I encourage everyone to tell what they believe Love is, and to explain their thoughts behind it.

As for me,

Love, embracing all beings, be they noble-minded or low-minded, good or evil, conscious or unconscious. We are all in it together. We are all in Love.

Ten people have looked at this, and not one can say what love is to them.
I encourage you people!
What
is
Love

For a T-Rex, love means never having to say you're saurian.

Haha! Thank you Dr. Alan Grant

Love is acceptance, unconditionally, regardless of what you have done, said, or haven't and never ending support. Knowing you have my back, and never with a knife, no matter what and I yours.

Love is color blind, blind to all things that divide us, as the world should be!

I gave love, but never received it from a mate, he was a fraud. Fairfax has some frauds.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/24/2008 04:21AM by spunky.

"What's love got to do with it? What's love, but a Westfield's shot of heroin?"



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/24/2008 07:30AM by FUNdamental.

You just knew ole Spunky would use this thread as an opportunity to gripe about her failures.
FAIL.

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

Love Is a Battlefield

I think it's something that I'm feeling, 'cause it's really got a hold of me.

spunky Wrote:
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> Love is acceptance, unconditionally, regardless of
> what you have done, said, or haven't and never
> ending support. Knowing you have my back, and
> never with a knife, no matter what and I yours.
>
> Love is color blind, blind to all things that
> divide us, as the world should be!
>
> I gave love, but never received it from a mate, he
> was a fraud. Fairfax has some frauds.

Spunky, get a pet. It's the only unconditional love there is in the world. You will NEVER get it from another person.

I've got a better one; what do Fairfax County residents think that the definition of hate is, and is Obama gonna take away my guns?

Numbers Wrote:
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> spunky Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Love is acceptance, unconditionally, regardless
> of
> > what you have done, said, or haven't and never
> > ending support. Knowing you have my back, and
> > never with a knife, no matter what and I yours.
> >
> > Love is color blind, blind to all things that
> > divide us, as the world should be!
> >
> > I gave love, but never received it from a mate,
> he
> > was a fraud. Fairfax has some frauds.
>
> Spunky, get a pet. It's the only unconditional
> love there is in the world. You will NEVER get it
> from another person.


Sir,
I beg to differ because I have unconditonal love for all beings. I don't even know you and I love you. Is that not an interesting, liberating concept? It is the simplest emotion a human can have, and it costs you nothing to give or nothing to get. When it is said that no person could ever give unconditonal love, that is because your perspective on the world has never experienced it before.

Someone who has never seen such a love in action will most likely reject it, out of the plain fact that they've never seen it.
Once the human race let's love in, past the walls of culture people have devoured all of their lives, we will be one step closer to understanding eachother.

This is especially here for you Fairfax! A place full of judgements, where comparisons of yourself are constantly made against your fellow man, where one cannot make eye contact with another when walking down the street. It's definiton is isolationism.



When I speak opf

Unconditional love is impossible in humans. The only way it's possible is if the feeling of love is unconditionally shared between two people, but even then, a "condition" of the love is that it's shared unconditionally, which means that it's no longer without conditions.

The very essence of love is trust, and if you unconditionally love someone that screws you over repeatedly, it means you are being taken advantage of. You can't truly love someone you can't trust, because taking trust out of love makes love an empty and hollow thing.

It's not really possible to "love" people you've never met; that's called being "compassionate." Otherwise, if presented with a choice of "help a family member" or "help this homeless guy," people will choose the former because love is actually present. Love without deeds is hollow.

I have genuinely loved people unconditionally in the past, and I stopped loving them quite so much once they fucked me over, which means that the love really was conditional (the condition being "don't fuck me over").

All that said, if you really love me and want the best for me, can I borrow twenty bucks?

"I knowI'm not a smart man, but I know what love is, Jenny"

Forrest Gump

Haha! If I had the money my friend, I would gladly give it. Often when I speak of Love, it is mistaken for the intimate physical love between two human beings, which certainly has it's ups and downs. The love I speak of leads to no suffering

Love. A word. A symbol. A bond. A mysterious wealth of energy that permeates the synapse between all sentient beings. An essence so compelling that many will brave the arduous journey of breaking down their carefully constructed emotional walls in hopes of breaching a greener pasture of connectedness. What if its flowing was far more vast in its abundance than society would have one recognize? What if its mysterious glow was available to all to be shared with all? A world without the boundaries of aversion or judgment but rather, a pasture of respect and equanimity among all creatures. It would be a world where people make no distinction between "self" and "neighbor". A world where all people felt the intense energy of knowing with the wholeness of their being that they are an integral part of a great phenomena far more profound than the constrains of language and conceptualization could ever represent. This world is here. This person is you. And all it takes is LOVE, and your radical perspective.

