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I'm just curious. But what do you all consider love. Is it as Boston put it, "More than a feeling?" Or is it just the way you feel about someone. Is it a simple definition like, "I'd die for them.. so therefore I love them" I'm just not really sure. I'm sure it's different for everyone, so I'd like to hear what you have to say. Any thoughts?

I'd say love is "taking 'like' to the extreme"

Love is what your genes to do trick you into producing more of them.

Hehehe.. Nice.

No comment.

OBEY YOUR MICROSCOPIC OVERLORDS

... pheromones?

People are attracted to one another at first through physical attributes which for women make them more suitable for child-bearing, and for men, make them better hunters. See: boobs, muscles.

Love is that special thing you feel when you see her shove the third dead homeless guy into the trunk of her beat-up old Ford.

I maintain my stance from this thread.

We pansy-ass english-speaking types generally translate eros as "love" from Greek whereas, in reality, the term only applied to sexual desire or "lust" if you prefer. As far as the ancients were concerned, you either were feeling sexual desire, friendship, duty, or comfortableness/complacency when dealing with another person, the all-encompassing term "love" wouldn't have been thought to be specific enough.

-Pufer

Animal magnetism is overrated. This is just overengineered.

-Vegastrike heavy tractor beam description.

Mass media seems to like making us think love is animal magnetism (well, a lot of it, anyway). People seem to buy into it, too...

*ahem*

Love is...


Not B&B.

Love is an action, although more often then not it is associated with a feeling.


Love is something you show to someone you care for, love can be something simple like buying a gift, soft like a kiss, warm like a hug, or very intimate like sex. Love can be cooking dinner for the other person even when you rather order out. Love can be going to work for hard earned money even when you rather sleep in. You have different levels of love, and different levels of love have different actions and reactions.



Edit: Love = self sacrifice

This post has been edited by mWalk: 12 May 2007 - 02:13 AM

I had a friend say this.

"Love is when you can't do anything but think about that person. And you know everything about them. Their favorite color, favorite store, and favorite movies. It's so great when you both like the same music. That's love."

Another friend suggested that love is only attained when you are willing to die for a person.

Personally, I'm not okay with either of these. The first just sounds immature and perhaps like someone who knows a little but not the full extent of things. And the second, yes that's a part of it. But isn't it so much more than just being willing to lay down your life for someone?

So often we think we're in love.. but then once we're "really" in love, we realize we weren't at all. What's to say the latter isn't love either?

I believe love is trust, compassion, selflessness, and courage beyond anything else. And I think it's hard to put a definition to it. Love is beyond sex. People fall in and out of love when they're married, but the ones I feel, who are truly in love are able to stick together even when they don't quite feel the same as they did their first year of marriage. That takes courage and self sacrifice. I guess that's how I'd define love.

This post has been edited by moonunit4eva: 12 May 2007 - 02:15 AM

Good speech! *applause* I find it's nice to give praise to someone if they say something truthful and interesting. According to my television the, "love" feeling some one gets when they meet, "the right person" is a chemical reaction in the brain! Of course after 4 years of being fed the chemical, your body becomes immune to it. This isn't the case I think for all people. Some couples are happy all their lifes, so there has to be something more. I find that useally people find deep connection through traumatic events (not always dangerous ones) or just strong connections between their lifestyles. I'm no expert, it's just what I useally see.

Haha, I feel like I'm an intruder in this forum. I meen I'm useally in Ferazel, PoG, and Cythera. I don't even own a copy of Ares. Well, I guess that doesn't really matter since there's not a whole lot of ares talk going down. Oh one last thing, how do you pronounce "Ares"? Is it (Air-ease), (Ares) like the "R" sound, (Air-ess), or (Are-ess)?

This post has been edited by Two Jacks: 12 May 2007 - 04:18 AM

1/3 Lust + 2/3 Delusion

/me agrees with Lobster

moonunit4eva, on May 12 2007, 03:14 AM, said:

Love != Obsession. Obsession fades in time, love is deeper than that.

Love != Dying for another person, unless that person is your child, or somebody who will protect your child.

Love != Sex, since sex is really only a part of it. Once you've created enough offspring to ensure that your genes will be carried on, sex falls away.

If I really had to define love, I'd probably do it like so:

Life is s###. It's less s###ty if you've got a teammate. Watch your teammate's back and they'll watch yours. Defend the base.



The monogamous strategy really is just a strategy of combined effort and shared responsibility. The best couples are those that can work effectively as a team, and the best families are the ones with a strong support structure for the younglings to assist them in maximizing their odds of finding an ideal mate to start a new team.

Hehehe. Fantastic response

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." - Erich Fromm

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning

I like those three. I also rather prefer the Greek method of defining love, this English language can be rather lacking when you try to describe certain feelings, and in my opinion, love is the biggest example of this.

If there is life, there must be love.
Therefore life = love.
Life = pain (or salesmanship) (Princess Bride)
Therefore love = painful or expensive.

This post has been edited by wolfman_rec: 17 May 2007 - 01:15 PM

moonunit4eva, on May 14 2007, 06:15 PM, said:

I glad you approve!

there are a few kinds of love. but the intense, gut wrenching, lack of sleep kind of love i think can be described as an intense desire to be in the presence of a specific person. every moment you spend with that person, you spend like it's your last, and every smell, sound and touch is hightened and stored in a part of your mind that can never forget it. that's why sex is so much better if you actually love the person (don't get me wrong, it's good even if you don't, but in my opinion the best i've ever had was when i was in love).
personally, despite how great it feels when you are in the presence of somebody you love, and loves you in return, i feel that love generally causes more pain than it does pleasure because it only brings more desire. when you are alone, you want only to be with that person, and to feel the satisfaction of loving and being loved, even if it's just sitting in a room or a car, not saying anything and not doing anything. just being with that person is enough.

there, now you have my two bits, now if you'll excuse me, i'm going to go and read an incredibly depressing book to amplify the intense emptiness that answering this question has caused me to feel.