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Types of love

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Types of love
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RE: Types of love
July 5, 2015 at 3:48 pm


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RE: Types of love
July 5, 2015 at 4:48 pm (This post was last modified: July 5, 2015 at 4:49 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Love is the situation that exists when another person's happiness is essential to your own.  This definition can be checked by inverting it:  If you are indifferent to another person's happiness (or unhappiness), you cannot 'love' them without stretching the word out of all recognizable shape.

This definition seems to encapsulate all kinds of love, but it can sometimes be hard to differentiate it from other kinds of attraction:  fondness, codependence, friendship, affection and so on.

Put another way, love is having the same feeling about someone when you're NOT horny.

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RE: Types of love
July 5, 2015 at 6:06 pm (This post was last modified: July 5, 2015 at 6:07 pm by Longhorn.)
(July 5, 2015 at 3:18 am)robvalue Wrote: As a rule of thumb though, I'd ask you if you'd give your life to save the person. If yes, then that is love.

I would find this to be a little unclear. I have no idea how I would act in that situation, given that choice. I'd like to think I'd do the right thing, but I can't be sure

but then again, maybe I just don't 'love love' anyone
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RE: Types of love
July 5, 2015 at 8:24 pm
Don't we also attach "love" to ideals just as much as to living things?
I love my freedom
I love the thought of a true secular society
I love honour
I love mankind's strive to understand the universe through science, etc
I think it's just an emotion for ulitmate truth, good?
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