It's life. We need love as a baby to survive, and although we can go without it(barely) later on in life, real happiness can't exist without love. Familial love, love of a friend, and ionate love—material things can never replace them. 312f4d

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Aren't wars caused by hate?

ever heard of "Iliad"?

That's more along the lines of lust and the supposed possession of women.

[color=green]"Officially, this machine doesn't exist, you didn't get it from me,
and I don't know you. Make sure it doesn't leave the building."[/color]

I think it's a little sad that love isn't listed as an action. In my experience, when love is said to be an emotion, it is actually a combination of positive emotions inside us. But can't you love someone even when not feeling strong emotions. Many can say they love their family, but do you continually have a strong emotional connection to them. Most likely no.

Love as an action is how people stayed married. The initial attraction fades, but the still love each other, because they practice love, they work at love. Many couples who are still together have told me that some mornings they get up, they have to actively work at showing their spouse love. Thus, an action.

You don't just have love, there are actions that are it. So it is a little bit emotion, but it doesn't exist without acting on it. Like lampchopsil quoted in 1 Corinthians chapter 13. All those actions and qualities combine together to be love.

Think about it. Really think.

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"Love is being stupid together."

~ Paul Valéry

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Farewell, until the day I can see clear skies.

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Aren't wars caused by hate?

ever heard of "Iliad"?

And that was the reason for the war? I don't think so. Besides, that's not what I'd consider love (whether I believe in it or not).

Far-off places with sweet sounding names.

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Very disappointed that "Baby don't hurt me" isn't a poll option. Literally the first thing I thought when I read the question. 😀

What is love?

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
(first thing that came to my mind as well xD)

Anyway in regards to the question to stay on topic, Love is just another emotion us humans have is all. A powerful one at that, but just another emotion.

An emotion and "Love is patient. Love is kind..."

Lalala~

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Love is a chemical reaction in the brain. No, that's attraction. People often mistake desire for love... but love includes more than just emotion: trust, respect, honesty... For me, love is unselfishness. Paul's description in 1 Corinthians 13 pretty much sums it up. Verse 5 for example: "Love is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs..." Yup, that's what I believe.

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

"Love" = (Attraction --> Addiction) + Delusion.

People tend to think that "Love" is what defines gender-dynamics, and that true love and soulmates exists, blahblahblah.

There is only ATTRACTION. When ATTRACTION fades, it's over. If you can't accept that, go curl up in a ball next to the TV and watch Disney until you overdose because if you actually truly open your eyes and read between the lines in that book called life, the shock will kill you regardless. Better to go out happy, eh?

I think love is a biased and sometimes shallow emotion. Troublesome and slightly annoying.
Not that I don't like it :3

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"Love" = (Attraction --> Addiction) + Delusion.

People tend to think that "Love" is what defines gender-dynamics, and that true love and soulmates exists, blahblahblah.

There is only ATTRACTION. When ATTRACTION fades, it's over. If you can't accept that, go curl up in a ball next to the TV and watch Disney until you overdose because if you actually truly open your eyes and read between the lines in that book called life, the shock will kill you regardless. Better to go out happy, eh? Then how do you explain love between family ? Between close friends? Your reasoning is flawed. 😔

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."

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"Love" = (Attraction --> Addiction) + Delusion.

People tend to think that "Love" is what defines gender-dynamics, and that true love and soulmates exists, blahblahblah.

There is only ATTRACTION. When ATTRACTION fades, it's over. If you can't accept that, go curl up in a ball next to the TV and watch Disney until you overdose because if you actually truly open your eyes and read between the lines in that book called life, the shock will kill you regardless. Better to go out happy, eh? Then how do you explain love between family ? Between close friends? Your reasoning is flawed. 😔

switch attraction with attachment then it works 😀

What is love? Love in the romantic sense is a dying breed. I've seen so many people say they love someone, but what they profess is not love. Most of the time they are professing something else entirely. Sure there are still the rare instances when it is actually true love, but they have been few and far between in my experience. The word love is used so much now, that it's lost it's meaning, and become associated with an entirely different meaning.

Now, love amongst family and the like seems to be more common. That is the love when if they really needed something (help of some kind or some tough love to set them straight) you would do it gladly and without some kind of guaranteed payoff later down the road. It's the ability to hate someone, to curse their very existence, and yet when they are in serious need of help, you would do it without a second thought. That's why I say love is most common amongst family. Because for the vast majority of us, you could despise one of your siblings (or parents) but if they came to ask you for help, serious help, you would help them. As always though, there's the outliers that wouldn't, but then that's humanity for you.

tl;dr?- So yea, I voted for the "Love is patient. Love is kind..." option, because it was the closest to what I felt love actually is. For everyone saying love is an emotion, that's only the surface of it. And most of the time that's the wrong emotion anyways.

And for those that say it's a myth/insanity, truth is that the only myth is that everyone will find a true romantic love. That's just something that you're told so you feel special, so in that sense you are correct. Most of us would be lucky to find someone that we enjoyed being with and them with us, but that's not love. That's taking the next best thing and hoping that it works out.

Love is a "leap of faith" (Kirkegaard). To truly love is to love unconditionally.

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"Love" = (Attraction --> Addiction) + Delusion.

People tend to think that "Love" is what defines gender-dynamics, and that true love and soulmates exists, blahblahblah.

There is only ATTRACTION. When ATTRACTION fades, it's over. If you can't accept that, go curl up in a ball next to the TV and watch Disney until you overdose because if you actually truly open your eyes and read between the lines in that book called life, the shock will kill you regardless. Better to go out happy, eh? Then how do you explain love between family ? Between close friends? Your reasoning is flawed. 😔

Cute.

Read the post below you, it was accurate enough.

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However, it leads me to one of the more interesting points. Love is such an incredibly stupid word to use in so many ways.

There's a lot of romance surrounding Love, in how it's linked to destiny and whatnot.
Love does in fact not exist in that form, or any real other form at all. Something closer to the truth would be saying "I'm attached to you, mother" or "I'm really attracted to you, Jooles. Wanna be my [exclusive] boyfriend?" (No, I only do open relationships, silly.)

Sure, it sounds dumb (NOW), but if people would stop using that damn word and especially as frequently, maybe things would be a little different, and a whole lot fucking better. (Social conditioning in a POSITIVE direction)