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Is love real?
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RE: Is love real?
(September 22, 2021 at 4:10 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(September 22, 2021 at 4:08 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Well let's put things in reverse.  What is 'essential' to love, that without it, love loses its identity as love?  What can you take away from love and have it still be love?

The the importance of the happiness of the other person. Turn the Heinlein definition around - can you truly say you love someone if you’re indifferent to their happiness? If the happiness factor is removed, it isn’t love. Anything else - physical attractiveness, sex, fear of being alone - is fair game.

Boru

Yeah but most of us aren't indifferent to anyone's happiness short of complete strangers and when it's convenient. Even the drunk at the bus stop evokes concern in many of us. We are a care/ful species by nature.

And is it not love if I need me more than I need you? That seems to be the foundation of many a breakup, even where there's love.
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Is love real? - by Angrboda - September 22, 2021 at 2:42 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2021 at 3:08 pm
RE: Is love real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 22, 2021 at 3:20 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Angrboda - September 22, 2021 at 3:59 pm
RE: Is love real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 22, 2021 at 4:04 pm
RE: Is love real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 22, 2021 at 4:05 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Neo-Scholastic - September 22, 2021 at 5:13 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2021 at 3:24 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Fake Messiah - September 22, 2021 at 3:36 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2021 at 3:38 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Brian37 - September 22, 2021 at 3:40 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2021 at 3:43 pm
RE: Is love real? - by arewethereyet - September 22, 2021 at 4:00 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2021 at 4:03 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Angrboda - September 22, 2021 at 4:04 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2021 at 4:07 pm
RE: Is love real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 22, 2021 at 4:08 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Angrboda - September 22, 2021 at 4:08 pm
RE: Is love real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 22, 2021 at 4:10 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Angrboda - September 22, 2021 at 4:13 pm
RE: Is love real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 22, 2021 at 4:18 pm
RE: Is love real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 22, 2021 at 4:23 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2021 at 4:10 pm
RE: Is love real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 22, 2021 at 4:14 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2021 at 4:15 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2021 at 4:22 pm
RE: Is love real? - by onlinebiker - September 22, 2021 at 4:35 pm
RE: Is love real? - by no one - September 22, 2021 at 4:38 pm
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 22, 2021 at 4:44 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Ranjr - September 22, 2021 at 4:49 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Architect Of Fate - September 22, 2021 at 4:49 pm
RE: Is love real? - by vulcanlogician - September 22, 2021 at 5:28 pm
RE: Is love real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 22, 2021 at 5:52 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 22, 2021 at 5:55 pm
RE: Is love real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 22, 2021 at 5:55 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 22, 2021 at 5:58 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 22, 2021 at 10:03 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Angrboda - September 22, 2021 at 10:06 pm
RE: Is love real? - by arewethereyet - September 22, 2021 at 10:09 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Brian37 - September 22, 2021 at 10:19 pm
RE: Is love real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 23, 2021 at 4:43 am
RE: Is love real? - by Angrboda - September 23, 2021 at 6:57 am
RE: Is love real? - by Foxaèr - September 22, 2021 at 10:08 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 23, 2021 at 12:24 am
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 23, 2021 at 7:46 am
RE: Is love real? - by Angrboda - September 23, 2021 at 8:00 am
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 23, 2021 at 8:02 am
RE: Is love real? - by Ahriman - September 23, 2021 at 8:26 am
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 23, 2021 at 8:33 am
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 23, 2021 at 10:00 am
RE: Is love real? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 23, 2021 at 10:53 am
RE: Is love real? - by arewethereyet - September 23, 2021 at 11:43 am
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 23, 2021 at 10:05 am
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 23, 2021 at 10:18 am
RE: Is love real? - by Angrboda - September 23, 2021 at 10:07 am
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 23, 2021 at 10:44 am
RE: Is love real? - by Ahriman - September 23, 2021 at 10:33 am
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 23, 2021 at 10:40 am
RE: Is love real? - by Ahriman - September 23, 2021 at 10:51 am
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 23, 2021 at 12:52 pm
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 23, 2021 at 10:44 am
RE: Is love real? - by Ahriman - September 23, 2021 at 10:53 am
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 23, 2021 at 11:05 am
RE: Is love real? - by Ahriman - September 23, 2021 at 11:36 am
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 23, 2021 at 11:40 am
RE: Is love real? - by Ahriman - September 23, 2021 at 11:47 am
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 23, 2021 at 11:53 am
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RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 23, 2021 at 12:51 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Ahriman - September 23, 2021 at 1:23 pm
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 23, 2021 at 2:18 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Ahriman - September 23, 2021 at 2:33 pm
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 23, 2021 at 3:04 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Ahriman - September 23, 2021 at 3:52 pm
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 23, 2021 at 4:16 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Ahriman - September 23, 2021 at 4:25 pm
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 23, 2021 at 5:58 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Architect Of Fate - September 23, 2021 at 6:38 pm
RE: Is love real? - by arewethereyet - September 23, 2021 at 7:19 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 24, 2021 at 6:32 pm
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 24, 2021 at 7:31 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 25, 2021 at 9:02 am
RE: Is love real? - by brewer - September 25, 2021 at 9:09 am
RE: Is love real? - by Ahriman - September 25, 2021 at 9:17 am
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 25, 2021 at 10:09 am
RE: Is love real? - by Ahriman - September 25, 2021 at 12:06 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Angrboda - September 25, 2021 at 12:14 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 25, 2021 at 12:24 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Angrboda - September 25, 2021 at 10:11 am
RE: Is love real? - by Brian37 - September 23, 2021 at 7:25 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 24, 2021 at 10:02 am
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 24, 2021 at 6:34 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Spongebob - September 24, 2021 at 6:41 pm
RE: Is love real? - by HappySkeptic - September 24, 2021 at 9:09 pm
RE: Is love real? - by no one - September 25, 2021 at 12:18 pm
RE: Is love real? - by Angrboda - September 25, 2021 at 12:21 pm
RE: Is love real? - by The Grand Nudger - September 25, 2021 at 12:49 pm
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