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 May 14 2004, 08:35 AM
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I'm posting this up here coz when this was posted in another forum (kpopper) it started a MASSIVE debate. Things were never quite the same for most of us even after the topic was closed because it got really chaotic and people were practically screaming at each other...
So, can you live without love? For me, yes I can definitely live without love. If I lose someone I really love, heck life goes on. You might just freeze right there but time goes on. Nothing stops time. As long as you still breathe, then you are still alive. That is the meaning of being alive to me. Even if a part of you dies when someone you love dies or walks out of your life, you are still alive. You eat, you walk, you feel emotions. I wonder if someone will say they can't live without love... Coz createBlog just seems to be filled with more rasional and maured people. |
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May 14 2004, 09:46 AM
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 Quand j'étais jeune... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
Well, there's love between man/woman; familial love; love for tangible things, like ice cream or chocolat; love for a pet; love for a higher being; love for a passion, like music or charity.
There's not just one type of love. I will say that I do not need the love between man and woman and I do not need love for tangible things. But the others loves, I think I cannot survive without them. I have a strong sense of family; I love my dogs to death (they are like bothers and sisters to me); I have many passions; and I do carry a love a higher being, even though I do not know how far that extends to. So, I guess the 'with love' outweights the 'without love' for me. |
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May 14 2004, 09:50 AM
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If you believe that the purpose of life is to reproduce and carry on your genes for the survival of the species, then yea, you can live without love.
If life is more than that for you, then what is it that gives you the will for you to live? |
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May 14 2004, 09:56 AM
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Quand j'étais jeune... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
QUOTE(tkproduce @ May 14 2004, 9:50 AM) If you believe that the purpose of life is to reproduce and carry on your genes for the survival of the species, then yea, you can live without love. If you believe in it, you'd have a passion for it, I think, and if you have a passion for it, you'd love to be able to achieve it. QUOTE If life is more than that for you, then what is it that gives you the will for you to live? Life itself? (can that be an answer?). Well, the things you experience in life will either give you a reason to live, or give you no reason. I think it's a matter of perspective. Depressed people would say that they have nothing to live for, while people who are passionate about life will have their own reasons for living. |
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May 14 2004, 11:19 AM
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If you leave any kind of animal by itself, it will eventually die sooner or later. In my opinion, I think humans work in a similar fashion.
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May 14 2004, 11:29 AM
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Love is a many splendored thing
Love lifts us up where we belong All you need is love - Moulin Rouge Nuff said 
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May 14 2004, 12:02 PM
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Love is the main goal in life, the purpose of life. Sure you can live without it, but you'll really be missing out.
Depending on and putting all your trust in someone is the greatest feeling. That's all life is about, finding someone to share it with. But hey, if you wanna go "single player" mode through life that's alright too. |
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| *instantmusic* |
May 14 2004, 02:09 PM
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nuns dont get any lovin, yet they still live. harsh.
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May 14 2004, 02:12 PM
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QUOTE nuns dont get any lovin, yet they still live. harsh. They don't get "lovin", but they still get love from one another and God. |
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| *Kathleen* |
May 14 2004, 02:28 PM
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Are you talking about one individual? Yes, individuals can live without love, but the question is: are they happy?
Of course, you can't have the whole planet living seperately without love, because then there will no longer be a race.
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May 14 2004, 02:38 PM
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life goes on.
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May 14 2004, 06:52 PM
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u could but i don't think anyone would want to. because when u were born ur parents love u to death. wouldn't u want in return is to love them? seriously i <3 my friends and family and all my things if it wasn't they i would die.
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May 14 2004, 06:54 PM
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You can live without love, but who would want to?
Imagine living in a world where you dispise everything. You have no family, you have no friends. You hate everything. Would you want to live? |
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May 14 2004, 07:04 PM
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What Val said.
