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LOVE: used and abused.

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, 11-03-2015 at 05:15 AM (1807 Views)

The word "love" is used and abused for the expression of different sets of feelings.

The word love is used as an expression of affection towards someone else (I love you) but it also expresses pleasure (I love chocolate). To make it a little more complicated, the word "love" also expresses a human virtue that is based on compassion, affection and kindness. This is a state of being, that has nothing to do, with something or someone outside yourself. This is the purest form of Love.

The ancient Greek used 7 words to define the different states of love:

Storge: natural affection, the love you share with your family.
Philia: the love that you have for friends.
Eros: sexual and erotic desire kind of love (positive or negative)
Agape: this is the unconditional love, or divine love
Ludus: this is playful love, like childish love or flirting.
Pragma: long standing love. The love in a married couple.
Philautia: the love of the self (negative or positive)

These are 7 different kind of feelings. The love you feel for your partner is not the same as the love you feel for your mother. Even the love for your partner changes in time. You feel different emotions for different situations and people.

But still, we use the same word. It is easy to understand that a confusion is easy made while communicating. I can say "I love you" to two different people (and mean it), but I am actually feeling in a different way.

Updated 04-28-2016 at 10:18 AM by gracie7

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aljy - 11-03-2015 09:21 AM
haha..I remember this topic,way back in college in philosophy.hehe he. -Anyways, I agree that love is is used too much nowadays..It is really best to utter the words of love , if we really mean it..

Updated 11-03-2015 at 11:02 AM by aljy
gracie7 - 11-04-2015 04:47 AM
Originally Posted by aljy

haha..I remember this topic,way back in college in philosophy.hehe he. -Anyways, I agree that love is is used too much nowadays..It is really best to utter the words of love , if we really mean it..

@aljy lagi Philo gyud ni na subject basta ag hisgot na og "love"
luff101 - 11-07-2015 05:10 AM
Sometimes our mind playing a trick on us when it came to love...

kung nag chat2x ra gani sa pisbuk love daun? d ba pwedeng nangita ra siya ug ka storya. hehehe
iampaul07 - 11-10-2015 02:07 PM
Originally Posted by gracie7

@aljy lagi Philo gyud ni na subject basta ag hisgot na og "love"

absent guro ko ani dah
gracie7 - 11-12-2015 11:03 AM
Originally Posted by luff101

Sometimes our mind playing a trick on us when it came to love...

kung nag chat2x ra gani sa pisbuk love daun? d ba pwedeng nangita ra siya ug ka storya. hehehe

@luff101 HAHAHAHA di pwde wa ra'y lingaw? Assume much sah?
gracie7 - 11-12-2015 11:05 AM
Originally Posted by iampaul07

absent guro ko ani dah

@iampaul07
slabdans - 11-27-2015 10:29 AM
LOve? is a serial killer
Dwardzed - 03-07-2017 12:47 PM
Love in it's multi faceted form will always conform into one façade that is to have and to cherish for the rest of ones life.
gracie7 - 04-29-2017 09:10 AM
Originally Posted by slabdans

LOve? is a serial killer

Ayaw na lagi cgeg kanta My Way

Originally Posted by Dwardzed

Love in it's multi faceted form will always conform into one façade that is to have and to cherish for the rest of ones life.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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