2006-07-08 06:45:54 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
no i dont mean it in a religious way so cut it out with the god stuff, please and thank you! i have no problems with god or jesus or that ghosty thing.
2006-07-08 07:30:17 · update #1
I have seen him before...
2006-07-09 03:41:20 · update #2
Absolutely. How else could you explain loving someone that has died or loving someone overseas in the military?
2006-07-08 06:47:08 · answer #1 · answered by James 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that when you have feelings for someone, those feelings are real. Whenever I have felt strongly about someone, it's not been something I've consciously chosen to happen, it's just a fact, it's undeniable and unsuppressable.
But at the same time, I think it's essential to think clearly and realistically about the situation.
If you have never ever met the person, and you only know them online perhaps, you always have to have that reserve at the back of your mind because you have no way of knowing that what they say and what they show of themselves to you is true. Ultimately, I think it would be unwise and deluded to fully believe that you 'loved' someone in that situation until you had really met them.
And if you feel like you love an actor or a musician or someone else famous, well, you have to realise you are in love with an idea of a person, with a public image of them - you don't have a place in their real life. They have their own family and friends and partners in real life. You can only truly love someone if you are each truly in each others lives.
If you love someone who you are involved with or have been involved with and now one of you has had to move to a different area or you have split up, for example, well yes, it's possible to truly love them, but all the same the situation might be wrong, what's between you has run its course, or just practicalities make it impossible to be together.
If you don't get to see and spend time with the person, then eventually you're loving the memory of the person they were when you were last with them properly - the real person & their life will have inevitably changed.
It's possible to truly love someone but also to accept the reasons why you aren't together and aren't going to be together.
2006-07-08 14:12:59 · answer #2 · answered by ohwir 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. My first love and I only talk on the phone. He only lives about 30 miles away.I never see him, maybe once a year. We talk weekly on the phone, and sometimes we call each other just to hear the others voice. I think in the past 3 years I've seen him about 2 times. I love him dearly, and there is not a phone call that I don't tell him that. He's helped me grow alot.
2006-07-08 13:55:09 · answer #3 · answered by Margie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean "you have never seen BEFORE" as in NEVER. No, you can't. Being in love online or whatever, is not possible. There is no way you can know how a person will act in certain situations, their actual personality characteristics if you have never met them in person. In any other circumstance, sure you can. I havent seen my fiance in 3 months (it was 8 before that) because he is in Iraq, and I love him more than anything in this world.
2006-07-08 13:55:54 · answer #4 · answered by E 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People claim to love that someone named...let's see now...oh yeah...Jesus. You don't see him do you? At any rate having faith and loving are two different things. I believe one could love someone basically unseen for what they have to say or how they respond to questions like yours. You must have a good deal of self confidence in order to love someone unseen.
2006-07-08 14:01:16 · answer #5 · answered by thebigm57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes........most definitely!! When you fall in love with the person you haven't met, you're in love with their mind, and personality.....you're putting physical attraction second, where it should be....
When you're in love with someone, you will be physically attracted to them eventually (when you meet). But the love is there never the less.
Ofcourse if u do meet and didn't find yourself attracted to them, then i wouldn't call it love....it could be something like emotional emptiness that the person u think you fell in love with satisfied.
Blind dates, long distant relationships, and cyberlove, all exist, and people hardly meet...but they do work if you work hard on them.
Good luck
2006-07-08 13:57:35 · answer #6 · answered by xqueenyx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that sometimes one can fall in love with the feeling "falling in love". To truly know if you love a person you must feel the vibration in the kiss and touch.
2006-07-08 13:48:05 · answer #7 · answered by Tones 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course yes. Don't you love God?
2006-07-08 13:52:28 · answer #8 · answered by rks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Using faith, followers of many religions love the icons of that particular belief.
2006-07-08 13:49:49 · answer #9 · answered by ktaillon123 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
interesting question. i think you can think you love someone you never see, but i don't you can truly love someone you never see, because love is all encompassing and includes the physical, the present, the reality as well as the emotion, the imagination, the fantasy.
2006-07-08 13:48:33 · answer #10 · answered by Lucy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