(November 3, 2017 at 12:34 am)AFTT47 Wrote: Love is thought of as a freaking mess. The closest logical explanation of it I know comes from the fictional character of Commander Data of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
He said: "As I experience certain sensory input patterns my mental pathways become accustomed to them. The inputs eventually are anticipated and even missed when absent."
So love is something which you experience which feels good and you would miss it if it were absent.
Come to think about it, that's not really very mystical at all. Love is something which strikes your fancy in a major way. If you got to experience that and you lost it, that would really suck. Where is the magic? I don't see it. It seems pretty clear cut to me.
See, I wouldn't say that's what love is. That's just feeling. Feelings come and go and change, etc.
Love I see as being a choice we make. A choice to have loyalty to someone, to care for them, sacrifice for them, put them above ourselves, etc.... specifically when we don't "feel" like it.
I'm sure Mr CL wasn't having warm fuzzy feelings about me when i was puking my guts out with a stomach virus last week, and having major liquid diarrhea. Especially since ive had nothing to offer him in our marriage - i dont make money, i cant have children... im a "lemon" of a person if there ever was one. But he stood by me for all of it, and helped me, and sat with me in the emergency room for hours. Even after I told him he could leave to go get food bc he missed dinner, he said he wasn't going to leave me. Just as he won't leave me now and easily find a wife who can offer him so much more than me.
Theres something to be said about these sacrifices - about seeing someone at their absolute worst when they don't have anything to offer you, but standing by anyway, about putting away your own desires or well being for their sake. I wouldn't say it's "proof" of the supernatural, but I would say it serves as another little thing that makes me think there's more to us and to our world than the purely physical, instinctive, mechanical drive.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
