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Posted on 02-07-05 08:02 AM Link | Quote
Describe love for me.

I've asked several of my friends.

"That gut feeling you get when you know it.. what you know you're not sure.. but it's there.. and you can see it in the eyes.. you can feel it in your heart and it just takes you over.. you can't explain it.. and you're better around that person.. you're your better happier version of yourself that we all look for" <-- That's me.


"well i gues i consider it when u feel comfortable with that person, u can be completely honest, i guess when u feel like that person is a person u can really trust and be urself with"

"Love is when all that you want to do is make that person smile and laugh and be happy, no matter what because that's what makes you happy. Love is caring about someone so much that you don't care about stupid things like egos and what other people think, you just go with it. love is something that won't last if you look at every single excuse or mistake..."

"I'll tell you I honestly don't know"

"Comfort"

"it's not words...it's not smiles...it's not looks-or flowers-or stupid cards...or even hugs or kishes. it's a feeling. a feeling that no one can account for...and noone can really count on...it wakes you up at 3 Am...and makes you angry when you don't even need a tampon...it's not the tears you've cried...or the smiles you intercept...it's a gut thing. something that travels up your spine...and fucks with your brain...disconnecting certain strings...no ones knows when they'll find it...or when it will decide to ebb...all we can do...is remember it...sometimes pass it on infectiously...dwell in it...let it smother you-and when it's gone...let it teach you what you thought you'd never learn."

"Love is Everything and nothing at the same time,its your beginning and your end. But its also alot of frustration-- cuz you know.. that no matter how hard you try you will never be able to let that person know how much you really do love them because everyday it grows-- its about forgiveness, acceptance, knowing the past is in the past and that that person IS your future"

I want to see what everyone thinks about "love" these days. Is there a modern romance? Love is elusive. Love is beautiful. Love ferking sucks. How come? What is it exactly? Tell me. It's a subjective sort of thing.. different for everyone. What is it? What does love mean to you?
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Posted on 02-07-05 08:08 AM Link | Quote
Love is. Thats the only was to describe it. It isnt a feeling or emotion or train of thought. You love someone. You know you do. Someone asks you how you feel about them. Love. Thats all you can say. Not, "She makes me feel warm inside" or "I like her smile." It is just "I love her" When you have love for someone, you know it, others will see it, and hopefully, that person will return it.

EDIT: The whole romance thing, I am a "hopeless romantic" as they call it. I want to do the whole romantic thing. Flowers on the first date. Dinner by candle light on a special day. Ask her to marry me in the middle of a big event with thousands of people. Yeah, thats my view on it.


(edited by Kario on 02-07-05 04:13 AM)
alte Hexe

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Posted on 02-07-05 08:43 AM Link | Quote
What is love?

Do you want me to go DesCartes, Montessique, Rousseau or Blake on your unready asses?
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Posted on 02-07-05 08:51 AM Link | Quote
I swear to God, Ziff, if you drag out ONE MORE sociologist/philosopher that I have to study in Classical Social Theory... I can't be held responsible for my actions.

*shivers*
alte Hexe

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Posted on 02-07-05 09:02 AM Link | Quote
Well Colleen, I could bring out some really obscure poets and philosophers from the Romance period. Maeternich anyone?
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Posted on 02-07-05 09:21 AM Link | Quote
*breaks out the techno voice & music*
What is love? Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me, no more.

Its kind of ironic that you would post it that way, because I just got that song stuck in my head the other day and had to download it.
alte Hexe

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Posted on 02-07-05 09:24 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Orlandu
*breaks out the techno voice & music*
What is love? Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me, no more.

Its kind of ironic that you would post it that way, because I just got that song stuck in my head the other day and had to download it.


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Posted on 02-07-05 09:34 AM Link | Quote
Love is something we will never truly understand. It's a mysterious game of strategy and chance with many outcomes and surprises. It can be rewarding or end painfully, but only time can truly tell.

Intimacy in love is a feeling and commitment you have for a special someone.
Friendship in love is a respect you have for someone you trust.

That's all I can think of...

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Posted on 02-07-05 09:38 AM Link | Quote
A virus that changes people COMPLETELY, most of the time, to worse.
Not something cool to play with.
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Posted on 02-07-05 11:42 AM Link | Quote
It's a drug. You take it and you feel all good and tingly for a while, then all of a sudden you feel like crap.
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Posted on 02-07-05 12:07 PM Link | Quote
Love is a instinct, a feeling that we have which leads to mating. The meaning of life is to reproduce... althought ask ourself why we reproduce in first place. To spread our genes further? But why?

Love is practically a instinct which the animals and humans devoloped for survival. If we protect each other, we survive more in the long run as race. And if we really love each other we take our genes further.

...there is severeal types of love. Like romantical, erotic and... well. Cutesy.
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Posted on 02-07-05 12:56 PM Link | Quote
Depends if you want to be dramatic or a hopeless romantic about it. I call it experience. Obviously, people are going to get attracted to other people somewhere down the line but not necessarily for the whole reproduction deal either, the whole love thing is not synonymous to the loving people of the opposite gender either, that's a choice up to the individual and what they feel is right for them when something of that nature starts creeping up in someone's thought pattern about someone else.

