Define "love"

Trash Can · 08-01-2001, 11:49 PM

Is it an emotion? A feeling?

Or is it a choice? A decision?
And what of the consequences? And does it die? And WHY is it the only thing that you CANNOT leave behind??

Please use essay form and hand in your papers at the end of the class as you walk out.
You may begin now.

80sU2isBest · 08-02-2001, 02:08 AM

Love is a person. And Trash Can, it's someone you know very well.

Angela Harlem · 08-02-2001, 09:37 AM

I think love is the relationship you have with someone. In life, you meet those dicks you wish you hadnt, those that are easy to forget, those that become good friends, then, every now and then, you meet someone who is just so incredible, you feel you must be imagining it. The type of person that makes you doubt you are worthy of reciprocated feeling. The highs are so high that the smallest of lows make you think the world is ending. It makes you see just how incredible that love is. Whenever something does go wrong, no matter how small or insignificant, it hurts more because its a measure of the amount of love you share with that person.

I also believe it can end, because it isnt a tangible thing, and unfortunately at the end of the day our lives are ruled by only what we can see, touch and hold. I think that is why we place so much importance on it too. For it is to easy to lose something that isnt physical.

All that said, its just one of the most wonderful experiences a person can ever have.

...In my opinion

hermes · 08-02-2001, 10:56 AM

the action of love is complete sacrifice

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Trash Can · 08-02-2001, 04:15 PM

Thanks 80.
Great answer. And yes, I know Him well.

...BUT, I guess I was referring to love in the sense of "relationships". Friends, mates, husbands, and wives.

"How do you fall in love"? How do you know? What does it mean? When is it when one crosses the "line" from caring very much for someone to... "I'm in love with you!"?

I believe that Woody Allen once said, "The heart wants what the heart wants."... and so... the guy went and "fell in love" with his own stepdaughter, and left his wife.. and so did the stepdaughter (leave her stepmother), I guess.

"Love"?

Does responsibility play into "love".

"All is fair in love and war."
Is it????

Please don't get me wrong. I'm NOT a complete idiot here. I know... basically what the answer is. I just want input from you "Lovely" people.

OHHHH! ... "Looooooooove at first sight!"
And whaddaya think of THAT lie...errr... I mean, THAT statement!??

I'll go now... You talk amongs yourselves!

Peace!

Aine · 08-02-2001, 06:51 PM

I can't.It's more than a word,it's more than
a person,it's more than a universe.It's much
more than me anyway

.Listen to WOWY,it's close to my feeling of love.

**Diemen** · 08-02-2001, 07:09 PM

To lighten things up - guess the quote:

"Love is the greatest thing in the world! -- Except for a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce, tomato - where the mutton is nice and lean and...it's so perfect...so where was I?"

bonovista · 08-02-2001, 08:07 PM

Good answer 80's and Angela..

08-03-2001, 03:12 AM

80s

Your answer is awesome. Greater love has no man than this, that he would lay down his life for his friends. the greatest love story ever was written in blood 2000 years ago on a cross in Judea. God is love.

But in another sense, we have one word for love, the Greeks had 3 or 4. What type of love are you talking about?

candys room · 08-03-2001, 03:31 AM

its obsession, then routine.

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Trash Can · 08-03-2001, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Diemen:
To lighten things up - guess the quote:

"Love is the greatest thing in the world! -- Except for a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce, tomato - where the mutton is nice and lean and...it's so perfect...so where was I?"

LMAO!!!!!... ahhhh, I love that film.

"Have fun storming the castle!!"

Like O2 · 08-04-2001, 12:56 AM

The best way I can describe love is to think of ways I�ve experienced it, either getting or giving love. Some examples that come to mind�.

Love is someone bringing you a cup of hot tea or hot chocolate each morning to wake you up.

Love is holding someone�s hand while they take their last breath.

Love is standing for hours in a Neonatal ICU, stroking a baby�s tiny head all the while praying that the monitor alarms at the end of the tubes and wires will not shriek again.

Love is honoring the vows you made before God, family and friends even when something, some place, or someone else seems more interesting, fun, or exciting.

Love is sitting quietly next to a friend in a hospital chapel at 2:00 a.m.

Love is someone telling you �you can do it�, someone believing �you can do it�, someone supporting and encouraging you to �do it�.

Love is not caring what gross bodily �fluids� your kids cover you in when their sick.

Love is listening with interest and patience to an elderly person telling you the same story for the 82nd time.

And above all, I believe love is God giving us the hearts and minds and souls to be able to do any of these things or any other loving actions.

