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What is Love?
- Thread starter GQ Chris
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I guess a good start would be...
With regard to characteristics, Love is the following --
(see 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a)
- Patient
- Kind
- Not envious/jealous
- Not vain
- Not puffed up
- Does not behave indecently
- Is selfless, not pursuing its own things
- Not easily angered
- Forgives (thinks no evil)
- Rejoices in the good and true
- Covers over wrongs
- Believes/Trusts
- Hopes & Endures
- Does not fail!
With regard to characteristics, Love is the following --
(see 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a)
- Patient
- Kind
- Not envious/jealous
- Not vain
- Not puffed up
- Does not behave indecently
- Is selfless, not pursuing its own things
- Not easily angered
- Forgives (thinks no evil)
- Rejoices in the good and true
- Covers over wrongs
- Believes/Trusts
- Hopes & Endures
- Does not fail!
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I think you're very correct.
More secular (perhaps America's) definition:
- Meets my needs
- Relieves tension
- Similarity between two people (or perhaps compatibility)
- Having sex
- Liking to a high degree
- Happy feelings
- Taking an edge off of the harshness of life
I think there's a tiny bit of overlap, though the mature feelings within actual love go against the self-serving nature of love in America today.
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peanutbutter12
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All love is conditional. The only person capable of unconditional love is God, and none of us are he.
Love is not a feeling, but a [SIZE=-1]steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. (C.S. Lewis)
Oh, and... "Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more." (Obligatory)
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Love is not a feeling, but a [SIZE=-1]steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. (C.S. Lewis)
Oh, and... "Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more." (Obligatory)
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I wrote a poem once on the subject..
Love is a sickness within us all
It is like a terminal disease..
It is Incurable..
Takes the timid heart hostage..
Plagues the mind..
Deepest the timid soul..
Love can either protect you or harm you..
Like a two-edged sword..
Love is a powerful experience..
Love is a chain reaction that cannot be controlled..
Simply by human nature..
Beware from its tempting lusts into sin..
Until you are wedded..
Stray your lurking eye until your wedding day..
Without love we are not human..
Everyone deserves to be loved..
It was always God’s intention in His grand design..
Be blessed fellow traveler and rejoice in the Lord..
Love is a sickness within us all
It is like a terminal disease..
It is Incurable..
Takes the timid heart hostage..
Plagues the mind..
Deepest the timid soul..
Love can either protect you or harm you..
Like a two-edged sword..
Love is a powerful experience..
Love is a chain reaction that cannot be controlled..
Simply by human nature..
Beware from its tempting lusts into sin..
Until you are wedded..
Stray your lurking eye until your wedding day..
Without love we are not human..
Everyone deserves to be loved..
It was always God’s intention in His grand design..
Be blessed fellow traveler and rejoice in the Lord..
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gottabemore2life
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Haha, I thought of that song too!
"Love is not a feeling" - I believe that describes it best. Like you said, it's putting the happiness and good of someone else before yourself in all situations.
I "love" Corinthians.
I think it explains it best!
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Love has sparked wars, it has destroyed Kings, and Thomas Jefferson towards the end of his life chose to have nothing to do with love... or shall I say lust, not love.
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Some people lose all rational thinking and logic on account of love... I myself have too but I have gotten a lot better with it since I've got a little older. I am definitely glad that I am over that stage where I let a woman's sheer beauty destroy me.
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Yeah thanks for that song reference, I knew this thread wasn't going to last without referring to that.. now I can't get that stupid image of Will Ferrel and the other dude doing that thing with their head, lol.
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CS Lewis stated it third best. Corinthians stated it second best. Christ stated it first best by laying down his life for people who hated him, people who he didnt even know yet, just to save them.
I dont think people are capable of unconditional love until they have a child. You love them even though they may annoy the heck out of you or do things against your will.
Love, in my definition, will do anything for the other person's happiness... even if it means giving that other person upso they can be happier. It doesnt care about itself, but the other person involved. It doesnt see how it benefits itself, but rather how the other person is benefitted by it.
I dont think people are capable of unconditional love until they have a child. You love them even though they may annoy the heck out of you or do things against your will.
Love, in my definition, will do anything for the other person's happiness... even if it means giving that other person upso they can be happier. It doesnt care about itself, but the other person involved. It doesnt see how it benefits itself, but rather how the other person is benefitted by it.
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true love is,
in addition to all of the intense liking and attraction,it's wanting the best for the other person and caring about them
in addition to all of the intense liking and attraction,it's wanting the best for the other person and caring about them
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in our microwave society people always want the latest and greatest... that goes for mates too.
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