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pourquoi
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Posted 09/20/09 - 04:16 AM:	#21
But didn't the english word "lube" come after the Russian "lubliu"?!
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Posted 11/01/09 - 07:42 PM:	#22
Love is a leap of faith and an absolute necessity for the soul. Love is The Reason. Love is the creative force. The one thing that is always left when there is nothing else left to lose. Love is the one absolute. Love is inside us and all around us. Literally. It is the creative force. Love is the one absolute. Love because life is utterly meaningless when you don't love, and utterly complete when you do. Love is the one absolute. Edited by CalicoCat on 11/01/09 - 07:58 PM

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Posted 11/04/09 - 08:26 PM:	#23
Love is complicated. Love is easily mistaken with infatuation. I say, "with age comes love." Meaning, younger people tend to love someone more so on the infatuation side than the companionship/friendship part of "love."
You may see that the glass as half-empty, or half full; I see that the cup is twice as big as it needs to be. -toasty

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Posted 11/05/09 - 04:39 PM:	#24
what is love? Love is seeking a perfect equilibrium within yourself. When they say "opposites attract" they are saying that you seek to perfect yourself, BUT within perfecting yourself, you perfect another. where is love? Love can be found on eBay- Love is in the part of the ear that controls balance. When that pretty gal walks by, you feel yourself get a little lightheaded, maybe dizzy. Also when she screams you feel it in your ears. why love? Why love... Love must remain in every person who has not yet closed them self to the hopeless idea of bachelor-ism. Love, like I mentioned, is seeking a balance, an equilibrium. When you stop loving a person you become attached to something else, either a hobby or an obsession. Everyone has "loves" in their life.
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Posted 11/17/09 - 02:09 PM:	#25
A wise friend one told me that a relationship betwen a sadist and a masochist would never work, because the sadist would never get the pleasure of seeing another suffer under them. Perhaps love is some sort of selfish power struggle, a test to see who is the dominant individual in a relationship, and to see who will be able to revel and bask in the perfection of thier dominance. I, personally, do not believe this is so. In fact, I have the belief that love is a game, for lack of better wording, in which power is passed back and forth between the two players, like a ping-pong ball. Love it neither an emotion, nor is it an action. It is both. you know the former to be true because you feel it, and the latter because of how you act on those feelings. Love is many things: sharing, caring, petting, intercourse, utter selflessness, rapture, forgivness above all else, willingness to listen, to speak, and to understand, grabbing your lover, friend, or family member before they fall into the abyss of depression, playing with a pet, all of these are love. If you can care about something to the point that you are wiling to do anything for someone with no expectation of repayment, then you are loving them. Love can be found everywhere if you let it be found. Fear of love is irrelevent, resistance to it is futile. Love is illogical. Asking "why love?" is like asking Spock or Tuvok to crack a smile. Ain't gonna happen. Just accept love for what it is, if you can define it. If what you're in doesn't feel ight to you, then maybe you aren't in love. Introspect about it. Love should be, again, selfless. No ratiocination should be required. As for the sadist and masochist, well, I'll leave that untouched. I will, however, say that two masochists can go on forever in love, and two sadists can't. Chew on that for a while...Understanding will seek you out.
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Posted 11/17/09 - 04:48 PM:	#26
There are a variety of loves, depending on the specific interaction involved. There is love for one's sexual/life/spousal partner, there is love for one's child, parents, siblings, friends, pets, etc. All involve an intense affection established over time; a deep sense of caring and high personal value is placed on the loved one; expressed and felt differently in each case. A fascinating thing about love is it actually has physical benefits. A person who feels loved gains from that love a great sense of confidence which feeds into his or her overall outlook. This yields benefits in the mind and body. I'm not sure if it's true or not, but I've heard that an otherwise nourished baby who is not held and spoken to lovingly will die. A dog which is not disciplined in a consistent and loving manner but is abused and beaten will be mean, frightful, and dangerous. So, love is something which needs to be applied in a thoughtful way. Children who are loved but not properly disciplined will not respond lovingly. Often women are "in love" with men who abuse them. They represent a misunderstanding of love and are neither offering their love properly nor loving themselves enough to know they're not being loved properly. I think there's more to love than OCD. It's actually logical and something humans physically need.

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Posted 11/20/09 - 01:56 PM:	#27
What is love? Love is a physical-mental process, an emotion. Its creation is facilitated by a voluminous socially conditioned state that informs our perception and experience of it, as well as our application of the process. I might go so far to say that nothing really distinguishes love from other emotions as experienced in the brain besides that social state that has ingrained the concept in each of us. Where is love? It is a label. Perception of emotion is a completely subjective phenomenon, once again informed by our social conditioning. Regardless of conflicting emotions, the act of deciding "I love" is simply a label assigned to a state of being that may not even be consistent. Why love? There is no choice, no way to escape our social conditioning or to try to transcend it. The concept of love has indelibly affected my state of being, so I pursue love to achieve happiness. Simple as that.

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