Is love infinite?

Real love is infinite.
I definitely think so. (:

@cyndihugs Does a person’s love still exist after they die?

My parents were married 34 years until my dad passed away from cancer and my mother won’t ever remarry again because she loved my father so much. I believe her deep love for him carries on even to this day even though he is gone. To me, that is an indication of infinite love.

If love is infinite, then isn’t also hate, fear, hope, and sadness infinite? What does this question mean?

Love is not infinite. The ideal of love, is just that: an ideal. It’s essentially intangible. Love, by nature, is lacking. With love we’re always aspiring, whether it be for a love to be requited or for it to last. This constant aspiring, is what gives love its fire and its passion and keeps it strong. It’s the striving for the ideal love that actually makes love what it is. In theory, then, the actual attainment of love’s ideal could be its ruin. (I guess we don’t have to worry about that since the ideal can never be accomplished by man; ‘forever’ is abstract and not a reachable goal.)

Is that like unconditional?

Only if you want it to be infinite.

@The_Compassionate_Heretic
Love is unexplainable. Due that it varies from person to person.
@Bluefreedom gave a perfect example. Even if bluefreedom’s mother would’ve married or would marry another guy, I would say that she is still in love with her diseased husband. He was a part of her and she was a part of him. They shared many moments together-unforgettable. She [would] appreciate every moment that they shared together and when you are in love you share everything together and show different perspectives in life. You unite. In a loving relationship, the people(couple) are learners and teachers from each other. How can you not love infinitely the person that showed you life in your heart-love?
It’s really hard to explain.
Another example would be the love of your paernts. They are your teachers and bestfriends…why wouldn’t you infinitely love them? They teach you so many things in life; you still learn from them and they might learn from you, too.

Fell asleep on the couch last night. Woke up as my son was covering me. That’s love. My love for him: unconditional and infinite.

@Zen awwww…

If you mean infinite in that it will last forever then I don’t know because I don’t know if there is an afterlife, or this is it!

If you mean infinite in the sense that it has no limitations, then for me no is the answer. I have never loved anyone so much that it overrode their capacity to ruin it. For me love has expectations inherent and if those expectations are not met then the love can definitely wither and die.

God is love and God is infinite. One thing people forget is that God is also Just and a holy judge punishes which is ungodly .

Love is biochemical and electrical. It can be induced with a certain cocktail of hormones including oxytocin, and it was adaptive because it induced primate mothers to bind quickly with their progeny, and in some mammals to induce a couple to unite to protect the progeny. When the brain stops, love stops.

@ESV Welcome to fluther. You’ll fit right in.

@Zen Did you forget a tilde there?

@pdworkin That’s a pretty ridiculous way to explain love. Of course, feelings are generated by the brain, but whether the love lasts is a different question entirely. Relationships are far more complex than a series of neural firings. Analyzing a human being in terms of physiology alone is like analyzing the Taj Mahal solely in terms of the materials that were used to build it. Even if we could monitor every cell and circuit of the brain, we would still need to understand the circumstances, thoughts, culture, etc that influence what we feel.

Dualism is rather old fashioned, @le_inferno. Descartes proposed it at the very beginning of the Renaissance.

“Relationships are far more complex than a series of neural firings”
Yes, we do make it feel that way.

But that is just what it is. A biological function.

Is anything? what does ‘infinite’ mean?
I believe that as long as I am alive and in this body I will love my partner – even if we’re not together

If your children have children and they have children. And so one.

That can become infinite.

@ChazMaz If only that were so. We are just a random evolutionary experiment, unlikely to last more than the blink of an eye in galactic time. Nothing lives for ever.

I believe it is infinite, real love is anyway! For instance…my grandparents had a very strong, classic love! When my grandmother passed away due to pancreatic cancer, my grandfather was heart broken and lost without her. He died a few weeks later from a massive heart attack.

@ShanEnri As I understand that story, it is about how love ended. Can you explain how death makes something continue?

“the blink of an eye in galactic time. Nothing lives for ever”

This is true.

What’s your point, @pdworkin? The value of an idea doesn’t diminish with time.
“Einstein’s theory of relativity was sooo last century!”

Love isn’t infinitely complex because our brains are finite in size and can process and store only a finite amount of information.

How am I full of shit?

[Mod Says] flame off please

I’m sorry, I am unable to educate you at this time.

My Mom passed away a few years ago. I was talking to my Dad the other day. He’s been out with women and actually had a steady girlfriend for awhile after my Mom’s passing. He said to me that he’s not all that happy (with his life)—that he misses and still loves my Mom even though that she’s gone.

love is infinite if you want it to be. you can choose to love someone infinitely, though, of course, you can’t really expect or know if someone will love you infinitely in return. so i guess the joy is loving without expecting love in return…that’s all you really have control over ;)

@pdworkin…Great argument.
I bet you totally dominated the debate team once upon a time.

@pdworkin love is eternal (infinite) and they didn’t believe that death was the end, just the beginning of something else, that’s what death has to do with it! And if love is to be infinite doesn’t it have to be strong? And he loved her so strongly he couldn’t live without her. Why cast shadows on something I was sharing as a heartfelt answer?

You and I simply have different beliefs, @ShanEnri . That’s not casting shadows, that’s having opinions and sharing ideas and making a discussion. Wouldn’t it be a bore if we all thought and felt the same way? I fell that at my death I will be annihilated, and that all the love I now offer to lovers, friends, and indeed my children will come to a halt. That’s a sad idea, but that’s what I believe. I wish I believed otherwise – it would be easier.

@le_inferno I am not engaging you because the moderator asked me not to. Otherwise I would gladly take you on. I do not believe your arguments are cogent, and I believe I could make a pretty good case.

I don’t know but I’d like to keep testing it out with what remains of my finite mortal life.

As I have told the three men I have loved, “My love is unconditional – my life is not.” I still love each of them unconditionally, and always will (including my ex-husband, who has been deceased for more than a decade). I was not able to build a lasting relationship with any of them for reasons other than love.

Love is an infinite resource in capacity: I love those men, and I will love again. I also have unconditional love for my son, other family members and friends… and there is always room for more.

Is love infinite in time? No human can answer that, because none of us are infinite. I believe that love transcends time and space, life and death. I beleive that love is the force that creates the energy that fires our neurons.

I beleive that love transcends any concept of religious entities; and that humans created those entities in a feeble attempt to define love. And other humans use science to try to figure out where life comes from in their feeble attempt to define love.

Love is the unanswerable question, but it is the force that makes us who we are.

@hearkat Love your answer

@pdworkin The moderator did not say you weren’t allowed to counter my argument, he discouraged your flame-bait remarks, i.e., “you’re full of shit.” If you can’t make an argument without these kind of comments, then it clearly has no merit.

love has obvious limitations in my opinion if it can be said to exist at all I think people often refer to need as love…replace, take away, or out balance the need and the love is gone….people who say things like well my husband gets drunk, hits me and destroys our children’s lives but i still love him are mistaking love for idiocy and in many an obvious mental disorder on their part…its harsh but that’s my opinion…wont make a very good movie buts that’s reality for you

@pdworkin OK. Thanks for clarifying, nowadays you just never know about people and their beliefs and how offensive they can be about them!