This was prompted by my other question about which of the two makes one act more foolishly.
I'm sure most of you have heard the same thing somewhere or the other before.
But contemplating it come more, I find it hard to believe. Isn't love supposed to be a positive feeling and hate a negative one? Or is it something to do with degrees of love?
Can a person who hates terribly, love to a same degree? Have you seen anyone like that ever? I haven't, really. But then, I'm only just 18 and I guess my experience is almost nil.
Should it be 'obsession mistaken for love and hate are two sides of the same coin'?
Is it really love? Or is it some twisted fancy of the person "in love" who acts as madly as if he were vehemtly hating?
What do you think?
2007-09-20 05:34:45 · 23 answers · asked by An Ink Pen 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Some of you say that 'love can turn to hate' (basically, I mean, that's the gist of your answer).
Yeah, so love can TURN INTO hate. Then, doesn't it like... become another coin entirely? Why do we still call it another side of the same coin?
2007-09-21 06:52:15 · update #1
They may be the two the sides of a coin.
But paradoxically hatred occupies greater part of the brain and often drives the instinct harder.
2007-09-28 01:00:19 · answer #1 · answered by Ishan26 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Love Hate Really Love
2016-10-13 09:42:55 · answer #2 · answered by rambhul 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always thought that was a silly thing. There are so many different kinds of love. For instance, mother-love. Because a baby cries and refuses to go to sleep by itself, or pukes all over, does the mother come to hate it in equal measure to her love for it? There are different reasons for hate, too. If some thug beats your wife to death after having a little fun with her, do you hate that thug so much you want to be the one who fries him because you once loved him? You didn't even know him! I think that silly maxim is simply out of date and comes from a time when people had less understanding of the human mind and emotions. Remember, psychology used to not exist. If my mother loves me so much that she doesn't allow me to meet boys, won't let me go to college, etc., so that she won't lose me... is that love? Yes: it is self-love; Mom loves Mom, not me. When I wise up and start making my own life, does she hate me? Yes, but because hate will possibly manipulate me into doing what she wants once again. Do I hate her for this? Do I love her? Niether.
2007-09-20 06:58:09 · answer #3 · answered by 2bzy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is 2 sides of 1 coin, like you say.
I love all my family, sisters, parents and my husband's family too! well my sister in law, who I loved, hurt me alot and that love turned into hate! I hated her so much, I had dreams about me hurting her in different ways... It took me some years and lots of prayer to forgive her 100%, Years later, I have gotten to the point to love her again. So, YES, I think LOVE can turn into HATE and feel it in the same degree. My opinion and life experience.
2007-09-20 05:49:31 · answer #4 · answered by Optimistic 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
GOD created this entire universe with both ends like love & hate, Good & Bad,Light & Dark, Big & small, Cute & Ugly, Strong & Sensitive, etc., All we are born on any point in between the two scales. LIfe is like a pendulum. We will move from one side to another side to discharge our duties entrusted by GOD. Therefore, any person who loves very much in some activities will have the other element of hateness in another activities. lIke that we can feel GOd created both sides of all adjective characters for his play. We are all the pawns.
2016-05-19 02:38:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a very thin line between love and hate you can love some one or something so much that you actually hate them or it and you can hate someone or something so much that you actually love them so there is very little difference in love and hate but the two are never far apart so the moral of this is "if you cant be with the one you love then love the one you are with "
2007-09-27 16:26:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love and hate are considered two sides of the same coin for the prime reason that in absence of hate... love simply could not exist! Vice versa... in absence of love hate simply could not exist! Both Love and hate are contemporary to each other. One exists because the other also exists.
Whom we love... whenever they tend to go wrong we simply hate them! We hate them not from the depths of our heart but superficially! We simply hate them for not realizing our point of view... for not getting to the bottom of the problem!
We do not hate people whom we do not love. We only hate those whom we love dearly. This can be observed in every part of life... in any corner of the world! When a girl loved dearly by her father starts loving a guy not suiting requirements of the family... the Father simply starts hating her daughter for not one but many reasons!
He hates her not for his own selfish interests but for the welfare of his child... her dear daughter! The Father fears that in the longer run... the boy may desert her dear daughter! The gist of the matter is... we simply cannot hate one whom we do not love! We only hate people... whom we dearly love! More on Love - http://www.vijaykumar.com/unconditional_love.html
2007-09-25 18:23:18 · answer #7 · answered by godrealized 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Love and hate are both strong, yet equal and opposite feelings. It's true that you can't truly HATE someone you don't also love. It's just too strong of an emotion to feel for someone you don't love.
You may not hate someone you love at the moment, but if you don't have the capacity to truly hate them then you don't truly love them either.
VERY TRUE.
I've never truly hated anyone, although I've had the capacity to do so.
2007-09-20 05:47:52 · answer #8 · answered by Roland'sMommy 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Excellent question. Yes Hate is the flip side of love. You have to remember that hate is a deep, strong, powerful emotion, just like love. It is like; like and dislike, you cannot hate someone without loving them. If you don't have strong emotions and care for someone you can never possibly care enough to hate them, you would just dislike them. People throw around the word hate too much not knowing the strong connotation it confers.
2007-09-20 05:47:13 · answer #9 · answered by eleroth 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Hate is the ugly side of love. Both the emotions are all-consuming and can turn your thinking warped if they take total control of your mind. May your love never go so sour!!!
2007-09-20 06:02:12 · answer #10 · answered by P'quaint! 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
haha i like the last part of your question
but back to the question.....
someone once asked me whats the opposite of love and i said hate. that was wrong she told me it was to not care at all. to love someone is to care about them to the "degree" that you cant be without them 'incomplete in absence'(i like that oh im good). but then she told me that hate wouldnt be the opposite because you still have to care about that person enough to hate them. love and hate are two sides of the same coin because you have to care about the person enough to do one or the other. idk im only 17 and this is all i got lol
2007-09-27 17:44:14 · answer #11 · answered by Napkins 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