Sure you can live without it, but why would you want to? My teacher told me about some babies in the USSR back then who were experimented on. One half were secluded only to be properly nutritioned and taken cared of. The other half, was with nurses who would carry them and sway them and such. The former didn't make it to two years of age. - Chinkieeyedpnoi |
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May 14 2004, 07:10 PM
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QUOTE(chinkieeyedpnoi @ May 14 2004, 4:04 PM) What Val said. Sure you can live without it, but why would you want to? My teacher told me about some babies in the USSR back then who were experimented on. One half were secluded only to be properly nutritioned and taken cared of. The other half, was with nurses who would carry them and sway them and such. The former didn't make it to two years of age. - Chinkieeyedpnoi Wow, the power of love... 
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May 14 2004, 07:27 PM
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I cannot... at all... and if I go without it... I'll start breaking down... and dig myself into a deeper depression...
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May 14 2004, 08:24 PM
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If we didn't need such a powerful thing as love, why would we exist?
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May 14 2004, 08:44 PM
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i love love and love is the only thing that makes us different from animals. it's a gift to be able to love and be loved in return, so don't act as if you can live without it. love is what life is all about.
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May 14 2004, 08:46 PM
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Love is a want not a need. Right?
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May 14 2004, 08:49 PM
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QUOTE Love is a want not a need. Right? Hehe I second that! *Starts singing emo songs even though Jose doesn't want to hear it* |
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May 14 2004, 09:17 PM
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Quand j'étais jeune... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
QUOTE(TBoltzbabe @ May 14 2004, 8:44 PM) love is the only thing that makes us different from animals. Um, animals can love.  edit:: in my opinion that is, but i can argue for it. |
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May 14 2004, 09:41 PM
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I don't think I could live without love because I would need some type of love to live by. I mean, as mentioned before, there are different types of love, not only a relationship type of love. I mean, love is fun and sometimes the only thing a person can live by. I mean, I would not want to not have love because it's always nice to have somebody or something (like a pet or something) to care for you. That's my opinion.
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May 14 2004, 10:36 PM
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Wow it's been a long time!! Group: Member Posts: 1,672 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,954 |
QUOTE(uninspiredfae @ May 14 2004, 9:17 PM) Um, animals can love. edit:: in my opinion that is, but i can argue for it. alright... animals can be familiar with things, but tell me about your experiences loving as an elephant in your previous life (do NOT mention Dumbo) |
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May 14 2004, 10:43 PM
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Quand j'étais jeune... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
QUOTE(TBoltzbabe @ May 14 2004, 10:36 PM) alright... animals can be familiar with things, but tell me about your experiences loving as an elephant in your previous life (do NOT mention Dumbo) Huh? What does Dumbo have to do with anything? He's cartoon!  Edit:: or are you trying to say that I was an elephant? I'd consider that rude if I were nit-picky, but I'll let it slide. An animal knows maternal love. Have you seen female animals care for their youngs? I see it all the time on discovery channel: a rat races to carry her youngs out of the way of a hungry snake. OR, if you want to speak of elephants: QUOTE "And," said Apollonius, "you need not, Damis, confine your remarks to elephants; for this animal is only second to man, in my opinion, in understanding and foresight; but I am thinking rather of bears, for they are the fiercest of all animals, and yet they will do anything for their whelps; and also of wolves, amoung which, although they are so addicted to plunder, yet the female protects its young ones, and the male brings her food in order to save the life of the whelps. Argue against that. Edit:: and this: QUOTE And who does not know the ways of birds, how that the eagles and the cranes will not build their nests until they have fixed in them, the one an eagle-stone, and other a stone of light, to help the hatching out of the eggs and to drive away the snakes. QUOTE And if we look at creatures in the sea, we need not wonder at the dolphins loving their offspring, for they are superior creatures; but shall we not admire the whales and seals and the vivparious species? For I once saw a seal that was kept shut up at Aegae in the circus, and she mourned so deeply for her whelp, which had died after being born in confinement, that she refused food for three days together, although she is the most voracious of animals. QUOTE 'And in the case of all animals, then, their life lay in their children." and I agree with you, for it is better so." If that's not love, then what is? |
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May 14 2004, 11:42 PM
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Wow it's been a long time!! Group: Member Posts: 1,672 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,954 |
wow you really are being nitpicky about one example, i'm sorry, but my opinion is this: Love is a god given gift and no one can live sanely without it
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