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Post by nerdira on Oct 2, 2014 1:14:45 GMT
Marguerite pulled out this interesting question during her...altercation? with Percy, which is: 'Is it possible that love can die?' I was really interested in this question because I have never thought about this before. We talked about this in class where, in my opinion, love does die. When you don't care for that person anymore, your love for that person dies, however, I was corrected in class since we talked about how love doesn't really die, it just changes forms. So my final opinion on whether love can die or not is that no, it doesn't die. Whenever you stop loving a certain someone, you don't really stop loving them, it just changes. Love can't truly die because I feel that its impossible for someone to not have any love inside them. What do you think of this question?
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Post by mirim002 on Oct 2, 2014 2:09:23 GMT
I agree with what nadira says about love not really dying, but changing. Love never stay the same, however, it changes into some other form of feelings. I believe that love can't truly die...some feelings of love stays, but it isn't the same kind of love that you had for the person. It could be a feeling of attachment (?) or familiar (?)
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Post by brandonina on Oct 3, 2014 13:42:50 GMT
Wow! We are talking about love! haha My favorite topic... I believe love does die. I think this relates to human nature. Human naturally something at first and that feeling fades away. For example, when we eat something good, such as chocolate, we think it's so good. But the satisfaction goes down after we continue eating the chocolate. Love is like that. In relationships, humans naturally have that spark. But as time goes on, the spark fades away and the "fire" stops slowly. But I agree with the idea that love changes its form. For example, my parents don't really express their love like how teenagers do. They say that they sometimes don't even miss each other even if they are joking . But does that mean they don't love each other anymore? Well, I don't know how they feel like inside but I feel like there's no definite way to love someone. Love is so complicated man...
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Post by stephen on Oct 3, 2014 14:26:37 GMT
I agree with what you have said I believe love is unable to die. Love is able to be gone, but I believe love is always in our human instinct. I believe even people you see on TV that is crazy and serial killers do have feeling of love, because mot of those serial killer do have mental problem they faced from childhood. Also in real world love can vanish toward someone for certain amount of time, but i believe it will always be somewhere. Because us human have character to be greedy and we desire anything, this makes us unable to kill love inside of us I guess.
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Post by lukejoo on Oct 3, 2014 23:22:32 GMT
I'd go with the opinion that love can die. It doesn't necessarily always happen, but it can. Two lovers can be in love with one another passionately and then depart from each other after an unfortunate event that caused hatred among the two. They can despise each other so badly that they wish to harm the other. There are stories and movies where a lover tries to kill his/her lover but can't because he/she remembers the times when they were close. That's just reminiscence and pity though. It's not because of love but the longing of the kind of love that they had before, that they don't have now. So in a way, love can die as one loses one's love for someone else. But just as easily, it can be revived again.
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Post by ameliachen80385 on Oct 4, 2014 2:06:39 GMT
I agree with you.Personally,I think that the love does die.It is very easy to find a example to prove my opinion,like one(A) of the two lovers wants to break up but another person(B) he/she doesn't want to. B will try to beg for getting back together but still A doesn't want to and then the B's love will become hate or even to kill A.When B is captured ,his/her answer is because he/she loves A so much if he/she can't love A on one can love him/her,either. Love does die is a common phenomenon of this society now but I didn't mean if you break up with someone you should to hate her/him or hurt him/her.
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Post by lins on Oct 4, 2014 4:00:30 GMT
I also believe that love dies because nothing lasts forever. I believe that everything dilapidates in the end. For instance, I can compare the love with a house. A house dilapidates and falls apart one day, regardless how much energy is put into the house to maintain its quality. I believe love is the same. Also people compare love with fire. The say like the fire, love will one day be turned off. I personally think that nothing lasts forever.
But on the other hand, I also agree that love changes its form. For example, some people first date because they love each other. However, they soon can be friends; their form of love has changed. Like the example, I believe that love can change its form easily. Change in love doesn't necessarily means love died. Love is still there, but its form just changed.
