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Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
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I think love, like nearly everything that goes on inside a human head / heart in a social setting, is a bit of a mystery. Materialists will reduce love to chemical reactions in the brain and they are certainly correct insofar as that goes. But while it is correct to say "my house is fiberglass assembled in a certain configuration" (I live on a boat) that doesn't really mean the same as "this boat is my home".
In a like manor, it may be correct to insist that my relationship with my wife is a mixture of the chemical reactions in our brains that we invoke in each other, but that doesn't really mean the same thing as "I love her". What any of this has to do with not having a god belief is beyond me. Even a cursory glace suggests that religious people are not any better at loving than are others. Indeed, one could make the argument that the more religious a person is, the more likely it is that they will be judgmental, violent, heartless and cruel; hardly characteristics of those who have learned much about love.  RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
September 8, 2014 at 8:30 pm
(This post was last modified: September 8, 2014 at 8:33 pm by CapnAwesome.)
(September 8, 2014 at 3:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 1. Yes, love exists. I think this is probably the most simple and best answer given on here. All the stuff about chemical reactions and such is rather irrelevant if the person doesn't give some specifics, as in what chemicals exactly. I think that's not really it though (except maybe that everything we experience is the result of chemical reactions, in which case it's a rather irrelevant statement when it can be applied to literally any feeling we have.) Love is more like a condition that exists continually. As for myself, I've been in love before (and am currently!) and I know because of exactly number 3. I'm an extremely self interested person who generally doesn't really care about other people but for the people that I love (both platonically and romantically) I find myself suddenly caring about how they are feeling. Which honestly most people don't really when it comes to strangers or acquaintances. ![[Image: dcep7c.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i46.tinypic.com%2Fdcep7c.jpg)
Have you ever sworn undying love for a lover you no longer love?
 Chemicals wear off over time 
 (September 8, 2014 at 8:34 pm)ShaMan Wrote: Have you ever sworn undying love for a lover you no longer love? Most couples presumably genuinely promise to love each other until death during the wedding ceremony. Most divorces are presumably because they've fallen out of love. Love is not always eternal. Though sometimes it is.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html (September 8, 2014 at 8:39 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Most couples presumably genuinely promise to love each other until death during the wedding ceremony. Most divorces are presumably because they've fallen out of love. Love is not always eternal. Though sometimes it is.The Mrs. and I bolster our chemical interactions daily 
(September 8, 2014 at 8:43 pm)ShaMan Wrote:(September 8, 2014 at 8:39 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Most couples presumably genuinely promise to love each other until death during the wedding ceremony. Most divorces are presumably because they've fallen out of love. Love is not always eternal. Though sometimes it is.The Mrs. and I bolster our chemical interactions daily Regular refills for the love train.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html  (September 8, 2014 at 8:43 pm)ShaMan Wrote:(September 8, 2014 at 8:39 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Most couples presumably genuinely promise to love each other until death during the wedding ceremony. Most divorces are presumably because they've fallen out of love. Love is not always eternal. Though sometimes it is.The Mrs. and I bolster our chemical interactions daily Together? 
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" 
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2:probably 3:probably  (September 8, 2014 at 2:55 pm)naimless Wrote: 1. Does love exist? Yes! Yes! Am experiencing right now--several kinds: romantic, friendship, parental. . . Nope, not going to try to define it.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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