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2007-02-10 16:29:55 · 15 answers · asked by colin050659 6 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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Yes. Love is a great motivator.
For instance parents who have a child who has a terrible illness or deformity will do anything to be able to get a cure for their offspring.
People who have given their life to helping others such as carers, nurses etc...will carry out the most repulsive tasks for the people they are looking after.
Even young people who have fallen in love will do things for the
object of their infatuation that they would not do for themselves or anybody else.
Love is also partially blind and will lead you into situations which will have dire results, despite the fact that your reason would direct you in another direction if you were not so overwhelmed by your feelings.
Finally love can be excessive as a result of which you can commit crimes of passion.
It can therefore be a power both to the good or the bad.

2007-02-10 17:03:43 · answer #1 · answered by WISE OWL 7 · 1 0

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

2007-02-12 13:06:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Of course! It is the strongest force in the universe. The power of Love includes romatic sexual love and yet is much much more than this. It is the expanisive force all around and inside us and nature that makes things grow and the sun to shine and the rivers to flow, and decay, death and start all over again.
LOVE IS INFINITE
Spirit of passion which aroused and excited this universe and all it contains

2007-02-10 17:25:14 · answer #3 · answered by Genie333 1 · 1 0

I always thought:
Any emotion has a heavy weight, and since emotions are illogical, you can measure the 'power of love' by the amount of reason a person will throw in the trash in the 'name of love'

I say this while laughing

2007-02-10 16:39:30 · answer #4 · answered by austin j 2 · 0 0

What is this love you speak of?
Is it some match game of tennis?

Ask Jennifer Rush and the song stealing Beehatch from the North Celine Deon.

2007-02-10 16:55:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It boils down to electricity. If at the right time two meet, a current runs thought their body's and connects them. This is the power of love. Maybe crap? Hum? But, answering is my Power, and at the moment I love it.

2007-02-10 18:43:09 · answer #6 · answered by wen 3 · 0 1

By itself love is just an emotion. But when someone experiences large dosages of love, they can be motivated to do extraordinary things...

2007-02-11 06:39:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Yes love is a power it can move mountains.

2007-02-10 18:40:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Nope

2007-02-10 17:38:31 · answer #9 · answered by Beauty isn't everything... 5 · 0 1

Hewey Lewis seems to think so. Ask Marty McFly!

2007-02-10 16:33:38 · answer #10 · answered by Roll_Tide! 5 · 0 0

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