Ok, so I feel like giving myself a head-ache

[Bruno]

Tiny robuts in ur brane

[BadBeast]

The Greeks called it Eros, (physical love, shagging, BJs, etc) and Thanatos, (The other, more general kind)

edit: But I can also roll with the "Tiny robuts in ur brane" school of thought.

[Cuddlefish]

That's funny and all, but use your words please.

For fuck's sake, there ARE different kinds of love.  I love my daughter, I love my son, I love my Mom, I love my wife.

Is all of that love exactly the same?  Of course the fuck not.  

Trying to define love in a way that is applicable to a spouse, child, AND parents and other relatives is trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole.

No need to get uptight. I wasn't attacking you.

Also, I'm not really asserting anything. Just wanted to see how you guys weigh in on the subject.

Please, correct me if I'm mistaken, but wouldn't the claim that there are different types of love, cheapen other types of love?

"I love only you, my wife." "I love you, my friends."

But I thought you said you loved only me? You may love me, but you love others more.

MaYbe I'M nOt gettinG it...

Its a modeling issue... In English, we use one symbol for many concepts. The Greeks, on the other hand had many symbols, each for a specific concept of love.

Erotic love is different (in feeling, psychological impact etc) than friendship love, or love of family (parents/children etc) and all of those are different than principled love eg. love for your fellow man/love for your country etc.

Yes

[Captain Utopia]

No need to get uptight. I wasn't attacking you.

I get this treatment too.  We are little fish, not worthy of respect.  We haven't earned his love yet.

[BadBeast]

The thing that screwed it all up for us in general, was the Medieval nonsense that was/is Romantic, or Courtly Love.
Even now, people still fall for that "Eyes across a crowded room", "Her heart fluttered across her pale, swelling bosom" and other types of Bullshit.
Romantic Love took people's healthy, natural feelings of lust, and hardwired  into our feeble, uneducated branes, that this was "love", and therefore a Holy thing, that needed to be affirmed in Courtship,  sappy Madrigals, for Lute and voice, or Love Sonnets, in rhyming pentameter, and culminating in Marriage, in the sight of God.

[LMNO]

I think you may actually be asking a Linguistic question.  The cunning linguists on the board may be able to do this better, but...

In our language, we use "love" as an abstract, and then qualify it as needed ("sexual love", "emotional love", "familial love", "stupid love", "spiritual love", et al).  

Your insistence that we need one definition for love, and then to wonder why we use that word for multiple contexts seems to ignore how our language is structured in this case.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

The Greeks called it Eros, (physical love, shagging, BJs, etc) and Thanatos, (The other, more general kind)

edit: But I can also roll with the "Tiny robuts in ur brane" school of thought.

Eros - As you said
Stor'ge - Parents and kids
Philia - Between brothers/best friends
Agape - Principled Love

Thanatos is a reference to death...

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I think you may actually be asking a Linguistic question.  The cunning linguists on the board may be able to do this better, but...

[LMNO]

Thanatos is a reference to death...

The "little death"?

[BadBeast]

Shit, Sorry folks, getting my Olde Englishe mixed up again.

[Cuddlefish]

I think you may actually be asking a Linguistic question.  The cunning linguists on the board may be able to do this better, but...

In our language, we use "love" as an abstract, and then qualify it as needed ("sexual love", "emotional love", "familial love", "stupid love", "spiritual love", et al).  

Your insistence that we need one definition for love, and then to wonder why we use that word for multiple contexts seems to ignore how our language is structured in this case.

Is true. Like I said, I just wanted to hear some different opinions.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Thanatos is a reference to death...

The "little death"?

No... the dessicated kind... Thanatos was a mythological character from the Illiad. He was one of Eris' brothers too (Son of Nyx). And he was a representation of death in the dying/decaying sense. Not the 'la petite mort'.

[Cuddlefish]

No need to get uptight. I wasn't attacking you.

I get this treatment too.  We are little fish, not worthy of respect.  We haven't earned his love yet.

That's good to hear. I've experienced this two days in a row in different topics, and I was beginning to think he just didn't like me 

[maphdet]

I agree with most of the posts-there can be different kinds of love.

But for the most part, I define love as the feeling of unconditional respect and admiration for another person or even thing for that matter.
I am sure there are objects that people love whether out of materialistic obsession or a special memory or such that that object held to the person.

[Cuddlefish]

Tiny robuts in ur brane

I knew it! Someone get me some magnets! That'll teach those fuckers...