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Posted 07/31/09 - 01:31 PM: Subject: Love	#1
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 =)

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Posted 08/01/09 - 07:49 AM:	#2
1) What is love. For me, "To Love is to be Happy With". To be accepting and nonjudgmental if not also embracing. 2) Where is love? Since from my definition it is a property of our thoughts and emotions it is obviously in our thoughts and emotions. Some say love is a verb, but then balk at extending this line of reasoning to include every other emotion and thought and draw arbitrary lines in the sand. Whenever possible I prefer that my own definitions of words come as close as possible to matching those of the dictionary, simply to avoid confusion if nothing else. 3) Why is love? This question is so vague as to be meaningless, that is, you can interpret it to mean just about anything. Therefore my answer will assume the form of my particular interpretation of the question. Emotions in general have evolved like any other attribute to support survival. Love can therefore be considered a fundamental emotion by my definition because at the very least any creature with emotions must be accepting of themselves and their own life if they are to survive and reproduce.

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Posted 08/02/09 - 06:23 AM:	#3
Love is letting others suffer without your intervention. Love is in an emotion. Love because addiction.
Like God, I want to be heard--not seen.

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Posted 08/02/09 - 10:01 AM:	#4
Love is a chemical and electronic mixture running along intricate lines to produce a feeling. Love is found in the brain. Love because you have no choice.
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Posted 08/03/09 - 02:53 PM:	#5
love is a feeling of bliss and sharing, its in the entire mind, body and soul, and it is because without it, theres something missing that makes one miserable and lonely.
"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Gandhi

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Posted 08/03/09 - 11:36 PM:	#6
Love is a figment of the imagination, its all in the mind, and we love to alleviate boredom.
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Posted 08/04/09 - 01:07 AM:	#7
Okay, my dispassionate two cents (rooted no less in my own experiences): 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. Edited by 180 Proof on 08/22/09 - 02:57 PM. Reason: Spelling ...
The question isn't "Which explanations do I believe?" but rather "Which explanations do I least disbelieve?" Absence of evidence THAT MUST BE THERE (i.e. implied by any claim, concept, or (its) predicates, that affects changes in/to the world) entails evidence of absence. [What cannot be done?[What cannot be hoped?[What cannot be known?]]]

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Posted 08/05/09 - 02:04 AM:	#8
What is love? Love is the connection between two living entities. When something happens to one entity, the same feeling expressed by this action happens to the other. When a man discovers they have cancer, and their lover tells them that theyll be with them until their last breath, that is love. When a bird lands on a tree branch, and the branch sways, that is also, love. Where is love? Love is everywhere. It is not an object, nor a feeling. It is the essence of life. It is god. Why is love? Love is for life. Love is for death. Love is forever.

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Posted 08/26/09 - 02:10 PM:	#9
what is love? I believe love is something that seperates us from other animals. It is an emotion defined best by the greeks. There are 5 different pieces: Agape, Storge, Phileo, Eros, and Xenia. This divides it into 5 seperate categories: Sexual love(lust), Brotherly love, Friendship love, Love between man and wife, and divine love. (These are obviously vague descriptions) Love helps us in many ways. For example, without love we have no passion. Without Agape love there is no such thing as purity. Love is an all encompassing thing. In the Bible there is also a passage that says God is Love. However this cannot be translated any other way. Love is not god, But God is love. Or you can Explain it scientifically and say it is simply a chemical that goes through your brain. Where is love? Like "fruiteatsself1" said I also believe love is everywhere. Why is love? Love is Love to give us passion as I mentioned before. It could also be for hope. You dont hope unless you love. Just a little disclaimer, I came to this post to see other peoples view on the same question, so I am not claiming I know it all. I dont.

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1 of 1 people found this post helpful Posted 08/26/09 - 03:39 PM:	#10
I'll give you 6 answers, three from my most objective knowledge, 3 from the most subjective. Objective: Love is an emotion corresponding to a pattern of activation in our brains, with some neurotransmitters involved. The technical details could fill several books. Love is in some areas of the brain, corresponding to the pattern of activation previously stated, a damage in these areas would cause a change in the capacity of loving. Love emerged as a feeling that would allow a couple of progenitors to stay together for some time, allowing the descendants to benefit from the cares of their parents until they are self-sufficient. Subjective: Love is to feel that some person deserves everything that is good for her (or him) and nothing that may be bad, she to be the most important thing in the world and therefore the will of doing everything possible for she to have what she deserves. It is thinking that a person is so great that looks like an angel fallen from heaven, and trying to create a heaven around her. Love is where your soul is. Love is the real 'causa sui', the reason for love is love, and it is the reason for everything else. The Universe exists as an expression of the love towards all that exists, and the goal is the evolution of the Universe towards a heaven in which there is only an infinite love, there is nothing bad, only the good things, but in the end, love is the only good thing that truly matters. PS: sorry for the not-so-good wording, it's late and I don't feel like using a dictionary, but I wanted to reply in this topic.
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