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Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
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Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
1. Does love exist?
2. Have you experienced love?
3. What is love?
Baby don't hurt me,
Don't hurt me
No more...

Okay sorry I admit I just threw that last one in for funsies before anyone else could. Srsly tho reply plz. Kthxbai xox.
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RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
1. Love is a label that we attach to chemical reactions in the brain that produce a type of pleasing emotional response. Various neurotransmitters in the brain (oxytocin, vasopressin, etc.) act together and are released via interactions with other people and the resulting feeling we experience is often called love, though each person can have their own definition and personal experience with it.

2. Yes.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
http://atheism.about.com/od/atheismathei...eliefs.htm

Try reading this and then perhaps you'll answer that question for yourself, instead of asking us such silly things.
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?

Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
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RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
1. No idea.
2. Nope
3. I don't know.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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#5
RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. A dog from hell
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RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
(September 8, 2014 at 3:03 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote: http://atheism.about.com/od/atheismathei...eliefs.htm

Try reading this and then perhaps you'll answer that question for yourself, instead of asking us such silly things.

I need to objectively gauge the ordinariness.

But okay, from the article:

"It is indeed normal for an atheist to believe in the existence of things like love, values, beauty, and so forth. Perhaps there are few who don't, but they are in a small enough minority that it's justifiable to ignore them here."

Now, would you say it would be an ordinary or extraordinary claim to believe in the existence of love?
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RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
(September 8, 2014 at 3:08 pm)naimless Wrote:
(September 8, 2014 at 3:03 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote: http://atheism.about.com/od/atheismathei...eliefs.htm

Try reading this and then perhaps you'll answer that question for yourself, instead of asking us such silly things.

I need to objectively gauge the ordinariness.

But okay, from the article:

"It is indeed normal for an atheist to believe in the existence of things like love, values, beauty, and so forth. Perhaps there are few who don't, but they are in a small enough minority that it's justifiable to ignore them here."

Now, would you say it would be an ordinary or extraordinary claim to believe in the existence of love?

You're starting off on a flawed base here, Naimless. Love is extremely subjective, defined and confined by the one who experiences it. It's the experience of an emotion, not an entity or agent or law. Some people may experience something they call love, others may not experience something they would call love.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
(September 8, 2014 at 2:55 pm)naimless Wrote: 1. Does love exist?
2. Have you experienced love?
3. What is love?
Baby don't hurt me,
Don't hurt me
No more...

Okay sorry I admit I just threw that last one in for funsies before anyone else could. Srsly tho reply plz. Kthxbai xox.

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. A chemical reaction

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
(September 8, 2014 at 2:55 pm)naimless Wrote: 1. Does love exist?
2. Have you experienced love?
3. What is love?
Baby don't hurt me,
Don't hurt me
No more...

Okay sorry I admit I just threw that last one in for funsies before anyone else could. Srsly tho reply plz. Kthxbai xox.

Yes, it exists as a concept. Yes I've experienced it. It's a strong connection between two people. Stronger than that between two friends. It can be different things, like loving your family, your wife, and your children.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
1. Yes.

2. Oh yes x 1000,000,000,000.

What do we win?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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