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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 5:38 pm
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(November 14, 2014 at 5:33 pm)abaris Wrote: (November 14, 2014 at 5:31 pm)Stimbo Wrote: That's the ultimate in rejection, isn't it? You're almost there and your hand goes to sleep...
That's why nature has given you a pair of them.
Built-in threesome!
Yay nature!
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November 14, 2014 at 5:40 pm
Girls are icky.
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 5:40 pm
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I would say that "true love" does not exist as a concept. There are plenty of individuals that are deeply in love and share amazing emotional and physical connections, but love means something a little different to everyone. I don't think there is such a thing as the "ideal relationship," though. Love is just one of those things that every person will have their own experience with, and no one can tell you what you should or will feel. I have been in several relationships, and each one of them has felt different, and they have all had their benefits and flaws.
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November 14, 2014 at 5:40 pm
I thought I was in love a couple of months ago, but it all turned out to be one big sociopathic lie.
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November 14, 2014 at 5:43 pm
Oh I didn't realise u'd kept in touch with thundercunt!
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 5:45 pm
(November 14, 2014 at 5:43 pm)Aractus Wrote: Oh I didn't realise u'd kept in touch with thundercunt!
Dude... Voldemort.
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 5:49 pm
(November 14, 2014 at 5:40 pm)Aractus Wrote: Girls are icky.
If you're lucky...
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 7:47 pm
I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
I loved my dog.
I love to play solitaire.
I love my spouse.
Which of these is 'true' love?'
It seems each person believes that everyone else means exactly the same thing as they do when they use the phrase 'true love.' I'd contend that this is unlikely and quite misleading.
'Love' is a completely inadequate word to describe my marital relationship. Our feelings are too deep and awesome for such a trite, vapid, sophomoric term.
Those of you who would like to point out that my feelings are clearly subjective and maybe delusional can get stuffed.
Helen Fisher has been researching the objective functional neurology of what we experience as love. She expounds on this in a TED talk. Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfoGTIG7pY
The short version:
Sex drive- Lust, the simple, straightforward drive to reproduce (anyone will do.)
Romantic love- the obsession to obtain the mate determined to be best.
Attachment- the extended commitment to a mate long enough to raise offspring.
'True love' is just the subjective experience of these. The qualia of the chemistry.
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 7:51 pm
(November 14, 2014 at 7:47 pm)JuliaL Wrote: I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
I loved my dog.
I love to play solitaire.
I love my spouse.
Which of these is 'true' love?'
Just going by your list I would pick "I loved my dog". All of them actually. They were family members to me and are missed as such.
Going by the OPs question, everytime I fell in love, I thought it was true love. And everytime the relationship broke up. What does that say about the feeling? In short, nothing.
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 7:59 pm
'Two things only a man cannot hide: That he is drunk, and that he is in love.' - Anonymous.
'Beware of falling in love, for it may stick to your face.' - Lenny Bruce.
That being said, I love my wife - madly, fiercely, deeply. I get that funny, fluttery feeling when I'm around her, and I miss her when she's away. I never get over the astonishment that this amazing woman has consented to share her life with me. She can spot what's bothering me before I've worked it out myself, and she smiles whenever she looks at me. Laying down with her is a joy and waking up with her is contentment. She's everything I've ever wanted in a life partner, and is more (MUCH more) than I deserve.
Is this 'true love'? Dunno. But it'll damned sure do until the real thing comes along.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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