Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment.Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another" and its vice representing human moral flaw, akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism, as potentially leading people into a type of mania, obsessiveness or codependency. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals. In its various forms, love acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts. Love has been postulated to be a function that keeps human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.Ancient Greek philosophers identified six forms of love: essentially, familial love (in Greek, Storge), friendly love or platonic love (Philia), romantic love (Eros), self-love (Philautia), guest love (Xenia) and divine love (Agape). Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of love: unrequited love, empty love, companionate love, consummate love, infatuated love, self-love, and courtly love. Numerous cultures have also distinguished Ren, Yuanfen, Mamihlapinatapai, Cafuné, Kama, Bhakti, Mettā, Ishq, Chesed, Amore, Charity, Saudade (and other variants or symbioses of these states), as culturally unique words, definitions, or expressions of love in regards to a specified "moments" currently lacking in the English language.Scientific research on emotion has increased significantly over the past two decades. The color wheel theory of love defines three primary, three secondary and nine tertiary love styles, describing them in terms of the traditional color wheel. The triangular theory of love suggests "intimacy, passion and commitment" are core components of love. Love has additional religious or spiritual meaning. This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.
"Man Proposes to Girlfriend in Zero Gravity"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270505,00.html
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05062007/news/regionalnews/over_the_moon_regionalnews_jennifer_gould_keil.htm
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05062007/photos/news007b.jpg
It looks like "Zero Gravity"...
I hate to say it but unfortunately I love my Maths teacher. She is very hot, intelligent and cultured. We went for a meal yesterday and I had a great time. Unfortunately she's married and there's no way in hell she loves me. It wouldn't be so bad if my lessons with her weren't to end in a few...
Be true to yourself here please, perfection is in the eye of the beholder,
but how many imperfections could you tolerate and still truly (love) some
one?
Kids between 10-12 start to 'notice' the opposite sex and some may even show feelings of strong love for one. But the thing is they don't show this feeling to anyone of the opposite sex, even if others are attractive or physically appealing as well. At that age people are not fully aware of...
I don't post this topic under philosophy forums because there's no philosophical discussion involved.
I and my friend often have discussion on some philosophy topic, and he made the following statement.
1. No philosophers in the ancient times, besides Socrates, has get married.
2. There...
Ok, so it's my first semester of Calculus and I'm completely lost. My professor is this old Korean guy who doesn't speak English and I'm in desperate need of some understanding.
1. |X| = {x if x >= 0 and -x if x <0
lim x->a |X| Does not exists.
My first question is can the limit of...
I'm sort of in a bad dilemma right now and need some advice. I'm a CS major and I've slowly grown to like math more and more and coding and the usual CS stuff less and less. In short, math has become my new passion and I'm thinking of changing my major even though I'm 2.5 years into my CS degree...
That place always sells great stuff, and every time I buy something from them it ends up being money. My closet used to be the typical one shelf and rod that comes standard in most houses. I wanted to organize all my stuff so I bought this shelving system from a company from Denmark called elfa...
I love my vibrations professor, he is simply the best. He always makes jokes in class. In one lecture he showed us a website to buy vibrations mounts from, he said "this website is like american express, don't leave home without it" Then when he was doing something in MATLAB he said, 'you know...
Cheyney's pregnant. I mean the Vice President's daughter. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16089803/. Here is an excerpt from the story:
I believe the timing of this, waiting until after the elections, is very suspicious.
Sometimes things like this really irk me.
From http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009222"
Then, later in that same article, we get
Just how stupid can editorials get? The Medicare debacle began life as precisely the same sort of "reform" they wanted to apply to Social...
They brought it onto Comedy Central two times a day, YES!
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I love Dr. Cox.
If you love to cook like me and use olive oil all the time, you may find this a bit shocking. I just found out that the US is not a member of the IOOC (international olive oil council) and is the only major olive oil producing and consuming nation not in it. The IOOC grades olive oil as...
Hi y'll. I am majoring in Electrical Engineering and I am currently in the 2nd year. I love to build things out of scratch (and unfortunately break precious electronic gizmos to see how they work). But I also love mathematics and physics. So I was wondering, which of these following areas should...
I love this website and all of its users, in a completely platonic and non-online-stalker sort of way.
Thank you all for giving me a place to escape the idiotic atmosphere of my high school.
We have a smaller number of entries this time, but there is a large variety of pictures here, from the awsome to the icky, and everything in between. :)
This is the only vote for this contest.
1. turbo-1
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/4238/slagip9.jpg
2. scorpa...
Labor of Love
Sept. 4th is Labor Day holiday here in North American (both the US and Canada). To mark that occassion, the theme of our contest involves pictures that you took at your place of work OR school.
This contest will run a few days longer than usual since I will be on vacation...
I don't think it is more than any chemical reaction but then again, I have never experienced it. I have heard from people that soulmates do exists and you can tell when you find one. What do you think?
Where else are you going to find names like this?
Ofeig Clumsyfoot, Ivar Horsetail, Gudbrand Knob, Orm the Wealthy, Harald Shockhead, Halfdan the Black, Thorir Long-chin, Geirmund Swarthyskin, Onund Treefoot.
I think we need to adopt names like these for our members. We could have Cyrus...
I know this topic is pushing the limits for sappiness, but I don't care. So i was talking to my friend the other day and she was asking about my new girlfriend. she also just recently got into a relationship. obviously looking for an excuse to tell me it happened to her, she asked, 'have you...
