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9/9/2015 8:29:34 PM
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[Serious Discussion] What Is Love?

Inb4 bbydonthurtmeh All 90's dance tunes aside, let's try to define this term. Let's have an actual discussion here, please leave the spam out, and actually add something to the discussion if you comment. If you just come here to spam, I will assume that you are too immature to hold a proper conversation. The "love" I speak of is the person to person, mutual connection that forces us to considerably care for and have an intense, intimate passion for the other individual. It's the emotion that forces us to put another person's live over our own in spite of natural instinct. Merriam-Webster defines "love" as: [quote]a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person : attraction that includes sexual desire : the strong affection felt by people who have a romantic relationship [/quote] I honestly do not feel that this is very accurate. So I ask you, visitors of #offtopic, how would you define love? I don't want a shoddy definition, I want you to get to the core of the term. Questions to consider when answering: Why does it exist? What causes you to love someone? Is it merely an emotion activated by certain stimuli that cause the neurotransmitters in the brain to create this intense feeling? In this sense, would that mean love is a programmable, predictable thing? Can anything be loved with enough of the specific chemicals (I believe it's serotonin, correct me if I'm wrong)? Is physical attraction necessary for love? If you believe love is evolutionary, as in an emotion forged by the brain to influence reproduction, how does love exist between homosexuals? At what point does attraction become love? Is love everlasting? Have you ever thought you loved someone, and then realized you didn't actually, it was just a spur of the moment emotion?

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  • [quote] The most spectacular,indescribable, deep euphoric feeling for someone.  Love is an incredibly powerful word. When you're in love, you always want to be together, and when you're not, you're thinking about being together because you need that person and without them your life is incomplete.  This love is unconditional affection with no limits or conditions: completely loving someone. It's when you trust the other with your life and when you would do anything for each other. When you love someone you want nothing more than for them to be truly happy no matter what it takes because that's how much you care about them and because their needs come before your own. You hide nothing of yourself and can tell the other anything because you know they accept you just the way you are and vice versa.  It's when they're the last thing you think about before you go to sleep and when they're the first thing you think of when you wake up, the feeling that warms your heart and leaves you overcome by a feeling of serenity. Love involves wanting to show your affection and/or devotion to each other. It's the smile on your face you get when you're thinking about them and miss them.  Love can make you do anything and sacrifice for what will be better in the end. Love is intense,and passionate. Everything seems brighter, happier and more wonderful when you're in love. If you find it, don't let it go. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:  That word is love.  -Sophocles [/quote] - Urban Dictionary [i]#alwaysreliable[/i]

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