OasisofRefuge:
Although i dont know much about love. but the little i know, its beyond dictionary and human explanation. its so deep.
its not emotion alone. its deeper than that.
how can you explain the action of a mother who bought food to feed her little child, before giving the child, she taste it first. in orderwords, should there's poison, she has to die first. unconsciously almost all mothers taste food before giving their children. that's one serious kind of love. its amazing.
what of a man who will not share his body with another woman even when he's far away from home and feeling Hot. he still chose to stay faithful. not because the wife will know if he sleep with someone else, but he chose not to. that's another level of love.
To me when we talk about LOVE, we talk about responsibility, forgiveness, displeasing yourself to make someone comfortable, showing kindness without expecting any form of reward.
Above all, when we talk about love, we talk about God

MizMyColi:

Ancient Greeks distinguished four kinds of love:-
1. Kinship or familiarity (storge),
2. Friendship (philia),
3. Sexual and/or romantic desire (eros), and
4. Self-emptying or divine love (agape).

Emphasis on the last emboldened.
That is the kind of love I would that we all aspire to.

frank317:


how do you intend to aspire and get to self emptying or divine love? how can a mortal been aspire to divine love? are u a divine being?

Kay17:
yes, but lets find the basic nature of love which binds kinship, friendship, romantic desire and self emptying together as Love before we talk abut the action of Love. Since love comes from within man, and it is not primarily a function of our rationality, it has to be an emotion or an instinct.

MizMyColi:
You can term it an innate predisposition in and among humans.

MizMyColi:
You can term it an innate predisposition in and among humans.

Kay17:


That's more general, I will agree love is an innate predisposition in humans.

Next, is love only in humans, or does it exist amongst other animals, atomic particles and Universe?

Kay17:


That's more general, I will agree love is an innate predisposition in humans.

Next, is love only in humans, or does it exist amongst other animals, atomic particles and Universe?

From the little I know, I'd say it exists in animals.
I haven't finished combing my street so I wouldn't know much about the universe.
However I earnestly wanna believe that it does.

Atomic Particles?

MizMyColi:



Atomic Particles? [/font]

plaetton:


Yes dear, since love is a strong emotion that shows physiological/biological characteristics, we cannot ignore what or how it is triggered at the cellular and atomic levels.

That's interesting, thanks

Kay17:
@mizmycoli

I have always wanted to settle this issue of love with you, because your posts have the strongest conviction in love as the viable way of life and most important "element" in the Universe.

Although it is difficult to define love, but we can agree that we both know intuitively what love is and what is expected of it. Can we agree love is an emotion?

Mclick:
One could love a thing or a person. when one professes to love what you natural like or derives pleasure in, it may not be all true love, but when you love a thing or someone you have reason not to want to love, that's true love. There are always some reason attached to professed love; benefits, looks, and or beauty, personality, race and lineage some times out of selfishness. In most cases, a person or even animals you truely love will love you back in short and or long run as they will feel it, if its real true. For example God loves us his children differently. There are those who seem to have more access to God, his presence, power and authority because they have paid the sacrifice to be closer to him and so be reverence them for that. Therefore, Love some times is returns of a measure. So if I love a person who appreciate it, there are tendencies I will love more. In the other way however, I may still love but not more

Image123:


God is Love.

Dapo777:

Bravo

Dapo777:


You are saying this to atheists?

plaetton:

I think the emotion itself is the outward or biochemical manifestation of harmony.
In fact, Harmonic Resonance is the best way to describe love.
When to atoms or atomic particles resonate in harmony or with a common frequency, they act in similar manner.
At the biological level, love is the biological or physiological manifestation of Resonance.

We can either tune into it, or in the case of parent and child, it comes as the default setting.

In the case of the universe, we can say that love pervades the universe, since particles do seek and find resonance with other particles.
As it is above, so it is below.

I hope I have made a little sense.
Lol.

Mclick:
you mean the Op is an atheist or you mean my post has elements of atheism or religious?

Kay17:


Ok, where/what is the connection between the mental state of emotion and the physical state of atomic particles? Because without proving that vital connection, it is impossible to sustain a theory that atomic particles exhibit love.

Dapo777:


The Op is.

Mclick:
you mean my post has elements or religiousity? Its common sense that there is God, not talking about his powers. Atheism is born out of incomplete philosophy, lack of the knowledge of the true God. Atheism is born out of some philosophy. Philosophy is more and observation and theorization about physical nature. Note there is spiritual nature. Human mind will function in the direction it is committed to. Talking about knowledge as it relates to believe system. Knowledge is what you get through learning. Sometimes we also learn things wrongly either as a result of breakdown is communications between source, the person teaching it and the recipient of the knowledge. The breakdown in communication has course a lot to derail from the truth. God won't strive with man, as he has given man a free will to choose. From the forging therefore, until a man comes to the point of realisation of God's all powerful and self sufficient attributes. God will keep been unreal to the unreal man. Certainly, there will always be that point at every man's life, even if he tries to deny it, when he comes to the acknowledgments of the principle that underline the nature of cosmos, I mean God, the creator, the beginning and the end of everything. Its so glaring in nature that there is God. That we find it difficult to understand him sometimes is what makes him God

Kay17:
@mizmycoli

We have both agreed on the basics, the next step is acknowledging that love searches and attaches to a bond

plaetton:


What I am trying to say is that when when atomic particle, for example charges, or excites another particle to it's own resonate frequency, they establish a harmony that I think is the subatomic equivalence of love, resonating in the same frequency.

The Earth, for example, has a harmonic frequency through which it bestows and sustains life among her children. Therefore, I t would be safe to say that the Earth communicates and spreads love to her children through harmonic resonance.

When we do same, we feel the harmonic resonance as an emotion that we call love.

Again, my 2 cents.

texanomaly:


In this thread you sound more and more like a man who believes in a "oneness". Interesting.

plaetton:

Actually mam, I am with the school of thought that suggests that there is only one electron in the universe that just mirrors itself throughout the universe.

Dapo777:


I have made up my mind to stop arguing about all these religion issues,it leads no Where. But take a look at this man,and tell me What you think about him. Be right back with the story.

How would you describe a man that sits you down with very hot fire he created beside him,telling you: you know What? You see Dat fire over there? I created it,and It's very hot,But I don't wish you to go into the fire because I love you,But I still created the fire. Here is the deal,I know I gave u ur freewill But I don't want u to do ur will But mine. I want u to love me and do everything I say So I can be happy,But just incase you don't want to do my will,that fire over there is waiting to receive you(smiles) ,I am not forcing you to do my will ooo and I am not interfering with ur will at all ooo But I created that fire over there to torture you If u don't do my will,you see that i am not interferring at all,But I am not forcing u ooooo yet I created a very hot fire to BURN you for eternity,you see that I am not forcing you,don't think that fire is a threat against your will,see that fire as my anger for u not obeying my will because I love u and I love u enough to see you burn for eternity. Tell me who do you know loves as much as I do? Who else is as caring as to see his children burn in hell for eternity as me? You see that I am the Most caring? THAT'S my boy. Now the decision is yours, love me or burn in hell for eternity,Which one do you choose?