What is love?

[Shams al-Ma'rifa]

In my opinion, it's unconditional care for someone regardless of physical qualities... For example, if your girl got her face bitten off my a chimp and you still retain that unconditional care for her, you are in love...

Well, your opinion?

[Playfishpaste]

"Care" is not an emotion, so I really don't get that one, but I think it's descriptive nonetheless.

Love to me is a combination of oxytocin, seratonin, and dopamine and their respective receptors, as well as the way they interact with the hypothalamus and the prefrontal cortex.

My view has always been that if you care about someone, but don't feel anything, you aren't caring about them for them, but because of something else.

[Shams al-Ma'rifa]

Love to me is a combination of oxytocin, seratonin, and dopamine and their respective receptors, as well as the way they interact with the hypothalamus and the prefrontal cortex.

Way to desensitize this discussion

My view has always been that if you care about someone, but don't feel anything, you aren't caring about them for them, but because of something else.

How are you going to argue care is not an emotion...?

[julmoo]

Love to me is a combination of oxytocin, seratonin, and dopamine and their respective receptors, as well as the way they interact with the hypothalamus and the prefrontal cortex.

You. Are awesome.

And I think "love" is only a handy instinct to help us humans to breed.

Be honest, if there's a woman/man that you don't feel attracted to, or to which you don't have an emotional bond, you wouldn't mate, thus not produce children.

Love goes hand-in-hand with lust, both care for the children and provide food so the baby won't die. This is also why most relationships break after 3 to 5 years, because by nature we're not meant to stay longer than necessary with our partner so we could go and mate with someone else

[HIC SVNT LEONES]

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
Oh, baby don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more

What is love
Yeah

[Arch-hereticK]

What is love
Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more
Oh, baby don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more

What is love
Yeah

Dammit I was gonna type that.
Anyway love is mostly oxytocin. And I always thought it was a shortage of seratonin which is why prozac reduces romantic feeling. I may be wrong.

[Shams al-Ma'rifa]

Anyway love is mostly oxytocin. And I always thought it was a shortage of seratonin which is why prozac reduces romantic feeling. I may be wrong.

TWC members... the most romantic men in the universe

[Arch-hereticK]

TWC members... the most romantic men in the universe

Maybe the question should be: what do we wish love is?

[Arto]

Maybe the question should be: what do we wish love is?

The most spectacular, indescribable, deep euphoric feeling.

[cfmonkey45]

Christian's philosophy.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

...and thus spoken by the Prophet Haddaway.

[Yaga Shu Ra]

Love is blind.

Is it really?
Yes it is:

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[Arto]

The most spectacular, indescribable, deep euphoric feeling for someone.

Love is an incredibly powerful word. When you're in love, you always want to be together, and when you're not, you're thinking about being together because you need that person and without them your life is incomplete.

This love is unconditional affection with no limits or conditions: completely loving someone. It's when you trust the other with your life and when you would do anything for each other. When you love someone you want nothing more than for them to be truly happy no matter what it takes because that's how much you care about them and because their needs come before your own. You hide nothing of yourself and can tell the other anything because you know they accept you just the way you are and vice versa.

It's when they're the last thing you think about before you go to sleep and when they're the first thing you think of when you wake up, the feeling that warms your heart and leaves you overcome by a feeling of serenity. Love involves wanting to show your affection and/or devotion to each other. It's the smile on your face you get when you're thinking about them and miss them.

Love can make you do anything and sacrifice for what will be better in the end. Love is intense,and passionate. Everything seems brighter, happier and more wonderful when you're in love. If you find it, don't let it go.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:

That word is love.

-Sophocles

[Arch-hereticK]

The most spectacular, indescribable, deep euphoric feeling for someone.

Love is an incredibly powerful word. When you're in love, you always want to be together, and when you're not, you're thinking about being together because you need that person and without them your life is incomplete.

This love is unconditional affection with no limits or conditions: completely loving someone. It's when you trust the other with your life and when you would do anything for each other. When you love someone you want nothing more than for them to be truly happy no matter what it takes because that's how much you care about them and because their needs come before your own. You hide nothing of yourself and can tell the other anything because you know they accept you just the way you are and vice versa.

It's when they're the last thing you think about before you go to sleep and when they're the first thing you think of when you wake up, the feeling that warms your heart and leaves you overcome by a feeling of serenity. Love involves wanting to show your affection and/or devotion to each other. It's the smile on your face you get when you're thinking about them and miss them.

Love can make you do anything and sacrifice for what will be better in the end. Love is intense,and passionate. Everything seems brighter, happier and more wonderful when you're in love. If you find it, don't let it go.

That's exactly what I said.

[Shams al-Ma'rifa]

The most spectacular, indescribable, deep euphoric feeling for someone.

Love is an incredibly powerful word. When you're in love, you always want to be together, and when you're not, you're thinking about being together because you need that person and without them your life is incomplete.

This love is unconditional affection with no limits or conditions: completely loving someone. It's when you trust the other with your life and when you would do anything for each other. When you love someone you want nothing more than for them to be truly happy no matter what it takes because that's how much you care about them and because their needs come before your own. You hide nothing of yourself and can tell the other anything because you know they accept you just the way you are and vice versa.

It's when they're the last thing you think about before you go to sleep and when they're the first thing you think of when you wake up, the feeling that warms your heart and leaves you overcome by a feeling of serenity. Love involves wanting to show your affection and/or devotion to each other. It's the smile on your face you get when you're thinking about them and miss them.

Love can make you do anything and sacrifice for what will be better in the end. Love is intense,and passionate. Everything seems brighter, happier and more wonderful when you're in love. If you find it, don't let it go.

Somebody has a special someone in mind K seriously though, I think what you're talking about is infatuation... minus the unconditional affection...

People love their mothers right but having those types of emotions towards her is... well... outright disgusting...

[Arto]

Somebody has a special someone in mind K seriously though, I think what you're talking about is infatuation... minus the unconditional affection...

People love their mothers right but having those types of emotions towards her is... well... outright disgusting...

My Mom! Dude... that's just gross!

[Shams al-Ma'rifa]

My Mom! Dude... that's just gross!

Your description would make it seem that way yes but on a side note, psychology does tell us that we are born with an eerie lust for our mothers...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosexual_development

EWWWW!

[Banana Jelly]

Love: The one who have deep affection and deep feelings toward's one entity.

[Shams al-Ma'rifa]

God dammit now that damn song is stuck in my head...

[Arch-hereticK]

God dammit now that damn song is stuck in my head...

Don't pretend like you don't love it.

[Shams al-Ma'rifa]

Don't pretend like you don't love it.

infatuation maybe...