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 zZZz
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 Your definition of love. 
#15618053 - 01/04/12 10:09 PM (4 months, 22 days ago) |
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What would your definition of love be? If someone asked you what love was what would you say?
To me love is like knowing you have the last peice of food in the world and even though you are really hungry you give it to someone else who is really hungry.
How would you define love? Better yet, give an example.
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Mafeki
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 Re: Your definition of love. [Re: zZZz]
#15618126 - 01/04/12 10:28 PM (4 months, 22 days ago) |
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People love differently and experience it differently what I might consider love might be queer compared to casual sex, might be the only way some people might know how to love. I'd definitely define it as affection.
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: Mafeki]
#15618141 - 01/04/12 10:32 PM (4 months, 22 days ago) |
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What you ask is impossible to answer. Not in a bad way 
"love" is terribly ambiguous. We don't understand what it means, its an attempt to verbalize some sort of feeling that is shared by human beings.
Is there a "biology" of love? Most certainly. Its not something that has been deeply explored, though, in academic / linguistic realms of study, and is terribly underfunded. There is very likely a mechanism behind "love" and what we experience, as humans, but we don't understand it at all.
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: zZZz]
#15618167 - 01/04/12 10:37 PM (4 months, 22 days ago) |
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the buddhist definition is wishing happiness on others
from a buddhist point of view, what is often called love is seen as attachment (which is a hindrance)
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: deff]
#15618180 - 01/04/12 10:41 PM (4 months, 22 days ago) |
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Quote:
from a buddhist point of view, what is often called love is seen as attachment (which is a hindrance)
Interesting, from a pagan point of view its viewed the same way (Ancient Greek / Roman religions). I did not realize that similarity. Its very wise~
 thanks
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"Once in awhile, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right"~ (Grateful Dead)
"o puer, qui omnia nomini debes"; "You, boy, who owe's everything to a name"~ Mark Anthony
"Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum."; "Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system."~ Cicero
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: zZZz]
#15618184 - 01/04/12 10:42 PM (4 months, 22 days ago) |
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Quote:
zZZz said:
What would your definition of love be? If someone asked you what love was what would you say?
To me love is like knowing you have the last peice of food in the world and even though you are really hungry you give it to someone else who is really hungry.
How would you define love? Better yet, give an example.
My example would be like blowing up the whole world due to your compassion for it's suffering humanity instead of refraining due to guilt or fear.
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: Icelander]
#15618288 - 01/04/12 11:06 PM (4 months, 22 days ago) |
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love is a leaf
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bearing the beams of love
The entire landscape is in no place at all
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: Icelander]
#15620070 - 01/05/12 12:01 PM (4 months, 22 days ago) |
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Icelander said:
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zZZz said:
What would your definition of love be? If someone asked you what love was what would you say?
To me love is like knowing you have the last peice of food in the world and even though you are really hungry you give it to someone else who is really hungry.
How would you define love? Better yet, give an example.
My example would be like blowing up the whole world due to your compassion for it's suffering humanity instead of refraining due to guilt or fear.
Can we have planes to steer into skyscrapers for this please ? 
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zZZz
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Quote:
LongStrangeTrip said:
What you ask is impossible to answer. Not in a bad way
"love" is terribly ambiguous. We don't understand what it means, its an attempt to verbalize some sort of feeling that is shared by human beings.
Is there a "biology" of love? Most certainly. Its not something that has been deeply explored, though, in academic / linguistic realms of study, and is terribly underfunded. There is very likely a mechanism behind "love" and what we experience, as humans, but we don't understand it at all.
Yes I realized this, but still there are many words you can use to express this wordless feeling.
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: zZZz]
#15623418 - 01/05/12 11:53 PM (4 months, 21 days ago) |
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love is seeing eternal beauty in the failings and stupidities of another.it's critical that love does not become idolization whereby everything another does is perfect. this is the perverse kind of love that stalkers fall victim to. real love is to find timeless beauty in the most ugly and mundane. anything else is lust or perversion.
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: BlueCoyote]
#15624868 - 01/06/12 10:06 AM (4 months, 21 days ago) |
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Of course.
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: zZZz]
#15625935 - 01/06/12 02:24 PM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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Willingness to give attention to an object, or subject.
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: zZZz]
#15625967 - 01/06/12 02:31 PM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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Love is all you need.
Love = all you need.
If you find all you need, you have found love.
Then, when you realise you are eternal and in fact do not need anything, you realise you always have love... but you often confuse yourself by playing with Satan's toys.
Alternatively, love is the blood that courses through your veins.
Rule number 1 of zombieland (the land of dead souls, note):
Cardio-vascular exercise.
'Feels fried-man'
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zZZz
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: Desert Elf]
#15626340 - 01/06/12 04:05 PM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: zZZz]
#15627056 - 01/06/12 06:34 PM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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Baby don't hurt me... no more
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: crkhd]
#15627567 - 01/06/12 08:05 PM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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hormones n shit
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: andrewss]
#15628940 - 01/07/12 05:55 AM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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There's no evolutionary advantage to love.
It's a western construct that means 1 man 1 woman; this does not fit with propagation of the species.
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: zZZz]
#15629293 - 01/07/12 08:55 AM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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Quote:
zZZz said:
How would you define love?
It is wholly impossible, yet universes are created in an attempt to do just that
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Re: Your definition of love. [Re: The Chronic]
#15629392 - 01/07/12 09:28 AM (4 months, 20 days ago) |
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An existing actuality that awareness perceives.
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