2006-07-12 07:35:00 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
"Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled." - Harlan Ellison
2006-07-12 07:40:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think deep, lasting love is likely both gratitude and bliss. We are grateful for our existence and humanity's existence and the other person's existence, much less that the other is so open to you. It's about giving to each other constantly, in big ways and mostly tiny ways. From all this, and in addition to all this, comes the emotional bliss. Man, that sounds trippy. But I figure it's true.
2006-07-12 16:18:31 · answer #2 · answered by valerie h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is neither. Love is true and unconditional devotion to another, and gratitude has nothing to do with it. Emotional bliss is a state of mind that MAY be achieved if one is in love, but is NOT love itself.
2006-07-12 14:49:12 · answer #3 · answered by fiddlesticks9 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question. And given that GRATITUDE is the fond expectation of more favours to come, the two definitions would seem to coalesce. The problem is that people use "love" in so many different ways that only your analyst knows for sure how to answer your question.
2006-07-12 15:03:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love means many things.
Eros: Passion
Ludis: puppy/flirting love
Philo: feelings for those that are similar (republicans, cheerleaders, etc..)
Pragma: "will she be a good mother", practical love
Mania: "I love, love, love, love N-Sync"
Agape: Selfless, sacrificing love "there is no greater love than this, that one man should lay down his life for another"
So to answer your question now; you have only described two facets of the English word love. Enduring love can not consist entirely of 'emotional bliss', other parts of love must be present. It is best to think of love as an action verb: I love my wife by doing the dishes, I love my best friend by buying her dinner, it shows I love N-Sync because I buy all of their albums and posters.
2006-07-12 15:44:51 · answer #5 · answered by yesmynameismud 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gratitude for what? I mean, you can love someone without feeling any "gratitude" toward them. I think you are WAY off base here hon.
2006-07-12 14:38:15 · answer #6 · answered by Goose&Tonic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel that love is not necessarily an expression of gratitude. Though I have had friends who felt that all emotion was spawned from fear and anger. In the case of love within their context, love would stem from fear as it would encompass a feeling of fear of losing someone who you have invested emotional energy into. I personally feel that fear can stem from love, in that if you love someone fear may evolve if your attachment to that person is endangered. I feel that all emotion evolves from anger and love.
2006-07-12 15:55:54 · answer #7 · answered by museevolution 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's safe to say that love is a fake connection, invented by large multi-national corporations to force you to buy uselessly expensive things for someone that you don't even want to be with just because you are "in love"
2006-07-12 14:38:41 · answer #8 · answered by Samuel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is feeling of emotional bliss!
2006-07-12 14:39:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. Whenever I really think of love, I think of that rush you get when you're with someone that makes you feel so incredibly perfect. I am grateful for that, but that to me is an entirely different emotion.
2006-07-12 14:38:58 · answer #10 · answered by Risika Desaunt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is not saft to say that. 95% of all people who have ever said that were killed immediately by a random piano falling from the sky on top of them. Very, very unsafe.
2006-07-12 14:39:51 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