2007-01-23 02:05:31 · 23 answers · asked by goodbye 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
sorry to say that you even don't know the meaning of love ronin
2007-01-23 03:23:08 · update #1
yeah become a mom
2007-01-23 10:34:56 · answer #1 · answered by cherry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does love in itself really exist? Or is it just another survival skill that we picked up through evolution? Keep in mind that the reason we do everything we do is to survive. If we were to remain single all of our lives, our species would die out. A lot of people are realizing this, which is why we see so many more children borne out of wedlock. They have a chance to survive... maybe not live a great life, but live enough to produce more offspring. Unconditional love can indeed exist. Except we must remember that love is in fact a conditioned hormone. We see people every day that we can fall in love with, we just don't accept the fact that a stranger can be perfectly compatible with our needs. Unconditional love is mostly seen in teenagers, whose hormones are going crazy and they think they know what love is. Nobody knows what love is. There are maybe a dozen couples in this world that are perfectly happy with each other, and that's only because they have money together and can provide for their families. Go to Somalia and show me a botulism-infested couple that are happy. Sure, they're happy they have each other, but they still fight over that last grain of rice.
2007-01-23 10:12:42 · answer #2 · answered by johnmfsample 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does! Unconditional loves means you will love under all circumstances. For example, when a Mom/Dad loves their child even when the child is rebellious, hangs out with the wrong crowd or ends up in jail. If you're in love with a person, unconditional love is when you understand that, that person will make mistakes and so will you. If you love them, then you should know alot about the person. A person that's considered a cheater maybe that way because they are full of love and needs to express themselves. Not necessarily having sex with another person, but just spending time with someone other than you. What makes them a cheater is when the person that they're spending time with wants to take it further....If they come back and apologizes and you forgive them..............That's unconditional love!
2007-01-23 10:40:27 · answer #3 · answered by pebbles1220 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe so. It's hard to say for sure because humans are a conditional being... so therefore it would be almost impossible to offer something unconditional.
I believe we can come close in offering unconditional love; I've felt that I've given unconditional love and also have received it.
Not every child is lucky enough to recieve it but, I believe that a lot of mothers give the gift of unconditional love. I know that my mother has put up with a lot of my wrong-doings... some of them to the extreme in which I was almost positive I would be 'disowned'. However, my mother expressed her dissatisfaction with me but assured me of her love.
Yes.. I believe it does exist.
2007-01-23 11:32:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that depends. Do you consider "love" to be a noun or a verb?
As a noun, I don't think that "love" is unconditional; were it so, the questions "why do you love me?" or "why do I love you?" would be unanswerable if it was "unconditional love".
As a verb, I believe that we can LOVE someone - unconditionally.
Think about it. Can you - any of us - agree on a definition of what "love", the noun, really is? Is it "feeling good" about somebody? "Warm Fuzzies"? Is it the willingness to die for somebody? Or the willingness to donate a kidney to somebody?
If so, then that type of love - the noun, love - would be conditional upon how that person makes us feel good, upon how warm & fuzzy they made us, or how empty we'd feel without them in our lives.
But as a verb, we can LOVE unconditionally; spouse or kids treat you like crap? You can still act as if you love them. Care for them, comfort, nurture them. People make wrong decisions in life and disappoint you? You can still let them know you care and aren't judgemental - even though you may FEEL like hating them.
Amazingly, that brings me to the antithesis of your question. I think "unconditional hate" is much more common than "unconditional love".
I started off ready to let you know that God loves us unconditionally, but that's only partially right. John 3:16 says, "for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life."
One could successfully argue that there IS a condition there - that of "believing in Him".
But I would argue that to (as a verb) "love your own child unconditionally" would be an oxymoron. The condition upon which you would love your child would be that it is YOUR child that you love "unconditionally", and not MY child that YOU love "unconditionally"... if it is your own child you are loving "unconditionally", you would be incapable of expressing and demonstrating that same level of love to MY child, because she does not meet - nor will NEVER meet the condition of being YOUR child... that is a "condition" of your love that no matter what my daughter says, does or believes, she will never meet that condition, and will never be the object of your unconditional love.
John 3:16, however, puts the onus completely upon the object of God's "unconditional" conditional love... whether or not my daughter believes in God - (which she does) - is nothing that God can or will control. And God unconditionally loves whosoever turns to him. Thieves. Beggars. Murderers.
Even me, even you.
In fact, as I compose this answer, it dawns on me that the clearest cut example of "unconditional love" in all of recorded history is Job.
2007-01-23 10:52:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know...I don't think so. Even the people who claim to love me unconditionally seem to impose a lot of conditions! When I displease one in particular, he acts as though he hates me (yells at or abandons me). He claims that he doesn't stop loving me, even during these moments, that he's just angry, but for all intents and purposes it looks & feels like he's stopped loving me because I'm unable to turn into him & insist on being myself which he can't accept...
Do I sound a little bitter? Sorry, just going through a "rough patch"...
2007-01-23 10:59:01 · answer #6 · answered by amp 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever held onto a tiny, sleeping, purring kitten? Or played with a tiny, ball of fur puppy? If so, I'm sure you would believe in unconditional love.
2007-01-23 19:49:58 · answer #7 · answered by Laci R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like to think so. I have to think so. Because conditional love isn't love and if theres no love what is our point for existing.
2007-01-23 13:46:37 · answer #8 · answered by Becky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for ur children yes,. the only species for consistent unconditional love is a dog!
2007-01-23 10:17:25 · answer #9 · answered by Miss B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i would say that the closest most people would come to unconditional love,would be towards his or hers children......so my answer is yes
2007-01-23 12:15:50 · answer #10 · answered by john boy -1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each time I look at my children, I can answer that with a big, "YES."
If I, being so mortal and fallible can feel that kind of love, how much more so can God feel it. He has that kind of love.
2007-01-23 10:53:27 · answer #11 · answered by Kerry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