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Geek Culture / What does love mean to you?

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RedneckRambo
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Posted: 15th Jul 2009 01:48
Beat me to it Jimmy lol.
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You guys are heartless machines controlled by an alien government!

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I still say love is pain. Granted I've never experienced it myself, but I've had friends who were reduced to a pile of crying masses after what their girlfriends did to them. One of them had to break up with his girlfriend because he caught her with his best friend... I better shut up about that now (his best friend isn't what you'd think he was)...

In the beginning there was nothing. There'll be nothing in the end...
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o.O
O.o
0.o
O.0

I listen to song lyrics to learn love.

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Lonnehart. Maybe what your friend had for the girl was love but she sure didn't love him back. Love isn't pain. When both people love each other it's the best thing in the world to them.

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Quote: "Agent Dink said:

Lonnehart. Maybe what your friend had for the girl was love but she sure didn't love him back. Love isn't pain. When both people love each other it's the best thing in the world to them.

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Like I said... he's not WHAT you think he is... man, what an animal....

maybe you get what I mean now... X(

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RedneckRambo
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Posted: 15th Jul 2009 03:27 Edited at: 15th Jul 2009 03:27
Quote: "Like I said... he's not WHAT you think he is... man, what an animal....

maybe you get what I mean now... X("

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Er...I think I do.


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Posted: 15th Jul 2009 04:11
Quote: "Like I said... he's not WHAT you think he is... man, what an animal....

maybe you get what I mean now... X("


Are you talking about your cats?

NaGaFailMo.
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Love is meaningless. It's just a dumb excuse for sex.

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Posted: 15th Jul 2009 04:52
Quote: "Nope, that's just you, bub."


Lol.


I sense a future new girlfriend topic.

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Quote: "I sense a future new girlfriend topic."

Are you implying I'll get a girlfriend? If you aren't, all of my molecules will simultaneously fly apart.

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Ha ha, Brick Break, you will definitely get a girlfriend some day, I guarantee it. Granted, she may sound like Julia Child and resemble me with a wig.

NaGaFailMo.
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Posted: 15th Jul 2009 05:26
Quote: "Love is meaningless. It's just a dumb excuse for sex."


o.O 16 months and still going says I disagree with you. If it was a dumb excuse for sex...I could certainly find a much easier way to get that...


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Posted: 15th Jul 2009 15:37
Quote: "Love is meaningless. It's just a dumb excuse for sex."

What (excuse the wording) a bullcrap. I've been with my previous girlfriend for 2.5 years and with my current one for a month or two, and I've not been married and thus not had sex with either of them. I do love them though.

You're a sad, sad person.


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Potassium
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Posted: 15th Jul 2009 16:33
Quote: ""Love is meaningless. It's just a dumb excuse for sex."
"


I doubt that's why there's love. I've never had a girlfriend or anything, but I'm pretty sure love is not a "dumb excuse for sex".

Love isn't pain, well unless you have a broken heart

What's considered a long relationship?
Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 15th Jul 2009 19:25
@ Brick Break

We're all conceived in love... weather it be the love two people share with each other or the simple love of pleasure. Love also makes sure we're kept alive till adulthood. Your parents either love you unconditionally and want to keep you alive... or they just love freedom from jail and only take care of you because they have to. Love is all around us... you just don't notice it right now because you're focused on a specific type of love.

RedneckRambo
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Posted: 15th Jul 2009 20:04
Quote: "Love is meaningless. It's just a dumb excuse for sex."

That statement right there is the reason you have never had a girlfriend. The moment you fall in love, your entire world perspective will change.
Zeus
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Posted: 15th Jul 2009 21:33
I found you a woman Brick Break!



I am sure you too will be the perfect match! I mean, I am sure you look just alike!

...

Only kidding.

Potassium
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@Zeus

The picture you found looks like Birck Break's avatar, but really that might hurt his feelings. I know its a joke, but if that were aimed at me, i would feel offended.

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Check out this video using the "What is love..."

