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Gulnara
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Posted 08/29/09 - 05:02 PM:	#11
Originally word love sounded as lube, which comes from the meaning lube, a slippery gel that fights friction. Lube in this case means a sexually aroused woman (wet woman), directly relating love to sex. Farther love gained other elements, like jealousy, possessiveness, ability to stick with a favorite person, devotion, commitment, desire and ability to provide for the beloved. Believe it or not, but in times when people had unorganized sexual lives, people with those added elements of feeling or behavior became families and were better off in a reproductive sense and for survival.
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Posted 08/30/09 - 04:05 AM:	#12
The only thing I disagree is the origin of the word: Love origin: bef. 900; (n.) ME; OE lufu, c. OFris luve, OHG luba, Goth lub?; (v.) ME lov(i)en, OE lufian; c. OFris luvia, OHG lub?n to love, L lub?re (later lib?re) to be pleasing; akin to lief Lube origin: by shortening Luricant origin: 1815–25; < L l?bricant- (s. of l?bric?ns), prp. of l?bric?re to make slippery. See lubric, -ant http://dictionary.reference.com
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Posted 08/30/09 - 01:42 PM:	#13
based on my experience. what is love? love is a mental state. where is love? imagination. why is love? peace of mind.

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Posted 08/30/09 - 04:13 PM:	#14
I agree OP. Someone said to me 'stop judging everything and just be in it'. I think if one accepts the truth about their own feelings then love is just there anyway. (I'm refering to inner love.)
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Posted 09/07/09 - 06:23 AM:	#15
180 Proof wrote: What is love? It is an obsessive-compulsive disorder. (When mutual it can be caring, when one-sided it is often cruel.) Where is love? It is produced in the human brain, particularly the limbic system, and primarily in a flood of oxytocin & serotonin. Why is love? It counterbalances (or overcompensates for the anxiety of) death, mortality, finitude. True.

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Posted 09/07/09 - 10:28 PM:	#16
another word etymology: ORIGIN Old English lufu, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit lubhyati ‘desires,’ Latin libet ‘it is pleasing,’ libido ‘desire,’ also by leave and lief
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Posted 09/09/09 - 07:07 PM:	#17
Love to me is just a word to describe a specific emotion but since I lack the skills to think of a better definition I will use it. Therefore: "Love" is a chemical reaction that happens throughout the body and was created (as I believe) as a tool in our evolutionary process to make reproduction and survival more efficient. And since we are slaves to evolution we have the ability to "feel" it. So. The way that I "feel love" is by addressing things that I think I could never be, without. Fox example: I "love" my mother without her I do not feel that I would be the person that I am today. She is a major influence on my life and a pillar for my human foundation. Another example is books. Its not the same kind of love because they don't have the ability to love back but it is a love nonetheless. I could not be, without them. The other questions (where, why) are just the application of the love you feel.

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Posted 09/10/09 - 10:39 PM:	#18
UnitedMinds wrote: why I chose these 3 questions. because I know you have had the experience of love throughout your life, and I would like to know how would you respond to those questions based on that experience =) In definition, love is merely a chemical reaction that is triggered so that certain biological activities (whether physical or mental) may be performed and it exists so that social bonds can be formed to enhance survival (as in extended survival through numbers). Primarily, human beings are social mammals - so you need chemical reactions resulting to affection and emotions to make such social units possible. Nothing more to it really.
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Posted 09/14/09 - 02:56 AM:	#19
What is love? The definitition ultimately reduces to the desire to exist, i.e. beings want to perpetuate their state "in being". It is pre-empted in Diotima's speach in Plato's Symposium. Where is love? Same place where other desires are found. Why is love? First answer entails the answer to this question. Edited by Incision on 09/14/09 - 10:33 AM. Reason: capitalization, punctuation
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Posted 09/14/09 - 03:05 AM:	#20
Gulnara wrote: Originally word love sounded as lube, which comes from the meaning lube, a slippery gel that fights friction. Lube in this case means a sexually aroused woman (wet woman), directly relating love to sex. Farther love gained other elements, like jealousy, possessiveness, ability to stick with a favorite person, devotion, commitment, desire and ability to provide for the beloved. Believe it or not, but in times when people had unorganized sexual lives, people with those added elements of feeling or behavior became families and were better off in a reproductive sense and for survival. Interesting: in Slavic languages the phonetic "lube", Russian "lubliu" literally means to love. In Polish similar phonetics means to like.
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