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love is not an emotion, it is a choice
I think what you are talking about is infatuation or strong desire and attachment, a deep caring. But that is not love, it is an soulish connection and strong affection that is emotionally based.
Love as it is defined by the Bible is a choice to put another before yourself unconditionally, even if it means sacrifice of self
an honoring of a covenant or contract with a person that you never break for any reason.
posted by
calmcantey75
on June 23, 2005 at 6:31 PM
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Gheeghee
What the hell are you talking about? I never took anyone's idea and passed it off as my own. Are you smoking something there? If you are talking about the quote, I very clearly quoted it from the comment before and never once tried to make it sound like my own. You might wish to learn to read comments in order that they were posted so that you do not seem the fool you very often make yourself out to be.
Here I had thought you had finally grown up and were ready to stop trying to use childish forms of discrediting me to make your self feel more righteous. I guess I was wrong.
posted by
kooka_lives
on March 21, 2005 at 3:36 PM
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do you make it a habit of using other's ideas and passing them off as your own? (pick up an MLA and learn how the language works...let empty hand borrow it while you're at it. You obviously learned your lack of respect for the written word from him.)
posted by
Gheeghee
on March 21, 2005 at 6:36 AM
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DarrkeThoughts
If God is love, then God is nothing at all lie the Bible has it. In fact if God is love then that God can not be worshipped in the way we try to worship God or gods or higher beings. You can in some ways consider love to be a god or god like, but the idea of love being an entity or powered by an entity really does not work.
Love is something that comes from a deeper level of one's soul and is generated by the person itself. You would turn love into something much less effective by trying to attach some kind of will or mind behind it.
posted by
kooka_lives
on March 20, 2005 at 3:19 PM
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Gheeghee
First off I was quoting someone else there and remarking about the truth in that comment. Second, when did I limit love? I even talk about how it we get lost in the beliefs that love is something greater than its parts. That is giving it no limits. Now I am rational about it and admit this can not be proven. Just because I refuse to see the fictional idea of God presented by the Bible as love does not mean I am limiting it at all. If anything to say that God is love is much more limiting than my views on it.
posted by
kooka_lives
on March 20, 2005 at 3:16 PM
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""I think most of us define love as what we wish it could be for ourselves... Never realizing how much more we could ask for!" Then why do you limit your definition in your post if this comment of yours is what you really believe?
posted by
Gheeghee
on March 20, 2005 at 11:24 AM
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reducing human beings to " chemical reactions"
is a subtle justification for behaving like a baboon
posted by
chrysalis
on March 20, 2005 at 12:12 AM
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Don't confuse love with chemistry...there's that all too human attraction we feel at times. But love is considering someone else's needs and wants before yours when you DON'T feel it. And I do believe that is God...whether you look at it like a "Santa Clause is the spirit of giving" kind of way, or otherwise.
I guess your main goal is to try to prove that the God of the Bible does not exist, but does that mean that there is no God at all? Maybe the Bible just isn't as inspired as some people think?
posted by
DarrkeThoughts
on March 19, 2005 at 9:02 PM
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Ciel
"I think most of us define love as what we wish it could be for ourselves... Never realizing how much more we could ask for!"
Now that has a lot of truth to it.
posted by
kooka_lives
on March 19, 2005 at 6:07 PM
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Kooka, That's the problem with that word, Love...
It's like saying God is Blue... What shade? What hue? Which blue exactly? All Blues? Indigo, too, or is that more like purple? And if you come from the Trobriand Islands, is it a wet blue or a dry blue, or only a slightly moist blue, because those are perceived as altogether different colors there...
I have arrived at an understanding that Love is an energy and at the highest octave of it, the highest wavelength of it that we can, as human beings, perceive-- There is God, as close as I can get to It. We only barely, vaguely touch on it, most of us, in our daily lives... but we toss around the word pretty casually, with all sorts of baggage hung on it.
I think most of us define love as what we wish it could be for ourselves... Never realizing how much more we could ask for!
posted by
Ciel
on March 19, 2005 at 3:34 PM
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