To sort of build on what Evidence vs. Faith was saying;
Love can have many definitions and many kinds of love.
There is the love between two lovers.
There is the love between husband and wife.
There is the love between a person and their pets.
There is the love between family and close friends.
There are many kinds of love but what isn't important about love is the word - what is important is the connection it implies. These relationships can be built on a solid foundation of mutual caring, devotion, loyalty, mutual respect, and empathy for one another that produces feelings that can last a lifetime through virtually any difficulty.
As such, I think it can equate to feelings, but unlike the more fleeting feelings, such as my love of pizza, mountain dew, and strippers, it's far deeper and certainly far more meaningful and persistant.
It's a fundemental human experience to the point to where, considering our social nature, that if you don't or haven't felt love, you're missing the essential human experience - like missing the point of being human in the first place.
Hell, if Professor Farnsworth can teach the Toaster to feel love, then certainly there can be hope for humanity.
Love can have many definitions and many kinds of love.
There is the love between two lovers.
There is the love between husband and wife.
There is the love between a person and their pets.
There is the love between family and close friends.
There are many kinds of love but what isn't important about love is the word - what is important is the connection it implies. These relationships can be built on a solid foundation of mutual caring, devotion, loyalty, mutual respect, and empathy for one another that produces feelings that can last a lifetime through virtually any difficulty.
As such, I think it can equate to feelings, but unlike the more fleeting feelings, such as my love of pizza, mountain dew, and strippers, it's far deeper and certainly far more meaningful and persistant.
It's a fundemental human experience to the point to where, considering our social nature, that if you don't or haven't felt love, you're missing the essential human experience - like missing the point of being human in the first place.
Hell, if Professor Farnsworth can teach the Toaster to feel love, then certainly there can be hope for humanity.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
