Now I'm wondering if there's a connection between kite and kitten...hrm...

Love has two components, behavior and emotion. As an emotion,...well hell, how is anyone supposed to define something that everyone claims is their own and no one else's? As a behavior love is chemistry, and is ruled be regions of the brain very close to those involved in addiction. Actually, scans of a heartbroken lover's brain will reveal patterns nearly identical to someone in drug withdrawal. Go figure. Scent has a great deal to do with this. Case in point, a recent study showed that a very high proportion of women smell the clothing of their husband/boyfriend during periods of separation.
I'm not trying to downplay the emotional side, but isn't something with a huge number of equally correct definition undefinable? As such it's kind of a silly question, sort of like "what is inside this black box that you cannot open, touch, smell or listen to?".

it's so funny when science geeks try to answer philisophical questions empirically.


I'm telling you. it's a cupcake given to a stranger.

I don't usually try to mold an answer to a purposefully unanswerable question, but this is actually a concept that gets batted around from time to time in the neural engineering circles here. Emotion as a discreet series of interaction in isolated portions of the brain is something getting more and more research time and funding, mostly anger and emotions that lead to crime, but love is thrown in there because it consumes so much of our time. So I threw it in there as more of a representation of how we address the issue here, rather than a response to the spirit of the question.

I don't watch enough sappy movies to pull a funny quote from memory, and any attempt at making one up would probably be pathetic...

i think ill go philosophical on this one... love is ones consciousness acknowledging the consciousness of another human without the need for proof. im a fan of Descartes so if u know anything about his work u know exactly what a big deal love is...

Enlighten us?

That's the "cgto rgo sm" guy. :rolleyes:

Sounds like 'namaste' to me..."The divine in me acknowledges the divine in you", or some variation along those lines.

Love hurts, love scars,
Love wounds, and marks,
Any heart, not tough,
Or strong enough
To take a lot of pain,
Take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud
Holds a lot of rain
Love hurts, ooh ooh
Love hurts

love is putting up with her because, well, she puts up with you

Love is appreciating every piece of an individual...and appreciating the bad parts the most.

Here's the Calvin and Hobbes answer (OK, so it's only the Hobbes answer) ...

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2007/04/01/

All of the above.

V, those choices are somehow nearly poetry. They are like verse.

I picked three -- verb, noun, and feeling. These are the things or ways I've been there.

Love is caring about someone else's happiness above your own, that's why there are different types of love. Eros, Philia, Agape, and perhaps to some extent Storge (maybe). Eros and Agape are the two types we call love in western culture.