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Post by Yoshifrog on Nov 7, 2005 20:16:02 GMT -5
I think all that junk just causes you to want to be around them alot. I think love could exist- but not as strongly.
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Post by contention on Nov 7, 2005 20:19:31 GMT -5
If love itself had to alone do with the body and the hormones attached to it, then it could not even still be explained. There is a reason no one can explain love and theres a reason no one can explain life. While love itself is an emotion in the mind and the body it plays on both parts. Theres one thing we know for certain when we fall in love, that we will most definetly change the outlook of many things. Also, theres one thing to be certain of life, and that sadly is to die.
You are correct on your theory that we are attracted through certain physical things and hormones, but you'd be suprised on how many emotions you thought were "conscience" actually turned out to be due to lack or gain of hormones. This question, is a hard one to come to put an answer on. It all has to do with a belief system. Are you a science guy, or are you a more holy one. One who believes that things happen in the heart not through the body and the mind working together to transmit signals. Yet, both of them can go hand in hand to come to conclusions.
My belief of love is that it is both parts, but the majority being in the mind. You can't control who you will love and what you will love. It's that feeling in the heart that presses us to go after it, and when we do we may find pleasure or pain. Sometimes you don't want to leave love, even when you've been smashed multiple times. It can be an addiction, but in all out truth, you absolutely can not control every facet of love. If you could, is that love, if you can stop yourself are you in love?
Love does exist, there is a feeling known as love. It plays on your parts and it will put you to the limit. Some say they are in love when they are not. There is no real way to say you know what love is and that you are in it, because its just unexplainable. Even by scientist, they may find all the hormonal issues, but what is it that drives us out to do them. Why oh why can't we seem to make things go right, why can't we choose them and not the other one. When it boils down to the point, you love who you love, and nothing can change that.
Saying something in the lines of, not wanting to love is like saying that you don't want to die and you plan not to. You can't control it, its something that happens to all humans. That feeling of love comes toward many things, if you weren't to love, then the heart would lie wicked. Love is not just, kissy kissy touchy feel. Love is indeed the opening of the soul, the humbleness of the spirit, and understanding and wisdom. The word love can be attributed to many items, I can "love" algebra (watch as all the 14 year olds tingle), and that may mean I enjoy being in that class. Thus if one was to never love in any sense, you would hate everything, be monotone and thus not grab the concept of what your here for. Life itself is not a happy thing, love is a thing that can give you happiness. But never, should you play with hearts.
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Post by Enrique on Nov 7, 2005 20:23:33 GMT -5
I agree with you fully, Contention. If love could be controlled, it wouldn't be much like love. It is an emotion, and one that, I believe, is the most impacting on one's life. People do strange things for love. It is the strongest emotion one can have. Once you fall in it, it's hard to come out of; you just have to go with the flow.
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Post by Teo on Nov 7, 2005 21:16:21 GMT -5
Woah Contention...you have a lot of serious points in there. Yes, trying to escape love could be said as trying to escape death, which is in-evitable. But it seems Frog so far has cheated it  . Love is indeed a feeling that is hard, if not, uncontrolable. You can't willingly fall in love with someone, then it really isn't love...or at least it doesn't seem like it. The main thing that seems to be the question is... What IS love? |
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Post by Gene L.D. Ryoko on Nov 7, 2005 21:17:54 GMT -5
love is a type of gene in our body that's there to help with reproduction. I've cheated it too
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Post by Lord of the Dance on Nov 7, 2005 21:31:29 GMT -5
Love. Ask a girl and you'll get a totally different answer than a guy. I think it has to do with personality, somewhat at least. Someone can be "hot" and yet, you won't love them because they're jerks.
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Post by Teo on Nov 7, 2005 22:35:34 GMT -5
There's just too many factors to this, gene's, hormones, opinions, will, experiment...there's just too many!! Will we ever find the answer?
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Post by Moot on Nov 8, 2005 14:22:06 GMT -5
love is a type of gene in our body that's there to help with reproduction. I've cheated it too some how I don't think love is a gene. |
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Post by Gene L.D. Ryoko on Nov 8, 2005 15:34:12 GMT -5
it was 11:00, I couldn't read my calvin and hobbes comic with out waking some one up
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Post by Yink on Nov 8, 2005 18:35:18 GMT -5
Love is when you feel a special way about someone.
You long to be with them,
You like to see them, hold them, and even a friendly smile can mean something special to someone.
Love is more complex then anyone knows,
Not only is it one of your strongest emotions,
But it comes right from your heart, from your mind.
Being in love, can be one of the happiest things you have in your lifetime,
You can turn someone's personality around with it.
Love isn't just a game, it's LIFE.
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Post by Yoshifrog on Nov 8, 2005 18:59:30 GMT -5
Quote- "Love is life"
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Post by contention on Nov 8, 2005 19:15:45 GMT -5
Love itself could never be throughouly explained. And while love mayhaps be the road of life, it's not just life it is entwined in every little thing that we seem to do. It's those thoughts we can't get off our head and the things that still entrigue us. Everyone may love in a diffrent way, but regardless it's something we can't get rid of. To explain it, well would take far more than we could imagine. One believed at once, that it was just for reproduction long ago, and some agree. Theres more to it than that, and for many reasons we now know it. So what is it? Well, thats all opinion and philosophy you guys; no one man could alone find an answer for all to agree upon, we all see love in the ways we express it.
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Post by Yink on Nov 8, 2005 21:25:13 GMT -5
I think mine was more of a Poem. XD XD Ooops...^^; |
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Post by CoralYoshi on Nov 8, 2005 22:27:44 GMT -5
I was going to give my two cents, but reading through here, everyone basically already said what I was going to say. XD
I've watched maaany shows on this topic and read many books, and it's really entriguing to find out how our minds decide we're "in love." Last year in my biology class, two girl friends of mine and I used to joke about "finding the one with the perfect immune system!" There are many things that can make you attracted to a person - their scent, their personality, their looks, and their material wealth. Yes, I have to add the last one in, because that is something that has been proven to be a part of it. I'm not saying it's always true, but it can sometimes be. Hormones are amazing chemicals that tell us when we're compatable with someone, which makes a certain part of our mind kick in and we begin the process of falling in love. Looks obviously play a part because they are the first thing you notice about someone (offline, at least, but when you do meet offline you will always notice it first), and this often includes their material wealth since girls and guys are more attracted to a well dressed person than a slob. After this, the hormones kick in when we get close and learn their body chemistry subconsciously. The point where we're close to them is when we want to learn more about them, and start to find out more about their personality. This last thing is what really helps to show if you're compatable with someone.
I've tested these on myself, actually, as odd as it may sound. XD There are a few guys in the past that I thought were attractive, and when I was close to them I did actually like their scent (haha I've actually dated someone who smelled awful and I hated that relationship a lot, so I KNOW this is important). However, if a guy's personality is completely off, there is no way I could fall in love with them.
Yeah, I think it's all chemical process, but that doesn't mean that I don't believe there is a thing as love. I just think love is the feeling you get when you find "the perfect mate", and I'm sure animals all have the same thing. Humans just so happen to be a species that prefers long term relationships.
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Post by Koshizu on Nov 9, 2005 5:59:57 GMT -5
Love is a tangible ideal that can be molded to however you want to mold it to.
In other words, you think of love how you want. No more no less.
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Post by Cayoshi on Nov 12, 2005 7:33:48 GMT -5
Although written on page one, I agree. I haven't a boyfriend yet, but kids at my school are usually all, "I love insertnamehere", yet they have like, four girlfriends.  |
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