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Ok, before anyone derails the thread with the song from Haddaway. Here is the lyrics.

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
Oh, baby don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more

What is love
Yeah

Oh, I don't know why you're not there
I give you my love, but you don't care
So what is right and what is wrong
Gimme a sign

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more

Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh
Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh

Oh, I don't know, what can I do
What else can I say, it's up to you
I know we're one, just me and you
I can't go on

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more

Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh
Whoa whoa whoa, oooh oooh

What is love, oooh, oooh, oooh
What is love, oooh, oooh, oooh

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more

Don't hurt me
Don't hurt me

I want no other, no other lover
This is your life, our time
When we are together, I need you forever
Is it love

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more (oooh, oooh)

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more (oooh, oooh)

What is love?

Ok, now that we got that out of the way. What does love mean to you? What is the difference between loving someone and being "in love"? Does true love exist, and if so, what is true love? If true love exist, then how can you tell when you have it?

To me, love is fondness that is shared between two person, between friends, bf/gfs, mother/father and children, etc. There are different kind of loves. Everyone can love anyone, but when you're "in love" you love that person in a more, deeper, meaningful way, a different kind of connection has been made. That what "in love" and "True love" means to me. As to when you know you have it, well I guess you can't really describe it, you just know it, balls to the walls (Thank you Oracle).

Now for y'alls input!

Now for y'alls input!I don't have the requisite experience to answer your question in a satisfactory manner. ;)

I don't have the requisite experience to answer your question in a satisfactory manner. ;)

You don't love anything?

You don't love anything?

Then he's a robot and must be destroyed!

Or the version for masochists like me:

"What is love?

Baby please hurt me
please hurt me
some more"

Anyway, love is sort of intangible and indescribable. I know it's cliche to say "You know it when you feel it," but it kind of is that way. The combination of a lot of other emotions really.

Truly loving someone means, among other things, valuing their life and well-being above that of your own. The real ticket is finding someone you feel that way about, and who feels that way about you.

You don't love anything?I've got the first part down, love of family and friends. Not so sure on the whole 'true love' thing. Hence, I lack the requisite experience. :wink:

I've got the first part down, love of family and friends. Not so sure on the whole 'true love' thing. Hence, I lack the requisite experience. :wink:

Got ya.

What's love got to do with it?

I have never found a satisfactory way of explaining the difference between "love" and "being in love", and how you know when you're in love with someone. It has to be experienced and interpreted by the individual. If you're not in love, you may think you are, or be unsure; if you're in love, you know. Not very helpful, but there are one or two things that can't be fit into a flowchart.

Now for y'alls input!

Those who use "y'alls" get no input from me.

*sticks nose in the air*

:tongue:

Those who use "y'alls" get no input from me.

*sticks nose in the air*

:tongue:

Not my fault I spent 24 years in the South. :(

"Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, love is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and fewer would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose, against statistically long odds." - HK 47.

*nods*

Not my fault I spent 24 years in the South. :(

I don't have any problem with those who use the word while speaking...but you don't have to type it! ;)

I don't have any problem with those who use the word while speaking...but you don't have to type it! ;)

Yes I do! It's ingrained into my DNA! :eek:

Yes I do! It's ingrained into my DNA! :eek:

Ugh. This is one of the many reasons why I will never, ever live in the south. Though, I'm sure some get just as offended when I say "hella."

"Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, love is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and fewer would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose, against statistically long odds." - HK 47.

*nods*

Damn it, 14 posts and someone's already beat me to it.

Love is a chemical imbalance,a mistake.

The placing of one's needs below the needs of another, every single time.

Requited love is when the other does the same, so it all tends to average out.

Love is the ability to tolerate someone else over time.

Yes I do! It's ingrained into my DNA! :eek:

Well, you'll just have to wait until frivolous gene splicing becomes affordable...

...in the meantime.

"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
- Robert Heinlein

Ok, before anyone derails the thread with the song from Haddaway. Here is the lyrics.



Ok, now that we got that out of the way. What does love mean to you? What is the difference between loving someone and being "in love"? Does true love exist, and if so, what is true love? If true love exist, then how can you tell when you have it?

To me, love is fondness that is shared between two person, between friends, bf/gfs, mother/father and children, etc. There are different kind of loves. Everyone can love anyone, but when you're "in love" you love that person in a more, deeper, meaningful way, a different kind of connection has been made. That what "in love" and "True love" means to me. As to when you know you have it, well I guess you can't really describe it, you just know it, balls to the walls (Thank you Oracle).

Now for y'alls input!

It's a chemical imbalance in the brain that can over time settle into a permanent alteration.

The effects of it however are far more severe than this simple biological explanation would lead you to assume.

I haven't yet experienced ''true love''. But, I'm sure I will, some day.

It's a chemical imbalance in the brain that can over time settle into a permanent alteration.

The effects of it however are far more severe than this simple biological explanation would lead you to assume.

If it's a chemical imbalance, it's one I happen to like. Sometimes.

"Love is what happens to you while you're busy making plans to have sex with other people."

