Very Cute - What is love?


“When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore.
So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.”

         Rebecca- age 8

  "When someone loves you,  the way they say your name is
   different. You just know that your  name is safe in their mouth."

     Billy - age 4

         "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on
   shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."

      Karl - age 5

         "Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of
   your French fries without making them give  you any of theirs."

         Chrissy - age  6

         "Love is what makes you  smile when you're tired."
        Terri - age  4

         "Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she
         takes a sip before giving it to him, to  make sure the taste is OK."
         Danny -  age 7

         "Love is when you kiss all  the time. Then when you get tired
   of kissing, you still want to be  together and you talk more.
   My  Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they
   kiss"
         Emily - age 8

    "Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop
   opening presents and listen."

        Bobby - age 7

         "If you want to learn to  love better, you should start with  a
   friend who you hate,"

         Nikka - age 6

         "Love is when you tell a  guy you like his shirt, then he
   wears it everyday."

  Noelle - age 7

   "Love is like a little old  woman and a little old man who  are
   still friends even after they know each  other so well."

        Tommy - age 6

         "During my piano recital, I  was on a stage and I was scared.
   I looked at all the people watching me  and saw my daddy waving   and smiling. He  was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore."
    Cindy - age 8

         "My mommy loves me more  than anybody You don't see anyone  else  kissing me to sleep at night."

         Clare - age 6

         "Love is when Mommy gives  Daddy the best piece of

chicken."

         Elaine-age 5

         "Love is when Mommy sees  Daddy smelly and sweaty and still
   says he is handsomer than Brad Pitt."

         Chris - age 7

         "Love is when your puppy  licks your face even after you left
   him alone all  day."

         Mary Ann - age 4

         "I know my older sister  loves me because she gives me all
      her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones."

         Lauren - age 4

         "When you love somebody,  your eyelashes go up and down and
   little stars come out of you."
    Karen - age 7

         "You really shouldn't say  'I love you' unless you mean it.
   But if you mean it, you should say it a  lot. People forget."
        Jessica - age 8

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is
different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.”

Billy - age 4

Beautiful.

A

That was great!

In another thread I mentioned the German movie Wings of Desire. The whole first half of the movie is about adult versions of this stuff. It’s great.

i agree…very poetic coming from a 4 year old :wink:

And it’s so true. It’s not really the way you say the name, it’s the intent. Our words and actions carry such power, not to mention our thoughts.

A

When I read that kind of stuff it makes me convinced that people don’t start out fucked up, to use a crude phrase there.

There was a comedy version of this kind of question the other night on TV (yea…well you watch alot of bad tv when you have the 'flu). There were reponses like ‘It’s what you have when you want to poke mummy in the back alot’. and similarly suspicious yet innocent answers…

Wow, love is locking your bedroom door.

Ad, those words just don’t feel very safe in your mouth. They feel like a knife in my heart.

A

Why, does it attack your belief in Karma, and that people come out of the slot morally unclean?

If so, I suggest that you take a ceramics class.

So, will this thread turn to s**t via Liquid’s nasty affront?

Stay tuned!

Ad, we speak a different language.

Words carry a certain resonance, a frequency see?

A

Looks like these little guys aren’t romantics, but very pragnmatic. Some of them will accend all the way up the day they turn into poets. Others remain relatively less different from the innocent conceptions of youth. “Love is learnt”, Nietzsche. The world of love expands as existentiality enriches itself, how much you can love, is not dependent on your mere determination, but on your sheer existential scope, for example the extent of your romanticism. You don’t have a choice in this in the short run, it’s like honesty, you don’t become a truely honest person just becasue you determined to be, to love, with a hearty swear. “What makes high men is not the intensity of fellings, but the duration”, Nietzsche. Love’s weight differes on people. Philosophers are exceptions, they employ their intellectual power to a certain extend so that love becomes ungenuine for them, thus and only thus they could stay away from the pain, at least for a while. I think that’s pathetic.

What made me incredibly humble, as hard as that is to be believed, was a saying from a survived children of the Beslan shitstorm, she said: “I saw those bulloons and I was happy”, and I said: “fuck me, I need to learn Nietzsche from you!”

“Looks like these little guys aren’t romantics, but very pragnmatic.”

Right, that is exactly what we’re seeing.

Remarkable how applicable Nietzsche is to absolutely everything…

Nietzsche is a veritable panacea for all ills, in the hands of Uniqor.

My favorite:

“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.”

Great thread, Xander.

how applicable Nietzsche is to absolutely everything

veritable panacea

What’s next? Solver of all riddles? Philosopher of philosophers? Wise of the wisests? Intellectual invincibility? Genius of the mind? :^o [-X

… I wish you kept up the pace with me:

Nietzsche is Jesus.

K!

J!

Wings of Desire is a fantastic film.