Love is the feeling that everything is awful, that the world is cold and dark and awful, but I doesn't matter because somebody is there who can make everything warm and fuzzy.

What does love mean to you?

That's pretty spot-on to me.

Nature's method of cozening the human race into reproduction.

But I don't want to breed with another dude.

Quote from: IngloriousWho98 on May 30, 2016, 11:53:23 PM

Nature encourages polygamy tho

Yeah, so?

Monogamy is kinda silly and antiquated anyway.

Mahogany makes for great antiques.

You said that love is nature's way of having us make babies

Yeah. So what does polygamy have to do with that? You can have children with multiple partners.

Nature's method of cozening the human race into reproduction.

Also explain gay couples.

And love for family memebers (just dont take the south of the US into account)

Might see the only girl I've ever truly loved in a few days. Haven't seen her in 2 years

To me, love is giant combat robots.

Quote from: Verbatim on May 30, 2016, 11:19:27 PM

Nature's method of cozening the human race into reproduction.

Do you appreciate anything for just feeling good, or do you have to have some sort of cold, analytical perspective on even basic human interaction? Love isn't even exclusive to people reproducing, it's not like infertile couples don't love each other. Lighten up, Verb. It's okay to smell flowers and think "Wow, these smell wonderful," without having to criticize how superficial a sense of smell is.

I'm aware of all this. Someone had to make the obligatory cynical comment, so it had to be me.

In a more romantic/intelligent sense, love to me is simply an affection for someone strong enough to where you care more for their health, welfare, emotions, etc. than you do yours. It delights you to see them happy, and it upsets you to see them distraught or depressed. You may consider yourself an imperfect person, but something about them just completes you in some way--and as a result, you have the ability to trust them unconditionally. It's the realization that you no longer have to be alone to endure what you may have considered a cold, shitty, callous world--because now you have a caring person to share all your thoughts and experiences with. They're a reason to wake up in the morning.

Like Sol put it, when you're with them, it's like the whole rest of the world becomes mute, irrelevant.

It's easy to dismiss love as a series of chemical reactions in the brain--but it really is one of the most staggeringly powerful chemical reactions we've come to know (for better or for worse), and that can't be dismissed.

A disorder.

Because you don't want to love me but can't stop yourself.

To feel love and to be in love are different.

To be in love is an illusion that will fade once you get to know the partner, but to love someone is to love them for who they are without overlooking anything. I have yet to find such a person.

Get the fuck out of my thread faggot.

Quote from: IngloriousWho98 on May 31, 2016, 12:04:57 AM

You said that love is nature's way of having us make babies

Yeah. So what does polygamy have to do with that? You can have children with multiple partners.

Nature discourages devotion to one partner in terms of pure fucking and making babies