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Open Forum => Off-Topic => Topic started by: mycoolgirl on July 04, 2010, 10:59:12 PM
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To me it feels like an endless amount of hope and I don’t need to question. Now with that said I have changed my views on what love is many times and chances are they will change again at some point.
What is your opinion? Please share…..
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Love actually doesn't usually "feel" like anything to me. Occasionally, love "feels" euphoric, and occasionally, love "hurts". But most of the time my love is more rational. It is a desire to bring about what is best for another person. I suppose the most common "feeling" that I associate with love is a longing for them when they are absent.
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i think the best way to sum up love is sacrifice.
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Good question
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Love is...
... giving up the biggest piece of cake to someone else.
... letting someone else have the end of the loaf of bread even though that's the best part.
... letting someone else go before you in line, even though that would be the last person allowed in.
... opening a door for someone that you are not trying to impress.
... losing when you really could have won.
... learning to do something that you really don't want to do because someone else wants to do it.
... admitting you were wrong to keep the peace, even when you weren't wrong.
... forgiving someone that doesn't deserve forgiveness.
... being nice to a Yankees fan.
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i think the best way to sum up love is sacrifice.
Sacrifice is just a result of the true manifestation of love, which is placing someone's needs higher than your own.
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love is a verb, not a noun.
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You know, this may sound sad, but I honestly don't think I know what love feels like. I have studied love, and I'd like to be able to say that I have felt it, but really it seems like something that when you feel it, you KNOW. So I guess I'll just keep looking...
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I disagree. Lust is something that you just KNOW, but love takes hard work and committment. The rewards are innumerable and you will have no regrets, but if you trust your feelings to find you love, then you will either be disappointed or you will truly hurt someone else (or both).
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You know, this may sound sad, but I honestly don't think I know what love feels like. I have studied love, and I'd like to be able to say that I have felt it, but really it seems like something that when you feel it, you KNOW. So I guess I'll just keep looking...
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love feels like...spaghetti-o's. cuz they're yummy.
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love feels like...spaghetti-o's. cuz they're yummy.
That would be lust. ;)
Love would be eating spinach, so that someone else could eat the Spaghetti-o's.
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... losing when you really could have won.
... admitting you were wrong to keep the peace, even when you weren't wrong.
I agreed with the rest of the list, but not these 2. The first seems patronizing, and the second seems like lying.
You know, this may sound sad, but I honestly don't think I know what love feels like.
Actually I didn't learn what love felt like until I was in college. I dated before that, but only felt "like". I treated people with respect and love, but I couldn't recognize the feeling until college.
On a related note, I didn't really know what hunger felt like until I participated in a 40-hour famine in college. I had thought I was hungry millions of times before that, but I didn't actually know that there was that specific feeling you get in your stomach until then.
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that reminds me of this one time i was hungry.
i ate some spaghetti-o's.
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I agreed with the rest of the list, but not these 2. The first seems patronizing, and the second seems like lying.
... losing when you really could have won.
Christ could have conquered the Romans and not died on the cross. He could have won the earthly battle, but He chose not to, so He could win the heavenly battle. Likewise, I can chose not to win an earthly battle, so that I can win a more enduring battle.
... admitting you were wrong to keep the peace, even when you weren't wrong.
When faced with an opposition who refuses to believe that they were wrong, the end result can either be conflict or peace. The Bible says to not let the sun go down on your anger. Besides, how many times was I the one who was wrong, and yet my loved ones just let it go. You can perceive it however you want, but to continue in war when peace is readily available seems like a foolish option, rather than a loving one.
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When Jesus says to love your neighbors like yourself does that mean people around the world that you cannot know? When I look at starving children or random people I care for them , but not very much. How can you love them like yourself? The reality is I wouldn't risk my life for some random person I don't even know or love them as much as my family etc... I don't think you can love everyone.
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... love takes hard work and committment.
Maybe human love does, but God's love is something we cannot earn by performing earthly tasks, no matter how much physical suffering we endure. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast." - Ephesians 2:8 (NIV)
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Maybe human love does, but God's love is something we cannot earn by performing earthly tasks, no matter how much physical suffering we endure. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast." - Ephesians 2:8 (NIV)
The title of the thread was about how love feels to me, which would be human love. I don't disagree with the verse about God's Love.
The reality is I wouldn't risk my life for some random person I don't even know or love them as much as my family etc....
Hopefully being a fireman or law enforcement officer is not one of your future plans. ;)
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The reality is I wouldn't risk my life for some random person I don't even know or love them as much as my family etc....
Hopefully being a fireman or law enforcement officer is not one of your future plans. ;)
I'll hopefully be an EMT in the future, because I want to spread God's love to those who really need it.
I believe that today's (Western) culture does not really understand what love is. You guys seem to have a much greater handle on it.
