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 Why do you believe in "true love" ? 
#2286710 - 01/30/04 09:48 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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My opinion:
I'll believe it when I see it. Then, when its gone, I will question whether it ever existed in the first place.
Seeing is believing, but, try as I may, I do not see true love. All I see is mutual exchange.
"I'll be there for you as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity." - Trent Reznor
Love is defined as "A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness."
I can agree with that, but this kind of love can only exist in the moment. It has no permenance. "True" love, on the other hand, is supposed to be "unconditional positive regard." If true love exists, I have not seen it.
"Unconditional" means that it is not bound by time and space. That means I cannot truly love someone today and then not love them tommorow. If I truly love someone, then it would not matter if that person slit my throat and stabbed me in the back; I would still love them. If you "fall out of love" with someone, then, IMO, you were never truly in love with them in the first place.
Even parental love is conditional. every parent has a breaking point. If you wreck your dad's car or steal from your mother's purse enough times, they will stop loving you. They will cut you off and leave you to die in the streets. I've seen it happen to many friends of mine.
Does true love exist, or are people just deluding themselves?
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 Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#2286740 - 01/30/04 10:02 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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one time I thought I was really, I mean REALLY in love with this girl. I convinced myself that I was experiencing "true" love.
then in a moment of brutally honest self-reflection, I asked myself how I would feel if she gained 90 lbs...
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: infidelGOD]
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#2286840 - 01/30/04 10:53 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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True love exists, I have been living with it for over 13 years and will live with it till the day I die.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: Evolving]
#2286893 - 01/30/04 11:24 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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would you love them in a car?
would you love them from afar?
would you love them on a train?
would you love them in the rain?
Would you love them and not complain
when they cause you blinding, searing pain?
regardless of peace signs, rainbows and doves,
I will not, can not believe in true love
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#2286906 - 01/30/04 11:29 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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DoctorJ said:
If I truly love someone, then it would not matter if that person slit my throat and stabbed me in the back; I would still love them.
I think unconditional love can exist, although I agree it's rare. I'm not in a romantic relationship right now, but I've had that experience recently with a friend who betrayed my trust. It was hard and very painful at first, but some friendships are too strong for something like that to fuck up.
Everything's cool now & I never even think about what happened. If anything, it's made us closer 'cause if that wasn't enough to come between us, I don't know what would.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#2286907 - 01/30/04 11:29 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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I believe in all forms of Love.
There really is no "fake" Love, imho. Hence there is no "True" love.
Just different forms and types of Love.
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I can agree with that 
but the idea of anything as a constant, even if it is something like love, rubs me the wrong way.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]  1
#2287570 - 01/30/04 04:15 PM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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Supposedly, Eskimoes have 28 different words for snow, and their lives depend upon these very different enviornmental conditions, so they know their snow! In English, we have this word 'love,' which is as inadequate for us as the single word 'snow' would be for Eskimoes. Of course, one could turn towards Greek in order to help us differentiate love into Agape, Eros or Philias (altruistic, yearning or brotherly, respectively), but things are never quite so simple. So, the Latins took Agape and Eros together, for example, and created the concept of 'Caritas' which is a synthesis of the two.
None of this has been too helpful for me until I took the Biblical use of the word Agape - a selfless, altruistic love that Jesus expounds, and began using the word Compassion in its place (I mean, how many people know the Greek word Agape?)
Compassion is Love in its truest sense if one looks to the highest meaning that the word Love is intended to convey. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 in the New Testament describes this Love, but uses the word 'Charity' (the English translation of the Latin Caritas). The beginning of every sura in the Qur'an says: "Allah the Merciful, the Compassionate." True Love means Love that is True. That which is True is synonymous with that which is Real, since Truth=Reality. The Truth or the Real, taken as Ultimate Reality is synonymous with GOD, and thus Love that is True is Love that partakes of the nature of Ultimate Reality, or GOD. That Love is Compassion.
