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Zoom Discussion Guide on the Theme: Love – What is it?
Questions ©Richard E. Gordon  June 28, 2020
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Questions

1. Without referring to a dictionary, give your definition of love.

2. Consider: Is a person’s love as individual, as unique as a fingerprint? If Lewis and Jake both say to the same women, “I love you, Alice,” is their love the same? How might it be different?

3. If you name is Millie, might you be justified in saying to your anticipated spouse, “I Millie love you, Tom”?

4. If you had a daughter or son in their late teens who asked, “How can I tell if my boyfriend (girlfriend) really loves me?” what would be your response?

5. Are some people more capable of giving positive love than others? What could account for this capability? Upbringing? Genetics? Might we one day discover a love gene?

6. What, if anything, might make a person unable to give love? Could this inability ever be changed? How?

7.  Imagine our society without love? How might it be different than what it is today? 

8. Think about this for a minute. Only share your thoughts if you can comfortably do so. “Overall, has love been a positive or negative force in my life?”

9. If you had the ability to determine how capable a political candidate was in giving love, would you consider this quality influential in swaying you to vote for this  candidate?

10. Did our discussion of these questions change in anyway your thoughts about love?

Quotations 

Here are quotes on love taken from this link from the website Your Tango

Referring to the any of these quotes, which seems the most important, most thought-provoking?  Why?  Is there any quote you disagree with? Why?

1. "Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2. "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." ― Alexander Smith

3. "It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all." — William Makepeace Thackeray, "Vanity Fair"

4. "Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything." — Ray Bradbury

5. "We're all a little weird, and life's a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." — Dr. Seuss

6. "The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference." — Elie Wiesel

7. "Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you." — Dolly Parton

8. "Love is a serious mental disease." — Plato

9. "Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own. I like to put it that way: trumps your own. Love of somebody else — of family, of your kids — becomes the most important, most worthwhile thing in your life. It's what you foster and protect." — Brad Pitt

10. "The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants." — Johnny Depp

11."Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." — Martin Luther King, Jr.