What is Love?

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Pink_Pirate

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What is love?
The chemical reactions and electrical signals within your brain, that signifies that you have located a potential mate. This results from observation of the face, body and behaviour over various periods of time, information is gathered from these observations on the quality of genes, ability to withstand pregnancy in case of female candidates, and compatibility of character. When all of these qualities are met at a suitable level reactions in the brain will cause hormones, endorphins and adrenalin to be released into your body, this in turn increases blood flow, putting stress on your heart, the endorphins and hormones trigger feeling of bliss and happiness. These serve to explain why being in love causes people to blush, have heartache, and feel good. Love is nothing more than a survival instinct embedded deep within our genetic coding. Our brains are programmed to make us feel good about it when we find potential mates, and this in turn leads us to seek them out. The ultimate goal of love is to mate, to reproduce and make sure our race does not die out.
We as a race have become obsessed with the side effects of love, rather than its ultimate purpose. The fluttering of the heart, the warming of the face, the uneasiness, all have been immortalised as pure love through countless centuries of literature, songs and legends. Love itself has in today?s society become separated from its purpose, a perversion of its true meaning, in turn its true purpose is viewed as a perversion of love. The concept of love separated from physical reproduction has become so engraved in the collective human psyche that to oppose it, is social taboo. In truth this separation cannot be credited solely to romance novels, our dominance of our planet has contributed as well. Our uncontested ownership of our planet has lead to us becoming collectively arrogant. Our arrogance has long ago reached the point where our need to mate, in order to keep up our population, has been suppressed. The last and perhaps latest reason for the separation of physical need to mate and love is modern science. Our live spans are now extended to over double of what we were originally intended for. This has almost eliminated the need for mating to replenish populations. We can now also still bear children at much older ages than what is natural, as a result out lives are extended further, due to bodily degeneration not starting until after bearing children. Soon technology will have advanced to the point where physical reproduction will no longer be necessary. Then the separation will be complete.
People who chase after love are no better than junkies craving a high. There is no longer any need to recreate, we have complete dominance over our planet, and almost complete certainty of survival. The only reason people seek out love now is to experience the rush of chemicals released into your bloodstream when you find a potential mate. What people call true love is nothing but the perversion of a natural process, a disgusting mockery of nature.

Now, i wrote this a while ago as a thought exercise in arguing points i don't necessarily believe in. I dont agree with everything i wrote up there, but i dont really disagree with it either. So let see some opinions on what you think love might be? it can be something that you believe in, or like me you try to argue a point that u might not support.
 

ThePirateMan

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Big wall of text is bad for people who don't like big wall of text D:

How dare you call yourself a pirate?!

Yarr, harr, hibidihey.

And I really miss being in love D: Havn't been since I was 10 (I'm 14 now.)
Otherwise I don't really care WHAT love is.

No real comments on your opening text thing.. I'm just too tired to read it.. >.<
 

Proteus214

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Baby don't hurt me...
According to Douglas Adams, it's a terrible disease of the mind, and I feel the same way. Unconditional love is pure ignorance and denial at it's best.
 

DarkLordofDevon

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Of course there is more than 1 type of love. Love of a family member. Love of a friend. Love of a partner.

For love in the relationship/partner sense is a connection between 2 people which is stronger than any other. TRUE love means willing to do anything, even die, for the other. Love is being around that special someone who gives your life meaning. Even if it isn't reciprocated.

Not the most scientific answer, but humans are not logical beings. We are also driven by emotions, that which defy complete understanding and vary from person to person. I'm afraid that's the best you'll get from me.
 

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ThePirateMan said:
Big wall of text is bad for people who don't like big wall of text D:

How dare you call yourself a pirate?!

Yarr, harr, hibidihey.

And I really miss being in love D: Havn't been since I was 10 (I'm 14 now.)
Otherwise I don't really care WHAT love is.

No real comments on your opening text thing.. I'm just too tired to read it.. >.<
dude,you were in love?I've never been in love,never even really kissed a girl...

also I ain't reading that either,if we were that intellectual,patient,and into reading,why the hell are we on the escapist.

so I'm gonna go with "love is love"

that should do it.
 

Lord_Panzer

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Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.



EDIT: I may have been ninja'd multiple times over, but I'm the only one who brought a gif to the party! Muahahaha.
 

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xmetatr0nx said:
Dryaxx said:
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me. No more!
I feel better now, knowing im not the only one who heard those words in my head after i read the title. Brilliant!
looks like there's at least 4 of us... so far.

EDIT: 5
 

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Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my boyfriend"). This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.
Thats what Wiki saids, and I agree with them.
 

ThePirateMan

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TheNumber1Zero said:
ThePirateMan said:
Big wall of text is bad for people who don't like big wall of text D:

How dare you call yourself a pirate?!

Yarr, harr, hibidihey.

And I really miss being in love D: Havn't been since I was 10 (I'm 14 now.)
Otherwise I don't really care WHAT love is.

No real comments on your opening text thing.. I'm just too tired to read it.. >.<
dude,you were in love?I've never been in love,never even really kissed a girl...

also I ain't reading that either,if we were that intellectual,patient,and into reading,why the hell are we on the escapist.

so I'm gonna go with "love is love"

that should do it.
I was in love with 4 different girls, 2 big(Deeply in love), 2 small(A little..), but I only got together with one of them and we never kissed.
 

Pink_Pirate

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DarkLordofDevon said:
Of course there is more than 1 type of love. Love of a family member. Love of a friend. Love of a partner.
quite true, but, as is probably obvious, im referring to romantic love in this case. In the end love is just a word and depending on the context can mean any number of things. However! i digress, the word love is not to be discussed here... but the feeling of being romantically in love or attracted to someone.
 

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love is a philosophical idea.
'You have never heard a machine speak of love?'
'It is a human emotion.'
'No it is a word, what matters is the connection the word implies. I see that you are in love, can you tell me what you would give to hold on to that connection?'
'anything.'
 

Pink_Pirate

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randomrob said:
'You have never heard a machine speak of love?'
'It is a human emotion.'
'No it is a word, what matters is the connection the word implies. I see that you are in love, can you tell me what you would give to hold on to that connection?'
'anything.'
shoo matrix fanboi shoo! (just in case ur taking me seriously this is a joke, also, well played)
 

DarkLordofDevon

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Pink_Pirate said:
DarkLordofDevon said:
Of course there is more than 1 type of love. Love of a family member. Love of a friend. Love of a partner.
quite true, but, as is probably obvious, im referring to romantic love in this case. In the end love is just a word and depending on the context can mean any number of things. However! i digress, the word love is not to be discussed here... but the feeling of being romantically in love or attracted to someone.
True. But while it is a chemical reaction and could define it as thus, you could also point out our entity form itself is merely a collection of individual organisms working together as a collective. So in this case, how do we define 'us'? Surely 'I' as an individual is merely an illusion created the unification of many seperate beings working together for their own survival.

If you over complicate things, you begin to realise how pointless life is. If you have love, just roll with it. It may be partially chemicals, but who cares? Its not something that can be replicated in a lab, I assure that much. It also depends on the individual.