For me, part of love is a willingness to put another's needs/wants above your own. It is NOT an ooey-gooey feeling. That's lust.
More later.
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When Jesus says to love your neighbors like yourself does that mean people around the world that you cannot know? When I look at starving children or random people I care for them , but not very much. How can you love them like yourself? The reality is I wouldn't risk my life for some random person I don't even know or love them as much as my family etc... I don't think you can love everyone.
We can't. God through us CAN.
Except for the admitting you're wrong thing (I just drop the subject. Like it says in Proverbs 17:14 (New International Version)
14 Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam;
so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.)
I am with My math teacher. It takes a lot of work to keep a relationship going.
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Except for the admitting you're wrong thing (I just drop the subject. Like it says in Proverbs 17:14 (New International Version)
14 Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam;
so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.)
That's more or less what I meant. Perhaps "willing to be wrong" would be better?
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Except for the admitting you're wrong thing (I just drop the subject. Like it says in Proverbs 17:14 (New International Version)
14 Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam;
so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.)
That's more or less what I meant. Perhaps "willing to be wrong" would be better?
That sounds a lot better.
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they had dams back in bible days? :o
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they had dams back in bible days? :o
They had beavers. ;)
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and irrigation
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Christ could have conquered the Romans and not died on the cross.
I don't consider Christ's sacrifice on the cross losing, so this doesn't seem to me to apply.
When faced with an opposition who refuses to believe that they were wrong, the end result can either be conflict or peace.
There are better ways to peace than lying. You and I disagree on these boards often, but at the end of the day, we come to at least some sort of resolution and peace. I know that when I go to bed at night, I'm not mad at you, and I'm gonna guess that the same is true for you.
That's more or less what I meant. Perhaps "willing to be wrong" would be better?
I could get behind that though. I think it is loving to say that although I think I'm right, that I realize I could be wrong, and I'm willing to stop arguing about it when that arguing serves no purpose other than to damage our relationship.
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I don't consider Christ's sacrifice on the cross losing, so this doesn't seem to me to apply.
It did to the Romans, and other unbelievers, which is the point I was making. I know that my actions are not really a loss, but the other person may not fully understand what I just did until later (if ever).
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love feels like...spaghetti-o's.
Because it only costs $0.59?
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love feels like...spaghetti-o's.
Because it only costs $0.59?
Sadly, too true...
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I know that my actions are not really a loss, but the other person may not fully understand
I might be able to get behind that. This makes me think of chess where someone "loses" a piece in order to set up a trap that ends up "winning" the game. But in this case, are you really "loving" your opponent when you let them take your piece or are you really just using them?
It could be loving to be willing to appear to lose for someone else. Although I'm really not sure. I once was in an argument with a friend about the Holy Spirit. I knew that he was wrong, and I was pretty confident that if I continued the argument that I could prove the contradiction in his perspective. However, I also realized that his faith was somewhat dependent on his understanding of this belief. I decided to back off, and it appeared to the people there that I lost the argument. At the time I felt like I had done the right thing. However, years later he ended up losing his faith and converting to Judaism anyway. Now that I reflect on it, I'm not sure whether I did the right thing or not.
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This reminds me of my life verse: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13 While personally, I am almost always ready to sacrifice my life for another (Which explains why I've always wanted to be a police officer), I've always had the feeling that this verse is more of a spiritual representation of love. It brings to mind the passage (I forget which one) where Paul mentions that if he could, he would give up his eternal life if it would mean that his friends would be able to go to heaven. While it's kind of obvious that's not possible for us to do, it is a perfect representation of Christ's love for us, and it has always been a goal of mine to try and feel that way about everyone that I meet. Now, my actions don't always reflect this, but I do often think about it...
Now, I have a feeling this thread is more about the love one has for a person of the opposite gender... In this respect, I have also "felt" like I loved someone else, but I believe my feelings were a bit premature. My thoughts on loving someone come from the places in the Bible where it talks about how a man should honor his wife and cherish her like a hidden treasure and other things similar to that. As somewhat mentioned before, I also know that both people in a relationship should be willing to sacrifice anything that doesn't align with what God is leading you to do. The Bible is quite clear on what love should look like, both for other people, as well as the relationship between a man an a woman. I feel that my feelings were premature because I'm still young. Neither I, nor the other person could possibly be able to enter a godly relationship at this time. Sure, our paths continually cross, but God is leading both of us to pursue higher education right at this moment, and with that, we will be physically separated for some time. Where I think Biblical love comes in is that I can recognize this and I can wait until God allows the time to be right, if the time truly will ever be right. Putting God first is the best way to show your love for someone else, so in this respect, yeah, I've "felt" love.
Pursue God, and the rest will follow.
-C_S