that word -> l-o-v-e

[Strange Fruit]

Misused & Abused. People Look For It Like It's Egg Hunting On Easter Sunday. People Try To Manipulate Your Mind By Telling You All These Deep "feelings" They Have For You, Yet The Sincererity Is Questionable At The Very Least. People Have Their Own Personal Voids And Throw Love Around To Fill That Void, Where They Really Have No True Knowledge Of That Other Person. People Are In Love With Being In Love. If You're Lucky You Befriend Someone That Will Eventually Have That Feeling We Call "love". Unconditional; Whether You're Fat, Ugly, Bald, Smelly Etc. Many Times People Try To Tell You That Have Feelings, Or They Miss You, Or They Think About You, Or Even Go As Far As Saying They Love You. But After A Certain Period Amount Of Time They'll Find Someone Else And You'll Hear Less From Them. Me Personally, I'm Wise Enough To See Through All The Personal Agendas & Objectives. Many Of These People Aren't Sincere What They Tell You. Which Is Why I Put Up That Invisible Wall In Front Of Me, Not Allowing Myself To Be Vulnerable Around Confused And Unstable People.

i love it when you make sense.

[CherChezLaMarauder]

Haha.....thanx....it's An Obstacle To Catch My Interest...otherwise I Just Act Ig'nant

[WU-KILLAH]

Please Don't Listen To First Timbs, Wu-killah. The Man Breathes Helium, Shits Out His Mouth And Consumes Thru Photosynthesis. He's Not Human. People Like Him Potray Life As Meaningless And Robotic.

Of course I listen to what he says, I don't share his opinion but I find it interesting and he's one of the rare person on these boards not hating.
I consider myself being a rational person even though I think science don't have the monopoly of the Truth.

[CherChezLaMarauder]

Yea Yea, I Know...

"booo Hoooo, It's My Opinion Respect My Opinion"


Lol 'eff That. I'll Shit On It If I Find It Absurd. I Wouldn't Question His Intellect For A Second, But Homeboy Outthinks Himself Way Too Much.....


Oh Yea, In My Opinion

[WU-KILLAH]

Lol ... I just shit on those who hate, and there are many of these in KTL.

[My First Timbs]

Interesting answer as usual.
But how can you explain that among all the girlfriends I had in my life there is only one that made me so crazy of her. I mean there is no rational reason ... why her ? she's not necessary the most beautiful girl I had or the most perfect, but if she's far Im sad ... not because I want to fuck her, just because I need to have her with me. It's not my testosterone who make me feel that way.
I don't contest there is a biological and chemical process ... but the starting point isn't "rational".

peace wu killah

there is a rational explanation for that one special girlfriend of yours and the feelings she gave u (or currently gives u)

its basically due to 2 reasons

to answer it quickly without getting into the specifics of biochemistry and human nueral networking:

1) it has to do with the subconscious evolved cognition in recognizing a mate that could possibly yield forth successful offspring... (in contrast, more successful than previous gf's)

2) the other reason is psychological and has all to do with the social nature of us humans.. other humans that are more compatible with our personality type than others can have lasting impressions on our psyche and in turn our biochemical feeling of "happiness, security and love". once this is done a physical neural connection is made in your brain that links any memory of this girl with positive feelings (akin to nostalgia).

[Muslimah]

Timbs, while i respect that for you everything simply boils down to chemical reactions and notions of evolution, i think that you are neglecting essential issues in something as complex as human emotion.

I do believe that multi-disciplinary approaches are essential in any epistemological pursuit. To define love, is not to simply explore the ways chemical react to establish such an emotion, but it is also to look at it through a sociological, philosophical, psychological (and so on) lens.

In working within any of these fields, we must acknowledge that there are differences of opinions not only among other fields but also within our own fields. We should not speak on complex issues in a matter of fact way because facts are so relative to those defining them.

The reason I mention this in particular in this thread is because you have spoken about Love as being simply scientific. But this is not the case especially when things are so interrelated in this world that it is virtually impossible to single out one field in order to define such a multifaceted concept.

I am always wary when it comes to defining emotions especially an emotion such as love, because I don’t believe somethin as stained as language has the capacity to do love justice.

I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes on the nature of study and science.


The renowned sociologist Shholnick states:

“Historians have learned to approach science as only one among other social constructs, and so the subject has been opened to a sort of critical analysis directed at any other form of cultural expression.”

[My First Timbs]

peace muslimalah

i wholeheartedly understand ur post and c where u are coming from

here is a quote that sums it all up for me and has never steere me wrong in my studies and analysis of homo sapiens

"Nothing in biology makes sense regarding humanity unless it is looked at through a lens of biological evolution"

-Dobzhanski circa 1964

love (as with all human emotions) are biochemical based... hence they are part of our "biology"...

i agree that human language is a barrier to properly explaining such a mechanism in a short concise way (although it could satisfactorlily be explored and explained in a setting where "conciseness" is not needed to aid comprehension)

[tacle]

Love was never born to say goodbye.....