What is Love?

[quiet_samurai]

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!

Lol the same. This is like the third time I've quoted you today. I think I'm done, at least until you post exactly what I was going to say before me.

 

[Brown Cap]

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.

Ditto

 

[Fairee]

Love is caring more about other people's happiness than your own, it's being prepared to do what is best for someone else, even if it tears your own heart to shreds. It's about helping, and listening, and showing kindness. It's about sticking by someone who needs you, even if they push you away, and about walking away when you have to, even though you can't stand to go.

 

[The Hairminator]

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.//
Louis Ginsberg

 

[quiet_samurai]

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!

Lol the same. This is like the third time I've quoted you today. I think I'm done, at least until you post exactly what I was going to say before me.

Careful, theyll say we have a thing going on. And with my good looks and your....whatever it is you have they wont beleive you when you deny it.

You know, I think I have used that exact sentance word for word on a female before, never thought it would be thrown back at me by a dude though. And I have good looks too!

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

All love is is a way to get a man body part to stick into a woman body part more comfortably.

 

[AvsJoe]

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!

Lol the same. This is like the third time I've quoted you today. I think I'm done, at least until you post exactly what I was going to say before me.

Careful, theyll say we have a thing going on. And with my good looks and your....whatever it is you have they wont beleive you when you deny it.

You know, I think I have used that exact sentance word for word on a female before, never thought it would be thrown back at me by a dude though. And I have good looks too!

Get a room, you two! lol jk.

 

[El Poncho]

Love? I've never felt love sure i've liked some girls but that wasn't love. I guess you can't exactly describe love , the only way you will under stand it is when you experience it.

 

[The_Echo]

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

[snippety snip]

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

I'd really like to know where that came from. I've seen it all over but never found out...

On topic: Personally, I believe there are different versions or love, such as the actual events leading to procreation and the "perversion" OP has described. It's all in the eye of the beholder, really.

 

[quiet_samurai]

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!

Lol the same. This is like the third time I've quoted you today. I think I'm done, at least until you post exactly what I was going to say before me.

Careful, theyll say we have a thing going on. And with my good looks and your....whatever it is you have they wont beleive you when you deny it.

You know, I think I have used that exact sentance word for word on a female before, never thought it would be thrown back at me by a dude though. And I have good looks too!

I guess it was meant to be, oh quiet samurai youre the one ive been searching for..!

While i dont doubt your good looks, as long as im around youll always be second best. Get used to it .

I'm cool with being the rugged one I guess.

This conversation belongs here http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.136943?page=2#3082078

 

[Lenny Magic]

Spoiler: This

Edit: Frak Ninja'd!

 

[Foolish Mortal]

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me. No more!

This is what I thought this thread would actually be about. I feel cheated.

 

[person427]

Hurray for the scientific approach! That's always the best way to go. It makes anything easy to define.

 

[justhereforthemoney]

This question has been asked since the dawn of time; I don't really think about what it is, I just do it.

 

[Zac_Dai]

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.

No, the ultimate goal of love is to make us feel good--to reproduce is the side effect. That's how most of evolution/natural selection works--the behavior isn't of itself for survival, it just has a side effect conducive to survival:

http://www.pbs.org/howartmadetheworld/episodes/human/ramachandran/

We as a race have become obsessed with the side effects of love, rather than its ultimate purpose...The concept of love separated from physical reproduction has become so engraved in the collective human psyche that to oppose it, is social taboo.

Can't just look to nature as some sort of authority for what is and is not an 'ultimate purpose':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

People who chase after love are no better than junkies craving a high.

Or people ruminating on the question "What is Love?": all three groups are identical in the sense that they are all in search of a certain state of brain chemistry.

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.

Isn't that why we do anything, from pick our nose to paint the Sistine Chapel's ceiling--to experience a certain state of brain chemistry?

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.

Hope all that was thought provoking.

Nice post.

Slightly off-topic, but you know you're the only good poster left on the Escapist.

 

[Superhyperactiveman]

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.

What? That isn't love! That's teenage affection! Falling in love takes time. You can't fall in love 4 times in 4 years! You may have liked those girls, but I guarantee you didn't love them. Love is the emotion that makes you jump in front of moving vehicles if you think it'll protect your partner. Love is the feeling that you have to do anything and everything to help the other person. Love is totally putting the other person's needs completely above your own. At 10 years old, your brain hasn't even developed to the point where you can comprehend love.

I have been in love myself... It was terrible. She didn't love me back... Of course, that didn't stop her from telling me she didn't love me back and taking advantage of me and my emotions... But I'm finally getting back out there. I'm finally returning to the world of dating...