Love

[Tdc2182]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

No, at least chocolate doesn't mind if I am deficating while tonging it. I hate having to hold it in while in the middle of dirty hot sex.

OT: Can't say I've ever actually loved a girl before. Had some pretty strong feelings, but apparently when you love someone you're suppose to accept who they are.

I had problems accepting someone as a giant manipulative flirt.

 

[theevilsanta]

Reading this thread is amazing. The cynicism is beyond this world. Most people experience love!

Anyway. Watch Adaptation if you want a view of love that is quite cynical.

 

[Marik Bentusi]

Hormone-induced mind- and bodycontrol. That goes for any kind of love and any other emotion. Wish I could see it another way, but I have no reason to believe the mind and free will are not an illusion created of the flesh.

 

[SilentCom]

Probably outside the general demographics here.

You don't know what love is until you have children. Watching your little one sleep, for the first time, that's when it hits, like a hammer.

So I've heard. This sort of reminds me of an instance when there was a girl I liked and she was nodding off while we were in a van during a trip. Hard to describe the feeling I had when I saw her in restful peace. Hard to describe it now too although it's different because I had decided to forget that chapter in my life. Life had gotten complicated but I guess that's what happens when you're struggling to find your place in the world.

OT: Love is an emotion or feeling one has. It's an attraction of differing degrees depending on what or who you are loving. Some say it's a biological response, some say it transcends biology, all I know is that it's something I struggle to grasp and when I do grasp it, depression follows closely behind after it is lost.

 

[Laughing Phoenix]

Love is wanting to the see the stars for someone when they can no longer see it for themselves.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

What is love to you?

To me, love is a genuine feeling, the greatest feeling. The feeling that makes just a second with her worth the universe. Love is not scientific or religious to me. Love keeps you warm, love keeps you together no matter how far away you are from each other. Love makes wherever she's staying home to you. Love is simply knowing (even if your close to death) if she's alright, you'll have a smile on your face. It makes the darkest days sunny and the coldest night warm.

Pretty much what you said, but on top of that I add that love is that which would make you sacrifice anything and everything to ensure that she is happy, even your own happiness.

 

[ZiggyE]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

This is the kind of thing that people who HAVEN'T been in love say

That's pretty patronising of you. Eating chocolate releases endorphins. So, technically, if one were to consume a TRUCKLOAD of the stuff, it'd be a very similar feeling indeed.

 

[darkman80723]

....is not enough

 

[Ravison]

What is love?
Baby don't hurt me.
Don't hurt me, no more.

 

[UnusualStranger]

Love....that feeling that makes no sense, that is unnecessary, yet necessary at the same time. It makes us illogical, foolish, crazy, obsessive, possessive, and downright mad.

It also makes us caring, do sometimes impossible things, have an amazing companion at our sides, and brings humanity itself closer together.

That is love, according to what I can see.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

Bullshit! Biochemistry be damned, I've been in love and I've eaten chocolate and they feel NOTHING alike.

 

[FalloutJack]

Love is a condition that makes you crazy, but it's far far better than sanity.

 

[Astoria]

Love is both the best and worst feeling someone can have. If the love is returned you feel like you're invincible but if it's not it feels like the world is crashing down on you.

 

[SonicKoala]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

This is the kind of thing that people who HAVEN'T been in love say

That's pretty patronising of you. Eating chocolate releases endorphins. So, technically, if one were to consume a TRUCKLOAD of the stuff, it'd be a very similar feeling indeed.

No, that'd probably make you feel physically sick before you actually ate enough to release enough endorphins.

 

[ZiggyE]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

This is the kind of thing that people who HAVEN'T been in love say

That's pretty patronising of you. Eating chocolate releases endorphins. So, technically, if one were to consume a TRUCKLOAD of the stuff, it'd be a very similar feeling indeed.

No, that'd probably make you feel physically sick before you actually ate enough to release enough endorphins.

Eating that much of anything would probably make you sick.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

Love is the thing that I have for my friends and family that I don't always have for myself when Im coming down hard on myself for something I've done or that's happened to me. It has kept me going during the times when I was at my lowest when I was thinking the most of hurting or even killing myself...but the immense love I have for my friends and family as I've stated keeps me going even in the worst of times. Its a thing I cherish from those that matter to me and its a thing that I seek to find to be shared with in a girl that's out there somewhere that is perfect for me that will love me as much as I hope to be able to show her my own love for her

 

[Everin]

Its that warm feeling you get when youre with them and that desire to be with them when theyre not around, not to do anything more then talk for hours and forget where you are and have your whole word filled by this one person who you can trust with everything and anything and you both feel at home in each others warms. When you see them smile you smile too and when theyre sad you desperately want to make them happy again. And love is also being in love with your best friend.
Edit: Of course, thats love with your significant other. There can be other kinds of love too, like family love

 

[there is no spoon]

Love is a motivation to live. Love is food for the soul and poison for the mind. Love is a complicated paradox, and yet it can be the simplest affirmation; the knowledge that what you feel comes from only this person. Love can wear many guises and can be worn by many fraudsters. Love is an elusive beast, often mistaken for brother lust. Love cannot be explained or defined, cannot be contained or constrained. Love is a primal force that keeps the human spirit alive. Love is something you feel when you are with your muse, whether spoken or no; something that you know only you can gleam from that person. Love can create wild fantasies of escapism and delusion, places of happiness of bliss. Love is the greatest treasure of life, the cruellest of tortures. Love is something i would never surrender, nor give anything in the world to substitute. Love is acceptance of pleasure and pain, of ecstasy and enmity, of desire and determination. Love is forsaken by those too afraid to embrace it. Love dances with hate, and i dance in tune to their beat. Love is a timeless chorus. Love is my definition of happiness.

Wow, that was incredibly poetic and one of the best things I have read in quite some time.

O.T. Love, in it's simplest form, is a personal experience that only the person experiencing said emotion can actually quantify and explain. Love is different things to different people and thus is actually a subjective experience. No one person holds the explanation to what love is. You will have to decide for yourself. Good luck, friend.

 

[Freechoice]

What is love to you?

To me, love is a genuine feeling, the greatest feeling. The feeling that makes just a second with her worth the universe. Love is not scientific or religious to me. Love keeps you warm, love keeps you together no matter how far away you are from each other. Love makes wherever she's staying home to you. Love is simply knowing (even if your close to death) if she's alright, you'll have a smile on your face. It makes the darkest days sunny and the coldest night warm.

What's love got to do with it? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCBttS_y7lE]

 

[GrizzlyFlip]

Love equals a good sandwich and a glass of whiskey, preferably Jack Daniel's. Hell, make it a bottle.

Signed:
Typical College Guy