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Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
#11
RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
1. Yes, love exists.

2. Yes, I've experienced love.

3. Love is the conditions that exists when another person's happiness is essential to your own.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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#12
RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. An entirely subjective experience.
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#13
RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
(September 8, 2014 at 3:24 pm)Stimbo Wrote: 1. Yes.

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

What do we win?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDW0ZnZxjn4
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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#14
RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
(September 8, 2014 at 2:59 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: 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.
^This^

Anything beyond this is pure ecstatic fantasy.
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#15
RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
I tell you what, there isn't much I wouldn't do for my daughter. I don't even know if I could accurately describe the feelings you have towards your child, but I guess "love" has to do for now. Relationship type love isn't for me though. My parents are very much in love so I know it exists but it's dynamic. They could divorce tomorrow. Who knows?
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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#16
RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
(September 8, 2014 at 4:21 pm)Exian Wrote: My parents are very much in love...
(excerpt)

Good for them, and thank you for sharing. Do your parents know that you see them as being "Very much in love"? Have you told them that it matters Wink
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#17
RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
Haha Yeah they know. They also know I think it's gross when they kiss and get mushy. Haha They'll do it on purpose so now it's almost an obligation or a running joke for me to go "Ewwww" even though I'm 30 and have been comfortable with their affection since I was like 15. Actually I am getting kinda grossed out now talking about it. Hahaha
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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#18
RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
(September 8, 2014 at 4:36 pm)Exian Wrote: ...they kiss...
(Extreme excerpt)

Good for them Clap

get over it Tongue

Jelly? Angel
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#19
RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
Haha as mush as it makes me want to puke I wouldn't have it any other way.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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#20
RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
1. Yes, love exists. It is a part of consciousness, which is part of each individual on the planet.
2. Yes -- still do, on some level, daily. I have kids.
3. Love is not only the chemistry, but a value placed on another person and their impact on your life; it is something that makes you want them IN your life.

My high school Sociology teacher asked that very question, "What is love?" in class. My answer THEN was, "The desire to share one's self and one's life with another." He thought that was a little thin......
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