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Posted: 18th Jul 2009 18:42
Love is a combination of strong feelings of attraction and affection. What the individual gets out of this differs from person to person.

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Posted: 19th Jul 2009 15:58 Edited at: 19th Jul 2009 15:59
I am not sure what love is. Just know it is. Love is not pain or an excuse for sex.

Quote: "You guys are heartless machines controlled by an alien government!"


Well, I sort of built a mind control device, so not the alien government is controlled by me, so I rule you all .

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Posted: 20th Jul 2009 04:28
Love is watching someone die.

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Posted: 20th Jul 2009 10:23 Edited at: 20th Jul 2009 10:24
Quote: "Love is a combination of strong feelings of attraction and affection."


I think it's funny that people think love is a feeling. That's completely false. You cannot feel love. Love is when you care about someone deeply so that you will sacrifice anything for them, even when you feel no emotional attachment towards them. If you think love is a feeling, then you're in for a divorce, because, believe it or not, that feeling will go away at some point for some time.

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Posted: 20th Jul 2009 10:48 Edited at: 20th Jul 2009 10:48
Love is the opposite of what they are trying to teach us nowadays.

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Posted: 20th Jul 2009 12:50 Edited at: 20th Jul 2009 12:52
Love is always in the centre of Clover, the butter that's churned with love, so Love is just cholesterol clogging your arteries? Hmm, no wonder I lead a life of darkness and evil, I use Flora and Benecol, which helps lower cholesterol.

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Posted: 20th Jul 2009 13:51 Edited at: 20th Jul 2009 13:52
Most people do not seem to know the difference between love and the first falling in love.

Love itself is a deep feeling of connection and careing for another person. It is one of the "skills" that make us human. It is the only good thing on earth I still believe in.

Love is my religion



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Potassium
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Posted: 20th Jul 2009 19:45
Quote: "You cannot feel love."

Of course not, love isn't a physical object.

Quote: "Love is watching someone die."

I thought that was hate.

Quote: "Love is when you care about someone deeply so that you will sacrifice anything for them, even when you feel no emotional attachment towards them."


Please explain a little better what that means, I can't really understand the meaning of what you're trying to say.
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Posted: 21st Jul 2009 01:04 Edited at: 21st Jul 2009 01:07
Quote: "But you can love a lot of things such as Dark Basic PRO, FPSC, DarkGDK,etc...

Love to A PERSON is what most of you described."

I believe it was the Greeks who had specific words for specific types of love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love

To put it briefly (and inject a few things from my half-forgotten RE classes):
Agape: love of things generally. So "I love DB Pro"
Eros: sexual love, sensual desire
Philia: friendship, or a generally dispassionate but virtuous love
Storge: unconditional love which may never be returned by the other party, eg. love for children, or love for the less fortunate people of the world.

Quote: "Love is watching someone die."

How nice!

For what it's worth, I think love arose because it benefitted the human race as a whole. If a couple love each other and have children, and then stay together to raise this child due to their love for each other and for the child, then that means good things for the human race generally. I could go into more detail, but my explanation involves evolution so it might not be such a good idea to voice it.

However, although I think this is why love arose in the first place, that doesn't mean that it has no value. Sex exists in nature for procreation, and the pleasure we get from it is, from nature's point of view, an addendum - but that doesn't mean that this makes non-procreative sex worthless. Similarly, just because all those hormones and brainwaves were put there for the survival of genes doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy them.

Quote: "Love is when you care about someone deeply so that you will sacrifice anything for them, even when you feel no emotional attachment towards them."

I have felt that way towards certain people sometimes: if they had stepped out into the path of an oncoming car I would have (I think) pushed them out the way and sacrificed myself. But I'm not sure if that really was love, because the decision on my part was entirely intellectual: it was as though I had determined to do those things not because I loved those people, but only because I wanted to behave like somebody who did love those people. Of course, since it's such a personal experience it would be difficult to explain it adequately, and differentiate it from pure desire, until the person you're talking to has also experienced it.