Easy:
http://www.solvalou.com/misc_whatis.php?search=love

..is an anagram of vole

..is an anagram of vole

And, what is vole?

And, what is vole?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vole

It's mainly a chemical imbalance... *starts bobbing head*

Simple - it's awesome. :)

Love is when you don't have a score in tennis.

Love, the best and worst feeling in the world. That's the only way I can describe it.

Love, the best and worst feeling in the world. That's the only way I can describe it.

Yes, though there may be bad times, the good times make it so worth the pain. :)

If it's a chemical imbalance, it's one I happen to like. Sometimes.

Yep, chemical imbalances can be fun.
Can mean a lot of headache, too, though.

What's love got to do with it?

Anyway?

As Matt Groening once said.

"Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come."

Love, the best and worst feeling in the world. That's the only way I can describe it.

Yeah, pretty much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vole

It's so cute....

Love? It's like a big green thing, kinda like a bogey but not as gross, and you can't really eat it. Ohhh ohh yeah and it flies too.

Love? It's like a big green thing, kinda like a bogey but not as gross, and you can't really eat it. Ohhh ohh yeah and it flies too.

That's a parrot

It's so cute....

It's like a pikachú! Kawai!!!:fluffle:

What's love got to do with it?

What is it but a seconhand emotion?

That's a parrot

No I ...don't...think... that is what I'm thinking of.

(You could have added the gif of the "Night at the Roxbury" Guys as well, y'know)

Anyhow, "love" is an overused word in the English language that is versatile enough to describe how someone feels about an individual within or outside of your family, a song, item, food, or what they feel like doing to a romantic interest. It has 15 meanings in at least Webster's dictionary and it's an emotion based on hormones. The conditions have to be just so for the pair to fall and after a while, it goes to hell.

Yeah, I'm a bit of a shrew. ^^'

(You could have added the gif of the "Night at the Roxbury" Guys as well, y'know)

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/1rachelannie/roxbury.gif

Yeah, I'm a bit of a shrew. ^^'

Just a bit.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/1rachelannie/roxbury.gif

I broke the window again...

What is it but a seconhand emotion?

Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? :(

i broke the window again...

:d
lol!

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/1rachelannie/roxbury.gif

Teh lulz! :D

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/1rachelannie/roxbury.gif

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e272/Nurvisrec/Funny_Pictures_Animated_Star_Trek_C.gif

:D

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e272/Nurvisrec/Funny_Pictures_Animated_Star_Trek_C.gif

:D

Roflmao!

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e272/Nurvisrec/Funny_Pictures_Animated_Star_Trek_C.gif

:D

Comedy gold from LG. :D

Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? :(

Whats love but a sweet old fashioned notion?

Now for y'alls input!

"Do it to Julia!"

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e272/Nurvisrec/Funny_Pictures_Animated_Star_Trek_C.gif

:D

http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/animated/anim_59.gif

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e272/Nurvisrec/Funny_Pictures_Animated_Star_Trek_C.gif

:D

This wins.

What is love is very very hard to say - in my experience love is what makes people do thing that they would not to satisfy another be they small things like kind words or large things like major sacrifices it is this willingness to do things for the benefit of another even if they cause the giver to suffer.

I kinda feel like Wilgrove only thre is another tasty tune that I would just like to dance to and it has the same message: What is Love? It was also the name of the song and it was NOT by Haddaway -- it was all music ... with NO WORDS.

Ugh. This is one of the many reasons why I will never, ever live in the south. Though, I'm sure some get just as offended when I say "hella."

Oh, you NorCalers and your insidious hella. You leave that word up there! We don't want it! ;)

On a serious note, I've found love to be sacrifice. How much you are willing to sacrifice to be with that person and make that person happy. Now, obviously, that can be used and abused by the person you are with and then love becomes painful and cruel. However, you hopefully will eventually find a person that won't take advantage of your sacrifice and will meet you halfway.

Love is nature's way of giving
a reason to be living,
The golden crown that makes a man a king.


*slits throat*

Love is nature's way of giving
a reason to be living,
The golden crown that makes a man a king.


*slits throat*

*bandages throat*

You'll find love, at least yours wasn't as corny as what Vampire Knight Zero posted. His post reminds me why I hate Full House and Family Matters with a passion.

love is a disease curable by marriage. The problem is the cure is alot worse than the disease

love is a disease curable by marriage. The problem is the cure is alot worse than the disease

My avatar approves.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries [tooth decay] 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.

*bandages throat*

You'll find love, at least yours wasn't as corny as what Vampire Knight Zero posted. His post reminds me why I hate Full House and Family Matters with a passion.

Didn't get what movie/song that's from I take it ;)


And I can't take those shows either. They give me diabetus.

*bandages throat*

You'll find love, at least yours wasn't as corny as what Vampire Knight Zero posted. His post reminds me why I hate Full House and Family Matters with a passion.

Don't you be ragging on Full House.

Don't you be ragging on Full House.

I would express the extent of my hatred of Full House, but that may get me another warning on NSG.

