Regardless of your beliefs, I think Paul summed it up quite well in his letter to the church in Corinth. A portion:
"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant
or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
* Love never ends."
I just don't think you can describe love in a better way. At least, I can't.
PAX
...and that pretty much proves my point that without respect, love cannot exist
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Without intentionally playing both sides here (something I do often) I think it really comes down to which is more important to you. Some people can go through life without love, but are they truly living? To me, love is essential to live life to the fullest; respect is not. Granted, respect is a "bonus", and should always go hand-in-hand with love. By making the generalization of "respect" as a whole is coming from others, whom you don't necessarily have any special bond with, I feel that your loved ones and ones who love you should have respect for you: an unspoken, unconditional, undeniable respect. Outside of intimate or personal relations, respect is nothing but approval of you by someone else. Does that really matter? Is it so necessary for our insecure personalities to have crutches like respect? Are we really so soft? Too much respect turns into egoism. I say love.
but i ask you this, Jason:
How can you love someone and not respect them at the same time? I cannot see how without it not being love.
Thus, it renders the argument dead as Los Del Rio's music career (and i'm sorry for dredging up memories of the Macarena with that reference).
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The only thing every single person from every single walk of life on earth can truly say
they have in common is that their country is run by a bunch of fargin iceholes.
I suppose you are right, Keeper.... Love can't exist without respect, but respect can exist without love.... though oftentimes, they go hand-in-hand.
"Love life for what you get out of it, not what it gives you"
"What happened has happened, and there's nothing we can do about it"
I was never arguing that respect can't exist without love
I was only arguing that love cannot exist without respect...
as such: Why have only respect in a relationship if you can have love and get respect as part of the package deal?
Goodbye Callisto & Skaši, Hello Ishara:
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The only thing every single person from every single walk of life on earth can truly say
they have in common is that their country is run by a bunch of fargin iceholes.
