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For what price love?
If love were to stand in front of you, shining brilliant, and ask : "What are you prepared to give for me...?"
Would you believe? Would you be sundered in half, body and soul? Would you hide and cower, scream and shout? Would your thoughts be whirled? A storm in a glass of water.
Would you believe in the power of love? Would you think yourself stupid, think yourself naive? Would you think hope dies last, even as your heart lies in tatters on the ground and other people dance on its bitter ashes.
Would you hope that love would give you one final chance? Would you lose faith? If love were to stab you in the back, would you have doubts? Because love also hurts...
Some say love is the greatest of feelings. That we give everything for love.
Really...everything?
Is that not too high a price? Would you be prepared to pay for love with your life? Is love made of courage and strength?
If you are destined for each other, the world can end - but you would not be alone. Is it better to drown together, or to burn alone?
Would you ask love to hold your cold hand, and walk down the frosty path, with renewed strength, and without old wounds.
So I ask you: if love were to stand in front of you and say:
"What are you prepared to give for me?"
What would you say?
 
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ALLEYCAT BLUES50107 Posts
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No harm in giving everything if you have nothing, bros.
So ya, everything. Why not.
+ Show Spoiler +Does this count as advertising for Klondike Bars?
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I don't really understand how you can only have the feeling, without the person.
0€.
The feeling of love is worthless, the person is priceless.
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if the person wont love you for who you are dont give them your love (:
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Nice blog. Such beautiful words. However, love is a misleading over exaggeration of natural attraction meant to support the utterly pointless prison that is marriage, a creation contemporary with the society that existed at the height of the British Empire's military power.
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So many clichés. This is not very well written, and not interesting at all.
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On September 02 2011 17:46 Jinsho wrote:
So many clichés. This is not very well written, and not interesting at all.
Agreed. The first two or maybe even three times I heard these lines I thought it was okay.
If your in love, you do the craziest of things.
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On September 02 2011 17:45 SarR wrote:
Nice blog. Such beautiful words. However, love is a misleading over exaggeration of natural attraction meant to support the utterly pointless prison that is marriage, a creation contemporary with the society that existed at the height of the British Empire's military power.
Well that is patently untrue. Where do people get these ideas? Have you never read any Greek or Roman history?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus#Death_of_Eurydice
Just reading the first two paragraphs of that section should tell you that the Greeks were having serious discussions about what love means thousands of years before the British Empire was anything at all.
You should also know that Ancient Greek has three different words for love:
eros, agape, and philia (also a fourth, but mostly reserved for families http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love).
Just because you hate the artifice to Valentine's Day, doesn't mean love and marriage are meaningless.
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On September 02 2011 18:47 flowSthead wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2011 17:45 SarR wrote:
Nice blog. Such beautiful words. However, love is a misleading over exaggeration of natural attraction meant to support the utterly pointless prison that is marriage, a creation contemporary with the society that existed at the height of the British Empire's military power. Well that is patently untrue. Where do people get these ideas? Have you never read any Greek or Roman history?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus#Death_of_Eurydice Just reading the first two paragraphs of that section should tell you that the Greeks were having serious discussions about what love means thousands of years before the British Empire was anything at all. You should also know that Ancient Greek has three different words for love: eros, agape, and philia (also a fourth, but mostly reserved for families http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love). Just because you hate the artifice to Valentine's Day, doesn't mean love and marriage are meaningless.
Let me be a little more specific. Im talking about love and its trappings as its portrayed in the modern mainstream media. The intertwined ideal of love and marriage in its current incarnation has many features that differ from their ancient counterparts.
It was not uncommon in the time of the Greeks for a man of means and title to have more than one wife which more often than not are referred to by historians as concubines. In regards to love itself, the Greeks in particular at one point in their history were quite fond of youthful boys and many times the description of the bond between older man and younger boy bore striking similarities to our description of love.
Our idea of love, which our society would tell us should lead to marriage would consider the Greek ideas abominations. This idea that holds this union to be something so sacred and exclusive is something passed onto us from our former colonial masters. The British Empire was more or less a Christian empire much like Rome in its later history. This is where these ideas were born.
How many romantic comedies do you see promoting the idea of polygamy. Its always some bullshit happier ever after nonsense about finding the ONE, the ONE that so special and all that jazz.
The way I see it, our version of love is just a cleverly marketed idea introduced to us by Christianity and now perpetuated by our modern media. I can only speculate as to its purpose but one thing is certain to me, its all bullshit. The only form of real love that exists is the love between parent and child. A natural adaptation that ensures our survival as infant humans are quite helpless for an extended period of time after birth.
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Canada708 Posts
Love is selfish, isn't it?
If love is so great, why must one be prepared to give everything in order to obtain it? If it is such a subjective thing, this 'love', with its thousand individual definitions, how can one value something so trivial as being worth everything they have?
Love is by no means worth more than the self.
Take care of yourself first. Only once you have achieved your goals should you be prepared to make concessions for love. Only then is it worth the risk; when you have already obtained everything you've ever wanted, only then can you lose some of it for love, because nothing will erase the fact that you had achieved something on your own. Do not let love define you; let love compliment you; let love be the bonus that it is. Napoleon was not defined by Josephine - he was defined by his own extraordinary merits. Caesar was not defined by any of his wives, nor was Octavian. But look at Mark Antony, who let his love define him - look at what it cost him.
And that is why the end of Good Will Hunting has a bad message.
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On September 02 2011 18:26 SEA_GenesiS wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2011 17:46 Jinsho wrote:
So many clichés. This is not very well written, and not interesting at all. Agreed. The first two or maybe even three times I heard these lines I thought it was okay. If your in love, you do the craziest of things.
After reading your latest post, this is TOTALLY not cliche at all. I wonder how many people actually knew you weren't writing about a woman when you first posted this up.
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On September 06 2011 06:13 Venus.exe wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2011 18:26 SEA_GenesiS wrote:On September 02 2011 17:46 Jinsho wrote:
So many clichés. This is not very well written, and not interesting at all. Agreed. The first two or maybe even three times I heard these lines I thought it was okay. If your in love, you do the craziest of things. After reading your latest post, this is TOTALLY not cliche at all. I wonder how many people actually knew you weren't writing about a woman when you first posted this up.
lol, sorry, that TOTALLY gave me a giggle
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¸To hell with love , creates more problems and i have enough of that so id tell it to bugger off.
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On September 02 2011 17:46 Jinsho wrote:
So many clichés. This is not very well written, and not interesting at all.
It may be cliche, but that doesn't stop people from wanting to believe in something like love. It's really quite an irrational emotion. It causes people to sacrifice virtually anything, even their lives. Still, there are people who find beauty in such selfless acts for something that many would say is worth it.
Still, you probably don't care about that. Only that the concept is used too much and recycled to the point it makes you sick, right?
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