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do humans really need love?
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Love is everywhere. It's in movies, books, magazines, even school. But does it really matter? Is it the meaning of life, or just another so-called "emotion"? 
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Well here's my opinion(s). There's no need to agree with them. 1-Love is an emotion 2-We don't need it to survive 3-I'm pretty sure that, psychologically humans need affiliations with other humans (or things/ideals) to stay sane. Love is a likely affiliation. 4-I wouldn't say it's the meaning of life
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I think it is possible to grow up and live your life without knowing love. But what kind of existence would that be? Certainly one I would not wish upon anybody. I believe it would spawn a very twisted individual. Babies first distintuish reality outside themselves through contact with their mother. I think it would be cruel to deprive a person of love. We can all speculate whether or not love is the ultimate purpose to life. However it is my belief that love is the only one worth fighting for. I have tried to bring purpose to my life in so many different ways. All of them left me feeling hollow and despicable. It is true that I still want to live up to my fullest potential but that potential includes the greatest showing of love and compassion I can muster. Take it from experience, being lonely sucks big time. Love can bring you ecstasy or leave you sore and sick. Even if we are sometimes afraid to bear all in the search for love, the rewards outweigh the injuries. I could not see myself living a life devoid of love. |
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Depends on the person. For me I actually need it to live. Its more than emotion sometimes, like a state of being. I am in love, no matter how I feel, where I am, or what I am doing, I am still in love. Meaning of life? Maybe their is no meaning to life, but if there is i'd say people make it themselves. I make love mine and that is just for me.  Jomunga eats your avatars. |
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on 2007-05-13 17:17:38 |
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Yes, love is an emotion. I guess you could say you would kinda need it to live, but not all the time. As the human beings we are, we need to be around people, but that, I guess, doesn't necesarilly mean we need love then. So I guess we don't really need love after all. ;D All we need is a good social life. I mean, anyone would go mad if one didn't have anyone to talk to ;) 
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by
 
on 2007-05-13 20:07:47 |
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Well for one thing, the majority of the people today look for love for the comfort , and the understanding that one shares and talks with chosen partner. Although not all look for that, some look for the thrill of intimate actions and the "need"(which is really want) to be with fantasized partner(I need to stop saying that word). Actually, the majority of people "in love" today is due to infatuation. Of course, that is my "majority" is only Los Angeles, I'm not sure about the other countries out there but I hope they're really in love with the inside, not the outside. One said reason that love is created is to reproduce. Though love has a big effect on that action, we don't NEED love to reproduce, just the(not for the young aged =]) sperm, eggs, and all of the resources the embryo needs to survive. Though love is not needed in the reproducing process, understanding and interacting is somewhat wanted from both sides. Eh, what am I talking about. We don't need love, but it would be nice addition as a part of our lives =]....and the reproducing procedure*cough*. of course I'm talking about humans...I hope other living organisms other than humans can read this heh.   |
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by zparticus27
on 2007-05-14 19:27:51
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| we need love...sure one can survive with out this emotion but then again what for...no man can be an island...he needs companion,friends and that is also a form of love. so overall we need love!LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE! CAN MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND! (i think its a song from the powerpuff girls...) |
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on 2007-05-14 20:03:39 |
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We need love. Without it, life would be unbearable because we'll be living with that pain inside our chest. It's a consuming emptiness. But if you ask me, I wish we didn't need it. |
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how can ne one go on without love? its like a basics of life. love makes life. 
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on 2007-05-18 16:51:07 |
| There are some people in this world who have never experienced love of any kind. yet they have survived thus, no love is NOT necessary to live or survive. It is optional. Besides love is just something our sub-conscious let's us feel when it finds a possible mate to reproduce with. I hope most people will get that in their heads, love isn't everything after all. |
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by
 
on 2007-05-25 01:35:26 |
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Love is what we feel... it is what we need in life. I dun believe in people who says that they can live without love... I've tried and I give on the first few days, life without love sucks. One can go live without love without being crazy that will be the cause of his/her end. Love is essential in our life... it is one of those things that we seek in order to said that we have really fulfilled our destiny and have lived our life to the fullest... 
