Protege said:

then they snap and beat u with a bat

wildgoldenhoney said:

are you hot?

orgnote me :ky;

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

I think I've grown far too cynical for romantic love. Sure, certain stories (movies, books, etc.) can still make me all ooey gooey, but it's kinda like me and church/religion/etc.. I appreciate the romantic notion of it all, the traditions, the poetry and such, but I can't choke down that it's actually really "real".

Love is when u can wake up in the morning without brushing ur stankin ass teeth..and kiss each other in the mouth.

CarrieLee said:

I've known true love in my day then! How goes it lady?

i think it's just a pseudonym for all the things you value in your partner...
we're so lazy to name each thing, but love is such a romantic notion, it just seems to fit...
for me, love is the following plus SO much more..:

- admiration
- devotion
- respect
- fear
- passion
- compassion
- trust
- honesty
- lust (i think it's necessary)
- the ability to care
- selflessness to a degree
- selfishness to a degree
- understanding
- the ability to LISTEN and not just to hear
- the ability to observe and appreciate the little things
- appreciation in general

there are so many things to add to the list
but a combination or all of these things to me equal love
i think there are degrees of love, and it depends on how many characteristics apply...

and i don't think it's limited to the man-woman, man-man, woman-woman, human-human situation...

...i'm in love with my art, and i care for it the same way i would for a man, and that's not to cast any kind of negative or positive light on it - it is what it is...

Imago said:

See post #517:
http://prince.org/msg/100/265214?&pg=18

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

It goes good!!! Well not in the love department...but everything else!

wildgoldenhoney said:

I forgot to mention I have a scorching case of herpes.

wildgoldenhoney said:

I forgot to mention I have a scorching case of herpes.

sammij said:

Now see, these are the things i was expecting to find in its formal interpretation. I was surprised how vague the concept was.

wildgoldenhoney said:

I forgot to mention I have a scorching case of herpes.

It's lying awake at night when you're not near the one you love utterly consumed in thoughts of holding them, smelling them, touching them, and drifting off in to the darkness with them.

It's working long, hard, hours, at a desk, in a mindless maze of cubicles, while your mind is miles away, wrapped in a soft, warm, afterglow of the phonecall you had the night before

It's walking down the hall smiling to everyone one you see aching to hug each stranger just to give them a tiny sample of what you're feeling that day.

It's feeling as if the wind in your lungs has been knocked the fuck out of you each time the other person laughs, each time you hear them sigh, each time they admit to you that they have fallen for you.

It's hearing your name spoken , and for the first time, liking it.

It's a fork in the road that suddenly appears, and a direction you take without hesitation.

It's willing trade a lifetime of glory for just one night alone with them.

It's a willingness to discard this hardened shell of illusions and pretense and be vulnerable enough to cut my self on baby's breath.




I imagine.

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[Edited 3/31/08 17:46pm]

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

That's sooooo deep

theodore said:

but will it make me popular?

Imago said:

This was an awesome post.

I wrote it for applause.

Well, sort of.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

there are some things you can't rely on a dusty old leather-bound book to tell you...

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Maybe

theodore said:

Imago said:

it was great and deserved

I always use love as an analogy for Nirvana.


The Buddha was very adamant that Nirvana was not an intellectual experience. That meaning you could NOT reason out enlightenment--its not something to 'know' in that sense.
The experience of awakening or enlightenment and stepping into 'nirvana' can be expereinced by each man or woman, dumb or smart.


Likewise Being in love is the same. You can read as many text books and poems as you want, but there's this gut feeling that you 'know' instantly when you see two people falling in love, if you yourself have been in their shoes. Otherwise, it's an abstract, impossible to pin down idea.


The buddhist often describe nirvana in negative terms--in other words, not what it 'is', but what it 'isn't. They call it the unbecoming, the unconditioned, etc. etc.

Its like chipping away at a rock the way a sculpture does to create his art. He discard the pieces that are 'not' the statue he is creating. Thus is the way some concepts get created.


Then again, how do you describe love as the absence of loneliness, hopelessness, selfishness, cynicism, etc. etc. when each person will refute the absolutes and exist in some grey area of consciousness thereby settling for something else.


I guess.
[Edited 3/31/08 17:54pm]

I always use love as an analogy for Nirvana.


The Buddha was very adamant that Nirvana was not an intellectual experience. That meaning you could NOT reason out enlightenment--its not something to 'know' in that sense.
The experience of awakening or enlightenment and stepping into 'nirvana' can be expereinced by each man or woman, dumb or smart.


Likewise Being in love is the same. You can read as many text books and poems as you want, but there's this gut feeling that you 'know' instantly when you see two people falling in love, if you yourself have been in their shoes. Otherwise, it's an abstract, impossible to pin down idea.


The buddhist often describe nirvana in negative terms--in other words, not what it 'is', but what it 'isn't. They call it the unbecoming, the unconditioned, etc. etc.

Its like chipping away at a rock the way a sculpture does to create his art. He discards the pieces that are 'not' the statue he is creating. Thus is the way some concepts are explained.


Then again, how do you describe love as the absence of loneliness, hopelessness, selfishness, cynicism, etc. etc. when each person will refute the absolutes and exist in some grey area of consciousness thereby settling for something else.


I guess.
[Edited 3/31/08 17:56pm]

Imago said:

Neither can his plastic surgeon!

Imago said:

I guess that is why it is an idea. Love some of your analogies Dan.