FreeThinker619
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and how would you define it?
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What is true Love?
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Love has many different variations. I mean, love is love, to be sure. There is romantic type, there is the love you have for your children, family, close friends, there is brotherly love.
NobodyYouKnow
Misanthropist
It is very difficult to define love in the truest sense and I could provide either the Eros or Agape version depending on my mood.
If I were to answer 'from the heart', that answer would be "If you need to even ask that, then it is not".
That seems to be the case for a lot of things...
In the truest sense of the term, Love is beyond definition. It is also beyond any conditions, expectations or restraints placed upon it.
That being said, there are various 'levels of love' which are no 'truer' in what it means to love and often, the line gets blurred.
The love I feel for my child and my God are both unconditional, but they are different. In many ways the same...but in many ways different. I have friends I love unconditionally but I do not 'love them enough' (for lack of a better term) to marry them....it goes on.
'True Love' is what you feel in your heart to be true and what your heart tells you beyond doubt to be true.
The truest Love I have ever felt has been in prayer to my Lord, more than anything I could ever, ever feel for a human man. Some see this as a fault, but I just cannot even begin to compare it nor describe it, but it's 'true love' nonetheless.
True love? As opposed to fake love?
Unconditional trust.
Unconditional trust.
How about this question: Is "to like" someone/something the same as "to love" someone?
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
No, but you must like someone in order to love them, unless you're using a non-standard definition for love.
sarek
Member
True love isnt something you can explain. It is something you know when you see it.
The closest I can come is to differentiate between subjective and objeubctive love. Subjective love is based on a persons characteristics which may or may not be correctly perceived by the lover. Such subjective characteristics may also change over time, thereby potentially altering the substrate on which the love was originally based. This may or may not prove to be surmountable.
Objective love is an article of faith. There is no earthly way of proving whether or not it exists. I define it as two parts which naturally belong together, finding each other in the flesh.
Objective love can take many forms and a happily ever after may result from the reunion, though that is by no means ascertained. The reunion may occur for an entirely different purpose, pertaining to the development of each soul.
The closest I can come is to differentiate between subjective and objeubctive love. Subjective love is based on a persons characteristics which may or may not be correctly perceived by the lover. Such subjective characteristics may also change over time, thereby potentially altering the substrate on which the love was originally based. This may or may not prove to be surmountable.
Objective love is an article of faith. There is no earthly way of proving whether or not it exists. I define it as two parts which naturally belong together, finding each other in the flesh.
Objective love can take many forms and a happily ever after may result from the reunion, though that is by no means ascertained. The reunion may occur for an entirely different purpose, pertaining to the development of each soul.
I tend to agree with that. It seems to me that people mean many very different things by that one word, "love". Who is presumptuous enough to say that one kind of love is "truer" than another? That's more a debate for middle schoolers than for adults, I think.
no intelectual
Member
True love is based on truth, honesty, decency and above all having a personal relationship and receiving insights and revelations from the Holy Spirit is His love for us. Our love for Him is based on hungering and thirsting for truth about ourselves, to understand our sins is to free us from this sick world.
psychoslice
Veteran Member
Love is being who you truly are, and seeing others for who they truly are, its seeing beyond the mind body organism. Many believe love is clinging to someone, having sex with someone, this is only the shadow of true love, true love is seeing another without the cloud of sex or clinging.
Knight of Albion
Well-Known Member
Selflessness...
Walkntune
Well-Known Member
True love is selfless and sacrificial. It is not self seeking.
dawny0826
Mother Heathen
I like what the Bible says on love:
People are flawed, so I think this is the perfect type of love to aspire to in our relationships, be it a relationship with the love of your life or with your children and other family members, friends, etc.
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ImprobableBeing
Active Member
Yeah, that usually don't pan out all that well though.
ImprobableBeing
Active Member
I like what the Bible says on love:
People are flawed, so I think this is the perfect type of love to aspire to in our relationships, be it a relationship with the love of your life or with your children and other family members, friends, etc.
If i were to aspire to love like in the bible i'd be an incestuous child killing rapist genocidal maniac.
I think it's better to just refrain from it all and agree that love means caring more than usual.
ImprobableBeing
Active Member
I like that. When you would go without to provide for the one you love, that is true love.