2006-12-07 07:34:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
7/7/07 - YES THEY ARE, and I think I am starting to understand what love is. :-) :-)
2006-12-07 10:30:25 · update #1
I know what love is not....but I sure won't be the one to tell.....heh heh heh :-) :-) :-)
2006-12-07 18:38:47 · answer #1 · answered by Ylia 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 Corinthians 13
LOVE, after all.....
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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2006-12-07 08:40:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In ordinary use, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself.
The very existence of love is itself subject to debate. Some categorically reject the notion as false or meaningless. Others call it a recently-invented abstraction, sometimes dating the "invention" to courtly Europe during or after the middle ages, although this is contradicted by the sizable body of ancient love poetry. Others maintain that love really exists, and is not an abstraction, but is undefinable, being an essence which is spiritual or metaphysical in nature. Some psychologists maintain that love is the action of lending one's "boundary" or "self-esteem" to another. Others attempt to define love by applying the definition to everyday life.
Cultural differences make any universal definition of love difficult to establish. Expressions of love may include the love for a soul or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, love for the respect of others, etc. Different people place varying degrees of importance on the kinds of love they receive. Love is essentially an abstract concept, easier to experience than to explain. Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to The Beatles' "All you need is love." Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value," as opposed to relative value.
Though love is considered a positive and desirable aspect of existence, love can cause a great deal of emotional harm. Consider Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Great Expectations, and other classical and popular works that enumerate how love can lead to tragedy and emotional pain. In human interactions, love becomes a peril when love is not bilateral, known as Unrequited love. A further peril for individuals that love, or can love others, is that love is not enduring and that many people have psychological defense mechanisms inhibit their ability to accept or reciprocate love.
2006-12-07 07:47:12 · answer #3 · answered by marcus l 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
According to William Shakespeare (my favourite playwright and poet):
"Love is not love which alters
When it alteration finds
Or bends with the bender to remove"
2006-12-07 08:48:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember Prince Charles' comment on the televison before he got married to Diana and they were asked whether they were in love. Charles commented "Whatever love means", and it came to haunt him.
At one level love is accompanied by various physiological etc. effects, but if you have been in love you shouldn't need to ask what love is.
2006-12-07 07:43:38 · answer #5 · answered by Philosophical Fred 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
love is a feeling that you have in different levels and varieties. you love your parents, your love you dog/cat, you love your car, you love your spouse, you love your kids, its something that can give great pleasure and cause great pain in the same breath it is after all a part of life. Hope that helps
2006-12-07 07:44:02 · answer #6 · answered by klynnd1981 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Love, like all emotions, is just a mixture of chemicals in your brain
2006-12-07 07:39:45 · answer #7 · answered by Eytan 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know one thing it is for sure, painful! Love hurts.
2006-12-07 18:01:04 · answer #8 · answered by dancinintherain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the connection two people feel for each other, that makes them happier together then when they are apart.
2006-12-07 10:15:45 · answer #9 · answered by David Butler 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was just wondering, are your eyes really green and your hair really black?
because I LOVE that combanation...
2006-12-07 08:09:36 · answer #10 · answered by HELP! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being able to pee on someone without protest.
2006-12-07 10:37:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