Love is…recognizing paraphrased Heinlein quotes when you see them.
There is no such thing as a paraphased quote. That’s not what paraphrase and quote mean.
**Love is the mental state combining affection, lust, trust, respect, & commitment.
Love is a delusional state caused by hormones.
Love is nature’s way of tricking us into reproducing.
Love is evolution’s way of keeping us from strangling crying newborns.
Stoopid Rhymer! You left out _________________. **
I picked all of those. As for what was left out; beside its other aspects, I consider love a tool of deception. It’s useful to be able to convince a potential mate that you’ll be completely devoted them forever; and the best way to convince them of that is to believe it yourself. Someone in love is generally going to be more convincing in their speeches of absolute devotion, since they believe it, than someone who realizes they are, at best, making promises about an unknowable future. And then a better prospect comes along, and they fall out of love with the old and fall in love with the new…and again believe their promises to the new person that this time they’ll be devoted forever.
Nay, foul Skald!
By inserting Heinlein into the phrase I made the word ‘paraphrased’ modify the double-word-score ‘Heinlein quote’. Thus the usage is correct, sir! Correct!
A battlefield.
Fool of a Took!
A quote is an exact repetition. A paraphrase is a repeat of another’s sentiment with the words changed–i.e., not exact. Adding the qualifier Heinlein does not alter the essential conflict between paraphrase and quote.
Next you’ll be claiming that Jimmy Kimmel is a male lesbian.
As I’m sure a dozen or more other folks have already pointed out, “love” refers to multiple situations/relationships/emotions. I love my Dad and my Aunt Sue but I have not “fallen in love” with either of them, and have also never sat around pondering whether or not my feelings for either of them was “true love”.
Restricting to the more limited / more celebrated sexualized love and what it is, or isn’t:
• it’s partially hormonal. it’s addictive, it’s an incredible high (with absolutely HORRID withdrawal symptoms ), it messes with your sleep patterns, your eating patterns, futzes with your mental concentration quite a bit.
• but at the same time it keys off of intellectual processes, communication, a sense of shared understanding, and also from emotion-laden conclusions (some conscious, some less so) about the other person and about your affinity for each other.
• it is what it is; from precisely WHAT platform could you point a finger at it and declare it false, illusory, not what it purports to be, etc? when you say so, your feet have to be grounded on some form of human experience that you think more solid and reliable and trustworthy. rigorous logic or a life ruled by other passions are all prey to their own illusions and misrepresentations. (but yeah I critique it too; you almost have to, don’t you?)
• not only is it confused (by using the same name for it) with love in the sense that you love your Dad and your Aunt Sue, it is also confused (and with less ease of distinction and clarification) with feelings or attitudes NOT hormonally driven yet for which the pertinent object is your sexual partner. people in long-term relationships may best relate to the distinction between loving one’s partner and being “in love with” that person, the latter of which may be a heady passion fondly remembered while the former is an aspect of the current day.
Darn you, bup! Darn you to heck!
Stoopid Rhymer! You left out _________________. a comic strip.
But newborn jellyfish, ladybugs and scorpions don’t cry inconsolably for three solid days, either. Nor do they need to nurse for 45 minutes, every single solitary hour. Alternating with crying all night.
Maybe the felines have something, there.
I like some of the things M. Scott Peck said about it.
"Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth…true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, ‘Love is as love does’.”
“Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.”
Have you ever been married?
You know what you two need? A little comic strip called “Love Is…” It’s about two naked eight-year-olds who are married.
What does it mean, “You two”? :dubious:
Love is like sounds, whose last reverberations
Hang on the leaves of strange trees, on mountains
As distant as the curving of the earth,
Where the snow hangs still in the middle of the air.
Love is power discourse, or it’s kidding itself.
What the crap does that even think it means?
… tender cunnilingus, with a finger in her ass?
It’s one person prevailing on another for a) emotional, b) sexual or c) material reasons, or else it’s one or both people kidding themselves it’s not happening, usually for a) emotional reasons.
Please don’t take this as an insult; it is not intended as such. But it makes me sad that you believe this.