Love

[TheRundownRabbit]

Love is when you can care for someone and still want to help them and be close to them, even if they've done everything in the world to deserve your hatred and anger.

To all of you saying "love is the slowest form of suicide" and "the world would be better off without it"... I pity you to the utmost extreme.

This guy gets it, I too, pity the people who distrust or deny the feeling of love

 

[bulbasaur765]

Love is some kind strong attachment and personal compassion for someone and you do what you can to make their lives a bit less crappy with no strings attached.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

What a strange question. I certainly don't know what it is at my age, but I think I'm falling. Then again, with my age, I could just be a hopeless romantic. I like to think of it as being able to see past one's one's flaws to still hold an intense connection to all the good bits.

Trust me, when you find someone you truly love, you'll know it

Well, yeah, I've heard that, but how do I know it's not now? It sure feels like it.... Oh well, i guess that's where time comes in.

OK, ask yourself, are you willing to go to the ends of space and time to be with her, would you always feel the way you do, no matter what she looks like or what skeletons are in her closet? If so, then it could possibly be love.

 

[Flare Phoenix]

Love is something I wish people would stop talking about. We get it: you found someone who is willing to spend more than five minutes with you without running off screaming. It's not that big a deal...

 

[Feralcentaur]

(assuming were not only talking about romantic love here) Love exists to prevent us from killing those who may be necessary to our survival, (that's why not to many people kill their children). Depressed now? Or for a less cynicist/realist interpretation, it's something that makes your feel like even though Allies may come and go, you can at least count on those who love you to help, weather it's convenient for them or not. Edit:

Definition: "Love" is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope.

Umm...wait what? I don't even...eh?

 

[windlenot]

What a strange question. I certainly don't know what it is at my age, but I think I'm falling. Then again, with my age, I could just be a hopeless romantic. I like to think of it as being able to see past one's one's flaws to still hold an intense connection to all the good bits.

Trust me, when you find someone you truly love, you'll know it

Well, yeah, I've heard that, but how do I know it's not now? It sure feels like it.... Oh well, i guess that's where time comes in.

OK, ask yourself, are you willing to go to the ends of space and time to be with her, would you always feel the way you do, no matter what she looks like or what skeletons are in her closet? If so, then it could possibly be love.

Well, huzzah! Thanks for the encouragement! If I could call it such, haha. Sure makes me feel good about it.

 

[Maphysto]

Love is a lot more complicated that just a feeling. The feeling is part of it, but there's a lot more involved. Love is looking at someone after they've just done something to piss you off and thinking "Y'know, I'm very upset with this person right now, but the good outweighs the badd so I'll forgive him/her and move on."

 

[Corjha]

Love cannot be grasped as a metaphysical concept; you can only know love when it manifests in the present moment. Any memory of this is less than a shadow of the real thing.

 

[drummond13]

Love is the slowest form of suicide.

this should of ended the thread.



OT: Love is being disgusted when the ones you love are with someone else. Love is the most horrible of human emotions, and the world would be a better place without it.

Wow. Emo much?

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Pain.. so much pain..
Unfairness, lonliness, not understanding, sorrow, depression, so much tears.

I know those feelings all too well, but its not the love that hurts, its those feelings in themselves, love is the only cure for these things.
Take this...

 

[dante brevity]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Pain.. so much pain..
Unfairness, lonliness, not understanding, sorrow, depression, so much tears.

I know those feelings all too well, but its not the love that hurts, its those feelings in themselves, love is the only cure for these things.
Take this...

Not helping since that's not true.
Everything is a part of love.
And I've been rejected so many times that I can deal with it.
- But that's me.

Well, you seem pretty confident in that statement, I will trouble you no more, just don't give up on love.

 

[Marik2]

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Dude your gonna regret making this thread, cuz ya know its filled with a lot of teenagers and people who had a bad relationship and automatically say "love is not worth it"

Love is when you can care for someone and still want to help them and be close to them, even if they've done everything in the world to deserve your hatred and anger.

To all of you saying "love is the slowest form of suicide" and "the world would be better off without it"... I pity you to the utmost extreme.

Get ready to raise your flame shield buddy...

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

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Dude your gonna regret making this thread, cuz ya know its filled with a lot of teenagers and people who had a bad relationship and automatically say "love is not worth it"

I need not worry about those people bro, I just ignore most of them. I don't regret it, I enjoy making my feelings known and I enjoy hearing about other peoples feelings.

 

[Riobux]

The feeling for longing to be with a particular person for hours on end daily. The feeling of ultimate trust where, through marriage, you give your partner the key to everything you own, trusting that they wouldn't steal it from you.

Not really, I'd call that stupidity, not love.

I'm glad you're part of the consensus that love doesn't exist and what little of it that does exist, it's a horrible device created to tear the soul of men and women alike.

 

[Irish Soulface]

anchorman described it best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LysBpySVn_g&feature=related

 

[Marik2]

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Dude your gonna regret making this thread, cuz ya know its filled with a lot of teenagers and people who had a bad relationship and automatically say "love is not worth it"

I need not worry about those people bro, I just ignore most of them. I don't regret it, I enjoy making my feelings known and I enjoy hearing about other peoples feelings.

Love threads and marriage threads mostly end up flaming, cuz theres a lot of bitter people on these forums.

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

Dismissed this thread initially, but then I got to thinking. Because I hadn't been previously.

I think love is special because it's both exclusive and temporary. If every single person on the planet had the kind of love outlined in this thread, it would be just another every-day part of life. Instead, we're all fully aware of the fact that a significant portion of the population doesn't have it - and a number of these probably never will. Further, we all know that love can be torn from us, irrevocably, by death or betrayal at a moment's notice. That sort of impermanence forces you to live in the moment, intensifying your feelings.

So to sum up: when you look around and see a lot of people without love, or a lot of people who've lost it, you can't help but intensely appreciate it when you've got it.

Also, there's some nagging idea, way in the back of my mind, that recognition of yourself in another reinforces basic existential concepts, which frequently have limited grounding outside of one's own mind.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

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Dude your gonna regret making this thread, cuz ya know its filled with a lot of teenagers and people who had a bad relationship and automatically say "love is not worth it"

I need not worry about those people bro, I just ignore most of them. I don't regret it, I enjoy making my feelings known and I enjoy hearing about other peoples feelings.

Love threads and marriage threads mostly end up flaming, cuz theres a lot of bitter people on these forums.

Well, if it does it does, if it doesn't it doesn't

 

[lwm3398]

Even love, the intangible feeling that can't be explained, is just chemicals in the brain flowing to certain places at the right times.

Although, that's why they say you have "chemistry" with other people. Chemicals need to have reason to flow, and that reason is the real intangible, unexplainable phenomenon.