what is the purpose of love?

Question

to keep the population going-in that case it would be love between male and female.
if you agree then that means there is no purpose for gay people?no offense .

it was just a thought,yes it is a strong q.i didnt mean any offense to anybody,and i am not asumming anything.

i didnt mean no purpose,there is a purpose for everybody.

paxico you have the answer.

Answer 1

Love is an act of the will. It's not just something we feel - it's something we DO. Because love is hard to "do" it is of great value not only to ourselves but others.

God put in us the capacity to love and also a desire to be loved. Love is not the same thing as procreation but the two are linked in some way. A man leaves his father and mother for the woman he loves and joins himself to his wife spiritually and physically. God often blesses this physical union with children which are like a visible sign of the love of the parents.

Gay people might love each other or they might simply lust for each other, but their union can never be blessed naturally by children. God's natural law forbids it.

God designed it so that children should be brought forth only within heterosexual marriages.

Answer 2

The purpose of sexual love might be to keep the population going. And this is all. Still love has a much higher purpose dear, and can be experienced by all people, whatever age, whatever disposition. If love would only mean sex and only mean to procreate and that only poeple who procreate have a purpose in life, childless, sick or gay people would not fulfill a purpose. This would be the logical conclusion.
But what purpose would this serve to procreate and then to die and one day your kids will die and one day the earth and the universe will die and nothing of all your purpose will be left, if you think along this line.
Love is in my view the greatest possible help for us, to wake up our own spirit. To realise that we are more then our physical body, but that we have a soul in this body.
If love is without compassion, it misses a vital aspect. Sex can be made without love, and love can be without compassion, then it is still narrow. If a person is capable of combining love with compassion, this person might be able to see every human being as what he or she is. A unique person, who is wherever this person stands has the possiblity to contribute to this world, through being good, doing good and this also includes every gay person.
I find this following words interesting, perhaps you too:
What we call love is really a whole spectrum of relating, reaching from the earth to the sky. At the most earthy level, love is sexual attraction. Many of us remain stuck there, because our conditioning has burdened our sexuality with all kinds of expectations and repressions. Actually the biggest "problem" with sexual love is that it never lasts. Only if we accept this fact can we then really celebrate it for what it is - welcome its happening, and say good-bye with gratitude when it's not.

Then, as we mature, we can begin to experience the love that exists beyond sexuality and honors the unique individuality of the other. We begin to understand that our partner often functions as a mirror, reflecting unseen aspects of our deeper self and supporting us to become whole.

This love is based in freedom, not expectation or need. Its wings take us higher and higher and helps us to understand GOD`S love. And GOD is LOVE.

Answer 3

Couple of things...
1. You don't have a clue of what love is, have you loved someone? or has someone loved you?
2. Love has no purpose, you should know this if you answered "yes" to the questions above.
3. Your questions has no central point; it goes on in tangents, vague. You are touching three subjects, love, homosexuality and population growth. And your assuming a too much.

Answer 4

If you're writing about sex in a materialistic world, there is no purpose. Sexual desire exists and therefore we exist. In a materialistic worldview, nothing has any purpose whatsoever.

If you are speaking of the more spiritual love between people, then in the Christian view it is the reflection of the relationship that our Creator would like to have with us.

Answer 5

Love between any two people ensures that someone is taken care of. But love is not limited to romantic love. Love exists in many forms and there is a purpose for all of it. It perpetuates life and a good one. It perpetuates kindness, caring, sensitivity, sympathy, and all the feelings of empathy and fairness humans have for humans and any living creature for that matter. We would destroy ourselves in a second without love.

Answer 6

Love is life.

Your talking about sex, and humans do that for fun as well as for reproducing. Not all straight people who love each other have sex, when you get to 95 see how much you have! So I would assume not all gay people have sex either, but if they are in a relationship there would be love surely?

Answer 7

There is no purpose, it's just what happens. Sometimes it's good becuase the other person loves you back, and sometimes it's gut wrenching when the person you love doesn't have the same feelings in return.

Answer 8

To say that Love has a purpose means that there is an option to love. Love happens--"true love" that is.

The choice is whether or not you will do anything about it, or how you will react to it, or how you will handle it.

Love's presence is beyond your control. It could happen to you when you least expect it, and it could happen to the unlikeliest couple you could imagine.

Answer 9

According to Abraham Maslow, the psychologist, its a human need which we all need to fulfill. We need to love and be loved in the same way we need food, warmth, air to breathe etc. It`s an inherent need in everyone and without it we can never be a whole person.

Answer 10

No it isnt to go forth and multiply like fools
it is to mess ur head up deeply and make u feel dizzy
and generally crazy
its all for holdin hands and being all lovey dovey