[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;18442219]He certainly loved his mother with all his heart. And several other peoples' as well.[/QUOTE]
Sigmund Freud said that loving your mother is completely normal, so in a way maybe he was the most sane of anybody!
Love is one of the happiest things in my life, because when I love someone truely they are my boyfriend, my best friend, and a part of me. They're the person I think of constantly, the person I want to be with and never get tired of. Someone I feel connected to in a way that I feel what they feel. It's something I would travel accross to the other side of the world for.
However it can also be one of the most painful things in life. I am terrified of something bad happening and it all being taken away in an instant. Because to have something wonderful and to lose it so suddenly is misery. The thing is life is full of risks, and to never take the chance on loving someone is living a far too sheltered life.
[QUOTE=Izan Specter;18429378]Being in love though, is probably the hardest emotion to describe, I guess I will just narrow it down to where the person your in love with makes you feel complete, almost like you couldn't live without them, I guess. The feeling sucks though, it really complicates people. Friends call me a hopeless romantic.[/QUOTE]
This
Well I've been with my girlfriend for ~15 months now.
We decided we were in love about 10 months into the relationship, pretty much all smooth sailing.
My opinion? There is not a single person out there who is right for anyone. Love isn't a first sight thing either, you get to know the person and love grows over time.
Love is like luck. You only ever find it when you aint looking for it, and even then it's sually BAD luck.
And then you find twenty quid that was in your pocket all day long, and give birth to many childeren and live happily...
I think my anolagy gos mixed up at some point.
Love doesn't exist. It's a bunch of little reactions that make you need to be with someone, and when it ends, you get all pissy about it. Woop-de-fucking-doo.
[QUOTE=fskman;18443384]Love doesn't exist. It's a bunch of little reactions that make you need to be with someone, and when it ends, you get all pissy about it. Woop-de-fucking-doo.[/QUOTE]
And when you are unable to find love, you become bitter. The quoted post, for example.
If I were to say it bluntly, it'd be bullshit.
But to be nice, I'll try to give a decent thought.
Uh...nevermind, can't come up with anything, I'll stick with bullshit.
So far what I've gathered is:
Those that have never found love think it's either a magical force or put some scientific spin on it.
Those that have found it and lost it have pessimistic views on it.
And those that are still IN love think it is the single most amazing thing ever.
This is going very well for my research.
It's the thing I'm currently lacking in my life.
Would you like me to post my report on this after I turn it in, or would you rather discuss it the way it is. Because either way this is a great topic and you all are a huge help.
Oh, and sex is good.
i hate it.
[QUOTE=misterv;18422568]love is a mixture of chemicals and hormones. they are passed around our body. they set off chain reactions of other chemicals, or, 'emotions', and that is what we feel when around other people whom we love.[/QUOTE]
This. . . Unfortunately, crushing isn't it?
The feelings you get from love are the best of the best and the worst of the worst.
Some people seem to think that when you like someone you love him/her. If you find that special someone then it'll be so obvious.
Love is great if you're loved back.
Love is giving someone the power to hurt you and hoping that they don't.
I read that from some comic I read a while back.
I'm a romantic, I'm more interested in the platonic love of a relationship than I am the sexual.
I am in love at the moment.
:D
Tis' good.
I imagined the raptor saying that Pascall, and I lol'd. He has a very regal voice.
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This. Made by me :D
[QUOTE=Meader;18451262]I imagined the raptor saying that Pascall, and I lol'd. He has a very regal voice.[/QUOTE]
He is actually a Tyrannosaurus.
But I appreciate the comment all the same. :]
[QUOTE=redking;18421480]You are happy when someone loves you...but you are strong when you have someone to love.[/QUOTE]
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Well the only thing i can say about love is
[quote=Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy] Love: avoid if possible[/quote]
Love is a by product of what i like to call the human factor.
Due to our enhanced intelligence we have no need to just survive, we are at the pinnacle, the very top.
Most of all we as a species are safe. Realising that our brains decided (i think) that instead of worrying about living and passing on our genes we should just try to make things as easy for us a possible. We should also make ourselves feel good.
