Define love.

[InsaneApache]

Love. What is it? What does it mean for you? Does it help you or hinder you in your life?

[Boyar Son]

Well anybody can fall in love with anybody so.....

I think it really comes down to the psyce, the mind that tells u that u have connection with that person.

[Papewaio]

Its a verb. Its something you do for someone else.

[woad&fangs]

*points to sig*

[Strike For The South]

Love is what you make it

[HoreTore]

It's looking at supermodels and not really caring...

[dknight]

Why would you care about super models that you just see on TV in the first place ? Without talking to them, they're just shiny pictures, and you can't love pictures, can you ?

If you get to talk to one of the girl and like her, then it's different

[Innocentius]

It's a feeling designed to help humans reproduce.

[Beirut]

Love is that queasy and inconvenient feeling you get in the pit of your stomach that comes when you realize that you actually want to spend vertical time with the hottie you just went horizontal with.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Love is that queasy and inconvenient feeling you get in the pit of your stomach that comes when you realize that you actually want to spend vertical time with the hottie you just went horizontal with.

Yeah, I also like making love to my women in vertical positions

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Love is appreciating someone for their vices, as well as their virtues, rather than inspite of them.

[Kagemusha]

Love is the true reason.

[macsen rufus]

(Romantic) Love is a temporary insanity that blinds you to your partner's failings long enough to get kids to a reasonable age for survival.

[dknight]

(Romantic) Love is a temporary insanity that blinds you to your partner's failings long enough to get kids to a reasonable age for survival.

Ereuka, this is what love mean

[ajaxfetish]

To me, love is putting the welfare of another human being ahead of your own.

Ajax

[seireikhaan]

Love is one of the many things my character lacks.

[Lemur]

According to Amrbose Bierce (a personal favorite of mine):

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. The disease, like "caries", and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

[AntiochusIII]

Without talking to them, they're just shiny pictures, and you can't love pictures, can you ?

What do you have against anime? Why do you hate Freedom?

[Papewaio]

LOVE, n. barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages.

I don't think that is true... Aussies still fall in love with their sport and beer.

[Andres]

Love...

When you just live together for a few weeks with your significant one and she breaks her wrist in an accident on her way to work and you go to work, full time, do the dishes, do the cleaning, do the ironing, do the cooking, wash the clothes, give mylady the book she cannot reach, place her favorite chair in front of the TV because she cannot carry it, clean when she accidentally spills her food, cut her steak, because she can't, type her letters and e-mails for her and still be nice, gentle and friendly...

When you come back home after a week of that and you see she just ignored the pain (and the doctors' advice to rest) and did the ironing herself, cleaned and did part of the dishes and made you a warm meal, ready just by the time you usually get home from work, because she feels so sorry for you that you have to do all of that in combination with your full time job just because she was so clumsy to break her wrist...

Now thát's what I call love.

Daar alleen kan liefde wonen
Daar alleen is t leven zoet
Waar men stil en ongedwongen
alles voor elkander doet.

[Ronin]

Romantic Love involves feelings of intense affection, and concern for the happiness and well being of the person in cause.

It has been my experience that this mind set is one that is self induced, a kind of self-made mental conditioning that makes us fall in love with one person....of course one is not aware of this process while it is occurring...but when you look back with the advantage of hindsight you can see this process unfolding.

[pevergreen]

When you come back home after a week of that and you see she just ignored the pain (and the doctors' advice to rest) and did the ironing herself, cleaned and did part of the dishes and made you a warm meal, ready just by the time you usually get home from work, because she feels so sorry for you that you have to do all of that in combination with your full time job just because she was so clumsy to break her wrist...
[/I]

Love is the state of mind in which you will do anything to make the person happy.

[Innocentius]

Whatever you all my write, love is still a hormone controlled feeling (and thus to a degree controlable) designed to help humans reproduce. Love is biological, that about caring for your partner is again biological as we want our offspring to live up to our expectations etc. etc.

[Kagemusha]

Whatever you all my write, love is still a hormone controlled feeling (and thus to a degree controlable) designed to help humans reproduce. Love is biological, that about caring for your partner is again biological as we want our offspring to live up to our expectations etc. etc.

And how you associate that with for example love towards your family?

[Innocentius]

And how you associate that with for example love towards your family?

The love of your closest family... isn't that one quite obvious? A normal person from a normal family will feel love towards his/her relatives as they are means of surviving and keeping your own offspring safe. Loving your parents can be explained to a degree by thankfulness, but also because historically grand parents have a tradition of babysitting their grandchildren, so that's on a more psychological level rather than biological. And finally, loving your children is more natural than anything: biologically, our meaning in life is to reproduce, so not taking care of our offspring would be rather stupid wouldn't it?

Love is all in our heads and, more importantly, in our genes.

[Kagemusha]

The love of your closest family... isn't that one quite obvious? A normal person from a normal family will feel love towards his/her relatives as they are means of surviving and keeping your own offspring safe. Loving your parents can be explained to a degree by thankfulness, but also because historically grand parents have a tradition of babysitting their grandchildren, so that's on a more psychological level rather than biological. And finally, loving your children is more natural than anything: biologically, our meaning in life is to reproduce, so not taking care of our offspring would be rather stupid wouldn't it?

Love is all in our heads and, more importantly, in our genes.

But previously you stated that love is just biological phenomena.You are contradicting yourself. I think most of us know what many of our feelings are based on biologically, should the importance of something be less if we can actually understand and analyze it, as i seem to sense from your earlier reply?

[Innocentius]

But previously you stated that love is just biological phenomena.

Yes, and I stuck to that. Oh yes, I mentioned it mig be psychological as well, but hey, our brains aren't very biological after all, they're just organs.

You are contradicting yourself.

I don't see where I've contradicted myself. Could you point that part out for me?

I think most of us know what many of our feelings are based on biologically, should the importance of something be less if we can actually understand and analyze it, as i seem to sense from your earlier reply?

All I'm saying is that love is - more or less - optional.

[Husar]

but hey, our brains aren't very biological after all, they're just organs.

Organs aren't biological now?

[rotorgun]

Well.....

There's Agape love: Love of your fellow bretheren.

Then there's Eros love: Love of the opposite sex for erotic reasons.

Whichever you practice, it is an action verb, as in:

"Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for another" (Jesus of Nazereth)

or:

"Your actions speak louder than your words" (Mrs. Rotorgun quoting someone else when speaking to Mr. Rotorgun, usually after he has pulled some bonehead stunt)

Love without deeds is shallow indeed.

[ajaxfetish]

And how you associate that with for example love towards your family?

We talked about this in a science class I took a couple years ago. In a broader sense, the biological drive Innocentius mentioned has to do with passing on your genetic code. Greatest love therefore goes to children; however siblings and parents also share much of your DNA, so looking after their welfare also helps increase the chances of your genes being passed on.
edit: and in an even broader perspective, looking after the good of your community or nation improves the support structures and culture that will protect and nurture those born with your genes, and can also be biologically beneficial.

I think all of that is definitely part of it, but I'm enough of a romantic to think there's more to the picture, and I tried to define it in such a way that it would incorporate biological and/or emotional reasons.

Ajax