Tilting at emotional windmills.

Tarmacsurfer · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Karma :

Got to thinking about the concept of "love" and how it means different things to each of us. I think the best definition - if you can call it that - that I've seen is from one of Heinlein's books.

MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

Love is something invented by the greetings card industry to sell more products...
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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

My answer was semi flippant.
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Tarmacsurfer · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Karma :

Y'see I'd disagree with you there Tonka, that's a personal extrapolation. The quote simply points out that the other party's happiness is a pre-requisite for you to be genuinely happy.

Given that you disagree, what's your personal definition? Discussion requires counterpoint Razz

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Visitor Q · $25 whore Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Karma :

Much as the romantic side of me really likes the neat quote at the beginning, I'm with Steven Pinker on the Evolutionary importance of the deliberately irrational attachment to an often substandard mate.

It's all good, but if you only want the love bit then skip to part 3. Each segment is 10 minutes long mind Shocked

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3 - Pertinent part
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Amanda · Renault 5 Driver Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Karma :

I slightly agree with the happyness concept except there are 2 different forms of Love.

There's 'to Love someone' and 'Being In love with someone'

Ie: I love my family and yes i don’t like them being unhappy, but it doesn’t necessarily make my life an unhappy one.

Yet I’m in love with my boyfriend and when/if he’s unhappy then it makes me unhappy and vice versa, and we do everything we can to make the other happy.

Very Happy

jack_zxr400 · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Karma :

i think that definition you gave is basically saying you would need to be self sacrificing to be in love
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Visitor Q · $25 whore Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Karma :

I'll admit it is all makes such good sense as to be obvious once told, but I still think the logic on Love is flawless. Explains how evolution could favour it in altricial species, and thus is great argument fodder.

You're right though, the brain as a computer is a very tired metaphor.
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killa · Won't Shut Up Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Karma :

In brief my thoughts begin and end with the idea that, you can't have one without the other.
Right from the word go, or the big bang, what ever you call it, created the light and the dark, the ying and the yang and all that jazz. Ever expanding but never apart, this rock we're on and all life that co-exists with it is bound by it.
I think it makes it difficult to define in such a way because all of our senses have deteriorated over generations, sight, smell, hearing etc...as well as maybe the 'gut' feeling and emotions that we survive on.
Love has possibly become something it wasn't, we haven't had much choice over the years, love is described as a feeling you get when your very fond of it. 'It' because the word love is used just as much as 'like' for pretty much anything, even inanimate objects.

If you want a piccy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chemical_basis_of_love.png
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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

Love, is something you feel for another living thing, that cements a relationship.

It's an emotional state relating to how you feel about that living thing.

Living things can feel similar feelings for inanimate objects, if they become associated with positive experiences.

Love can be great if all is well, or it can leave you a bit exposed for an emotional fall.

The only kind of thought processes that humans are capable of, which animals arent, are thought processes related to language based sequential thought.

Animals thought processes, are more immediate, they live in the moment. Anyone who has had a pet that they didnt terrorise, should know that animals are just as capable of love as we are.
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