What is Love?

Okay, sinse no one really wants to touch this one, I'll give it a try. Love is believing that the person or thing or whatever you are with is worth so much more than yourself that you are willing to risk everything, up to an including yourself, to protect her. You mean nothing--she means everything. This is how it is with my daughter. If you met her you wouldn't have to ask why. You'd just know. She is better than all of us internet trollers combined. I would gladly sacrifice myself to keep the world (that would be all you corrupted souls) from harming her.

Intellectually, I guess love is then a value of worth. Anything you value highly, or more specifically value more than yourself, is love.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
"I only hurt you out of love son."
"This will hurt me more than it hurts you."
"Soon I'll be able to fit my entire hand in there!"

so what is it that makes you so high and mighty anyhow?

1. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

I have yet to find a better definition than 1 Corinthians 13 (NIV quoted).

greater love hath no man than this... than he go to jail for his friend!

"And thou beside me singing sweetly in the wilderness,
oh wilderness, what paradise be now".

Not sure who wrote it though.

🙂

Originally posted by dags
"And thou beside me singing sweetly in the wilderness,
oh wilderness, what paradise be now".

Not sure who wrote it though.

🙂

that is the nicest one i've read my friend.

thank you. it brought me a 🙂.

Everyone seems to have quite a romantic or spiritual jist on love!!
I was talkling more on a biological utilitarian necessity, oh well..........

Originally posted by Vladamir no1
Everyone seems to have quite a romantic or spiritual jist on love!!
I was talkling more on a biological utilitarian necessity, oh well..........

It's the poet, not the scientist, who really understands life.

Originally posted by Halitose
It's the poet, not the scientist, who really understands life.

Hence the poetic predilection for suicide. You are so right.

Originally posted by Halitose
It's the poet, not the scientist, who really understands life.

Thus spoke Zathustra

love and sometimes hate is wanting to be near.

Love is the absolute virtue and benevolence of God's thinking and actions.

Originally posted by FreakyKBH
Love is the absolute virtue and benevolence of God's thinking and actions.

If gods exist

Originally posted by Vladamir no1
Everyone seems to have quite a romantic or spiritual jist on love!!
I was talkling more on a biological utilitarian necessity, oh well..........

There is prehaps a utilitarian necessity for clanning up, for creating tribes and groups for the purpose of protection and cooperation, but there is no sense behind love. Many unstable situations, posiibly more unstable than stable, have been created by organization through so-called love.

The only possible biological excuse for the existence of romantic love would be to bring potential mates together. It certainly does not hold them together as a rule--that bond is made by a parents' responsibility to his/her children, and even that isn't enough all the time.

Logically, the whole prearranged, extended-family/tribal thing that used to rule society worked much better.

Originally posted by Vladamir no1
Thus spoke Zathustra

Zarathustra! Never type such an important name if you don't know how! 😠 I could agree on Zoroaster although that was the greek version of the name.