Orndorff, last
night you posted that "Friendship may be a stronger bond than love". How
do you feel about that comment tonight? - Amorella
2235 hours. Changing the
statement slightly: "Friendship is a stronger human bond than love",
is more in line with my deeper thinking on the subject. Love has many
more associative meanings.
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friendship - noun - the
emotions or conduct of friends; the state of being friends. • a
relationship between friends: she formed close friendships with women. • a state of
mutual trust and support between allied nations.
ORIGIN Old English frēondscipe
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love - noun -
1 an intense
feeling of deep affection: babies fill parents with intense feelings of
love | their love for their country. • a deep
romantic or sexual attachment to someone: they were both in
love with her | we were slowly falling in
love | it was love at first sight. • affectionate
greetings conveyed to someone on one's behalf. • a formula
for ending an affectionate letter: take care, lots of love, Judy. • (Love) a
personified figure of love, often represented as Cupid.
ORIGIN Old English lufu, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit lubhyati ‘desires’, Latin libet ‘it is pleasing’, libido ‘desire’
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words selected and edited from the Oxford/American software
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2248 hours. The difference
as seen above is that love has the association of romance and/or sexual
attraction added to it. Romance and sex muddies the waters for me therefore
friendship shows a the stronger deeper human bond. Now, if two lovers are also
best friends first, then to me a bond is equal to the bond of human friendship
but not greater in terms of depth into the human spirit, the heartansoulanmind
of the matter.
That clarifies your mind. - Amorella
2255 hours. Yes, it does.
Post. - Amorella
2256 hours. Thank you,
Amorella for helping me to do so.
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