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Originally posted by Rustami
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.
Originally posted by 2theC
Love is real, real is love
Love is feeling, feeling love
Love is wanting to be loved
Love is touch, touch is love
Love is reaching, reaching love
Love is asking to be loved
Love is you
You and me
Love is knowing
We can be
Love is free, free is love
Love is living, living love
Love is needing to be loved
Originally posted by NorEaster
Originally posted by artistpoet
Originally posted by NorEaster
reply to post by artistpoet
Which definition are you trying to nail down?
I love ice cream.
I love my job.
Love is a many splendored thing.
I love my wife.
Love thy neighbor as thyself.
The English language has many words that have mulitple meanings and applications. The word Love is one of those words. Narrow down the definition first, the specific definition you're concerned with. Then maybe I can help you.
Yes get you - I was thinking about unconditional love.
Like what has been said of the love between a Mother and child
Or discuss the idea of a higher intelligent love
Cheers
edit on 14-10-2010 by artistpoet because: (no reason given)
The short answer is that Love is what we feel when we instinctively realize that we've connected with what it will take to satisfy our base survival imperative.
As corporeal matrixes, we feel it when we connect with another human being that will enable us to move our genetic identity forward within the corporeal matrix of offspring - ensuring that our corporeal selves will likely be physically represented (through contextual identity we share with that offspring - DNA basically) beyond our allotted stretch of time as viable assemblies.
"Spiritual" love is felt by our generated Intellect selves, when we realize that we've found a potential means to continue to develop beyond the death of our corporeal Intellect generators. Very complicated, but with the death of the brain, the further development of the Intellect (spiritual) self ceases, and the human being is fully "grown". That end of development, and progressive physical gathering of units of Intellect, leaves the collected mass wanting more, and that want is felt in the same way that the corporeal want for a mate feels. Love starved is a good word for it.
As far as Agape Love is concerned, this is a very different kind of expression, and isn't related to the satiation of need. It is a feminine expression of Intellect (relatively speaking), and only the Intellect generating brain (I call it human regardless of what it looks like or where it calls home) is capable of generating this expression. In fact, true Agape Love is extremely rare and most human brains are incapable of generating it. Even when it is generated, it is never for more than a very short burst. Like a trout flipping through the air before falling back into the life-giving depth of a northern lake. Too much of that fresh air and the trout is dinner.
Love is fascinating, and is the only noun that can be an antonym of itself.
Originally posted by Rustami
reply to post by artistpoet
I forgot these key ones also they kind of glue it all together in a drive through world kinda way
And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”-1Peter
your land will be married.
As a young man marries a maiden,
so will your sons marry you;
as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
so will your God rejoice over you.-Isaiah62
Originally posted by Tryptych
I think that "sin" could be seen as things that we do when we harm ourselves. It's basically ignorance. "Hell is separation from God". Means, "Hell" is separation from the Divine. Without it, we're lost. "It" (Divinity, "god") is the spiritual guiding light for us. Sin could be seen as human stupidity, not realizing the consequences of our actions.
If it turns out that we're here alone (no ETs), it means that humankind is somehow special ("..in his own image"). I'm not "Christian" btw.