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What is love?

Depends what kind of mood I'm in. Every once in a while, I might say love is something metaphysical, but most of the time i would just say...


Love is a state of being, caused by interaction with a specific person, that causes all emotions (both positive and negative) to be extremely heightened.
 
Love'll have you nervous, doing stupid **** on purpose
brain out of service, words slurred when you blurt ****
studderin', utterin' nonsensical **** in your verses
feeling like a shirtless, 4-breasted woman in a circus
furtherly trying to gap an unfillable void
because of parents never transferring that unbillical joy
so girls create a false world of filling on boys
exploited, guys playing with her heart like her feelings are toys
but when you have it.. there's nothing like it, you get excited
seeking those who provide it, on phones talking to psychics
some fear it... spend their entire lives trying to fight it
living in a confusing Hayes, like they're grooving to Isaac
it ain't the end of the rainbow with a treasure chest and a map
it ain't easily learnable with definitions in tact
it can ride your train of though and demolitions your tracks
hittin' and bullwhippin you, leavin' them slits in your back
but i've been a lucky one.. loving parents, loving friends
but I still spend a lot of my life loving sin
but I ain't a genius on it, I can only pretend
cause over all it's an emotion I can not comprehend.. it's love

Are you goin to make a topic called "What is Life" next?
 
It's wasted energy that one expels only to wake up one morning and discover the very essence of his/her existence has depended upon illusions and false platitudes and the time spent channelling these delusional feelings have quickly slipped away and the best part of living has escaped unnoticed and is lost forever.
 
According to The Darkness (great band), 'love is only a feeling anyway'

- common mistake loadsa people make

yes it might be part of love, but the feelings need feeding, so I'd say real love - the kind quoted earlier from 1 Corinthians - that love is actions that you have to choose to do - even if you haven't got the stomach butterflies/walking on clouds feelings (those are just hormones).
 
I was either going to post this:

srf4real said:
Love is patient; love is kind. Love believes all things, hopes for all things, endures all things. Love is not rude, arrogant, or proud. It does not insist on its own way. Love is the most spiritual, and powerful, gift in the universe. Love is eternal:)
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Or this:
sheckey said:
baby, don't hurt me.

don't hurt me.

no more.




:::headbob:::
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Personally, though, love is what makes you do irrational things for irrational reasons that you can't quite understand why it makes so much sense. Love is looking into my wife's eyes and knowing that no matter what else happens in life, she's always going to be my best friend. Love is hearing the baby's heartbeat for the first time and being so overwhelmed with joy that at that instant, nothing else in the world matters. Love is the feeling that my family means more to me than anything else: more than money, or objects, or fame. There's nothing that can compare.
 
Love is a beast.

She will tempt you, draw you in, encompass you, totally devour you, and when you least expect it, chew you up in tiny peices then spit you out, right back where you began.

Without hesitation or regard, you will give her another try, and the results will be the same.

The way it always has and always will be. Some take a little longer to chew on, but it gets us all eventually.
 
1 Cor. 3

4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails.
 
i have two inputs to this.

A) these guys have the answer!

B) duh, apple dictionary!

ove |lʌv| noun 1 an intense feeling of deep affection : babies fill parents with intense feelings of love | their love for their country. • a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone : it was love at first sight | they were both in love with her | we were slowly falling in love. • ( Love) a personified figure of love, often represented as Cupid. • a great interest and pleasure in something : his love for football | we share a love of music. • affectionate greetings conveyed to someone on one's behalf. • a formula for ending an affectionate letter : take care, lots of love, Judy.

S:D
 
Somebody already posted the dictionary definition

Love is tragic
Love is bold

Love is hard
Love is strong

Love is color
Love is loud
Love is never saying you're too proud

Love is trusting
Love is honest
Love is not a hand that holds you down

Love is surely better when it's gone

So, in other words, I have no idea. Based on my experience, it's the most amazing thing in the world that will ruin your life. Like some wonderful drug, but more dangerous and addictive. But I'm kinda bitter, so I'm probably the worst person to ask.
 
Ive been asking myself this very question a lot lately (been single for over 2 years) .... me thinks love is that feeling of total comfort, trust and security when you are with a person that doesnt suck you dry... in ALMOST every sense of the word. :eek: the person that makes you want to come home, the person that makes you feel passion.
 
Lollypop said:
Ive been asking myself this very question a lot lately (been single for over 2 years) .... me thinks love is that feeling of total comfort, trust and security when you are with a person that doesnt suck you dry... in ALMOST every sense of the word. :eek: the person that makes you want to come home, the person that makes you feel passion.
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Exactly. Its been on my mind a lot recently as well. It can hurt more than anything but the rewards have the potential to give you a sense of completeness.
 
Consensual?

CubaTBird said:
I think there are two types of love. There is affectionate love, which is temporary and then theres a more consensual long lasting love. Affectionate love is when somebody your close to (your gf, sig. other) touches you in certain ways or does things that you like and you feel an aurora to it. It goes deep in the unconscious and what not. Long lasting consensual love is more like an understanding that you both love each other no matter what, through thick and thin.
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While I agree with the overall philosophy, I wanted to chime in a disagreement on the "consensual" part. It gives one person the power to void the emotion of another. For example, I still love my ex with all my heart, despite the fact that his mid-life crisis and wandering heart/pants have dissipated his love for me. Does the fact that his feelings have changed at all nullify mine?

That was several years ago. Currently, I have a good friend who I've come to love. Of course, he's straight and will never return the same level of love, but does that nullify mine?

Food for thought. :)
 
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