and her adventures in Atheism
Love Questionnaire
Image © Mike Stimpson
I feel especially high on love this weekend, so I wanted to ask you folks for your perspectives and stories on the subject. Feel free to answer these on your blog or in the comments below.
- When was one time you felt truly loved?
- Can you love someone without liking them?
- What’s your favorite love song?
- One of my friends became an atheist last year and stopped believing love existed. What’s your reaction to this?
- What’s your favorite way to receive love? How about showing/giving love?
- Do you think there are different kinds of love? (ie. romantic, friendship, love for things, loving your pets, familial)
- What’s one of the oddest or stupidest things you’ve done for love?
- Can love be quantified? (eg. “I love you more than my ____” or “I love her more now than ever.”)
- Is love an emotion or an action (or something else altogether)? Can they be mutually exclusive?
- Is it possible to love without conditions? i.e. No matter what someone does, feels, is, or could possibly be, you’ll love them.
- Is is better to have love and lost than to never have loved at all?
- It is said that sacrificing your life for another’s is the highest form of love. What do you think?
- When does infatuation turn into love?
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about 8 months ago
1. When was one time you felt truly loved?
Can it only be one time? I feel quite loved every time I come to see Tabi.
2. Can you love someone without liking them?
I suppose, but I have to think that would be very difficult and probably would result from having loved and liked someone and just having lost the like part.
3. What’s your favorite love song?
I have several…
4. One of my friends became an atheist last year and stopped believing love existed. What’s your reaction to this?
I think that's just silly. My fiancée and I are both non-believers and we love each other very much. Love is very real.
5. What’s your favorite way to receive love? How about showing/giving love?
I like a bit of variety. Physical affection is nice, but so is just doing something nice like washing the dishes or something.
6. Do you think there are different kinds of love? (ie. romantic, friendship, love for things, loving your pets, familial)
Yes.
7. What’s one of the oddest or stupidest things you’ve done for love?
So many things!
8. Can love be quantified? (eg. “I love you more than my ____” or “I love her more now than ever.”)
To a certain extent…
Is love an emotion or an action (or something else altogether)? Can they be mutually exclusive?
9. It's an emotion, it's showing the action… I think love is really just something totally transcendent and rather beyond definition.
10. Is it possible to love without conditions? i.e. No matter what someone does, feels, is, or could possibly be, you’ll love them.
I think so. That's my goal with Tabi. I want to love her completely unconditionally.
11. Is is better to have love and lost than to never have loved at all?
That's a tough question. It's hard to lose, but the experience of love is incredible. I suppose I'll have to get a yes on this one.
12. It is said that sacrificing your life for another’s is the highest form of love. What do you think?
Yes and no. It's great to be willing to lay your life down for someone, but an even bigger show of love is to live your life for that person. It's easy to die, it's hard to live.
13. When does infatuation turn into love?
That's a great question. I'm not really sure.
about 8 months ago
"an even bigger show of love is to live your life for that person. It's easy to die, it's hard to live."
Love this point, Adam.
about 8 months ago
I'll answer question 2: Can you love someone without liking them?
I'm going to say YES to that. Otherwise I'd have no relationship with my family!
about 8 months ago
Haha! I'm glad you've discovered that peaceful medium
about 8 months ago
1. From time to time i feel truly and utterly loved by my wife.
2. Yes, but it's different from that other love, less physical.
3. Kiss Me – Sixpence none the richer.
4. There's no doubt love exist, but people tend to view it as a spiritual non-physical thing, which it's not. Accept love is a chemical reaction, accept it's beautiful and overwhelming. Love is greater when you understand it.
5. Physical, particularly hugs, but love kisses too. I've always offered devotion to my loved one.
6. Yes, but I think calling them "kinds of love" is only a semantic simplification.
7. I married at 22, but was great and still is.
* Can love be quantified? (eg. “I love you more than my ____” or “I love her more now than ever.”)
8. It can't be quantified but can be compared ("more than", "less than" or "in a different way").
9. Love is an emotion, like hunger, is up to one to fulfill the urges it comes with.
10. It's possible but requires someone of very particular characteristics.
11. I'm not sure, if I lose my loved one I would die right after (or worse) but having to chose between that and never have loved her, I would rather die.
12. Sacrifice can be very selfish, unless it's "used with property".
13. I consider love to be grown up infatuation, a feeling that is mature enough to fully understand sacrifice and commitment.
about 8 months ago
Your marriage sounds so full of love! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with me
about 8 months ago
And I feel fulfilled. Thanks a lot, you make me feel so grateful for the things I have.
(Grateful to time, chance and luck; the three things randomness needs to give you nice surprises or bad news.)