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have you ever had true love?
Yes 14%  14%  [ 8 ]
Yes 14%  14%  [ 8 ]
No 11%  11%  [ 6 ]
No 11%  11%  [ 6 ]
Just love 4%  4%  [ 2 ]
Just love 4%  4%  [ 2 ]
I don't know 13%  13%  [ 7 ]
I don't know 13%  13%  [ 7 ]
I'm skeptical about such a thing 9%  9%  [ 5 ]
I'm skeptical about such a thing 9%  9%  [ 5 ]
Total votes : 56

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31 Dec 2005, 6:43 am

So far this thread has only discussed romantic love. But there's another kind of true love, and it's the kind I feel for my children. I would indeed do *anything* for them if I thought they needed it, or to protect them. I would kill to protect them. I would put myself in harm's way to protect them. On a less intense level, I go through all kinds of social contortioning because I love them: letting four children (my kids + one friend each) play noisily in my house for an hour and a half several times a week, and instead of screaming, offering them cookies and juice with a smile on my face. (Yes...this is a trained response.)

That's not to say I don't ever yell at my children or do things that *aren't* in their best interests (such as yell at them). But when push comes to shove, if I had to choose between my life and theirs, I'd choose theirs, and if that isn't true love, I don't know what is.


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31 Dec 2005, 4:25 pm

grayson wrote:
So far this thread has only discussed romantic love. But there's another kind of true love, and it's the kind I feel for my children. I would indeed do *anything* for them if I thought they needed it, or to protect them. I would kill to protect them. I would put myself in harm's way to protect them. On a less intense level, I go through all kinds of social contortioning because I love them: letting four children (my kids + one friend each) play noisily in my house for an hour and a half several times a week, and instead of screaming, offering them cookies and juice with a smile on my face. (Yes...this is a trained response.)

That's not to say I don't ever yell at my children or do things that *aren't* in their best interests (such as yell at them). But when push comes to shove, if I had to choose between my life and theirs, I'd choose theirs, and if that isn't true love, I don't know what is.


That's agape, or damned close. THAT, my friends, is the deepest, most real love; love that would give anything up- life, happiness, the object of one's love if nessessary- for the benefit of the one you love.



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31 Dec 2005, 6:59 pm

alex wrote:
no one has responded to my post... hehe


Thats because it was a joke. Wasn't it?



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02 Jan 2006, 7:41 am

grayson wrote:
On a less intense level, I go through all kinds of social contortioning because I love them: letting four children (my kids + one friend each) play noisily in my house for an hour and a half several times a week, and instead of screaming, offering them cookies and juice with a smile on my face.
This sounds *very* familiar :-)

(the rest of your message too btw)



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02 Jan 2006, 8:44 am

true love = oxymoron :P