Being Compassionate means being a vehicle for Divinity. Being Compassionate means being Holy - Whole - One with the Whole or Holy or GOD. It may take time to Realize the implication of acting Compassionately, but that Realization is what it means to be Enlightened - a mind which is made radiant by the Heart's Compassion. True Love is not about receiving from another, neither is True Love interpersonal. True Love radiates from one's Sacred Center, transforming one as it does so. If another shines his or her 'Love Light' back, then a certain mutuality occurs, which is beautiful, but that mutuality is not what defines True Love, which is altruistic and neither expects or desires reciprocity. THAT is Unconditional Love. One operates voluntarily from kindness because kindness is The Way. One does not continue to receive abuse, without limit, and allow it. That is not Forgiveness or Unconditional Love - that is co-dependence, masochism or enabling. Compassion is also Wisdom, and co-dependence, masochism and enabling are dis-eases, not Wisdom. In True Love, Head and Heart are not apart. Peace.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#2287999 - 01/30/04 07:29 PM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Why do you believe in 'true love?'"
That's a loaded question. Who ever said I believe in true love? :-P
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#2288805 - 01/31/04 01:08 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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come talk to me about true love... if you don't believe in it, maybe i can convince you otherwise... 
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#2288950 - 01/31/04 02:26 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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I believe in love. I don't know what "true" has to do with it. 
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#2289032 - 01/31/04 03:18 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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I also belive in LOVE, but TRUE love could mean alot of things, to different people.
Real or actual love I would say maybe is this......
Love is subjective, and if 2 people REALLY love each other, well its LOVE, call it true love if you want I guess.
But it all depends on THIER experiences, no one else can say whats love or not for those "two".
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#2289994 - 01/31/04 04:19 PM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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Even parental love is conditional. every parent has a breaking point. If you wreck your dad's car or steal from your mother's purse enough times, they will stop loving you. They will cut you off and leave you to die in the streets. I've seen it happen to many friends of mine.
There are a few exceptions where a parent truly doesn't love their kid.. but I haven't really seen these exceptions myself.
I don't see true love as being something that has to make people irrational. In my situation, I could live with my parents as long as I was in some type of school. Well, come early my senior year, school was only hindering me on my path that I had chosen.. so I dropped out. 
Well, since I was going to be coming to Norway come summer, they let me stay as long as I paid rent. But if I didn't have anything coming up like that, I would have gotten my ass kicked out. They kicked my stepbrother out because he was constantly getting in trouble and wouldn't listen to his mom...
Do they still love me and him? Of course. But they are realistic people and they can't have us leeching off of their income. Hell, I would probably be even able to move back in with them if I wanted to, IF i payed rent.... that ain't going to happen unless it was the difference between freezing to death on the streets, but ja. hehe
I think it is seriously possible to develop a deep love for every single person we come into contact with... we are all of the same. We don't need to be irrational about it and let those same people walk all fucking over us or anything, but if your actions are being charged with that love intention thang, the world will start to become a better place.
Peace.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: fireworks_god]
#2290186 - 01/31/04 05:21 PM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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I believe love is an emotion. And every feature a human being has is to help the human survive. And I think that's all emotions are. Just something we developed through evolution, in order to keep us from dying out. Without love humans might not come together and procreate. And even if some humans were to have children out of pure lust, no love involved, there has to be a mother/father's love for the child to keep the child alive and watch over it until it's old enough to make more humans.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: fireworks_god]
#2290204 - 01/31/04 05:26 PM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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DoctorJ said:
"Even parental love is conditional. every parent has a breaking point. If you wreck your dad's car or steal from your mother's purse enough times, they will stop loving you. They will cut you off and leave you to die in the streets. I've seen it happen to many friends of mine."
I don't think this is because their love is conditional. I think it takes more love to tell a child to leave and grow up then to keep supporting that child in bad behaviors.
I totally loved my daughter, who is now 26, but when she was 17 and 1/2, I threw her out. I loved her, but I wasn't doing her any favors by allowing her to live at home when all she would do is take drugs, drink, ditch, and not work. Fine. Get out and figure it out on your own.
Within a year, she was living with her boyfriend and taking care of herself. If I had kept supporting her, she probably would have kept doing the things she was doing.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: Frog]
#2290443 - 01/31/04 07:18 PM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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A good friend of mine has always been suicidally depressed. He's a metalhead stoner that hates the world and rebels against it always. His parents were never very understanding of this. They kicked him out when he turned 18, and he bummed around New orleans for awhile.
One day he decided to kill himself by downing a whole bottle of percodan. He suffered brain death, but the EMR doctors revived him.
His parents sent him a get well card. Then they took out a large life insurance policy on him, naming themselves the benficiaries.
Belive me: Parental love is conditional.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#2290592 - 01/31/04 08:27 PM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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Some parents are just fucked up and shouldn't have kids.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#2290659 - 01/31/04 09:04 PM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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DoctorJ said:
Belive me: Parental love is conditional.
