why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love?? ( Archived) (30)

Aug 7, 2007 6:22 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
fireliter
fireliterfireliterAllen Park, Michigan USA502 Threads 14 Polls 5,902 Posts
fall, fell falling in love how did it get started?how did the use of the fall word get started?

Wouldn't it make more sense to use terms with a uplifting connation? rising, lifted rasing elevated?? you know as in ones pay, or spirits.

I mean the feeling of being loved or in love is probably one of the greatest sensations on earth Right?

been so long I had to ask.

Before anyone tells me I need my coffee... Its cooking now>laugh
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Aug 7, 2007 6:26 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
Spartan73
Spartan73Spartan73Mersyside, Merseyside, England UK22 Threads 1,206 Posts
Because when you fall, you're pretty much helpless.wine
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Aug 7, 2007 6:30 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
fireliter
fireliterfireliterAllen Park, Michigan USA502 Threads 14 Polls 5,902 Posts
Ah but when the sensations of love overcome you you are also euphoric. which I do not get from being helpless
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Aug 7, 2007 6:30 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
stefonline
stefonlinestefonlineDublin, Ireland136 Threads 9,702 Posts
Because it's an action word.....so for every action there is a reaction....banana
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Aug 7, 2007 6:39 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
lovaboy
lovaboylovaboyBig Bad Manchester, Greater Manchester, England UK47 Threads 6,806 Posts
The usage of the term "fall" implies many things: that the process may have been in some way inevitable or uncontrollable, risky or putting the lover in a state of vulnerability, that the process is irreversible, or all of these things.

good old copy and paste......laugh im at work or i would have taken time to type.....cheers
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Aug 7, 2007 7:02 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
fireliter
fireliterfireliterAllen Park, Michigan USA502 Threads 14 Polls 5,902 Posts
"the process is irreversible,"
we all know thats not the case, more seldom than not its the opposite rolling on the floor laughing

"the process may have been in some way inevitable or uncontrollable, "
sounds like we have to do nothing to attain this love thing that i doubt its work, (pleasurable granted)


But damn good answer evenif it was cut-n-pastethumbs up
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Aug 7, 2007 7:03 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
Mummy
MummyMummyDrogheda, Louth Ireland177 Threads 1 Polls 2,380 Posts
cause you go weak at the knees i guess!
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Aug 7, 2007 7:04 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
lovaboy
lovaboylovaboyBig Bad Manchester, Greater Manchester, England UK47 Threads 6,806 Posts
laugh heres to copy n paste.....cheers
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Aug 7, 2007 7:13 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
Icekrystal24
Icekrystal24Icekrystal24Glasgow, USA74 Threads 1,690 Posts
Falling represents that hopefully someone will catch you..........or

You are helpless....not in control.....

And........it works great for songwriters..........how would it sound if the song said...."help me, I'm climbing in love"?????

confused
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Aug 7, 2007 7:22 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
fireliter
fireliterfireliterAllen Park, Michigan USA502 Threads 14 Polls 5,902 Posts
Poetic reasons noted. I can see the younger set falling or accepting they have no control,

but as we grow older and love comes into our lives do we still feel helpless or more eurphoric when it occurs.

Ice you and BnD could probably give beyter insight to this aswell as any others here who have found Love again.
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Aug 7, 2007 7:23 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
Adam2
Adam2Adam2Konstanz, Baden-Wuerttemberg Germany3 Threads 90 Posts
You can't prevent to whom you fall in for.
Unless: You constantly are affirming to yourself: 'I won't fall in love'.

Others said it before. You can even lose yourself. And make things/actions you never felt as being possible for you. wink
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Aug 7, 2007 7:28 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
shell1
shell1shell1Leeds, West Yorkshire, England UK8 Threads 871 Posts
It probably came from olden times.......someone probably ran to tell their parents that they were in love and tripped and fell over a cliff, got splattered and died!

People then said they fell while in love which got shortened to fell or fall in love!!
rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing tongue
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Aug 7, 2007 7:33 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
fireliter
fireliterfireliterAllen Park, Michigan USA502 Threads 14 Polls 5,902 Posts
you could very well be right

Then they sat down and wrote a song about it.laugh
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Aug 7, 2007 7:36 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
shell1
shell1shell1Leeds, West Yorkshire, England UK8 Threads 871 Posts
Sure did, which is now a classic by one of the country singing stars of today!!!!!rolling on the floor laughing
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Aug 7, 2007 7:43 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
Icekrystal24
Icekrystal24Icekrystal24Glasgow, USA74 Threads 1,690 Posts
Truly, no matter how old you are....(and this is from my recent experience) when love hits....it is an over-powering feeling of helplessness....really. It's like you've given yourself totally and there is nothing you can do to take it back. It really is a process of letting go....

Love does not discriminate......it, when it comes, makes us all let go....no matter if you're 16 or 100 years old....it is so powerful that the mind can not comprehend it....we can not define it to what it feels like or how it really makes us feel. Men/women have died for it and killed for it....

To love at this magnitude, simple words are pale to what it really is.....The best way I have found to describe the feeling he gives to me and how he makes me feel is this:

From the moment I met him face to face.....he felt like home to me.
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Aug 7, 2007 7:56 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
RillyNiceGuy
RillyNiceGuyRillyNiceGuySoutheast, Arkansas USA839 Threads 13,003 Posts
It may have been due to the act of swooning. A young woman would see a handsome man or one would say hello. Then the young lady would swoon.(faint and fall into the arms of someone.)

Not to be confused with the vapors!rolling on the floor laughing
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Aug 7, 2007 7:58 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
Icekrystal24
Icekrystal24Icekrystal24Glasgow, USA74 Threads 1,690 Posts
or intoxication..........
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Aug 7, 2007 8:06 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
fireliter
fireliterfireliterAllen Park, Michigan USA502 Threads 14 Polls 5,902 Posts
Thank ya for the detailed response most appreciated.....
that settles it I'm not in lovelaugh must be that other "L" word....laugh
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Aug 7, 2007 8:10 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
Icekrystal24
Icekrystal24Icekrystal24Glasgow, USA74 Threads 1,690 Posts
rolling on the floor laughing Easily confussed.....but lust, like gas....passes..............rolling on the floor laughing
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Aug 7, 2007 8:14 AM CST why /how do you think the term "Falll" ever got use todescribe such a great sensation as Love??
quiescent
quiescentquiescentsomewhere, USA19 Threads 1,199 Posts
laugh cute.


It's an illusion - experience - re-memberwink
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