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 Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:21 pm
I've recently watched an movie called "What The &^*% Do We Know?" and it really started to open my mind into the world. There are really two sides that I look at this with 2 sides, emotional and scientific. The scientific side which i will be saying has come from a scientific study shown on the knws and "What The &^*% Do We Know?". The Scientific Side: Scientists have come to find that "Love" is but an addiction which your "partner" has. And so you want that addiction from that person, so your body starts the process of like, and then onto love. And you lose that addiction for that person, And that feeling in your gut you get from that leaves in an year, or roughly near that. "Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self love." The Emotional side: This theory comes from that love is an emotion still unknown within ourselves that we create for another person over time, and eventually it keeps growing into an committed relationship, while liking leads up to all of that. "Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience usually felt by a person for another person. Love is commonly considered impossible to define." Love triangle-  All quotes taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love#Scientific_views
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:31 pm
What is love? I'm sure a lot of people have a lot of different ways of seeing what love truly is, and lot of different experiences with that kind of love. Some may seee it as a purely physical experience, with a lot of attraction, and a lot of physicality, and others see love as an emotional experience involing committments, dates, and the like.
The pure, untainted truth about it is, there is no neat, and tidy explanation as to what it is, or how it happens. It could be over the net, or it could be over a drink; but however it happens, love sparks, and love begins to blossom. I may be a bit biased when it comes to this subject, but I don't think love is all hormones and phermones.
As that triangle makes so plainly clear, love is all the human experiences rolled into one wonderful ride with our partner. It is the hormones, it is the emotional connection, and it is the desire to stay true to them, through all life throws at them.
Love is, at once, a beautifully simple, and wonderfully complex thing, that all humans experience at some point in their lives, and we will go through hell, and high waters, to know the full experience love has to offer. To know the sensuality, to know the sexuality, and to know the loyalty of someone you love, and cherish with all of your being.
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:36 pm
What is love? Easily answered - an unrecognised symptom of OCD. lol
Now, with the medical humour out of the way, i'll go on and make the claim that love really is simply chemical and hormonal. Emotions, as we know, all stem from chemicals altering the brain: for example, endorphins will produce a 'happy' or 'content' feeling, adrenaline will produce give a 'determined' feeling, and acetylcholine will give a 'depressed' feeling.
Scientists also figured out a mathematical equation for Happiness, some time ago now. So, if Love is a state of mind - or, rather, and emotion that we feel towards others - it can be argued that Love really is just nothing more than another chemical alteration.
The intimacy, passion and commitment on the triangle may be related to various other hormones present in the body that we do not know functions of.
What i'm trying to say is that the Emotional Side is nothing more than a produce of the Scientific Side, in that pessimistic way of human biology.
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:01 pm
Well I just a had a course in college entitled psycology romance and reason. And the teacher of the course had a few interesting ideas as to what love is when and why. Not all of which I agree with but as for the discussion Love has always been neccicary for our speices. Without it the males would leave the defenseless female through her pregnancy. (I'm sorry girls but verses a predator we don't stand the slightest chance pregnant.) And if that were the case humans would have a very hard time surviving thier gestation period. That probably explain the innate urge for females to rely on males (Not that you HAVE to) and the beginnings of sexism.
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:09 pm
~zzang~ Not all of which I agree with but as for the discussion Love has always been neccicary for our speices. Without it the males would leave the defenseless female through her pregnancy. That's more to the 'commitment' side of things. Back then, i'm quite sure "love" was more along the lines of hitting each other with clubs and then animalistic sex on the dinosaur rug. I don't think we have the knowledge to guess whether our ancient ancestors had the brain capacity for any amount of intimacy, though passion would lead onto commitment - maybe back then, sex was indeed a drug that needed a constant fix. And if you need that fix, you return to a wo/man who can supply you with the sex. ~zzang~ (I'm sorry girls but verses a predator we don't stand the slightest chance pregnant.) And if that were the case humans would have a very hard time surviving thier gestation period. That probably explain the innate urge for females to rely on males (Not that you HAVE to) and the beginnings of sexism. No, back then, they did have to. Like you said, if the males up and left, the females were going to be prey for whatever beast caught their scent. It's hard to fight off predators when you're burdened down with a growing child in the womb.
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:17 pm
Tailos What is love? Easily answered - an unrecognised symptom of OCD. lol Actually, I believe it kind of is. I have been dating this one guy for over 3 years and he and I are both literally obssesed with each other. I also have a slight undiagnosed OCD. (See my obsessive organzation.) But, regardless, He has, believe it or not, has never looked at another girl, or guy, in a romantic or lustful way. Who knows, maybe love could be a undiagonosed mental diesease.
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:44 pm
Suke_Kawamoto Who knows, maybe love could be a undiagonosed mental diesease. It probably isn't, though. ;] Especially when you consider that we set ourselves a 'normal' mental level and anything that deviates from it is considered something that needs more research. I don't know what the specifics are to be incorporated into the DSV-IV, so I can't give you any info on whether Love passes for a mental illness or not. But, love is considered a 'normal' function and is thus not classed as a problem. Despite what it can lead to and all that. :] Also - your boyfriend sounds like quite the noble fellow. Whether that's through his personal decision or that he just wasn't interested in the opposite/same sex is a small matter that means little.
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:57 am
Just for the record, having seen that movie, while it does have a few good points, it's logically fallacious and basically nonsensical in the 'scientific' bits.
I shan't elaborate on love because it seems that others have already given good responses.
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