What is love?

[SickBastard]

What is it and what does it encompass? Is it a symbol? Perhaps a simple emoticon or a phrase?

I percieve love as when I wake up deep inside my wife's vagina.

[Zozma]

theres no such thing as love.

[Ant]

spoiler

BABY DON'T HURT ME
DON'T HURT ME
NO MO'

[philsov]

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[Dokurider]

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BABY DON'T HURT ME
DON'T HURT ME
NO MO'

GODDAMNIT

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WAS IN MY HEAD WHEN I CAME IN HERE

STOP READING MY MIND DEMONIC BABY

[DarthPaul]

As Zozma stated love does not truly exist. It is just a perceived fantasy of a feeble human mind seeking acceptance from others.

[akwikone]

my opinion on love is something that is built as you are with someone

this means I do not be leave in "love at first sight", but more lust at first sight

[DarthPaul]

Man is just an animal, trying to kill time through his days.

[philsov]

DP, you are both way too sheltered and young to be this cynical.

[DarthPaul]

You say that as if you have read a biography on me. All I know is that people use "love" to get what the want from you: friends, parents, siblings. It's all the same in my book.

[Kuraudo Sutoraifu]

All I know is that people use "love" to get what the want from you: friends, parents, siblings. It's all the same in my book.

Ouch.  That doesn't sound like any form of love I've heard of.  Love is not a method of procurement from others as you have said.  If someone forces you to do something because "if you love me you'll do x", then that is not love.  Love is altruistic.  It should not require anyone to do things for it.  Conditional love then does not exist, only unconditional love.  If love is not unconditional, it is not love.

Oh... and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zlViU5P ... L&index=25

[DarthPaul]

Well until I find this unconditional love I cannot believe in it's existence can I?

Until such a day all I can say is that there is no such thing as a relationship without ulterior motives.

[philsov]

Well until I find this unconditional love I cannot believe in it's existence can I?

Ever seen your brain?  Does it exist?  

To tell everyone that any unconditional love they have both given and received is false takes a metric asston of proof.  To have met someone who has experienced or caused such emotion and action is sufficient proof in its existence.  It isn't required that you yourself directly observe or participate in unconditional love for it to exist.

[Kuraudo Sutoraifu]

@the ph33rbot:

Rock on.  I can cope with you saying that you don't believe in the existence of love.  I hope someday that you do find love though, and I don't necessarily mean recieving it.  To be the one giving the love is an awesome role to be in.  To truly care for someone without needing/wanting anything in return from is truly amazing.

[akwikone]

did you have a bad day Darthpaul, you seem a bit off?

[DarthPaul]

Funny thing is I have seen my brain before. Through a mirror of course(brain surgery for those of you who are slow on the upkeep).

I am sorry on the regards that I have never seen true love, or someone who has caused this emotion(except on t.v. dramas which is well drama). My life is no where near sheltered, it is simply that I have never seen anything happen without a motive behind it.

Even my best friend is only going out with his girlfriend for his own benefit. And yes I believe happiness to be a benefit from a relationship. My parents are married so that they have the financial benefits, not out of love.

I will believe it when I see it. Missouri blood talking right there.


EDIT: @Akwikone, yes my day has been on the wrong foot actually.

[Kuraudo Sutoraifu]

I will believe it when I see it. Missouri blood talking right there.

A fellow Show-Me brother, eh?

While I agree that happiness is a potential benefit in a relationship (along with security, validation, various forms of affection), that does not mean that it is always a motivator.  Just because x causes y doesn't mean that y is the end goal.  x (which in our case is love) can be the means and the end.

[DarthPaul]

Yup a Show-Me brother.

And maybe your right, I dunno. Maybe love was ruined for me by experience and over thinking.

[Dome]

Tits

[philsov]

And maybe your right, I dunno. Maybe love was ruined for me by experience and over thinking.

Which makes you cynical and jaded, and thus suspect to all other advances, which makes you more cynical and jaded, which causes you to turn inward even more, etcetcetc.  

It's a nasty loop, but suffice to say it's only "ruined" if you want it to be.  You have the power to change that.