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"Love is believing in someone. "

Poll: "Love is believing in someone."
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Yes, and God IS love!
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There you go, religion boiled down to a chemical equation.
4.17%
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No, it's a lot more than that. Believing in yourself is to learn to love yourself. That's where all love originates. .
12.50%
 3 12.50%
It's sooo not like that at all.
33.33%
 8 33.33%
Love?
12.50%
 3 12.50%
I don't care.
37.50%
 9 37.50%
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"Love is believing in someone. "
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#11
RE: "Love is believing in someone. "
December 7, 2014 at 3:34 pm
I'm in love with a stripper...
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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#12
RE: "Love is believing in someone. "
December 7, 2014 at 3:45 pm
(December 7, 2014 at 3:34 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I'm in love with a stripper...

Been there... Funny story
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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#13
RE: "Love is believing in someone. "
December 7, 2014 at 4:01 pm
(December 7, 2014 at 2:06 pm)abaris Wrote: Believing IN someone was the question.

But I don't need to believe in someone to love them. On the other hand I can believe in someone without loving them.

Not sure of the difference between believing IN someone and just believing them
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#14
RE: "Love is believing in someone. "
December 7, 2014 at 4:46 pm
There are too many people I have to believe in but don't care for at all for that to be true. I only wish they would disappear when they fall beneath my contempt.
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#15
RE: "Love is believing in someone. "
December 7, 2014 at 4:49 pm
Love is the situation that exists when another person's happiness is essential to your own. I think that definition holds true even if you don't believe in the person involved.

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RE: "Love is believing in someone. "
December 7, 2014 at 5:35 pm
I believe that love is ineffable.

(December 7, 2014 at 4:01 pm)polar bear Wrote: Not sure of the difference between believing IN someone and just believing them

Believing someone means that you're crediting their words with truth.

Believing in someone means you're either crediting their existence with truth, or exhibiting faith that they can or will do what they announce as intention.

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