You cannot point to conditional love and use it as an argument that unconditional love does not exist, it really depends on the individuals involved. To take the worst cases and then assume that the same conditions apply to all situations and individuals is not rational. There are priests who molest young boys, do all priests molest young boys? Of course not. There are black men who are thieves and murderers, are all black men thieves and murderers? Of course not. There are southern white men who have lynched black men and belong to the KKK, do all white men engage in the same behavior? Of course not.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
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That is one of the saddest things i've heard. Fucking assholes.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: barfightlard]
#2290819 - 01/31/04 10:52 PM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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Everyone has a breaking point, I'd think. Even the most loving parent will stop loving their child after their child mutilates them and burns their house down, or any given situation that'd really fuck a parent up. Unconditional love, as the word suggests, would be infinite, allowing for anything to happen without the love being lost. Humans don't have the capacity for infinity.
And it's probably for the better. If all parents had such unconditional love, and all lovers unconditional love for one another, not only would this torment them for the rest of their lives if anything were to happen, which it always eventually does, but life would be a lot more boring. Humans are adaptive creatures, changing quickly from just one generation to another; the inflexibility of unconditional love would greatly hinder this.
That sucks about your friend, DoctorJ. Those parents are selfish bastards.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: Ravus]
#2291284 - 02/01/04 06:28 AM (20 years, 2 months ago) |
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Everyone has a breaking point, I'd think. Even the most loving parent will stop loving their child after their child mutilates them and burns their house down, or any given situation that'd really fuck a parent up. Unconditional love, as the word suggests, would be infinite, allowing for anything to happen without the love being lost. Humans don't have the capacity for infinity.
Just because most everyone doesn't understand or have unconditional love for everything doesn't mean it isn't possible. A lot of people's understanding of the world is pretty fucking shoddy. I'd like to think that unconditional love would come from a more true understanding of this world and life itself. Once you realize what life is, I think it would be pretty damned hard to NOT love every manifestation of life.
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And it's probably for the better. If all parents had such unconditional love, and all lovers unconditional love for one another, not only would this torment them for the rest of their lives if anything were to happen, which it always eventually does, but life would be a lot more boring.
I don't understand how you would link unconditional love to a boring life. Since when is a complete and enriching life experience boring? If someone is experiencing a "boring" life, I would think that they are not appreciating the gift of being here and the limitless enjoyment that can be felt from just being. If anyone is bored, well, they are cheating themselves.
And I don't see how having unconditional love for someone would torment them for the rest of their life.. Losing someone special is going to suck, obviously, but that is the way that this game is played. If someone hurts from losing someone, it is usually because they will never again get to share an experience with that person... sure, we would all prefer that no one dies, but no sense suffering over something that can't be changed...
Are you saying it is better if no one loved, so that it wouldn't matter if loss happened? That would equate into living a life disconnected from everything and everyone, and would end up being a life that was seperated from life... I prefer to live, damn it, live! 
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: fireworks_god]
#23467573 - 07/22/16 09:26 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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i just wanted to say i love this thread and the replies; a lot of in the avatars and sigs and everything.. very great. i know that doesn't add much, but in a sense it adds too much.. is not life the whole time the pursuit of being okay with that unspoken aspect that life is infinity?
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: fireworks_god]
#23467789 - 07/22/16 10:49 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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I think it is seriously possible to develop a deep love for every single person we come into contact with... we are all of the same. We don't need to be irrational about it and let those same people walk all fucking over us or anything, but if your actions are being charged with that love intention thang, the world will start to become a better place.
That's the way I feel about things. Once I develop a deep love for someone, it rarely wavers, if ever. A few of my recent friendships have dissolved, but I am fully conscious of the fact that I can sometimes place unrealistic expectations on others. It was hard to accept before, but I learned that not everyone sees the world the way I do. What I like to think of as friendly affection can be overwhelming for people with very clear and set boundaries. They didn't understand how someone could have such strong emotions, and I suppose that scared them. That's a huge weakness of mine, my lack of boundaries and an aching need to feel loved. To feel validated. That someone values me and my emotions.