Anyway, I believe that love can die inside one's mind. Love can form again anytime soon, yet I am sure that some people don't have love inside them.
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Post by justink on Oct 4, 2014 14:49:59 GMT
urghhh this question was veryyyyy confusing >< but i remember hearing someone say that love never dies, it only changes, if love dies, then one will no longer love anyone or anything. This idea is interesting and convincing since love is present in every human, perhaps its a human nature to love. However when people aren't attracted to each other any more, the love shifts and changes in search of someone who is "lovable". This is starting to sound like a human nature as its part of forming relationships and socializing as social creatures. When one no longer loves another, the one naturally would try to find another partner.
Another topic of love and hate popped up during class… some people said that love and hate are not the opposite. This idea confused me completely.. How can love not be the opposite of hate? The verb and definitions are pretty much the opposite! is it because the more you love the more you care; therefore the more you hate in reaction to your loved one's mistakes? I can accede to that respect that love and hate are closely associated. For me, when a stranger offend me, i wouldn't react much since we don't have any relationship. However, if a person i care about a lot offends (not as joke) me, i would react greatly and express hatred.
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Post by estherchoi on Oct 4, 2014 15:25:20 GMT
I think love dies. I also agree that love changes, but that doesn't mean that love can't die. I think one reason why couples break up is that the love died. When couples were dating, they love each other so much. In some cases, they promise to never break up, keeping their love. However, that sometimes don't last forever. They break up. In this case, love died, so they don't love each other anymore.
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Post by James on Oct 4, 2014 17:43:21 GMT
I don't think anything in the world is eternal, and therefore love does die. Everything changes and shifts from one point to another. And I have never seen a thing that goes no modification. Nothing was eternal and nothing will be eternal, "in my knowledge. Also, especially something like love is the most changeable characteristic I think. I think it is innate that we get sick of something and we don't get to stick with things long enough or forever. I believe science also proved that the hormones that are released from our body when in love, wears away and are eventually gone after about a few months or years. So, I know that what I said doe s not make snnese at all. Even I am not sure wat Im saying. But in conclusion, love does dies because nothing in the universe is ultimate and eternal.
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Post by hansoo on Oct 5, 2014 2:15:42 GMT
Love dies just like it changes. As time passes, it is our human nature that passion, kindness, and love towards your partner gradually lessens. Once this process continues without any interruption, love disappears. It dies. I understand Nadira's perspective how that sense of feeling still lingers in people's hearts. However, it's not that love doesn't die, but rather memory of love stays. In my opinion, nothing stays forever in our nature.
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Post by leeeeena on Oct 5, 2014 5:29:49 GMT
I think love dies. For example, I used to love one of the Japanese boys bands, so I spent a lot of money and time on their albums, magazines, goods, concert, etc, however, now I don't even care about them. It's so weird because I used to really like them but now I don't even care... And the other example, I used to like a guy when I was in 10th grade, but now I don't even remember his face... So I guess love dies. So sad (´;ω;`)
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Post by dannyoh on Oct 5, 2014 6:13:29 GMT
I think love dies for the people who are in lust. Because many times people tend to think that they are in love when they are not. But if you were really in love, whatever "love" is, it shouldn't just fade away.
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Post by elisalee on Oct 5, 2014 7:28:46 GMT
I would say that love can die. I don't think love always die because there are still some old couples that love each other although they have been together for a long time. So I think it really depends on the person. For some people, love can be a short term thing rather than a long term thing. There are some people who don't take love seriously and those people are who ends up preferring short term relationship. It would also depend on the situation.
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Post by bachle on Oct 5, 2014 9:57:35 GMT
I think that it is impossible for love to die because even your love to someone actually die in which it doesn't change form and you no longer have any feelings with them. However, the love inside you still exist that is proved by the love you have toward your family and friend. Even the passion you have on some kind of works or what you do are love as well. So I think the there is no way for love to actually die.
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