[This message has been edited by Like O2 (edited 08-03-2001).]

foray · 08-05-2001, 12:59 AM

It's a verb, not a noun. It's also experience, and something that will stay with humankind forever, it will be the only thing that will survive of us.

frayed

zooropamanda · 08-05-2001, 01:26 AM

I think it goes far beyong a feeling and emotion.Its a different state of consciousness.

sacrifice is a good word, however I think its a kind of sacrifice that aint really too hard to make as you do so without a second thought.

candys room, thats not love at all.

Angie is right in the highs and lows part. It can make you totally irrational at times, but at the same time, feel as though you've found something that is like nothing else on earth. That no amount of money, and material posessions could ever replace. Its beyond the physical, and probably the only thing that we can experience without drugs, that takes us to another state of consciousness.I have experienced love that has never touched on the physical and its probably the most amazing thing I have ever experienced in my life.

Its being there, no matter what,allowing yourself to be free and honest, its about trust and honesty,believing in, not taking for granted, supporting,wanting the best for, putting up with and dealing with the hard stuff, and adoring another.

With so many different kinds of love, its hard to describe.

Most of all, its giving.

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UV2001 · 08-05-2001, 03:31 AM

Love is one of the most powerful emotions we have along with hate.Love seems to find you and it seems to control you rather than you control it.It is one of thouse things that is controlled by a higher power and I don't think we can ever fully understand it or learn how to control it enough to CHOOSE to fall in or out of love with someone.

Trash Can · 08-06-2001, 02:37 PM

Gee, thanks Like O2!

That was quite lovely.

Can I assume from what all you said that you might agree with me and say that Love is indeed a conscious decision, sacrifice and choice that one makes?

tiny dancer · 08-08-2001, 10:28 AM

Love is unconditional.

08-01-2001, 11:49 PM	#1
Trash Can Acrobat Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 399 Local Time: 01:03 AM	Define "love" Is it an emotion? A feeling? Or is it a choice? A decision? And what of the consequences? And does it die? And WHY is it the only thing that you CANNOT leave behind?? Please use essay form and hand in your papers at the end of the class as you walk out. You may begin now. __________________

08-02-2001, 02:08 AM	#2
80sU2isBest Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid Join Date: Nov 2000 Posts: 4,970 Local Time: 08:03 PM	Love is a person. And Trash Can, it's someone you know very well. __________________

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tiny dancer Blue Crack Distributor Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: small town Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 96,451 Local Time: 01:03 AM	Love is unconditional. __________________

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08-02-2001, 09:37 AM	#3
Angela Harlem Jesus Online Join Date: Dec 1969 Location: a glass castle Posts: 30,163 Local Time: 12:03 PM	I think love is the relationship you have with someone. In life, you meet those dicks you wish you hadnt, those that are easy to forget, those that become good friends, then, every now and then, you meet someone who is just so incredible, you feel you must be imagining it. The type of person that makes you doubt you are worthy of reciprocated feeling. The highs are so high that the smallest of lows make you think the world is ending. It makes you see just how incredible that love is. Whenever something does go wrong, no matter how small or insignificant, it hurts more because its a measure of the amount of love you share with that person. I also believe it can end, because it isnt a tangible thing, and unfortunately at the end of the day our lives are ruled by only what we can see, touch and hold. I think that is why we place so much importance on it too. For it is to easy to lose something that isnt physical. All that said, its just one of the most wonderful experiences a person can ever have. ...In my opinion

08-02-2001, 10:56 AM	#4
hermes Acrobat Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: a blank page Posts: 360 Local Time: 01:03 AM	the action of love is complete sacrifice ------------------ Steve SAME OLD STORY- Hardcore American Comedy

08-02-2001, 04:15 PM	#5
Trash Can Acrobat Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 399 Local Time: 01:03 AM	Thanks 80. Great answer. And yes, I know Him well. ...BUT, I guess I was referring to love in the sense of "relationships". Friends, mates, husbands, and wives. "How do you fall in love"? How do you know? What does it mean? When is it when one crosses the "line" from caring very much for someone to... "I'm in love with you!"? I believe that Woody Allen once said, "The heart wants what the heart wants."... and so... the guy went and "fell in love" with his own stepdaughter, and left his wife.. and so did the stepdaughter (leave her stepmother), I guess. "Love"? Does responsibility play into "love". "All is fair in love and war." Is it???? Please don't get me wrong. I'm NOT a complete idiot here. I know... basically what the answer is. I just want input from you "Lovely" people. OHHHH! ... "Looooooooove at first sight!" And whaddaya think of THAT lie...errr... I mean, THAT statement!?? I'll go now... You talk amongs yourselves! Peace!