Love, without desire to possess, knowing well that in the ultimate sense there is no possession and no possessor: this is the highest love.
Love, without speaking and thinking of "I", knowing well that this so-called "I" is a mere delusion.
Love, without selecting and excluding, knowing well that to do so means to create love's own contrasts: dislike, aversion and hatred.
Love, embracing all beings: small and great, far and near, be it on earth, in the water, or in the air.
Love, embracing impartially all sentient beings, and not only those who are useful, pleasing or amusing to us.
Love, embracing all beings, be they noble-minded or low-minded, good or evil. The noble and the good are embraced because love is flowing to them spontaneously. The low-minded and evil-minded are included because they are those who are most in need of love. In many of them the seed of goodness may have died merely because warmth was lacking for its growth, because it perished from cold in a loveless world.
Love, embracing all beings, knowing well that we all are fellow way-farers through this round of existence - that we all are overcome by the same law of suffering.
Love, but not the sensuous fire that burns, scorches and tortures, that inflicts more wounds than it cures - flaring up now, at the next moment being extinguished, leaving behind more coldness and loneliness than was felt before.
Rather, love, that lies like a soft but firm hand on the ailing beings, ever unchanged in its sympathy, without wavering, unconcerned with any response it meets. Love that is comforting coolness to those who burn with the fire of suffering and passion; that is life-giving warmth to those abandoned in the cold desert of loneliness, to those who are shivering in the frost of a loveless world; to those whose hearts have become as if empty and dry by the repeated calls for help, by deepest despair.
Love, that is a sublime nobility of heart and intellect which knows, understands and is ready to help.
Love, that is strength and gives strength: this is the highest love.


I can love you, and I don't even know you.
cool concept, eh?

I totally get what you're saying, dude, seriously. I really wish that it worked like that.

Imagine a world where everyone loved each other completely; everyone is fed, clothed, housed, and has access to clean water. Research money spent on war was redirected towards health and medicine, curing most diseases; corporate CEOs gave all of their money to charities. The only thing anybody wants is for everyone to be happy, and miraculously, we somehow pull it off. It's a John Lennon world; no greed, no hunger, a true brotherhood of man, free from racial, ethnic, religious strife.

When people are happy and comfortable, they start families. Suddenly, the millions who die from disease, war, and starvation are thriving and having families. Their kids will grow up and have families. Humans, being the only animals on the planet that adapt their environment to them instead of the other way around, now spread to every corner of the globe, consuming every available resource in relatively few generations. This leads to the extinction of many plants, animals, and eventually, humanity as a whole. The entire planet becomes a barren wasteland covered in the bones of happy people.

Thus, greed, hate, anger, war, and all of the other "bad" things that people do to each other is really just nature's way of making sure we don't fuck everything up as a whole. The only natural predators that people have are other people.

It is a cool concept, just not a very practical one.

Love cannot just exist out of nothing, and without effort nothing can be. You need to exert your own energy to create it. It starts right at the core of your being, and it is your choice to radiate it to all who cross your path.

Just because it is seemingly out of reach doesn't make it foolish. My hope for change is not so naive as to believe that some forum post will change the world on a global scale. Rather I just hope to make at least a small difference within the area I live. And possibly someday the actions of those people will spread and continue.The seeds of revolution spring slowly my friend, and I am here to sow.

I agree whole heartedly that the human race will pass as soon as it was in existence. We are merely grains of sand in a universal beach of space, time, and matter..Death is inevitable in every way. You can either run from it, and spend your life in fear of it, or you can love those people that who will go through the exact experience as you.

If there was darkness before you were born, and you were brought into light,
why could there not be light after darkness when we die? This life is but a step, and I feel like one of the noblest causes is to love people throughout it all.
That is where real courage lies my friend!


and John Lennon, may he rest in peace!

