Love

[Just put the Knife DOWN]

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[Just put the Knife DOWN]

Originally Posted by Prodigy

Too bad, because it should have one definition. Perhaps different interpretations, but one definition. That means a LOT of people do NOT know what love is.

Well Prod, you have effectively stated the obvious. =P

We're discussing love because we don't know what it is. This is why the thread was made.


If everybody agreed on one definition, well...

Originally Posted by Love

1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
2. a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
3. sexual passion or desire.
4. a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.
5. (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love?
6. a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour.
7. sexual intercourse; copulation.
8. (initial capital letter) a personification of sexual affection, as Eros or Cupid.
9. affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one's neighbor.
10. strong predilection, enthusiasm, or liking for anything: her love of books.
11. the object or thing so liked: The theater was her great love.
12. the benevolent affection of God for His creatures, or the reverent affection due from them to God.
13. Chiefly Tennis. a score of zero; nothing.
14. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter L.
–verb (used with object)
15. to have love or affection for: All her pupils love her.
16. to have a profoundly tender, passionate affection for (another person).
17. to have a strong liking for; take great pleasure in: to love music.
18. to need or require; benefit greatly from: Plants love sunlight.
19. to embrace and kiss (someone), as a lover.
20. to have sexual intercourse with.
–verb (used without object)
21. to have love or affection for another person; be in love.
—Verb phrase
22. love up, to hug and cuddle: She loves him up every chance she gets.
—Idioms
23. for love,
a. out of affection or liking; for pleasure.
b. without compensation; gratuitously: He took care of the poor for love.
24. for the love of, in consideration of; for the sake of: For the love of mercy, stop that noise.
25. in love, infused with or feeling deep affection or passion: a youth always in love.
26. in love with, feeling deep affection or passion for (a person, idea, occupation, etc.); enamored of: in love with the girl next door; in love with one's work.
27. make love,
a. to embrace and kiss as lovers.
b. to engage in sexual activity.
28. no love lost, dislike; animosity: There was no love lost between the two brothers.

I personally have never seen so many takes on one word, but maybe I'm just not an avid fan of the dictionary. And yeah, some of them are pretty much identical... couldn't be bothered to mess around with it.

[kazukifafner]

^That's a lot of definitions, lol.

Anyway, the main problem with the dictionary is that it's politically correct, giving only the currently accepted definition of the word. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming the dictionary or anything. After all, it's not like they could do much else, because a dictionary should reflect the culture (the cultural meanings of words plays a large role in analyzing history). It just makes it hard to use it for what one could call the "true" or "original" meaning of a word.

PS: @Prodigy

Thank you for the support with acein12.

[Prodigy]

Originally Posted by Rhythm of Apathy

Well Prod, you have effectively stated the obvious. =P

We're discussing love because we don't know what it is. This is why the thread was made.

If everybody agreed on one definition, well...

I personally have never seen so many takes on one word, but maybe I'm just not an avid fan of the dictionary. And yeah, some of them are pretty much identical... couldn't be bothered to mess around with it.

Alright, smartass. ;P

Anyways, apart from the backfiring comments to my intentional state-the-obvious-sarcasm, I don't even mean as a common definition. A common definition that would involve the definitions of both a noun and a verb. I do in fact mean the point the this thread. Therein, what it is. Not what it means. What it is. That is my p01n7.

And no problem, kaz.

[Just put the Knife DOWN]

If you want to know what it is, and not what it means, then here it is:

Love...

Is a word.

It's also a feeling.

It's also something we make a big deal out of.

These are definitives that can be made, but other than that, the word Love was used to label something inexplicable. And even still, it is inexplicable. Still, when we say we love someone or something, no matter the context, we'll know what they're on about.

It's just nicer to say:

I love you.

As opposed to maybe:

I feel this profound, unexplained and somewhat troublesome emotion towards you, and for some equally unexplained reason, I hope you feel the same way.


Or

I love chicken.

Instead of:

At this current point in time I find chicken much more tasteful and satisfying than other foods, to the extent that it excites me when the notion of eating it comes to mind.


It's a real time saver.

[kazukifafner]

^True, but this isn't really about the word's cultural relevance. Anybody can figure out, culturally, when and why we use a word. This more about trying to speculate what the original idea of love is supposed to be.

[Prodigy]

THIS IS NOT SMARTASS 101.

And on that note, poop on your cultural relevance. That does nothing to explain anything I asked. If it were how and where people use it, we'd have been done long ago.

No, I want the deep-rooted emotion. And not some silly bland thing. What it is. A detailed explanation. A series of theories and scientific evidence to blend into one true meaning of what the word is and was supposed to mean. Not I need someone to try and be smart so I can shoot them down.

...Any takers?

[kazukifafner]

Question: Was that directed at me or Rhythm of Apathy?

[Prodigy]

Rhythm, or, rather, Just put the Knife DOWN.

[Akans]

NO F**KING WAY!! This thread is still alive?! Man, this is awesome. *Rejoins*

THIS IS NOT SMARTASS 101.

This is Sparta.

[Tetsu Miuke]

xD...it was dead until just now!

I thought that it was dead so I never bothered to post in here...wow!

[Akans]

Lol, okay, I take back my last comment. I didn't read anything when I posted that. Now I see it was 3 pages of insults and sarcasm XD.
Oh, and Prodigy, you're now my role model. You're really good at writing.

Love...
Is a word.
It's also a feeling.
It's also something we make a big deal out of.

You got that right. Look around you and you see that 90% of the music we listen to and the movies we see are dedicated to love. What makes it so attractive? Why not sing about anger, or happiness (while there ARE songs that have those emotions in them, the majority of songs we listen to are love-related). After all, love is just another emotion.

Something interesting that I want to bring up is that the parts of the brain that react to 'love' are (mostly) the same areas as those which react to stimulation from drugs. So being in love is like being high, apparently. Bringing up a point made waaay at the beginning, love is what remains of the evolutionary urge to reproduce. The happy feeling is an incentive. Its all hormones.

[Tetsu Miuke]

Originally Posted by Akans

You got that right. Look around you and you see that 90% of the music we listen to and the movies we see are dedicated to love. What makes it so attractive? Why not sing about anger, or happiness (while there ARE songs that have those emotions in them, the majority of songs we listen to are love-related). After all, love is just another emotion.

Something interesting that I want to bring up is that the parts of the brain that react to 'love' are (mostly) the same areas as those which react to stimulation from drugs. So being in love is like being high, apparently. Bringing up a point made waaay at the beginning, love is what remains of the evolutionary urge to reproduce. The happy feeling is an incentive. Its all hormones.

Well Love is brought up so much in everyday life becasue people see others with it and they want it for themselves or they had it but lost it. And it really is something that most people can relate to.[/color]

That's partially true because even though you can get supposedly "high" on love, it's just a temporary feeling for something that you want to last. And it's not even an urge to reproduce...true, the happy feeling is an incentive buy hormones aren't the main factor in Love, it's really the mindset that people put themselves in to...most people think that they're in love, some aren't sure, and then there are those that literally let one feeling for someone overflow into what they call "love" and that ends up taking over their whole thinking process and how they go about everyday life...^^

Sowwy I didn't post to often before so I had to make up for it.....lolz.

[Covered in Bees]

I believe love is the act of two living beings merging together spiritually. I believe all living things exist as a collective spirit, and that love is the act of connecting two or more pieces of that collective spirit.

In short, I believe all living things should become one by collectively loving each other.

[Chosen Again]

People want love because it is knowing that no matter how much you suck there's someone who cares for you.