LOVE IS JUST A FEELING

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LOVE IS JUST A FEELING

PROVE ME WRONG

-- PUNKER (GREG_PISAHOV@HOTMAIL.COM), January 20, 2005

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The only one who could make such a statement is one who has never experienced real love. I hope you will someday.

Watch "The Passion", then tell me that Christ endured what He did for the sake of "just a feeling".

-- Paul M. (PaulCyp@cox.net), January 20, 2005.


Hmmm.....PUNKER? Who loved you as an infant and child throughout your years? Can you prove that they loved you?

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-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), January 20, 2005.


Love isd efiend as thwillignness to do and iv for others. it snot alays based on feeligns, btu is a choice.

-- ZAROVE (ZAROF3@JUNO.COM), January 20, 2005.

Punker,

Prove that you are serious in wanting to discuss this topic. Go to this web page and read it thoroughly, then think about and return with your thoughts/questions. I think you'll find that your topic is much more powerful and complex than you suspect.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm

David

-- non-Catholic Christian (no@spam.com), January 20, 2005.


Love is God Himself. Our love, to be true and genuine, needs Christ wrought into it that Christ may be expressed in our love, otherwise it is vain, empty, and limited.

-- Oliver Fischer (spicenut@excite.com), January 20, 2005.


WAIT STOP! You're all right! This was easier than i thought. Gotta love Webster

Main Entry: 2love Function: verb Inflected Form(s): loved; lovˇing transitive senses 1 : to hold dear : CHERISH 2 a : to feel a lover's passion, devotion, or tenderness for b (1) : CARESS (2) : to fondle amorously (3) : to copulate with 3 : to like or desire actively : take pleasure in 4 : to thrive in intransitive senses : to feel affection or experience desire

Main Entry: 1love Pronunciation: 'l&v Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English lufu; akin to Old High German luba love, Old English lEof dear, Latin lubEre, libEre to please 1 a (1) : strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties (2) : attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers (3) : affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests b : an assurance of love 2 : warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion 3 a : the object of attachment, devotion, or admiration b (1) : a beloved person : DARLING -- often used as a term of endearment (2) British -- used as an informal term of address 4 a : unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another: as (1) : the fatherly concern of God for humankind (2) : brotherly concern for others b : a person's adoration of God 5 : a god or personification of love 6 : an amorous episode : LOVE AFFAIR 7 : the sexual embrace : COPULATION 8 : a score of zero (as in tennis) 9 capitalized, Christian Science : GOD - at love : holding one's opponent scoreless in tennis - in love : inspired by affection

Main Entry: 1feel Pronunciation: 'fE(&)l Function: verb Inflected Form(s): felt /'felt/; feelˇing Etymology: Middle English felen, from Old English fElan; akin to Old High German fuolen to feel, Latin palpare to caress transitive senses 1 a : to handle or touch in order to examine, test, or explore some quality b : to perceive by a physical sensation coming from discrete end organs (as of the skin or muscles) 2 a : to undergo passive experience of b : to have one's sensibilities markedly affected by 3 : to ascertain by cautious trial -- usually used with out 4 a : to be aware of by instinct or inference b : BELIEVE, THINK intransitive senses 1 a : to receive or be able to receive a tactile sensation b : to search for something by using the sense of touch 2 a : to be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, or physical condition b : to have a marked sentiment or opinion 3 : SEEM 4 : to have sympathy or pity - feel like : to have an inclination for

Main Entry: 1feelˇing Pronunciation: 'fE-li[ng] Function: noun 1 a (1) : the one of the basic physical senses of which the skin contains the chief end organs and of which the sensations of touch and temperature are characteristic : TOUCH (2) : a sensation experienced through this sense b : generalized bodily consciousness or sensation c : appreciative or responsive awareness or recognition 2 a : an emotional state or reaction b plural : susceptibility to impression : SENSITIVITY 3 a : the undifferentiated background of one's awareness considered apart from any identifiable sensation, perception, or thought b : the overall quality of one's awareness c : conscious recognition : SENSE 4 a : often unreasoned opinion or belief : SENTIMENT b : PRESENTIMENT 5 : capacity to respond emotionally especially with the higher emotions 6 : the character ascribed to something : ATMOSPHERE 7 a : the quality of a work of art that conveys the emotion of the artist b : sympathetic aesthetic response 8 : FEEL 4 synonyms FEELING, EMOTION, AFFECTION, SENTIMENT, PASSION mean a subjective response to a person, thing, or situation. FEELING denotes any partly mental, partly physical response marked by pleasure, pain, attraction, or repulsion; it may suggest the mere existence of a response but imply nothing about the nature or intensity of it . EMOTION carries a strong implication of excitement or agitation but, like FEELING, encompasses both positive and negative responses . AFFECTION applies to feelings that are also inclinations or likings . SENTIMENT often implies an emotion inspired by an idea . PASSION suggests a very powerful or controlling emotion .

Main Entry: 2feeling Function: adjective 1 a : SENTIENT, SENSITIVE b : easily moved emotionally 2 obsolete : deeply felt 3 : expressing emotion or sensitivity - feelˇingˇly /-li[ng]-lE/ adverb - feelˇingˇness noun

-- kat (
riesoracle@hotmail.com), January 20, 2005.


*sigh* it's a shame that the english language lacks the words capable of descibing the different kinds of love there are. too common you hear, "but i LOVE him!" and really it's actually lust. but the person will claim of course, "it's NOT lust" because lust has a negative connotation. faced with love or lust, most people, especially if they are fornicating, will pull the love angle on you.

PUNKER, the only one who can define love is the one who made love to begin with. Picture this, you're an artist and you create a painting, a masterpiece. You give it a name. You describe the feelings that you had when you made the piece and the process involved and why you painted it in the first place. Now comes along a group of critics, a group of passive observers, a group of indifferent people, and a group of passionate followers of your artwork. Each one of these groups says something different about your painting. Some thoughts are even negative, even though it is obvious that your work is beautiful. Some groups ascibe feelings that you had while you worked, feelings that you really didn't have. Some groups try to redefine the words you used to describe your art. And just about everyone is wrong, everyone but your faithful passionate followers. Because they are the ones who appreciate your art so well that they read all your own commentaries about your art, and they're the ones who study your art day and night and they are the ones that will hold true to your art.

Now, in case you don't understand where I'm going with this... in this situation, God is the artist, some people are indifferent to Him, some criticize Him, some corrupt His word. The masterpiece is Love. So everyone of these groups of people are going to define love in their own ways, each way is WRONG because God is the one who created love, therefore only God can define it. The people who understand what true love is are the people who are following God the closest.

PUNKER, even you are one of those who decide what YOU think love is. How can you know? Do you even believe in God? Because if you don't, then there isn't even such thing as love, only animal instinct. And that would make you an animal with lustful passions trying to define your fornication into something human when all it is... is fornication. bottom line.

-- rina (hellorina@aol.com), January 21, 2005.


just de-italizing this thing . . .

-- non-Catholic Christian (no@spam.com), January 21, 2005.

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