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Posted: 21st Jul 2009 07:54 Edited at: 21st Jul 2009 08:01
Quote: ""Love is when you care about someone deeply so that you will sacrifice anything for them, even when you feel no emotional attachment towards them."

Please explain a little better what that means, I can't really understand the meaning of what you're trying to say."


Sure. What I mean is that if you truly love someone, then even if you don't feel the warm-fuzzyness of affection, you will still do anything for that person. This is the reason (one of the reasons at least) why there are so many divorces today. Couples get married quickly because they get caught up in the emotions of affection. Once these emotions pass, they find out that they don't really love each other as much as they thought, and the marriage ends. In contrast, the only truly, completely unconditional love you can ever receive is from God, who's Son died for our sins on a cross.

I hope I explained it better.

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Divorces...

Well that must explain why there's a lot of breakups in high school and college. You see kids say "WOOT, I've found love", and then a few weeks (or months) later, they don't feel it anymore, and then they say "It's over ".

There's 1-way love, and there's 2-way love. 1-way love is when you love that person, but they don't necessarily love you, vice versa. 2-way love is when two people love each other. Not sure about 3-way...

Imagine this...

Quote: "Two people are in love. One day they are walking on the road. Suddenly an insane driver is driving so fast that it is about to run somebody over. The man tries to protect the woman, but the woman tries to help the man. But the car anyways runs over the two people, and both die. "


So....

Quote: "Love is when you care about someone deeply so that you will sacrifice anything for them, even when you feel no emotional attachment towards them"


...Not sure if this is a CONTRADICTION.
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2009 03:41 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2009 03:41
When I say "emotional attachment" I mean the feelings that pass, like you said about high-schoolers and college students.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2009 10:02
I think the Powerpuff girls said it best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zQgKk3g7Uo

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Dear god no, not the powerpuff girls!!!

Love makes the world go round... along with about a billion other things...
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Haha, best movie ever.

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Love to me is to give my place in heaven for one last breathe, just to see her smile one last time.

To give the rest of my life for one single day with her.

To me this would represent love in as many ways as possible.

Link

This is a very, very good short, by Mikeinel, its olny 3 minutes but pretty much sums up my view.

This by all ways it represents love to me...

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"Love is getting head in a swimming pool."

Funniest line I've heard from a youtube video, ever.

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Posted: 24th Jul 2009 17:18 Edited at: 24th Jul 2009 17:20
Quote: "
I think it's funny that people think love is a feeling. That's completely false. You cannot feel love. Love is when you care about someone deeply so that you will sacrifice anything for them, even when you feel no emotional attachment towards them. If you think love is a feeling, then you're in for a divorce, because, believe it or not, that feeling will go away at some point for some time.
"


Maybe I should elaborate. It is attraction that makes you notice someone of the opposite sex (or the same sex). This attraction may just be a notion of "she's fit", but if you're attracted to someone enough, you may develop a crush or some desire for the person. Of course, attraction alone is not enough to justify love. Humans have a natural desire to care for their partner. Since neanderthal times, men and women would partner up as a result of attraction to one another and; out of a growing sense of affection, they would feel obligated to care for and protect each other. It is human nature at it's most rudimentary. If you was a female human living in 5000bc (or whatever) you would have a greater chance of survival if you had a man to provide for you and protect you. This indicates affection, but there would have to be attraction (atleast initially) to attract the two people to each other in the first place. Arguably, the reason many relationships don't last forever is because the attraction wears off and there is not a strong enough sense of affection to keep the couple together. Take dating, for instance. You asked out an incredibly hot, popular girl from school and you've been dating for the past week or two. You find her very attractive but think she is a complete airhead and is shallow (or something in that vain.) So, you are with a girl who you are very attracted to but have little to no affection for. The relationship will be short-lived because you don't care for her in the same way you might care for Miss Right.