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on 2007-05-25 02:30:31 |
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to survive in this world,i need love.although sometimes it hurts,yet it can give me some happiness. happy memories come from the love. dont u love ur parents?ur friends?yourself?and everything that u appreciate? actually,love cant be described by words.u've to feel it. u cannot think that love is only for a guy and a girl.no,love has a big meaning. if u want to know what is the meaning of love,go and through by yourself. love your parents;that is also called love. for me,everyone deserves to love people and to be loved by people. that's what i think. |
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on 2007-05-25 02:48:58 |
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You can live on without love, but that would surely be awful. Now I don't mean the love between a woman and a man (though it might be nice if you have it), but like how you care about others. I wouldn't want to imagine what would happen to someone if no one loves that person. Oh crap, now I forget what I was going to type next, and I suddenly start crying. Guess that's all I can say for now.   |
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I guess it depends on what definition of love you're talking about I know you definitely can't live without loving yourself... if you didn't love yourself you'd be suicidal... I know, I've been there... But if you're talking about love for others.... mmm... I would say you don't need to really.... I mean, loving others means getting hurt everytime they don't acknowledge you for something and this applies to your parents, lovers, friends, pets.... If you love material things too much you get hurt when they spoil... nothing lasts forever anyway and if you love too much you will get hurt... there's not a chance in hell you won't.... Don't get me wrong... I am sure that if you're a person who only loves yourself you'll find your life less full in more ways than one.... you'll feel empty because no one loves you except for yourself... afterall, you can't expect to have someone else like you if you're selfish be it your family, friends or even pets.... You may be thinking that doesn't apply to anyone good looking since models and film stars are idolized but anyone matured enough will know that's not love, its lust... hence.... the overall thing to do is to achieve balance.... love yourself and others but not too much of either.... 
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for me love is not a feeling but a decision. it is not a feeling because feeling fades and feeling varies depending on one's moods. decision, however is not likely to change... people might not need love to live(literally) but in order for a human to say that he really lived he should love someone and be loved. remember..."to live" and "have lived" is a different thing....:)   |
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on 2007-06-01 09:14:33 |
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Of course we do! No man is an island, right? Otherwise, this world we're living on will turn into a mass graveyard...
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You don't need love to survive. If anything, emotions like love tend to cloud our perceptions. However, I do think that it is important to be able to feel love or affection towards something, whether it be a living organism, a material possession, an activity, or etc. If one is unable to hold anything important to them, then I doubt that they can derive any sort of happiness in their life. Nor would they be able to feel sympathy towards loss or emotional pain, or hold any value towards anything (life, for example). But I do not think it is necessary to receive love back to survive. It can be better to keep on feeling the happiness of loving something than to be hurt by wanting to have that love returned. And those who cannot be content with that become either suicidal or bitter and resentful from not having received love. The suicidal cannot survive but the bitter are fueled by their anger to keep on living, whether from spite or other reasons.
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Love is super super important. Lust is what is not important. For me love is a way of life, and with out it I am bummed out. When I am loveless -(T.T)- I get physically sick for a long time. But for me it is better to not love at all, then to love and lost. You know the reverse of the saying. If you never feel love (true love) you cant miss it. aerrrrr..... right now I dont have love, and I was sick for so long. But I got over it i guess -(-.-)- Funny thing is that I am saying this with out ever having a girlfriend :3  DON'T SLAP THE MONKEY!! |
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Every Loveless, welcome to the dark side. Without love, life would be filled with... loveless thing. lol I guess you can live without love with no problem. The thing is only you may be feeling alone in your entire life. |
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by konekotaku69
on 2007-06-12 18:01:45 (edited 2007-06-12 18:02:36)
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love seems to be both a emotion and need. In a psycology class my teacher said that love is a necessity. of course love can also be a concept... movies, books often associate love with a mixed emotions. like u feel like your flying, happy, etc... well anyways..to close this post love is important. i mean u can live without love but then wat is the reason for living.  Koneko Kururugi, but, please call me Kon ^^
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