RE: Types of love
July 4, 2015 at 7:32 am
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2015 at 7:38 am by paulpablo.)
(July 4, 2015 at 7:16 am)ignoramus Wrote: How can you not believe in love?
It's an emotion and it's real. ?????
Well maybe I phrased it wrong then. It's not that I don't believe in it but I have problems with the way people talk about it and even its definition as an emotion.
Things like happy, sad, confused. These have been understood since the dawn of time pretty much.
Love has changed, love in the biblical sense for instance means in general to care for and like someone, hence the term love thy neighbour, these days it specifically means something you only do with family or a "loved" one, wife or girlfriend. And it varies from person to person, culture to culture, different sexes within different cultures. For example in my local town I'd for some reason find it normal for a girl to say she loves her best friend Stacey, but if I was with a man and he said I love my best friend Gary it would be seen as strange or homosexual, yet I don't think love has always been seen as such a bold sexual emotion.
This is basically what fuels my annoyance with people who say they definitely know what love is and if you show and signs of being unsure of what love is then you haven't felt it yet.
And it's even MORE FUCKING ANNOYING when people talk to other people condescendingly about it, like saying "Oh you will know what true love is one day, maybe one day you will have experienced it like me."
Plus love is the only one where other people will tell you that you're not experiencing it. If you tell someone you're happy they're not likely to tell you that you're not really happy. Even if you take drugs to make you happy people might say it's a synthetic non permanent type of happiness but that person is still happy they still feel good.
But if someone loves their religious leader for example to the point where they would die for them, a member of this forum might say that's just psychological manipulation, a symptom of being brainwashed and not real love.
I've had plenty of convos where someone has asked me have I been in love, if I say I don't know they say I haven't, if I say well I did really really like a girl they will say no that's still not it. Then if I ask them what it is they will give their own definition of vague things that they personally have felt.
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Impersonation is treason.