I'll try not to be too cold on the way to this one but...

Vast majority of the time: Love is irrational thought. Don't jump on me yet, let me explain. The vast majority of the cases I hear are those that are the hopeless romantic Romeo-and-Juliet wannabe die-for-your-spouse couples that usually end up in a bust at the end. This leads to a slew of things that would end in broken people and broken emotions. Vast majority of the time, that's just reality. People don't necessarily have to do that whole junior high gig by thinking that having someone makes you any better of a person. There's none of that validating your existance part in it that makes sense most times, anyways.

However, you have the other part that works out after a number of different things. This is just the part that has worked the problems out to a point that they can tolerate each other's existence and the feelings are at least somewhat mutual. This can get to a point where the couple can stay together for a few months or sometimes years and even be married for decades. The only thing is that it usually can end up turning into divorce and claimed only as infatuations because the couple wasn't ready for the experience.

That's a good 99% of romance right there. Broken promises and excuses.

However, there is a sliver left in the whole equation where the idea of 'true love' represents itself. This is the one where a couple stick by each other no matter what the circumstances, no matter how good or bad the problems get and no matter what happens they'll always stick by you until the very end. Sort of a 'until death do us part' here. This is what most people will want to claim for themselves in their lifetimes but figure either fall short or figure that they do.

There's another side to love though, approaching people in general with it, caring about other people, not necessarily because of soul-searching but because of respect and friendship, in which you delicate feelings of the other person are in the balance. Keeping with this notion for a second, if you've made one good friend in your entire life and keep it, then you just found a way to what the term true love really is, except in this particular case, it's not in romance gain. If you love someone enough you'd want to be with them always right? Same thing for friends? Doesn't make you any different than whatever preference you choose in terms of romance. Just someone to hang out with, for eternity I guess.

Caring, listening, understand...all of these work under the definite of love but it's not bound by romance unless you're on the account of the Ladder Theory (see thread in Anya's) but even then, that's self-gain purposes if you believe in that.

Not like I'd go up to my best friend who's a guy and start spouting stuff about how I love him and stuff because in this day and age that will make you look like something your not with the way stereotypes and insults fly. It's just a matter of knowing, even by not saying.

That all said, it really is an experience: learning who people are other than you and the way you feel about it with your emotions.
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Posted on 02-07-05 09:58 PM Link | Quote
Its something we all take for granted...love is the most wonderful thing you could ever feel, ever. Love is when...well, if you mean love for a person as opposed to love for say, a favorite song..love is when you care about someone just so deeply that nothing else matters. All that matters is the two of you. When you love someone the rest of the world just seems to go by, but that's okay, it dosn't matter to you...love is a wonderful thing, and if you ever truly find it, hold on to it and never let it go, for true love is a very rare thing in this world here in this day and age...and if you find it, then you truly are fortunate
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Posted on 02-07-05 10:23 PM Link | Quote
For me, love is that thing that makes hating yourself, only for loving her (in my case) more. Is the feeling that make you miss somebody even if you didn't actually have her, Is that what makes you happy seeing her face, but makes you feel pain while you're thinking she will never love you. Love is that thing you're happy to feel, but you wish never feel it. Love is like the frontier beetween Ying and yang, a confusing thing unable to define.


-sigh-

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Posted on 02-08-05 08:16 AM Link | Quote
Since when was there a definition or a right or wrong answer?
Love is love..
Love is good. Its that willingness to give anything and do anything for that one person. That rush you feel when you see that person or think about them or talk with them, that satisfied feeling you get knowing that someone can make you feel that way.
Im not good with words.

Stop being pessimistic, Knuck and Hyperhacker.


Originally posted by Ziffski
What is love?

Do you want me to go DesCartes, Montessique, Rousseau or Blake on your unready asses?


omg that exact thought went through my head.
..wait thats sad. This sucks. =(
alte Hexe

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Posted on 02-08-05 08:20 AM Link | Quote
Danielle, you are becoming one with the Ziff. ph334
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Posted on 02-08-05 02:35 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by knuck
A virus that changes people COMPLETELY, most of the time, to worse.
Not something cool to play with.
btu u get tha sex!!!11
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Posted on 02-08-05 07:25 PM Link | Quote
WHAT IS LOVE

BABY DONT HURT ME

DONT HURT ME

NO MORE

*gets shot*
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Posted on 02-08-05 10:30 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Danielle

Stop being pessimistic, Knuck and Hyperhacker.


And BARO...
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Posted on 02-08-05 10:45 PM Link | Quote
Blah to love..which I never felt before..I would go on on what it could be but I won't because I'm not even sure. It all depends on the person and what they believe what it could be. I guess you could say you're in love when you're feeling something you've never felt before..?
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