Feeling good can be achieved by doing things that release endorphins. Love is one such thing, knowing that you will always have someone and that someone will always have you.
We have moved beyond the Darwinian and reached a stage where we just want to feel good.
This all comes at a price, for every positive there must be a negative, hate, jealousy, sadness and any other negative emotion you can think of. The fear of death is a prime example, we have an awareness of being alive, we also have a concept of not being alive, problem is we don't know what not being alive is like. So we fear death because we have no idea what it is.
I call this, the curse of being human.
Until we move beyond this phase and into the next (Perhaps via evolution or perhaps understanding death) I'm afraid things like this will remain confusing and i guess we'll just have to live with it.
Love as a concept or a state is so confused and mixed up there's no use even debating it.
However love as an act is far more simple and better on any level. What use is 'being in love' if you're not actually [I]loving[/I] them?
It annoys me when people moan about people saying 'I love you' too soon. Saying 'I love you' is an act of love so they are effectively loving them.
When I'm in love I do everything I can to make them happy and know beyond any doubt how much I would do for them.
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[QUOTE=thisguy123;18454349]Well the only thing i can say about love is
Love is a by product of what i like to call the human factor.
Due to our enhanced intelligence we have no need to just survive, we are at the pinnacle, the very top.
Most of all we as a species are safe. Realising that our brains decided (i think) that instead of worrying about living and passing on our genes we should just try to make things as easy for us a possible. We should also make ourselves feel good.
Feeling good can be achieved by doing things that release endorphins. Love is one such thing, knowing that you will always have someone and that someone will always have you.
We have moved beyond the Darwinian and reached a stage where we just want to feel good.
This all comes at a price, for every positive there must be a negative, hate, jealousy, sadness and any other negative emotion you can think of. The fear of death is a prime example, we have an awareness of being alive, we also have a concept of not being alive, problem is we don't know what not being alive is like. So we fear death because we have no idea what it is.
I call this, the curse of being human.
Until we move beyond this phase and into the next (Perhaps via evolution or perhaps understanding death) I'm afraid things like this will remain confusing and i guess we'll just have to live with it.[/QUOTE]
I agree with pretty much everything you said, but not the way you said it. The most beautiful thing about our race is our ability to conceptualize and I don't myself see it as an overall bad thing. It can be problematic at times, but for me it's always been fulfilling on so many levels.
If we 'evolved' into a form that didn't create these concepts (as flawed and confusing as they seem), we would lose everything that makes us human.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;18430450]Love is a War.
You must make the right, tactical maneuvers
You must decide on what equipment you must bring
You must not make mistakes or you risk getting shot down
And most importantly you must take the first strike or that opportunity may never come again[/QUOTE]
Unless it's a hooker.
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[QUOTE=thisguy123;18438407]If everyone in the world found that perfect someone i'm pretty sure most wars, crimes ect... would not exist because who would care?
I have dreams about being a militaristic global dictator with soviet like army that controls the world. (Second British empire here I come!) and i would give it all up if i found the right person.
I could annihilate cities, order the death of millions, commit genocide if i had to and even if i had the resources to take over the world at my fingertips I'd give it all up for the right person.[/QUOTE]
You'd kinda hope that most people would give up the death of millions and genocide up [I]for free...[/I]
Love is great and horrible...
[QUOTE=fskman;18443384]Love doesn't exist. It's a bunch of little reactions that make you need to be with someone, and when it ends, you get all pissy about it. Woop-de-fucking-doo.[/QUOTE]
Happiness is just a bunch of little reactions; does that not exist? On a physical level it doesn't (except for the electromagnetism that configures it all, if that's how it all works), but as a concept it is very real.
Same with love, except it's more personal.
[QUOTE=Robbobin;18454775]Happiness is just a bunch of little reactions; does that not exist? On a physical level it doesn't (except for the electromagnetism that configures it all, if that's how it all works), but as a concept it is very real.
Same with love, except it's more personal.[/QUOTE]
You make a really good point. I couldn't figure out why his logic seemed flawed, but this makes more sense. You can break anything down into some scientific explanation, I mean all YOU are is a bunch of molecules stuck together, does that mean YOU don't exist?
Wait... do you?
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