The Many Facets of Love

[TheSilverKnight]

Love is...complete devotion to a person who has captured your heart in a special way. Love means you will be loyal, you will honour that person, and you will be yourself and be true to that person.

I can say that I am in love with my girlfriend of 7 months She is so dear and close to me, and we have such a special relationship. We have so many things in common and so many joys just from being around each other.

To answer the last question
Love serves to show people how relationships progress and how serious these relationships can get with devotion and loyalty.

My two pence for the evening.
Enjoy

[Togakure]

Yes indeed, there is eros, love for our mate or potential mate ... but we love our parents, we love our brothers and sisters, we love our friends and pets. Some love God. When considering the questions I've put forward here, I hope folks will include thoughts about these as well. Didn't Jesus say that we should love our enemies? How on Earth would we go about that? Why on Earth should we?

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I think love may have served to; give children time to grow, hold communities together, keep people loyal to their family so they could be helped by their parents thus improving their chance of survival.

Loving your enemy may be keeping yourself from making your enemy an abstract idea that deserves only hate and death and keeps it in perspective, they are people. This would help many groups of humans live and if one group went around killing every enemy they faced to the last man, woman and child they would probably be taken down by multiple groups that could work together, despite being enemies at one point.

[Big_John]

i always thought it was the way to trick women into sleeping with you...