MrMephisto Wrote:
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> The only natural predators that people have are other
> people.

are you kidding me?! in areas with (certain types of) bears, if you get close to them they will see you as a meal. unless you have a shotgun, you can kiss your ass goodbye.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

Gravis Wrote:
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> MrMephisto Wrote:
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> > The only natural predators that people have are
> other
> > people.
>
> are you kidding me?! in areas with (certain types
> of) bears, if you get close to them they will see
> you as a meal. unless you have a shotgun, you can
> kiss your ass goodbye.

There are things that will kill you and eat you, of course. By "natural predator," I mean something that regularly or exclusively preys on people, the way lions eat gazelles or spiders eat flies.

Bodhi Rastafari Wrote:
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> I beg to differ because I have unconditonal love
> for all beings. I don't even know you and I love
> you.

It must be all that weed he's smoking.

I don't quite understand Genevieve, could you elaborate a bit, or is that just all you have to say?

Love, Fairfax County Style. This should answer all your questions.

I feel a disconnect to that video. His said happiness is ultimately dependent on things that are not within him. Anything material originates from suffering, gives you the pleasures of owning it, and eventually finds it's way back to suffering.
But no, we are told such thoughts are unimportant. We're told "Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that, have lips like x or a car like y"
Sooner than you know, you're a player in the game. You're playing in a game you don't even want to play

Fairfax county, and the way it was designed, lends a big hand in convincing people to compare themselves to the others around them. It has created a system inside the minds of the isolated, that takes things very personally and keeps score on how our self-worth is doing that day.




"You are not naked when you take off your clothes..."

So true!

Bodhi, will you marry me? I think I love you...

Bodhi Rastafari Wrote:

> Sir,
> I beg to differ because I have unconditonal love
> for all beings. I don't even know you and I love
> you. Is that not an interesting, liberating
> concept? It is the simplest emotion a human can
> have, and it costs you nothing to give or nothing
> to get. When it is said that no person could ever
> give unconditonal love, that is because your
> perspective on the world has never experienced it
> before.
>
> Someone who has never seen such a love in action
> will most likely reject it, out of the plain fact
> that they've never seen it.
> Once the human race let's love in, past the walls
> of culture people have devoured all of their
> lives, we will be one step closer to understanding
> eachother.
>
> This is especially here for you Fairfax! A place
> full of judgements, where comparisons of yourself
> are constantly made against your fellow man, where
> one cannot make eye contact with another when
> walking down the street. It's definiton is
> isolationism.
>
>
>
> When I speak opf

"Heading out to Eden, hey brother"

496 Wrote:
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> "I knowI'm not a smart man, but I know what love
> is, Jenny"
>
> Forrest Gump


http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/m4w/932898648.html

703-496-296x, Call me lover you were great last night, I loved

the way you begged for more, and more, and more! What was it you said?

Oh yea! Jump Gump...Jump Gump...Jump Gump! All the time I thought I was

suppose to be your queen, Jenny? But you looked great in that slingy black dress

and those high-heel shoes...oh so sexy!!!!!! You would make a hard core prison a

real

vibrating

pokey! Do you feel what I am saying to you lover boy? When we gettin hitched? I

might be pregnant already! Oh, I've been pray'in for a good man like you to come

into my life and light me up! Thank ya !

Spunky:

They might haul you off to jail for Statutory. I don't think THAT is the kind of love you're trying to find ahahah

It's the thought that counts though!

Love always,
Bodhi Rastafari



Still don't know me? Go to Facebook, and look up Bodhi Rastafari

Send him a friend request, join the cause Love: A Radical Perspective

It's up to you =)

You are right it is the thought that counts.

I really can connect with your words and I like

what you have to say, I was of course being funny

in a my feeble way, but with love all the same.

I will check out facebook, thank you.

Love is Jesus.

I checked out your facebook site and for a 96 yr. old person with high school age friends you are wise beyond your years with alot, I mean alot of friends. So, you have one totally wrapped package to be so young but yet so old.

Love always and friends forever thanks for the love you know what it's all about, so the rest is a piece of cake...peace :)

Love be with you and yours always!

sk8ter bOI Wrote:
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> Love is Jesus.


Love is my landscaper? That doesn't seem correct!

love love who needs love when you've got drugs and your at Lolapalooza