What is Love?

ReinnResauq · Post by **ReinnResauq** » 2004-11-21 09:42pm

If this thread has been done before, forgive me and please lock, but if not...

How do you define love? How does romantic love differ from other varieties? What is the purpose of love or does it even have one and is just a positive extreme of the caring evolution has selected for in higher vertebrates?

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2004-11-22 04:59am

Love is a chemical reaction in the brain, not really different from large quantities of chocolate.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2004-11-22 06:17am

ReinnResauq wrote:If this thread has been done before, forgive me and please lock, but if not...

How do you define love? How does romantic love differ from other varieties? What is the purpose of love or does it even have one and is just a positive extreme of the caring evolution has selected for in higher vertebrates?

It's purpouse is to get you fucking and sustaining the kids.

Not that this is a bad thing mind.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-11-22 06:32am

Love is when two people share a kindrid understand and respect for one another. It is a blending of personalities when two people fill the gaps in one another and make each other happy. Love, when properly diagnosed, is also one of the most beautiful of human emotions.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-11-22 06:36am

God is lvoe.

But seriously, love covers a whole gamut of affectionate emotional attachments. Romantic love is affection with the intent to have sex, and usually the want to breed and raise kids with the person you're with.

To those that will think "it's just chemistry in the brain" is some sort of value judgment, demeaning it, well, think about what "chemistry in the brain" actually is. It's the source of all human emotion, that chemistry is what allows us to feel alive and has been fashioned that way through millions of years of evolution. Don't think "chemicals in the brain" aren't special, they're vital, a huge part of you.

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-11-22 06:37am

What is love?

Baby don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
No more

(It had to be done)

Love is, at its most basic level, a chemical reaction that leads to massive increases in what I like to call "red-hot monkey love." Love is also often the motivation behind what I like to call "being a fucking stupid bastard".

There's several types of love too, mind you.

SWPIGWANG · Post by **SWPIGWANG** » 2004-11-22 08:48am

Love is an shooting star......

*gah, got to stop watching gundam*

Love is an eternal revisionism.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2004-11-22 08:49am

What is love?

Baby don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
No more

*dun dun dun dun dun dun dun*

.......

AAAAAAAAHH DIIIIIIE!!!!!!!!111!!

Love gives meaning to the cold, cruel universe that spawned us.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-11-22 08:51am

Keevan_Colton wrote:Love is a chemical reaction in the brain, not really different from large quantities of chocolate.

Yeah...but how can I get this on tap without being Keanu

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In the most clinical fashion it's a reaction in the brain.

Other thenthat...it's your own personal definition of ana emotion that is at time most wonderful and heart rending.

tim grail 3 · Post by **tim grail 3** » 2004-11-22 09:55am

"And how does your kind define love?"
"Same as all bodies, same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice"

Though I don't presume to speak for for all clicking insect demons.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-11-22 09:58am

Love is what you feel when you look at another person and fervently hope that this person will have the best, happiest life that he or she can possibly have. Parents often (but not always, unfortunately) feel that way when they look at their children. Husbands sometimes (but not always) feel that way when they look at their wives. Teenagers think they know what it is, but at their age, it's mostly hormones and poetry.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2004-11-22 11:49am

Darth Wong wrote:Teenagers think they know what it is, but at their age, it's mostly hormones and poetry.

You know, I honestly am not sure which of those two is worse

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2004-11-22 01:11pm

Let's here it for HORMONES!

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2004-11-22 04:04pm

Dalton wrote:What is love?

Baby don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
No more

(It had to be done)

Wow ! Thanks for the laugh I needed that

And Darth Wong has it correct.

I say that love is knowing you want that persons life to be the happiest it can be (as Darth Wong said) and knowing you want to spend the rest of your life with the other person.

You will only really understand love when you fall into it and when you have children you'll really know what love is.

Darth, the comment about teenagers is so true ! You made me laugh as well

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-11-22 04:35pm

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2004-11-22 04:39pm

Chardok, there is no love in this world for Chris Kattan.

ReinnResauq · Post by **ReinnResauq** » 2004-11-22 04:44pm

Mrs Kendall wrote:

You will only really understand love when you fall into it and when you have children you'll really know what love is.

I'd agree to that, except that I have been in love for a while and I still don't really know it is. I know that I had thought I'd been in love before and this is so much stronger than anything ever before.

Zeond · Post by **Zeond** » 2004-11-22 04:54pm

Darth Wong wrote:Love is what you feel when you look at another person and fervently hope that this person will have the best, happiest life that he or she can possibly have. Parents often (but not always, unfortunately) feel that way when they look at their children. Husbands sometimes (but not always) feel that way when they look at their wives. Teenagers think they know what it is, but at their age, it's mostly hormones and poetry.

As Robert A. Heinlein put it:

Love is the when the happiness of another person is of paramount importance to your own.

Don't ask me which book it was, I've read too many but I think it was either Stranger in a Strange Land or The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2004-11-22 07:01pm

Chardok wrote:

Holy fuck ! ROFLMAO!!!

How did I know someone was gonna say something about that movie. I love it

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2004-11-22 07:03pm

ReinnResauq wrote:
Mrs Kendall wrote:

You will only really understand love when you fall into it and when you have children you'll really know what love is.

I'd agree to that, except that I have been in love for a while and I still don't really know it is. I know that I had thought I'd been in love before and this is so much stronger than anything ever before.

Good, then it is probably love. Can you see yourself growing old with this person? If so it's probably love for sure.

Uther · Post by **Uther** » 2004-11-22 07:42pm

There's a difference between the crazy romantic love that probably is mostly chemicals and hormones and the deeper bonds of attachment that probably have a lot more to do with choice and conscious thought.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2004-11-23 04:38am

Love is the most dangerous of all feelings and you should strive to be feared rather than loved.
[/Machiavelli]

Other than that, I agree with everyone else on the chemicals etc.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-11-23 01:28pm

my take: love is a merry elf dancing a jig that turns on you with a sub machine gun.

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2004-11-23 01:50pm

Darth_Zod wrote:my take: love is a merry elf dancing a jig that turns on you with a sub machine gun.

Sounds to me like you've been hurt a lot, unless that was just a joke. If not then in your case it's likely that you haven't really experienced TRUE love if you think of it that way. JMO!

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-11-23 02:35pm

Mrs Kendall wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:my take: love is a merry elf dancing a jig that turns on you with a sub machine gun.
Sounds to me like you've been hurt a lot, unless that was just a joke. If not then in your case it's likely that you haven't really experienced TRUE love if you think of it that way. JMO!

yes, it was just a joke.

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