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What is love?

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Amaurote
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"Baby don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
No more"

Thank you for completely ruining my day with this thread title. It will now take approximately three weeks to remove that damned song from my head.

Wajoma
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"The way you make me feel..." A lyric from a popular song, love is selfish. Robert Heinlein the sci-fi author offered a nice definition that went something like this: Love is the condition whereby ones own happiness is dependant on the happiness of another.

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"Who do ya love?", by George Theragood. Really, its all that matters.

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Originally posted by Vladamir no1
Is love an intrinsic property that goes hand in hand with procreation, that makes you stay with your partner?
So on an evolutionary standpoint the offspring has more chance of survival with two parents foraging and protecting than one parent?
Is the explaination for love this utilitarian, this evoultionary/biological and this simple?
Different people = different kinds of love.
For example, I love my son more than anyone else on this planet including my current wife and girlfriends and all my previous wives and girlfriends.
I love my parents.
I love my sister much more than either of my brothers, who I also love (but only just a little...)

I also love sushi.

Yes, you can have love without sex or procreation.
Yes, you can have sex without love.
Yes, you can procreate without love.
Yes, you can procreate without sex (artificially).

Neither quality is necessitous and just because you don't love someone or procreate doesn't mean that you can't have great sex.

But are you asking a physiological, a physical, a moral, or an emotional question?

SJ247

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mmmm mmmm sushiiiii.

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99% of the time, love is fear.

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Originally posted by Wheely
99% of the time, love is fear.
With wreaths of withered flowers
Two lonely spirits wait
With wreaths of withered flowers
'Fore paradise's gate.
They may not pass the portal
Poor earth-enkindled pair,
Though sad is many a spirit
To pass and leave them there
Still staring at their flowers,
That dull and faded are.
If one should rise beside thee,
The other is not far.
Go ask the youngest angel,
She will say with bated breath,
By the door of Mary's garden
Are the spirits Love and Death.

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Originally posted by dottewell
With wreaths of withered flowers
Two lonely spirits wait
With wreaths of withered flowers
'Fore paradise's gate.
They may not pass the portal
Poor earth-enkindled pair,
Though sad is many a spirit
To pass and leave them there
Still staring at their flowers,
That dull and faded are.
If one should rise beside thee,
The other is not far.
Go ask ...[text shortened]... ill say with bated breath,
By the door of Mary's garden
Are the spirits Love and Death.
Beautiful Dottie, just beautiful.

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Originally posted by SJ247
Beautiful Dottie, just beautiful.
Like your eyebrows.

SJ247

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Originally posted by dottewell
Like your eyebrows.
Yes, thank you.

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Originally posted by SJ247
Yes, thank you.
You are welcome.

How are you, by the way? We just don't talk enough.

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Originally posted by dottewell
You are welcome.

How are you, by the way? We just don't talk enough.
You know, I'm bitchy. Yes, we should talk more. I need more girlfriends.

And you?

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Originally posted by Amaurote
Thank you for completely ruining my day with this thread title. It will now take approximately three weeks to remove that damned song from my head.
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Originally posted by SJ247
You know, I'm bitchy. Yes, we should talk more. I need more girlfriends.

And you?
I'm good, thanks.

By the way, well done for keeping the word association thread going. Your contributions are both hilarious and highly intelligent, which is a difficult trick to pull off. Long may it continue!

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Originally posted by dottewell
I'm good, thanks.

By the way, well done for keeping the word association thread going. Your contributions are both hilarious and highly intelligent, which is a difficult trick to pull off. Long may it continue!
Yes, thanks, I was taking it for the team last night, suffering through it with the boy of many names.

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