What is the meaning of love?

Question

All right, I have a speech to give tomorrow after reading Plato's symposium, about the meaning of love. You need to say what you believe love is, what it is about, whether you have to have a sexual relationship, etc. You can take on a character, for instance Tom Cruise, and say what "you" believe love is. I need some good answers. Please & thank you!!!

e.g.

Name: Anna Nicole Smith

What is love?: Love is "financial prostitution". (financial prostitution meaning sleeping with men for money & security)

Argument:
-most older rich men have young beautiful lovers
-Taking an old man as a lover makes you rich.

Answer 1

you and me, i'm your ffffffffahter,lol

Answer 2

I believe that love can be conditional or unconditional. The love you experience between family members is unconditional. Romantic love is conditional because it depends on your personality, your actions, and who you are as a person. Love is the feeling that you would do ANYTHING in order to help that person. This includes sacrificing your own life in order to save theirs. It is a selfless urge to give a person everything that they can and will need. Love does not need a sexual relationship in order to be realized. But making love does create strong feelings of oneness with that individual which can encourage feelings of love. A good book to research (you can buy it at any bookstore) is "Dreams of love and fateful encounters" by Person. Hope this helps you! Good luck!!!

Answer 3

Damn, Love is complicated man, trust me, I'm talking from experience. I'm just gonna talk about love that exists between people.
I don't beieve there can really be a proper generalised definition of Love because people see things differently i.e peoples ideas of love is subject to how they wish to see it, feel it and experience it with someone else. The best way to describe it in my opinion is as;
"strong emotional attraction to another person."
That just about sums it up.
I don't really agree with the conditional, unconditional thing. Sorry I can't help you much.

Answer 4

Ah, LOVE. I believe love's definition is ever-changing. Same as how you would feel when you are deeply and madly in love with someone and then how you would see love as after an emotional break-up. Love is the one word that gives different meanings each single minute for different individuals. Not only does its meaning changes, in fact, meaning for that very word just keeps on growing, expanding.

Answer 5

I think love is ...whatever is best for the 'other', even if it is the hardest thing you have done.( you can love nearly any thing, music, sunlight, a pet, a person, humanity, the poor, the sick, your God, with all different kinds of love ... not necessarily physical love, ..but if you truly want what is best for the 'other' you will do whatever is required for their best interests: earth conservation, saving trees, feeding and clothing, driving a drink home, not treat it badly and expect it to keep coming back for more).

Answer 6

I'll Take the Celebrity of being Christopher West (famouse author)

Book: Good news about sex and marriage, by Christopher West

"Marriage is love: Marriage is a Sacrament of Christ and Church). Pgs 20-21

Spouses not only image the love of God with in the Trinity; they also image the love between God and all humanity, made visible in the love of Christ and the Church. By virtue of their Baptisms, the marriage of Christians is a sacrament. That means it’s a living sign that truly communicates and participates in the union of Christ the Church. The marriage vows lived out in the spouses’ “One Flesh” union constitutes this living sign.

Paraphrasing St. Paul: For this reason a man will leave father and mother and cling to his bride, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a profound mystery, and it refers to Christ and the Church . Christ left his Father in heaven. He left the home of his mother on earth - to give up his body for his Bride (Catholic Church) so that we might become “one flesh” with him.

Where do we become “one flesh” with Christ? Most specifically in the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the sacramental consummation of the marriage between Christ and the Church. And when we receive the body of our heavenly Bridegroom into our own, just like a bride we conceive new life in us - God’s very own life. As Christ said, “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you” (Jn 6:53).

Since the “one flesh” communion of man and wife foreshadowed the Eucharistic communion of Christ and the Church right from the beginning, John Paul II speaks of marriage as the “Primordial Sacrament.” Let’s pause for a moment to let this reality sink in. Of all the ways that God chooses to reveal his life and love in the created world, John Paul II is saying, marriage - enacted and consummated by sexual union - is the most fundamental.

St. Paul wasn’t kidding when he said this is a “profound mystery.” Could God have made our sexuality any more important than this? Any more beautiful? Any more glorious? God gave us sexual desire itself to be the power to love as he loves, so that we could participate in the divine life and fulfill the very meaning of our being and existence.

Sounds great you say, but it’s a far cry from the way sex play itself out in the experience of real human beings. Yes, it is. The historical abuse of women at the hands of men; the tragedy of rape and other heinous sex crimes, even against children; AIDS and a host of other sexually transmitted diseases; unwed mothers; “fatherless” children; abortion; adultery; skyrocketing divorce rates; prostitution; a multibillion-dollar pornography industry; the general cloud of shame and guilt that hangs over sexual matters - all of this paints a very different picture from the one St. Paul and John Paul II give us.

The picture it paints, in fact, is the tragedy of human sinfulness and our fall from God’s intention for our sexuality “in the beginning”.

Answer 7

I think LOVE is a bond between to people. Loves includes(friendship, loyalty,). Being able to be open with that person or connecting with them. Love is so complicated sometimes...i dont know what to say.

Answer 8

Love means absolutely nothing to a tennis player !!

Answer 9

Love is the undefying devotion of wanting no one else but that person. You don't have to have sex in your relationship for it to be considered love.

Answer 10

Love is unconditional. It's putting others before yourself. It's also a feeling that you get when you just know that you'd die for that person.

Answer 11

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