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Valentine Why do we celebrate this day as if we only demonstrate love once per year? Do our hearts suddenly swell up with bursting paroxysms of bliss that urge us to spend money on pink things? Honestly, nothing more enters my mind at the thought of Valentine's day but, "So what?" and a bunch of other half-conscious opinions on the holiday. So instead, a myth shall ensue, entailing the story of Saint Valentine in a tantalizing willy-wally of a what: Once upon some time, a saint named Valentine discovered Love. Love was a strange shape, with oddly and ironically resembles a lone pair in chemistry, which Valentine had been studying for the past school year. Romantic Love didn't discriminate against any gender, sexual orientation, or race because it was unconditional. So Valentine preached about Love until finally the people made a day specifically praising Valentine and Love. Through generations, the two have been celebrated until one day Discrimination came in and tried to ruin this gaiety. Discrimination was in a crisscross shape, menacing and notorious for nasty bias that aimed to defile Romantic Love's unconditional and impartial distribution. Valentine decided that one day he would find a way to travel through the realms of Chocolate to earth and defeat the wretched beast Discrimination. And hopefully, we will romantically love happily ever after-- unconditionally and impartially. And maybe Valentine can throw in some chocolate. Basically, these personified the discrimination today against sexual orientation, race, and many other factors that obstruct love's boundlessness. Romantic love can be between a male and a male, a male and a female, or a female and a female. It makes no difference in the profoundness of their love. So let's be Valentine's successors and battle Discrimination and stand as loving knights of unconditional Romantic Love. heart heart heart heart heart heart heart heart heart

Posted by: Flozzard Wed Feb 19, 2014 @ 03:44am

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Wed Feb 19, 2014 @ 06:17am

I especially like the Greek language for how it classifies the different kinds of love. If you don't mind me saying, it sounds like you're mistaking "erotic love" and "philia love" for "agape love"; the latter is actually the one which is unconditional: the former two expect something in return (romance and fondness reciprocated). Agape is self-less, more concerned about the well-being of another, at no benefit to itself; in fact, more often than not, the one who expresses agape is inviting detriment, at their own expense, for the sake of bettering another.

"Romantic love" cannot love its enemies. It's all about feels and warm fuzzies. Something that cannot be felt for someone who hates and insults you. Agape love is about showing acts of kindness and concern for people who don't even deserve your compassion, who mistreat you and hate you for no reason, thus covering "love for enemies" too. So, as a result, expressing agape drives you to watch what you say, how you say it, making sure it brings the listener a benefit and edifies them in their soul, though it brings no benefit to you. In some cases, it won't always make the listener happy, but it will be conducive to their well-being.

Your worldview is clearly different from mine, but some food for thought:

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)

There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

John 15:13 (NLT)

In a nutshell, agape love is others-centered, more concerned with how your words, thoughts, actions and reactions will affect the ones around you, both in the short term and long term (and for me, as a Christian, I'm thinking even as far as the afterlife and after the afterlife).

" ... yet not my will, but yours be done." - (Luke 22:42)

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Sat Mar 01, 2014 @ 06:25pm

To real eyes realize (cool username):

Yes, I believe in a selfless love, of turning the other cheek, of forgiveness and agape love. Here I just wanted to express my distaste for discrimination against certain relationships in romance. I am aware that we don't love every person on the planet romantically. But those that we do love in such a way shouldn't be criticized or limited by any of these fabricated boundaries. The walls that conformity place try to obstruct the infinity of romantic love, but ultimately this love cannot be restrained by specificity in gender, race, or religion as barriers to loving another intimately.

I don't think our perspectives are so opposite, so polar. Yes, love is gentle, kind, passionate, and overcomes all boundaries. Romantic love applies to each and is boundless in terms the passion for a partner, whatever gender, orientation, religion, race, size, language he may have. I believe that agape love is gentle, patient, and selfless just the same, a beautiful and forgiving kind of love that also is boundless in acceptance and warmth.

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