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... is love an emotion, or a reaction.. or an reaction to an emotion?
JohnyComeAlready 1862 reads
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... is love an emotion, or a reaction.. or an reaction to an emotion?

I don't believe love is an emotion at all, let alone something that exists in reality.

*Subsequently- all emotion is a farce as well.  

 
Love, is a fetish, love is a religion, love is...

89Springer 552 reads
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2 / 18
Love is never having to say you're sorry eom


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Fridays117 27 Reviews 505 reads
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3 / 18
love is codependency writ large.


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mrfisher 111 Reviews 570 reads
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4 / 18
Love is none of that at all....

It is an art that takes practice and commitment.

Read this for more:

Related Link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Loving-Erich-Fromm/dp/0061129739

MarkusKetterman 150 Reviews 533 reads
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5 / 18
depends if you are talking about infatuation or love...

infatuation happens because of biochemistry really - and as powerful as it can be, it is transient, even in situations that go on to be long term relationships -

Love is something that people do because they choose to and is more long term.  It has an emotional component but is more a chosen set of behaviors...   Love may or may not begin with infatuation but has more to do with choosing to build and maintain a relationship....

WickedBrut 27 Reviews 510 reads
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6 / 18
Love is friendship with wings.

If Lord Byron was right, and if Liebniz's calculus applies.

"Friendship is love without its wings."
-- Lord Byron

skarphedin 561 reads
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7 / 18
You were the wind beneath Liebniz's monads! -e-


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skarphedin 601 reads
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8 / 18
Which type: agape, eros, philos? -e-


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JohnyComeAlready 643 reads
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9 / 18
Emotion is a chosen set of behaviors.

I don't believe emotion is inherently real or occurs naturally. Especially with love, it is a behavior that has to be learned.  

 
I believe the feeling of love, is actually the misinterpreted feeling of security.

Example 1. Insecure people tend to have more/stay in romantic relationships longer. Why? relationships provide a sense of security.  

 
Example 2. Patriotism(the love of country), America can not love you back, and really one enjoys the security a strong nation provides. You can apply this theory to, the love a child shows for it's parent.  

The child has not been taught the concept of love, yet there is a deep admiration. Why the child feels secure when in the company of the parent.  

 
Love is imaginary, and can not exist outside of one's consciousness.
Posted By: MarkusKetterman
infatuation happens because of biochemistry really - and as powerful as it can be, it is transient, even in situations that go on to be long term relationships -  
   
 Love is something that people do because they choose to and is more long term.  It has an emotional component but is more a chosen set of behaviors...   Love may or may not begin with infatuation but has more to do with choosing to build and maintain a relationship....

WickedBrut 27 Reviews 532 reads
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10 / 18
I think you mistake me for the breeze blowing up the skirt of the Cartesian plenum. But close. -e-


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skarphedin 642 reads
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11 / 18
You are a dirty dirty bird. For shame. -e-


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skarphedin 476 reads
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12 / 18
I am curious, though. Does Rene shave his plenum? -e-


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SuperBustyBlonde See my TER Reviews 537 reads
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13 / 18
Love is

something you share so you have to possess inside you in order to share.  If you don't have it, then you can't feel it and can't share it.

JohnyComeAlready 569 reads
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14 / 18
That's a nice way to view love.

I just believe love is some other natural feeling, masquerading around as love. We as a species want to label this feeling of content as love.

 
What happens when we fall out of love? We are no longer content in our existence, until that love is retured or replaced.

WickedBrut 27 Reviews 567 reads
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15 / 18
Think "Nous nous amon," not, " fall 'in love.'"

The idiomatic construct of the notion that love is some state which we are in or out causes a lot of confusion. When two people love the couple they make...it's a different perspective

WickedBrut 27 Reviews 631 reads
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You'd have to ask his muse--who is dead. Died laughing at "duality" blitherings. -e-


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MarkusKetterman 150 Reviews 483 reads
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17 / 18
to a degree emotional responses can be learned, however, biochemstry drives most of it.....

the human biology is programmed to experience emotion on a purely biochemical basis -  as are many other mammals.  It's an evolutionary adaption -

most of the learned emotional responses are actually aberrational....

skarphedin 623 reads
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I remember that Frenchie had a stove he grooved on but no muse? -e-


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