I've only ever been in love romantically with one person, and I still am, in fact. It was a very intense experience, with unique circumstances, but it taught me a lot about myself and the lengths I would go to for someone to understand just how much they mean to me. If they ever felt anything for me, that I may never know. It ended painfully and abruptly, but despite their transgressions, it still brings me to tears thinking of their smile and the way they made me feel. There have been subsequent crushes, but the level of emotion I felt for them will never be matched. That was what initially brought us together, in fact. Our emotional natures. We simply had very different ways of expressing ourselves. It was a transfigurative experience, to say the least.
I guess the way I see it, "true" love doesn't fade away simply because someone failed to fulfill any expectations that you had. People are who they are, we are living in our own worlds, experiencing our own joys and sorrows. If for but a few brief months, or years, we become connected to another living soul, that is a gift and should be cherished. They may not be a part of your life anymore, or you theirs, but the love will always be there.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: Viol] 1
#23468518 - 07/23/16 07:57 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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True love is selfless care whereby something is done out of care without an expectation of return, anything else is selfish care or desire, which is okay but it's not love.
Basically I don't think sex or desire alone are love.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: sudly]
#23468609 - 07/23/16 08:56 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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I mostly think of true love as a parent for a child. The problem with true romantic love is that it can sometimes turn into true hate. Granted you have to have some psychological flaws in order for this to happen to you, but we are all flawed.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: Brian Jones]
#23468655 - 07/23/16 09:20 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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why is there any distinction in love?
is there an all purpose true love product we should be shopping for?
I think that love is from within, you cannot be compensated for it.
it can be given but not taken.
you cannot buy or obtain it.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: redgreenvines]
#23469696 - 07/23/16 03:33 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Is love an emotion or an action? A verb or noun ?
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: BaronVonBud]
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nounish verb
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: redgreenvines]
#23469931 - 07/23/16 04:48 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Love is only a trick of biology.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: Bobabouy]
#23469959 - 07/23/16 04:57 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Nuh uh!
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: Bobabouy]
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Wouldn't all feelings? That's kinda true for everything
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omigosh! i just discovered a nice palindrome.
evolve, love! oh damn. almost, haha.
okay.... evolve v, love. well, y'know.
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Huehuecoyotl
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#23472992 - 07/24/16 05:50 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yes. True love is the only love...is false love really love?
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: sudly]
#23480664 - 07/26/16 11:07 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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sudly said:
True love is selfless care whereby something is done out of care without an expectation of return, anything else is selfish care or desire, which is okay but it's not love.
I find many people claim selfless love isn't possible.
I agree, love is not wanting something from someone.
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FlowerofTitania
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#23480797 - 07/26/16 11:48 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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I don't think there is such thing as true love. It's one of those carrot on a stick things.
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sudly
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: RJ Tubs 202]
#23480891 - 07/27/16 12:17 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
RJ Tubs 202 said:
Quote:
sudly said:
True love is selfless care whereby something is done out of care without an expectation of return, anything else is selfish care or desire, which is okay but it's not love.
I find many people claim selfless love isn't possible.
I agree, love is not wanting something from someone.
Some people are selfish and careless of the feelings of others, and that's okay because people have the right to their own beliefs.
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: sudly]
#23486556 - 07/28/16 05:06 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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How about this perspective on love . . .
Love is not the presence of something but the absence of something.
What might that "something" be?
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sudly
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 1
#23487163 - 07/28/16 07:46 PM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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The absence of selfish desire.
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redgreenvines
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: sudly]
#23487910 - 07/29/16 12:08 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ahimsa (Sanskrit: अहिंसा; IAST: ahimsā, Pāli: avihiṃsā) is a term meaning 'not to injure' and 'compassion'. The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hiṃs – to strike; hiṃsā is injury or harm, a-hiṃsā is the opposite of this, i.e. cause no injury, do no harm.
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Into The Woods
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Re: Why do you believe in "true love" ? [Re: DoctorJ]
#23488603 - 07/29/16 08:43 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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One thing that comes to mind is this quote,
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There are a lot of problems with the concept of a single random soul mate. As Tim Minchin put it in his song If I Didn’t Have You:
Your love is one in a million
You couldn’t buy it at any price.
But of the 9.999 hundred thousand other loves,
Statistically, some of them would be equally nice.
- Randall Munroe /What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Love, be it temporary or lasting until one dies, I think can still be considered true or real.
Real neurochemical reactions causing real emotional responses.
Perhaps my inner-nihilist went to bed early tonight.
Edited by Into The Woods (07/29/16 08:50 AM)
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