Opposite of Love

[Angrboda]

I don't get opposites existing on the same axis.

-5 and 5 are on an axis, and we assume they are opposites only if we assume that there's a 0 and that they're on the same axis. They are 2 different numbers and while their characteristics may be the similar you can't mathematically be both 5 and -5 . It presupposes that every real number (emotion) has an opposite. Yes you can feel emotionally inconsistent positive and negative emotions at the same time, but they are still distinct like 5 and -5. The only constant in the above is 0 (or -0, 0 and +0 for you math buffs) which I posit as the difference of emotion. Whatever emotion you are feeling it's opposite is no emotion. regardless of the characteristics of said emotion. You can feel more Love and less love (magnitude) but reducing less love to it's conclusion is 0 or no emotion.

Did that make any sense to anyone other than me? I feel I explained that horribly.

Having had mixed mania episodes in which I experienced crushing depression and extreme euphoria at the same time, I'm not sure I know what to think.

I understand your point about numbers, but similarly, I don't think I expressed myself very well. I'm not going to try to rephrase it any, nor is this necessarily a defense, but I would draw attention to Liebniz' law here. Accordingly, things are identical if they share the same properties. Going off that, the furthest that one could get away from being identical would be having properties that were in some sense opposite. Again, I think you could go two ways on that. It's true that love and hate or revulsion or whatever share the properties of existence, but then again, there's Kant's point that a hundred imaginary thalers have the same properties as a hundred real thalers, so existence is not a property. Depending on that, the only resolution consistent with Kant would be an existent that has different properties than love, as indifference differs from love in the property of being a non-existent emotion, and existence or non-existence isn't itself a property.