08-02-2001, 06:51 PM	#6
Aine Acrobat Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: St.Petersburg,Russia Posts: 332 Local Time: 01:03 AM	I can't.It's more than a word,it's more than a person,it's more than a universe.It's much more than me anyway .Listen to WOWY,it's close to my feeling of love.

08-02-2001, 07:09 PM	#7
Diemen Resident Photo Buff Forum Moderator Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Somewhere in middle America Posts: 13,621 Local Time: 07:03 PM	To lighten things up - guess the quote: "Love is the greatest thing in the world! -- Except for a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce, tomato - where the mutton is nice and lean and...it's so perfect...so where was I?"

08-02-2001, 08:07 PM	#8
bonovista War Child Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: the Bad Girls School where MissMac graduated from. Posts: 549 Local Time: 01:03 AM	Good answer 80's and Angela..

08-03-2001, 03:12 AM	#9
socalu2fan Guest Posts: n/a Local Time: 01:03 AM	80s Your answer is awesome. Greater love has no man than this, that he would lay down his life for his friends. the greatest love story ever was written in blood 2000 years ago on a cross in Judea. God is love. But in another sense, we have one word for love, the Greeks had 3 or 4. What type of love are you talking about?

08-03-2001, 03:31 AM	#10
candys room The Fly Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: the palm of your hand Posts: 261 Local Time: 01:03 AM	its obsession, then routine. ------------------ "all of us are in the gutter, but some of us look to the stars" (oscar wilde)

08-04-2001, 12:56 AM	#12
Like O2 She wore graaaapes Join Date: May 2001 Location: Slightly north of the Lone Star state Posts: 1,800 Local Time: 07:03 PM	The best way I can describe love is to think of ways I�ve experienced it, either getting or giving love. Some examples that come to mind�. Love is someone bringing you a cup of hot tea or hot chocolate each morning to wake you up. Love is holding someone�s hand while they take their last breath. Love is standing for hours in a Neonatal ICU, stroking a baby�s tiny head all the while praying that the monitor alarms at the end of the tubes and wires will not shriek again. Love is honoring the vows you made before God, family and friends even when something, some place, or someone else seems more interesting, fun, or exciting. Love is sitting quietly next to a friend in a hospital chapel at 2:00 a.m. Love is someone telling you �you can do it�, someone believing �you can do it�, someone supporting and encouraging you to �do it�. Love is not caring what gross bodily �fluids� your kids cover you in when their sick. Love is listening with interest and patience to an elderly person telling you the same story for the 82nd time. And above all, I believe love is God giving us the hearts and minds and souls to be able to do any of these things or any other loving actions. [This message has been edited by Like O2 (edited 08-03-2001).]

08-05-2001, 12:59 AM	#13
foray Rock n' Roll Doggie Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: full of sound and fury Posts: 3,386 Local Time: 02:03 PM	It's a verb, not a noun. It's also experience, and something that will stay with humankind forever, it will be the only thing that will survive of us. frayed

08-05-2001, 01:26 AM	#14
zooropamanda Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Smile, you're reading my post Posts: 6,515 Local Time: 11:03 AM	I think it goes far beyong a feeling and emotion.Its a different state of consciousness. sacrifice is a good word, however I think its a kind of sacrifice that aint really too hard to make as you do so without a second thought. candys room, thats not love at all. Angie is right in the highs and lows part. It can make you totally irrational at times, but at the same time, feel as though you've found something that is like nothing else on earth. That no amount of money, and material posessions could ever replace. Its beyond the physical, and probably the only thing that we can experience without drugs, that takes us to another state of consciousness.I have experienced love that has never touched on the physical and its probably the most amazing thing I have ever experienced in my life. Its being there, no matter what,allowing yourself to be free and honest, its about trust and honesty,believing in, not taking for granted, supporting,wanting the best for, putting up with and dealing with the hard stuff, and adoring another. With so many different kinds of love, its hard to describe. Most of all, its giving. ------------------ Australian U2 Fans Forum pub84.ezboard.com/bzoomerangers

08-05-2001, 03:31 AM	#15
UV2001 War Child Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: BIG GOB'S BED Posts: 933 Local Time: 01:03 AM	Love is one of the most powerful emotions we have along with hate.Love seems to find you and it seems to control you rather than you control it.It is one of thouse things that is controlled by a higher power and I don't think we can ever fully understand it or learn how to control it enough to CHOOSE to fall in or out of love with someone.

08-06-2001, 02:37 PM	#16
Trash Can Acrobat Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 399 Local Time: 01:03 AM	Gee, thanks Like O2! That was quite lovely. Can I assume from what all you said that you might agree with me and say that Love is indeed a conscious decision, sacrifice and choice that one makes?