Is being in relationship with a person that you know he's not your kind and this relationship wouldn't last for so long? I mean you know that person can keep you interested for a short time since he's cute and fun but well, he's not good for life since you have very different plans and values...
A smaller entry than usual, but no lacking in quality. Well done everyone!
Integral
http://home.comcast.net/~integral50/Watching.jpg
Aether
http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/d48ace36ea.jpg
0TheSwerve0
Zz.
Who here is a fan? It seems to be a very polarizing fast food chain. Either you love it or you hate it.
Once in a while I'd eat the frozen ones they sell at grocery stores, but the other day I finally decided to drive the 12 miles to the nearest White Castle and try out the real thing. I have...
Please read our Contest Rules before submitting. Our theme this time is
I Love A Man/Woman In Uniform
With Memorial Day weekend coming up, I thought it would be appropriate to salute the men and women in the armed services. However, I will expand the subject matter even further by...
Although I realize that the price of gas hits many of America's working poor the hardest, it is imperative that we wean ourselves from oil; and soon. My fear is that we will wait too long and will eventually be forced to engage in energy wars, or worse, because we will have no choice. As the...
It's a long time since I wanted to tell this to somebody, and now I decided to finally do so.
I have a brother who's a few years older than me. In his very early years he fell into the boiling water and a few months after he had been identified with an epilepsy. He was assigned some...
The human concept of love has been something that has puzzled me for some time now, but I must admit I've many a time used those three words that by observation of the world around me seem meaningless ("I love you")
I claim that words are a means of expressing thoughts, feelings, emotions...
Hi everybody,
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In a soft small voice talking to your father/mother who is now on bed in a hospital: "Dad, I love you".
In a soft small voice talking to your girlfriend/boyfriend who is now sitting with you on a rock...
I over heard a guy talking at a coffehouse yesterday who said "I used to hate this song, but now I love it." I felt compelled to turn around, barge into the conversation, and ask "What made you change your mind?" Luckily he didn't take offense to the interruption and appreciated my interest...
Gotta get this outta my system. Never mind me.
Oh daaammnn! I`m sick to the stomach. What the hell is happening!?
I can't sleep. I can't think about anything but her. She is at the moment my whole universe! My productivity is down to zero and I have so much to do (she'll pay for this).
I...
what are the ethics of love?
i mean, is it ethical to give someone else the option of cheating on their boyfriend/girlfriend?
or should you deny your heart?
ive heard
all is fair in love and war, but is it ethical?
please help me.. PLEEEEEASE.. ill love u 4ever
I'm working on my physics science fair, and I'm doind the errors (like you know when you have to calculate errors based on half the smallest increment).. well, you know how ur suppose to use only one significant digit for it.. what if my value of...
Love is like a chemistry lab. You may find your soulmate and make beautiful chemistry with them, or, in my case, spill nitric acid on my hand. :grumpy: :grumpy:
There are some really random pics on the internet.
Here's one
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/dark_angel356/pancake2.jpg"
What the hell is that about? :rofl:
should any country be nuked?
1.why cud we not help countries who want use nuclear,solar,wind and other energy source and stop dpending on oil? this will influence the oil price & cut profits which are objects of greed. Insted of even tingking of NUKING Som Coun3s
2.why cud we not...
I like Love me tender by elvis presley
and all classical songs that are remixed.
I recommend you to listen to "take me home country rod" remix version by Hermes391
What do you like ?
I don't know if this should be posted here, and I doubt if anyone can actually write anything genuinely illuminating, but I'll post it anyway, as self-treatment at least. To me it is a career question, and a very fundamental one too.
Most of you probably don't have these kind of problems, as...
Do you guys get him on tv where you live? This old grumpy guy is awsome. He asks your opinon and then he says WRONG!:rofl:
There was an SNL skit about him. If I can find it ill post it. I LOVE THIS GUY!
Well, hopefully this is going to be my last help-thread for a while, i'd like to start repaying the members. You may have noticed I've posted a few threads asking for help tonight, and I thank the members who have read my threads very much. I've narrowed down points of my course that I remain...
After Bush is gone, who do you think would be the best person or a wish list person for president and why?
He already said he is not running in '08, but I say Barak Obama. I think he has the presence, the intelligence, the pragmatism, and the right ideas. He seems to be a guy who can bring...
And the ISO (if they are the ones who allowed this to happen).
Why? Well, so far this family is on 'sweet-executive-leather-chair' #3
Shown here...
http://www.officedepot.com/pictures/SK/MD/800695_sk_md.jpg
Now, we have 2 broken and 1 new chair. As I assemble this new one, I just...
What made you begin to love physics??
For me it happened when I was 8 years old. I was a stubborn kid and for some reason I had decided that I would never learn to read since it pointless to be able to read:rofl:
christmas time came and one of my sisters bought me a astronomy book as...
http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1132567542/Import_Drifting_Video
Let it keep playing, this guys driving with one hand and one foot!
Look how they are counter steering in the direction they want to turn!
My physics class rules.
Reasons:
1: It's not a "school-required class", Which means that the speed of learning is adequate for not ripping my hair out in disgust. However, it IS a collegebound-required course, so I still have quite a few potential dropouts. Lucky for me, 5 kids've...