I would express the extent of my hatred of Full House, but that may get me another warning on NSG.

Well I must admit I haven't watched it since I was about 6-7 except for that one episode when I was in Germany but it was dubbed in German so I could only pick up a few words. That may have something to do with why I have a fondness of it.

What's love got to do with it?
What's love, but a sweet old fashioned notion?

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. Love protects all things, trusts all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 1-8

Ok, before anyone derails the thread with the song from Haddaway. Here is the lyrics.



Ok, now that we got that out of the way. What does love mean to you? What is the difference between loving someone and being "in love"? Does true love exist, and if so, what is true love? If true love exist, then how can you tell when you have it?

To me, love is fondness that is shared between two person, between friends, bf/gfs, mother/father and children, etc. There are different kind of loves. Everyone can love anyone, but when you're "in love" you love that person in a more, deeper, meaningful way, a different kind of connection has been made. That what "in love" and "True love" means to me. As to when you know you have it, well I guess you can't really describe it, you just know it, balls to the walls (Thank you Oracle).

Now for y'alls input!

I just have this to say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8UdYd1HgG8

love
   /lʌv/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [luhv] Show IPA Pronunciation
noun, verb, loved, lov⋅ing.
–noun
1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
2. a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
3. sexual passion or desire.
4. a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.
5. (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love?
6. a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour.
7. sexual intercourse; copulation.
8. (initial capital letter) a personification of sexual affection, as Eros or Cupid.
9. affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one's neighbor.
10. strong predilection, enthusiasm, or liking for anything: her love of books.
11. the object or thing so liked: The theater was her great love.
12. the benevolent affection of God for His creatures, or the reverent affection due from them to God.
13. Chiefly Tennis. a score of zero; nothing.
14. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter L.
–verb (used with object)
15. to have love or affection for: All her pupils love her.
16. to have a profoundly tender, passionate affection for (another person).
17. to have a strong liking for; take great pleasure in: to love music.
18. to need or require; benefit greatly from: Plants love sunlight.
19. to embrace and kiss (someone), as a lover.
20. to have sexual intercourse with.
–verb (used without object)
21. to have love or affection for another person; be in love.
—Verb phrase
22. love up, to hug and cuddle: She loves him up every chance she gets.
—Idioms
23. for love,
a. out of affection or liking; for pleasure.
b. without compensation; gratuitously: He took care of the poor for love.
24. for the love of, in consideration of; for the sake of: For the love of mercy, stop that noise.
25. in love, infused with or feeling deep affection or passion: a youth always in love.
26. in love with, feeling deep affection or passion for (a person, idea, occupation, etc.); enamored of: in love with the girl next door; in love with one's work.
27. make love,
a. to embrace and kiss as lovers.
b. to engage in sexual activity.
28. no love lost, dislike; animosity: There was no love lost between the two brothers.
Origin:
bef. 900; (n.) ME; OE lufu, c. OFris luve, OHG luba, Goth lubō; (v.) ME lov(i)en, OE lufian; c. OFris luvia, OHG lubōn to love, L lubēre (later libēre) to be pleasing; akin to lief

Courtesy of Dictionary.com.

No need to thank me. ;)

Whats love but a sweet old fashioned notion?

What's love, but a sweet old fashioned notion?

What's love got to do, got to do with it?

What's love got to do, got to do with it?Let's ask Ike.

"Hit me again Ike! And this time, put some stank on it!"

And thank you, Vojvodina-Nihon for proving what I was trying to say about how generic the word has become.

"Do it to Julia!"

pwned

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

You don't love anything?

http://www.reelmovienews.com/images/gallery/brick-tamland-photo_293x376.jpg
I love lamp.

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

I've heard that before... but where?

I've heard that before... but where?

I think it came out of a novel.

What is love?

Simple, love is a waste of time. Psychologically, love is the same as insanity, and let us be honest, it is when we let our emotions take over as opposed to logic.

The best comment ever made about love was the following

"Das Licht lösch' ich euch aus, entreisse dem Riff das Gold, schmiede den rächende Ring; denn hör' es die Flut: so verfluch' ich die Liebe!"

Which translates too

"I will put out your light, wrench the gold from the rock, forge the ring of revenge; for hear me, ye waves: thus I curse love!"

I've heard that before... but where?
"love story" book and movie by erich segal

the movie made ali macgraw and ryan oneal stars.

"Do it to Julia!"

Win. I award you one internet.

What is love?

Simple, love is a waste of time. Psychologically, love is the same as insanity, and let us be honest, it is when we let our emotions take over as opposed to logic.

The best comment ever made about love was the following

"Das Licht lösch' ich euch aus, entreisse dem Riff das Gold, schmiede den rächende Ring; denn hör' es die Flut: so verfluch' ich die Liebe!"

Which translates too

"I will put out your light, wrench the gold from the rock, forge the ring of revenge; for hear me, ye waves: thus I curse love!"

Somebody's bitter. Better call the fuckin waaaaaaambulance.