What is Love?

[Ghonzor]

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

EDIT: I may have been ninja'd multiple times over, but I'm the only one who brought a gif to the party! Muahahaha.

Gah, I saw the topic and knew I would be too late for it.

 

[skandergoon]

A lie. A conspiracy developed by the chocolate and flower industries to make us believe in a false obligation to buy more and more lovey-dovey trash. Have a nice day.

 

[Eternus Invierno]

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me. No more!

Touche good sir, i was planning this...

 

[Rawker]

I find that humans are incapable of love, that it has lost all meaning in the world today. marriage is not love anymore, it's who we can stand being around for 40 years until one of you dies. I believe in God because I feel he is the last thing that could understand when all else fails.

 

[ThreeWords]

Of course there is more than 1 type of love. Love of a family member. Love of a friend. Love of a partner.

In Hebrew, there are in fact 4 words for love. I forget what they are, but they mean 'friendship' (friend says to friend: "I love you, man!"), 'devotion' (parental, or marital), 'sexual love' (Obvious, I think) and 'love of thing's' ("I love hamburgers/my car/the internet")

It's rather stupid of us to try to force all this meaning into one word, no?

 

[FallenRainbows]

Ignorance, all over it burns... I take it most of you have never experienced the emotion that is understated as love? Particularly those calling it down. Yes it hurts, but god yes is it the best thing you will ever fell when you are with that person of whom is the object of you affection. If you think you have experienced love and see it as a bad thing, then it wasn't love. It was simply a great liking or maybe lust. Love and lust are NOT interchangeable. Love is when you feel sick when you aren't with that person as I feel now, because she has gone ice skating and I am otherwise indisposed. When such minor things like weather, illness and fatigue would never stop you. Love is very real, a series of chemical reactions in the brain? So is everything, so therefore it is no less real than the world you see around you. Love is not a one night stand, one is not dating, love is so so much more. A thing that cannot be expressed in any amount of words even it's own. Love is an understatement of it's self. Even song & poetry cannot give that emotion. Much less cold words on an internet forum even despite the way I talk about love being called poetic by a few (not that I see it, just the way I think) as such, love is fact. Those who say otherwise are scared of such emotion, scared of the pain, and as a defence try to convince themselves it isn't real. Sorry to say but it is. And hiding away that wont get you anywhere.

Also love is no about pro-creation, that is lust, which in romantic relationships is hand in hand. Any of you who wish to challenge this fact feel free to dispute it for whatever reason.

Bias!

How can you be bias? What? That makes no sence...?

Ignore this bitter interwubber. Sorry for kicking the happpy wagon.

Happy? me? Hell no. you think you appreciate such things if you are happy? Nope. In fact right now my relationship is in tatters and I'm on the verge of screaming. But I still love her, hence why I wont end it. I know what she's usually like.

It's statements like that which make me think I might be unnapreciative of my ignorance.

Love is still the best thing, but aye ignorance is indeed bliss. I just find it insulting when someone says love and don't mean it. Even if they think they do. All I know is that all good things have a cost, and truly nothing is free. the best things cost the most. And yes I mean love.

 

[BoxCutter]

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me. No more!

Oh, I don't know why you're not there
I give you my love, but you don't care
So what is right and what is wrong
Gimme a sign

 

[Magyarman]

love is a girl that calls you 8 times a day, can beat you at smash bros. brawl, loves to raid with you in WoW, wants to buy you cool clothes, throws more sex at you than you know what to do with, will ride X2 and Tatsu multiple times, has a skinny body with just the right amount of bust, and massages you whenever you want. That is my gf and the only problem i have is that she always compares her 102 lb. body to her younger 90 lb. sisters body.

I hate you.. I really really do

I second that motion.

 

[SmartIdiot]

Three men spooning in one sleeping bag.

 

[G1eet]

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me. No more!

Ahh, I'm glad someone saw that opening.

As long as nobody's quoted him already, I'll use Bender:

"Bender knows love, and love doesn't share itself with the world. Love is suspicious, love is needy. Love is fearful, love is greedy. My friends, there is no great love without great jealousy!"

 

[Fudgo]

I'd say that Baby Don't Hurt Me line, but I'm pretty sure 10-30 other people have already beaten me to it.

EDIT: Around 20 people. Wow.

Anyway, love is like a drug. It changes your behaviour, it can have weird side effects, it can become addictive, and you can take it without even knowing it.

