Yerda
Veteran Member
Have you never experienced loving or being loved?
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Is love real?
MD
qualiaphile
Its not quantifiable. Empirically it's extremely hard, epistemically it's impossible right now and ontologically it's a mystery.
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I think human love is biological but is probably a reenactment of something timeless. We are relatively robotic compared with the real thing. Thus sayeth the Brick, but that is not something I can prove. I agree with Nietzsche and Lovesong that materially our love is biological and that makes it real, even if it doesn't make it permanent. I do think there is more to it and that the biological is following a pattern, sort of like iron filings follow the lines of a magnet. No proofs.
My question to you is "How is love real TO YOU? Do you experience it as a distraction? As an intense focusing on the subject of your affection? As a warm glow? As a pulse-pounding urge? and so on...?
If on the other hand you do not experience anything that sounds like love as described by poets or others, then I'd ask, "how do you actually feel about people? What are your symptoms?"
Isn't it being literally real also a metaphysical thing?
allfoak
Alchemist
This, like everything else, is possible.
If you want to know, then ask.
If you have asked, then demand an answer.
Watch with eager expectation for your answer.
If you do not watch expecting an answer, the answer will come and go and you will miss it.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Are semantics real?
Serpent Child
Member
I know that I love someone when I can feel their heart beating and the blood running through their veins.
Then that's a starting point for you understanding that love is real, and what love MEANS to you.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Are you cutting people open in your basement or something?
Yerda
Veteran Member
You know love is real in that case. Problem solved.
Serpent Child
Member
No. I thought it through. Love is when you allow yourself to succumb to their existence / presence. Thats all I'll say.You know love is real in that case. Problem solved.
allfoak
Alchemist
Interesting.
Milton Platt
Well-Known Member
Subtract the biology and see what you have left......
Serpent Child
Member
Love is real.
allfoak
Alchemist
It took a while but i did it.
Emotion, intellect, and will, a feeling of oneness,
And this strange love connection.
Reggie Miller
Well-Known Member
Yes, it is. But your master has led you to think otherwise, which is why I think you asked the question in the first place. Satan would have you think it is biological than have you discover the truth - that there is no love in him.
Serpent Child
Member
Actually Father Satan isn't my 'master', I see Him as my boss and my precious friend. I do not believe in or have had any encounters with the Biblical Satan, only the Serpent Lord Enki-Satan. I asked the question because I'm curious what others seriously think here and what they think about Love. In my faith Father Satan is the embodiment of Light, Compassion, Truth, etc. Satan is regarded as the Absolute Truth and that there is no other Truth greater than Him. We simply have different paths & practices, we can PM anytime here or any other social media if you want to truly discuss this with me. <3
allfoak
Alchemist
She said love is real.
Your criticism is rather telling.
allfoak
Alchemist
Perhaps i will.