Love....do you believe in it???
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Yeah, I was a bitter little "there is no such thing as love, only delusion etc. etc." type of person when I was an angsty teen who feared rejection a little too much too. Then I grew up and met my wife. Love does exist. No, it's not "magical", but sometimes it can seem that way.
Touche. Yeah I forgot to add the second part of my post on that one. It just seems like everyone is too readily deluding themselves about it. For example, you get into a relationship, you get hurt but you spur yourself on to find that 'special someone' because everyone must have a perfect match right? Wrong. The reality is that people end up 'settling' for someone because 'that's as good as they're ever gonna get'. Perhaps these people should look further or perhaps they should realise that when it comes down to it everyone just wants a companion, they don't like being alone. The only time I would ever say someone has 'found love' is when they find someone that they will never tire of being around, someone who truly understands them, someone who won't pick up on their faults, rather focus on their good points and vice versa. Yet our current, shallow culture does not allow for such relationships hence why love is an illusion. All the relationships I've ever been in and all the relationships I see around me are people just screwing each other over, it's hard to see any evidence of 'love' after all that. Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps I've been with the wrong people or the people around me just do not match up but it seems too predominant to just be unfortunate coincidence.JMeganSnow said:But you haven't really made a point that I can refute. If you don't think that love exists, what facts point you to that conclusion? How do you define love, anyway? If your definition is significantly different than mine, any discussion will be at cross-purposes.SmartIdiot said:Hence why I put ellipses at the start and end of your quote(or paraphrase as it became). I'd hate to take anything out of context. I just wanted to focus on the particular point you'd made and I took that bait because I know you were looking for a genuine reaction from someone and you got it. Sometimes interesting dicussions arise from initially clashing points of view, or grinding arguements. I'm just looking for someone intelligent to talk toover to you. Come on, swing that baseball bat, I know you have something to make me think "fuck... I gotta come up with something GOOD to counter that!"
A discussion requires two active participants, you know.
Well it definitely exists. It is an emotion like any other. Its just that it is very difficult to understand, whereas usually things like anger have an obvious cause. Still, even then people can feel angry without knowing why particularly.
Don't confuse the emotion of love with fairy tales and the heart and such. Rather just think of it as a deeper liking.
For example, everyone loves their mum, not everyone likes their mum. Ok wait that just made it more complicated :S
Ok, I guess it is a deeper liking, only more irrational and ...shit.
Its just a bond, like the bond between two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom. The bond can be broken if something comes along, but even if the...
..you know what? I give up.
Don't confuse the emotion of love with fairy tales and the heart and such. Rather just think of it as a deeper liking.
For example, everyone loves their mum, not everyone likes their mum. Ok wait that just made it more complicated :S
Ok, I guess it is a deeper liking, only more irrational and ...shit.
Its just a bond, like the bond between two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom. The bond can be broken if something comes along, but even if the...
..you know what? I give up.
Same, but replace "boyfriend" with "girlfriend, and change all respective pronouns to their female counterparts.xitel said:
I didn't know it existed till I was there. ^_^ It is wonderful but confusing too. And what the songs say about it being addicting is true, because when you're without it, you can be very miserable.
Love causes me a lot of pain. Then I remember this:
"Life is pain, anybody who tries to tell you otherwise is selling something" - The Dread Pirate Roberts.
Cookies for who knows what this is from. Anyway, there's a reason why my avatar is Kaorin from Azumanga Daioh going all gushy and flowery with love. It's because like her I keep falling for girls who just don't feel the same way about me as I do about them. It's there to remind me that if I'm not careful I'll end up like Kaorin, only I'm not an obsessed lesbian schoolgirl who can't take a hint, if a girl rejects me I've learned to move on. Who said you can't learn real life lessons from anime?
"Life is pain, anybody who tries to tell you otherwise is selling something" - The Dread Pirate Roberts.
Cookies for who knows what this is from. Anyway, there's a reason why my avatar is Kaorin from Azumanga Daioh going all gushy and flowery with love. It's because like her I keep falling for girls who just don't feel the same way about me as I do about them. It's there to remind me that if I'm not careful I'll end up like Kaorin, only I'm not an obsessed lesbian schoolgirl who can't take a hint, if a girl rejects me I've learned to move on. Who said you can't learn real life lessons from anime?
One of the greatest movies ever made...Princess BrideNewGeekPhilosopher said:
*eats cookie* nom nom nom
A chemical reaction creating an emotional attachment designed to prolong the species. Natures way of tricking us into having kids. Having said that, it doesn't make it any less real or exciting to me.
Lol at all the people saying its doesnt exsist.
Love, hate, jealousy, fear etc are all emotions you cant claim one doesnt exsist without claiming all the others dont exsist.
Its quite true that alot of people think they're in love and arent and true that alot of people have probably never found someone they love. Go find that type of person whos a perfect match for you so you can love them. You've got 3 billion people to pick from (or 6 if you swing either way), the average person could probably really love about 1000 of those at a random guess.
Love, hate, jealousy, fear etc are all emotions you cant claim one doesnt exsist without claiming all the others dont exsist.
Its quite true that alot of people think they're in love and arent and true that alot of people have probably never found someone they love. Go find that type of person whos a perfect match for you so you can love them. You've got 3 billion people to pick from (or 6 if you swing either way), the average person could probably really love about 1000 of those at a random guess.
Im convinced it doesnt last more then 2years after that its only in brief moments not the glorious overall effect it once had over u. Also just to clarify a point to all the losers out there in order to be in love you need to actually be going out with or at least hooked up with your parner a few times otherwise your just infactuated.