 

[mad benji89]

Baby don't hurt me...
According to Douglas Adams, it's a terrible disease of the mind, and I feel the same way. Unconditional love is pure ignorance and denial at it's best.

i agree with you tottally. who needs it just bring the groupies and beer

 

[countkillalot]

''The Justification and salvation of individuality through the sacrifice of egoism.''
- Vladimir Solovyov


I just had to share my favorite definition.

 

[riskroWe]

You're all wrong, love IS totally separate from lust.

Love is what you feel for those who are especially close to you, it's a tribal/pack instinct. I can love my parents and my children and my dog.

Lust is what you feel while looking at half naked supermodels. It's a sexual/reproductive thing.

On those rare occasions when Love and Lust are both felt, that is Romance.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Lust is the desire for their body; love is the desire for their soul.

That is my generic definition.


(I like lust more)

 

[USSR]

..baby don't hurt me!

Don't hurt me!

No more!!

..juss saying this because I have nothing else to really contribute to the topic.

But I did finish the title, like 52 other people on this thread =p

 

[AOTA]

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me. No more!

I feel better now, knowing im not the only one who heard those words in my head after i read the title. Brilliant!

Lol the same. This is like the third time I've quoted you today. I think I'm done, at least until you post exactly what I was going to say before me.

When i saw the name,i knew this was going to happen, but 34 people?! wow... anyway


Oh, I don't know why you're not there
I give you my love, but you don't care
So what is right and what is wrong
Gimme a sign

 

[captainwillies]

What is love?
The chemical reactions and electrical signals within your brain, that signifies that you have located a potential mate. This results from observation of the face, body and behaviour over various periods of time, information is gathered from these observations on the quality of genes, ability to withstand pregnancy in case of female candidates, and compatibility of character. When all of these qualities are met at a suitable level reactions in the brain will cause hormones, endorphins and adrenalin to be released into your body, this in turn increases blood flow, putting stress on your heart, the endorphins and hormones trigger feeling of bliss and happiness. These serve to explain why being in love causes people to blush, have heartache, and feel good. Love is nothing more than a survival instinct embedded deep within our genetic coding. Our brains are programmed to make us feel good about it when we find potential mates, and this in turn leads us to seek them out. The ultimate goal of love is to mate, to reproduce and make sure our race does not die out.
We as a race have become obsessed with the side effects of love, rather than its ultimate purpose. The fluttering of the heart, the warming of the face, the uneasiness, all have been immortalised as pure love through countless centuries of literature, songs and legends. Love itself has in today?s society become separated from its purpose, a perversion of its true meaning, in turn its true purpose is viewed as a perversion of love. The concept of love separated from physical reproduction has become so engraved in the collective human psyche that to oppose it, is social taboo. In truth this separation cannot be credited solely to romance novels, our dominance of our planet has contributed as well. Our uncontested ownership of our planet has lead to us becoming collectively arrogant. Our arrogance has long ago reached the point where our need to mate, in order to keep up our population, has been suppressed. The last and perhaps latest reason for the separation of physical need to mate and love is modern science. Our live spans are now extended to over double of what we were originally intended for. This has almost eliminated the need for mating to replenish populations. We can now also still bear children at much older ages than what is natural, as a result out lives are extended further, due to bodily degeneration not starting until after bearing children. Soon technology will have advanced to the point where physical reproduction will no longer be necessary. Then the separation will be complete.
People who chase after love are no better than junkies craving a high. There is no longer any need to recreate, we have complete dominance over our planet, and almost complete certainty of survival. The only reason people seek out love now is to experience the rush of chemicals released into your bloodstream when you find a potential mate. What people call true love is nothing but the perversion of a natural process, a disgusting mockery of nature.

no what you seem to be stating is "attraction". when a man see a woman he gets attracted to her. why? because those are the electrical signals and what not.

love is what keeps people together after. if not then we'd mostly likely be like the animals and fornicate then move on. don't get me wrong marrige is seen as a sign of love but most of the time its those chemical reactions going on overdrive making young people do stupid things.

attraction is what perpetuates the race. love is different but similar which is why it is often confused with attraction.

I am not giving an explaination to what love is I'm simply saying what you have spoken about is not love. it is infact the genetical perpetuated law of attraction

 

[A teenage old man]

Love is... The bond you share with people that you will have around you for the rest of you're life. Not all of them, but those rare one's that you actually want to spend time with, the people you know that no matter how much time you spend time with them in a row, you don't get bored or awkward with. And most importantly love is the only thing that can keep you from going insane in old age, the only thing that can really keep you going.