2006-11-13 09:36:02 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If you want to define it that way it can be, but that is a very shallow version of the power of love in our lives. I remember when my brothers and I were young and one would say, do you love ketchup, another would say yes that the reply was, then why don't you marry it. It was a silly child's game, but your question reminds me of it.
I love people, lots of them, who I have never seen or met or even spoken verbally with. I do not love them because they earned my love or deserve my love, only because they have shared their love with me.
2006-11-13 10:42:11 · answer #1 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't say it is just to describe attachment but I can see how it is a part of the overused word. It is used so much that I guess some of the meanings that go with with it could be called a simple attachment.....
2006-11-13 16:54:05 · answer #2 · answered by justaname80 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is a word used to describe the feeling one gets toward another person. Committment describes the attachment.
2006-11-13 09:48:00 · answer #3 · answered by geronemo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Love" is the most misused word in the English language. We have started using it in the place of "like" or "enjoy". Example: "I love that sweater!" or "I love going to the theater." We also use the word sarcastically quite a bit: "Don't you just love they way she cries over every little thing." The problem with our usage of this word is that we say we love things. It is not possible to truly love things. Love is an emotion we can only feel for other living beings: people, pets, God, etc. Now if a person does truly "love" a thing (i.e. money) then they are leading a pretty sad life.
The true meaning of the word love is the unconditional feelings we have for people in our lives. I try not to misuse this word, but I know I am guilty of it, but I try.
2006-11-13 10:41:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly in my opinion love is in fact overused. Sometimes it can be used to describe attachment, but its honestly not enough. True love is a statement to describe one who has found the right person. Sure we get hurt by love, but love isn't really pure in that state, in order to purify love, you must believe in it. If you ideally want to have an attachment I recommend showing that you want the attachment, rather than saying "I love soandso" love would be to describe how much it means to you and only you.
2006-11-13 09:47:51 · answer #5 · answered by Onikura O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At times.
2006-11-15 19:04:35 · answer #6 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love in its truest and highest definition is willing or wishing good to another, simply as another self, not for self-gain.
It goes even further, in being willing to make sacrifices to secure the good of that other.
It is the complete transcendence of the self, and is the highest attainment of the human person.
It is the highest attainment of the human person because it emulates the Trinity, whose eternal life is nothing but a selfless offering of one self of the Trinity to the other two.
We know that this is true implicitly.
Note how if one is done a favor, and then it is found out that that favor was done just to get something in return, that one is rightfully resentful because of that.
We all have a concept of unselfish love and know it to be the purest and best thing.
Those philosophers and theologians who reduce all human action to motivation for gain for self, are sophists.
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2006-11-13 11:01:05 · answer #7 · answered by Catholic Philosopher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a great question. I do think the LOVE word is used too freely. I love looking at the acorns outside, I love the color of the sky, in reality I only like those things and have no attachment.
Love is the attachment to things we want near us.
I don't know if I even touched on your question but that is my answer.
2006-11-13 09:40:48 · answer #8 · answered by sideways 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Although there's a great confusion about the word itself, we have to remember that Jesus called it a commandment. Love the Lord your God is a commandment, along with Love your neighbor. God's commandments have the penalty of death for not being obeyed, because all his commandments are life or death, do or die. And among Christians who believe in him, he said "Love one another, as I have loved you. By this (the love we have for each other) men will know that you belong to me. It all makes no sense to the people attached to the world, but we can only pity them.
2006-11-13 09:47:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because attachment is a one way relationship designed to get one person's needs met ofteh at the expense of the other and love is a relationship where both parties are getting their needs met equally and for the benefit of both parties.
2006-11-13 12:07:52 · answer #10 · answered by mochi.girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