BS: Love is

Subject: BS: Love is
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 03:10 PM

The more I move on in life the more I believe 'love' is a doing thing and not a feeling thing. It is not lust...which is what we all start out with...it is a commodity that we have to cherish and nurture and prolong by working at it. It involves a lot of attributes that many of us fail to prolong.... What do you think?
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Anonny Mouse
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 03:27 PM

...never having to say you're sorry. ("Love Story"-the movie) Stupid actually. Love can often mean saying you're sorry! At least that's what my wife tells me. And she's always right, right? LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 03:41 PM

a) Thinking of others before thinking of yourself (and that's a main differentiator with lust too).

b) Sometimes borrowed. You receive it from some, and you owe it to others.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Alba
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 05:00 PM

.... a Gift that we all have within us in abundance to share freely with others with no expectation of getting it back. The most amazing part is that we have a never ending supply of Love within us and that is the best part of all really as it so powerful, so endless and yet so simple it's very hard not to be in awe of it!

In fact have some. I've got tons of it...LOL

Love and Light
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 05:16 PM

...unconditional positive regard...

Karl Rogers

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 07:05 PM

What grows from the seed of passion.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Once Famous
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 09:02 PM

...........the gift of life.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 09:07 PM

As much a decision as an emotion.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Once Famous
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 09:13 PM

Not true. Love is stronger than a decision.

It is a heartfelt emotion that we generally have no control over if it is real.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: open mike
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 09:41 PM

there was another movie line i heard last night...
a quote that was used as a toast in "Wedding Crasher"
movie...something like "Love is a connection between souls.."

that is not an accurate quote..any one else hear that line
and/or memorize it?

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: akenaton
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 10:10 PM

Spin

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Alba
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 10:25 PM

Ake....LOL
I come in to the Comp room to get away from Ice Skaters and find your post!!!
Och it takes anither Scot sometimes tae jist catch yi at the right time eh!!
Love and Light
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 11:15 PM

"Love" is "evol" spelled backwards. And "evol", while not a word in itself, is the first part of "evolution" which, spelled backwards is "no it u love", which can be puctuated "No! It u love!" or "No it! U love!" or "No it u, love!", none of which make a damned bit of sense.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Alba
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 11:25 PM

and here was me thinking that Ake had me confused...lol

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: GUEST,Miss Lurrrrrrv
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 11:17 AM

Lurv is what you want it or perceive it to be

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 11:28 AM

Married love, at least, I can define thusly:

Married love is a giving contest. The one that gives the most, gets to be one of the two BIG WINNERS!"

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 05:42 PM

- all around!

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Amos
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 10:41 AM

I think God is a verb, and love may be the closest equivalent we have a word for.

A muddy word, to be sure, but a good one.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Janie
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 12:57 PM

According to this month's National Geographic--it starts out as dopamine and is kept going by oxytocin.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: bobad
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 02:00 PM

"Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw."

Fran Lebowitz

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: GUEST,Mrs. Pete
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 02:37 PM

Love is lots of little things...

He warms the car up for me when it's freezing outside so it's warm when I get there....

He turns the dryer on in the bathroom before I get up to take my shower.

He holds my head when I think I am about to die.

He sticks up for me when I'm too overwhelmed to do it myself.

He kicks me in the rear when I need to get my act together.

He asks about my day.

He listens to me.

He encourages me to continue reaching for my dreams.

He has faith in me when I have misplaced my own.

He giggles and brings laughter to my life.

He is interested.

He cleans the floors and the cat box because he knows I HATE both jobs.

On some nights when our unheated bedroom is unbearably cold, he'll wrap himself around me even though my skin is cold enough to cause frostbite.

He shares the end of the half and half.

He makes popcorn at every request.

He loves others with his whole heart.

He speaks his mind.

He meets me halfway a good deal of the time.

Is this the definition of love? No...not even close. Kindness, compassion, tenderness, thoughtfulness, honesty, giving.....it's a combination of traits that makes my heart sing and my soul happy to be alive. I can't wait to see him in the morning (ok..unless I'm sleeping in and he thinks it's play time) and I look forward to seeing him each and every night. I feel safe, secure and as though I'm a part of him and he's a part of me.

Mushy? Sure...but that's ok....love can be mushy too. :) Love is absolutely wonderful and makes a life worth living.

Of course, there are MANY other kinds of love and people that we love....none is above the other...it's just something that makes you feel good in a way that finds me wanting to give back that kind of happiness and more.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Mrs. Pete

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 02:39 PM

. . . something I don't believe in.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 04:54 PM

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

here is about as many definitions as they can fit on a page.......and it's still not enough

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 05:31 PM

Great post, Mrs. Pete.

What you have is what I hope for.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: autolycus
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 06:50 PM

Love is how I feel about my children.

