PM | | i have this theory..........for men its more physical based and women its more spiritual based and when they come together they feel and experience both...men are the earth and women are the water..mud. | |
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| Is LOVE, SPIRITUAL OR PHYSICAL?
Posted: 10/5/2006 5:06:26 PM |
Love. Is it an attraction between contrasts and the general understanding of shortfalls to accomodate and adapt to the existence?
Seems all to common,alas to many times we settle.
Is it a desire flowing in the physical veins that needs to be quenched by sexual intercourse?
That I believe is pure lust,sometimes confused with love.
Is it the soul string that attaches our lives. Is it something spiritual and that is being a consolation to our lives shortfalls?
passion from the outward in,is lust. passion from the inward out is love.imho
Can we exist with out it? The great 'LOVE'!!!!
Indeed we can,and sadly most time do | |
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Posted: 10/5/2006 5:12:19 PM | | Love is not a feeling or an emotion....it is a decision and a commitment, that involves the feelings and emotions. If it has no spiritual base, then it is not unconditional. | |
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| Is LOVE, SPIRITUAL OR PHYSICAL?
Posted: 10/25/2006 5:09:55 PM | We know the biological and physiological factors regarding how "love" functions scientifically, however -- as with subjective things like "love" -- it's only suitable to specific definitions.
Depending on your faith, your ideas about yourself, your place here as a conscious self-reflecting being, you will formulate and postulate your own view of what love is and isn't [or perhaps, it's both]. | |
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Posted: 10/25/2006 5:19:52 PM | Real, true love is spiritual.
LUST is physical.
Real, true love will last.
Lust will not last.
Real, true love develops over time.
Lust is immediate (instant chemistry).
(Those who have mentioned tantric sex and kama sutra - these are based on the spiritual.) | |
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Posted: 10/25/2006 5:21:47 PM | | Attraction is visual, physical.. Spiritual comes after.... That's where the word LOVE enters into the picture.. after hot sex .. ummm did I say that? | |
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Posted: 10/25/2006 5:43:54 PM | I think one begets the other.
Physical chemistry can turn into a spiritual experience when/if both parties are open to it.
Spiritual connection makes the physical intense and just friggin' awesome.
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| Is LOVE, SPIRITUAL OR PHYSICAL?
Posted: 10/25/2006 5:46:38 PM | | Nothing exists in and of its own except for the great everything. So each does indeed add to the other. | |
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Sigi
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Joined: 5/26/2005
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| Is LOVE, SPIRITUAL OR PHYSICAL?
Posted: 10/25/2006 6:51:48 PM | LOVE IS......
A SPIRITUAL BONDING....
PHYSICAL..THE ACT.......
OF EXPRESSION ...OF LOVE 
LOVE IS.........
UNCONDITIONAL.....
SUPPORTIVE...
ENCOURAGING...
COMPASSIONATE..
GIVING...
NURTURING..
UNDERSTANDING...
LOTS OF :hug: 's..
In any kind of relationship!
(a couple, family, children,friends)
THE GIFT OF FALLING IN LOVE...
IS AN OVERWHELMING SENSE OF
SPIRITUAL, AND PHYSICAL,EMOTIONS..
A FEELING OF EPHORIA..
(given the previous..expressions of 'love' exsist)
LOVE IS A BEAUTIFUL THING..
AND FOREVER ENDURES....
IF ALWAYS SHOWN..BY ACTIONS'
AT THE HEART OF THE MATTER....... | |
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Posted: 10/25/2006 7:11:34 PM | Love is what we are made of, the very core, the fabric of our soul is love. It is spiritual
We can express love in many ways. Sometimes this includes physical expression.
..and it is important to remember
the biochemical coctail brought on by an urge to pair up with another, (aka passion, lust, ect) is not love, but certainly can bring two people close enough together to provide an oppourtunity for love to grow between them | |
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Posted: 10/25/2006 7:14:03 PM | Ok..so we're not talking about how you come to love a person...just what love is..if we have to put it into words...right?
Well...first of all...we have to love ourselves..then transfer that to another person..i say this cuz we would not then treat someone else how we ourselves wouldn't want to be treated.
Love is caring, considerate, understanding, compassionate, respectful of anothers thoughts or feelings whether we agree with them or not. Love is true friendship. Love is unselfish.
Eg:..You're in a relationship with a man/woman...you're deeply in love with them but find out they're not happy with you for whatever reason..(now this is someone you know inside and out..and have all the above feelings for)
Love is...letting them go cuz your only thought is their happiness..even if it's without you.
Eg:..You have raised your children to the best of your abilities...trying to instil in them good values...but you can only do so much and there comes a time when they have to make their own decisions. They come to you with these decisions...and you don't like them..you know they're not the right decisions but...you bite your tongue and let them grow up and learn by their own mistakes...good or bad cuz you remember how you felt at that age...and you let go..but always let them know that you're there...no matter what...and knowing that..they are more likely to turn back to you...faster than if you fought with them.
That's Love
With a man...sex is the physical manifestation of that love...the bonding...and Yes...the release...lol
Hope this has answered your question... | |
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Sea_6
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Joined: 8/10/2006
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| Is LOVE, SPIRITUAL OR PHYSICAL?
Posted: 10/25/2006 8:13:46 PM | | When you feel a connection in the physical level, you are attracted. And then when you feel a spiritual attraction to the other, than i think it opens the door to possiblly love that person. When you love in the spiritual sense, it brings you back to a longing of the physical love. If the weel continues, the more you love the more you're attracted and the more facets you want and long to share with the other. | |
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Posted: 10/25/2006 8:31:57 PM |
Body= Physical Love/Sexual (very common)
Heart= Emotional Love/Romantic (common)
Soul= Spiritual Love/Intuitive (rare)
Devine =All three at once (Very Rare)
my 2 cents *sigh*
True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.
Beautifully said.....and although I'm not sure I could have stated it so eloquently.... I agree! | |
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Posted: 10/26/2006 6:30:34 AM | True love (partner), to me, is spiritual. A depth beyond words and explanation. A connection that is present even when apart. An energy that sizzles when mere inches apart, and when connected physically, is explosive.
Scarlett | |
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