I'm sure people will argue that attraction + affection does not = love and they may be right. "Love" is a very vague term that means many things to many people. Some may argue that love is nothing more than an idea or a meaningless word. So I'm going to think of it like this: If you think you are in love, you are; or atleast were initially, very attracted to the person. (Bare in mind that being attractive is not the same as being beautiful.) More importantly, you have a lot of affection for the person, which relates to the desire to be with her, for reasons beyond physical attractiveness. This is why people who are "in love" often decide to get married and people who are not in love have difficulty maintaining a relationship once the sense of attraction has worn off.

Ultimately, "love" as a term doesn't seem to have a dictionary definition. But anyone who believes they are in love DOES feel both attraction and affection in due measure for the object of their desires and this is attributed to basic human nature.

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Well I guess love is getting the *crap* beat out of you when you tell her you loved her. Lol jk. ( although that probably does happen ).
I guess love is commitment, attraction, affection, and sometime money... Lol jk again. ( but yet again it does happen to be involved )

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True love is not the love you would usually see in high school and college relationships. They're usually just date as many people as possible in one school year. Pointless.

It's just a waste of time if you're going to be involved in a situation like that.


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Quote: "They're usually just date as many people as possible in one school year. Pointless."


But in RPG terms the XP are massive

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The love you give is equal to the rape charges you get...

My lady and I have been together for almost 6 years. We have a little girl that will enter the world on or around September 7th. Her name will be Penelope. Love to me is feeling her move around inside her mother's belly and being excited for what is to come. So, I would say that love can be 'felt' vicariously through our other senses.

Quote: "True love is not the love you would usually see in high school and college relationships. They're usually just date as many people as possible in one school year. Pointless."


I wouldn't say pointless. It may give you an idea as to what you are or are not looking for in a relationship in the future. There are lots of different types of people in the world just like there is lots of different types of beer. You have to experiment to see what fits your personality the best. Wouldn't it suck to love Guinness and be stuck on a desert island with an endless supply of Pabst Blue ribbon when you know that there is an endless supply of Guinness out there somewhere?

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Love is love, nothing more to it, it is different to every person, there is no point in trying to decide what love really is because most people won't agree with each other.

Love is only what you think it is, simply because if you thought love was nothing more than sex, you most likely would not have a deep emotional attachment to your girlfriend\wife. However, if you thought love was spending time together and having fun, you would probably make a deep emotional attachment. Just my thoughts.
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For some reason, the location of the guy who posted the one above me in combination with this threads topic slightly disturbs me.


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I love a girl but not romantically, only friendly. You don't need to have a girl as your girlfriend to love them.

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LOL @ the_rami

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Love is a cute little bunny.

A bunny that gets hit by a pickup truck.

A pickup truck that gets mutilated by Optimus Prime.

An Optimus Prime that gets bisected by Megatron.

One might be able to discern my situation from this elaborate metaphor directed by Michael Bay.



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Posted: 27th Jul 2009 10:41 Edited at: 27th Jul 2009 10:42
Heh, I saw this quote :
Quote: "Love is when you care about someone deeply so that you will sacrifice anything for them, even when you feel no emotional attachment towards them"
and thought I had said it near the beginning of this thread, but couldn't quite remember what I had meant by the last bit. Turned out I had said:-
Quote: "It's the state of being that will make you, if required, happily(ish) give up everything you ever wanted or even needed, just so you can have more of it. That goes for whoever/whatever you are in love with IMHO"
Tis true though. If you reach that level then nothing will be worth more. Plus sexual favours come in well handy Actually that last sentence sounds weird when I reread the whole "*whatever* you are in love with", but hey whatever floats your boat...

Cheers

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Quote: "Actually that last sentence sounds weird when I reread the whole "*whatever* you are in love with", but hey whatever floats your boat...
"


Are you suggesting that there is something "weird" about making love to a toaster? I've been in a casual-sexual relationship with many of my kitchen utensils and appliances for over six months now. Who are you to say our love is wrong?

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Quote: "I've been in a casual-sexual relationship with many of my kitchen utensils and appliances for over six months now."


I'm sure you're just joking but I found this article that may interest you.

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