Also, we are all related, so we're all (damaged) cousins.

I've found it possible to envelop another in a kind of atmosphere of love. If I just think, "I love you as another person", I gain that attitude to them, and don't find it difficult to do.

And it's better for me than hating.

Auto.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 07:11 PM

Love? With a capital "L"?

It's the full realization that every perceived "other" is synonymous with self. And it's the behaviour that naturally follows from that realization. No one goes hungry under conditions of pure, absolute love...or else everyone does. This is usually best demonstrated, at least in a partial form, in a mother's unconditional love for her children.

It is also God. God is One, manifesting in all. That's what Love is too.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 07:33 PM

Love is more understanding and patience than you though you had.

Love is wonderful.

and love is not objecting when you legs get used to warm up her cold feet in bed!





Crystal, I love you.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Dead Horse
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 08:14 PM

My daughter (22yrs old) said there was no such thing. That promted me to send her this....

       LOVE CHILD

There's no such thing as love
That's what my daughter said
Those feelings that you get
Are only in your head
So why does my heart miss a beat
And I'm suddenly short a breath
Is it just natures warning
A premonition of death?

There's no such thing as love
For a father to his child
So why when she is mistreated
Do I suddenly go wild
I want to grab & bash him
The useless little tyke
Isn't that because I love you
Or only that I "like"?

There's no such thing as love
It's a chemical reaction
But if our poles are similar
Why is there attraction
And these feelings that I get
Deep inside my tummy
Is that just indigestion
Does daddy want to eat mummy?

There's no such thing as love
The philosophers they all teach
So why when we looked like losing it
At your mother you start to preach
You don't want us to live apart
Don't get divorced, at mum you grouse
But surely if there's no love there
Our home would be just a house!

There's no such thing as love
I just can't understand
Why my love stands by me
When I was so out of hand
I do believe I love her
And I now can freely state
There IS such a thing as love
It's the opposite of hate!

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 08:56 PM

... blind.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Once Famous
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 10:22 PM

Love is taking a dump with the door open.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 10:48 PM

That's intimacy, Martin. ;-) And trust. Intimacy and trust, of course, are key ingredients of love.

I don't think love is the opposite of hate nearly so much as it is the opposite of indifference.

It's mostly the sheer callous indifference of other people that hurts us as we go through life (with the exception of a few very nasty political situations in certain places...those do involve hatred).

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: number 6
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 10:55 PM

Love is like having no expectations.

Our love was like the water that splashes on a stone
Our love was like our music, it's here and then it's gone
So take me to the airport and put me on a plane
I've got no expectations to pass through here again"

.... Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 13 Feb 06 - 11:12 PM

Now this is a subjeck I otta be an expert in. Or should I say sexpert? Har har! You gotta know you are in love when you, like, get the urge REAL bad, know'm sayin'? Eithere that or you are, like, in lust. The two are really close, eh? Then there is the love that a man has for a hot pickup truck or a guitar! Majorly heavy. I know guys that will spend efery last flippin' dollar they got on there truck or their musical eqquipment, as logn as thehy still got beer and smokes, eh? Girls yeswshewally talk a lot about love but alls they really want is a good lookin' dude on there arm to show off when they walk down the street (which is where I come in) and a free meal a few times a week, eh? (that part is where I don't flippin' come in!) The trubble is, they sometimes get preghnant. That can complikate things majorly let me tell you. That is how I came into this world though so it ain't all bad. With0iut sex I would not be here. That is one flippin' disturming thohtt that gives me a cold sweat, eh? I am totally 1000 percent in favor of sex. There shoudl be more sex ecverwhere, even in the church, eh? I mean the nuns. I don't mean the other stuff. They talk all the time about love but they don't have sex. I mean the nuns! But maybe they do and they ain't tellin'! That would be a sin. I don't know what is worse....sinnin' and not tellin' or bein ' virgins and not havin' sex. Wait a minute. I do Know! Not havin' sex is way worse! I am gonna make this my crusade fer this year...to save nuns from sexshal depriviation. I am gonna start with the local Cathlic Chruch and then branch out, eh? Its' a big flippin' job but somebody has got to do it.

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: GUEST,Skivee
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 01:59 AM

Now, Shane?
Don't you remember when we had that chat about having realistic expectations and goals?
Look, besides beer, I know you like porridge, right?
You can't make porridge with out the proper ingredients, buddy.
And you have to know what to stir and why.
And those nuns probably won't be interested in your cooking.
Unless you start making better life choices, you are likely to keep getting into bad habits.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: jacqui.c
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:20 AM

Skivee - I think Shane's more interested in getting into good habits!

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: ranger1
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:12 AM

Love is something that, the more you give, the more you get back.

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 05:43 AM

Bit like arguing then?

Subject: RE: BS: Love is
From: ranger1
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 10:31 AM

Sometimes.