love....
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Er..make it 3. Now we are getting somewhere!
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I don't know, does it? You tell me. Master Kung<Confucius> said that if he was made emporer, the first thing he would do is define the precise meaning of words. It is hard to define something with fluctuating parameters that resides within a subjective framework. But words do have power. Love is a word. The power it wields is the power you give it. Like any word, the word LOVE is a container that holds what you feel or mean when you use it. It is both the strength and weakness of language. It is the reason we are ultimately isolated within the prison of ourselves.
I don't know, does it? You tell me. Master Kung<Confucius> said that if he was made emporer, the first thing he would do is define the precise meaning of words. It is hard to define something with fluctuating parameters that resides within a subjective framework. But words do have power. Love is a word. The power it wields is the power you give it. Like any word, the word LOVE is a container that holds what you feel or mean when you use it. It is both the strength and weakness of language. It is the reason we are ultimately isolated within the prison of ourselves.
Thor; I should have expected as much 
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It's pretty easy to understand, and once you do, you will never go back You've been warned...
Case 1: God has creates everything. Everything is the result of his phenomenal cosmic power. Big deal. He wants you to be conscious? Zap. There you go. He's using his superpowers, and his superpowers can explain everything....BOOOOORING!
Case 2: God did not create ANYTHING. Isn't it amazing then that as chemicals-- mere CHEMICALS! -- we are able to think, reason, love, hate etc...I think that's far more beatiful and amazing!
To be honest, I'm having a hard time explaining this. Your turn Xev....
....It's pretty easy to understand, and once you do, you will never go back
You've been warned...Case 1: God has creates everything. Everything is the result of his phenomenal cosmic power. Big deal. He wants you to be conscious? Zap. There you go. He's using his superpowers, and his superpowers can explain everything....BOOOOORING!
Case 2: God did not create ANYTHING. Isn't it amazing then that as chemicals-- mere CHEMICALS! -- we are able to think, reason, love, hate etc...I think that's far more beatiful and amazing!
To be honest, I'm having a hard time explaining this. Your turn Xev....
This statement is ultimate acceptance of annihlation. If life is absurd and pointless who really cares. I find meaning in my life and I precieve beauty in my life. Then eventually after I have lived (Or walking down the street today) I die. End of story
I don't need some big cosmic point to it all, if I was to find that then great. But for today I don't have that I live, I learn, I grow. If life is nothing but a pointless existance, why take it so seriously?
Religious theory is not meant to be viewed with the classical physics machinest view of the world. I know this will sound corny to alot of you (especially Xev). But in order to understand religous theory you must view the universe as an organic entity and not machine. More like a flower blooming and not gears turning. (And please don't argue back with "well all the world is a machine so ultimatly they are just painting emotion on a machine" Like I said in the realm of classic physics this is percieaved to be the truth. But that is unimportant right now. If his/her/its "Super Powers" where to be able to explain everything, would a human be able to comprehend it all? Fly a plane over a tribe of people who have never witnessed a plane before and they will start to worship it. People can be really stupid. Religion is not an excuse to be an idiot. Trying to concieve religious philosophy with a scientific mind will not work you will not be able to understand it.
That seems kind of silly. It's really only when you realize that you will never find a more atrractive woman to marry that you will cherish the one you have. Say there is a spirit world, why would that stop making you cherish this existance? Why would your appreciation of this world be dependant on anything?
pumpkinsaren'torange
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just because it's chemically-equated doesn't mean that it's going to detract from the whole feeling of it. it's STILL going to feel good. i mean, that's what chemicals cause us to do: either feel real good, or they can cause us to feel badly.
just because it's chemically-equated doesn't mean that it's going to detract from the whole feeling of it. it's STILL going to feel good. i mean, that's what chemicals cause us to do: either feel real good, or they can cause us to feel badly.
They burn
Chemicals are all well and good but you need a soul to truly feel there effects.
True love is a connection of energies flowing in harmony with one and another. THis harmony does not necessarily have to be occuring with identical souls it could occur with souls that are compeletely oppposite. Just for clarification (nebula) I mean soul in the matter of human conciousness and understanding.
With just chemicals all alone on a deserted island you would die an incomplete life.
Rowen
Chemicals are all well and good but you need a soul to truly feel there effects.
True love is a connection of energies flowing in harmony with one and another. THis harmony does not necessarily have to be occuring with identical souls it could occur with souls that are compeletely oppposite. Just for clarification (nebula) I mean soul in the matter of human conciousness and understanding.
With just chemicals all alone on a deserted island you would die an incomplete life.
Rowen
Well, all I'll say is that I'm all for love. The more the better.
But hate is a better building block for empires than love. Just read ORwell's 1984.
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There is no god, afterlife or divine love. There is only Entropy, the mother from which we were all born. She tugs our souls with the beautiful, maternal love of chaos. Why do you keep Her waiting?
But hate is a better building block for empires than love. Just read ORwell's 1984.
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There is no god, afterlife or divine love. There is only Entropy, the mother from which we were all born. She tugs our souls with the beautiful, maternal love of chaos. Why do you keep Her waiting?
as anyone knows you should consume a lot of alcohol after a breakup...what you are hoping for is that the alcohol will kill that part of the brain that is in love with your ex. If you succeed you will forget about her...if you kill the wrong part of your brain you will remember the love...
Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm
It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm
And in those times of trouble when you are most alone
The memory of love will bring you home
Perhaps love is like a window, perhaps an open door
It invites you to come closer, it wants to show you more
And even if you lose yourself and don't know what to do
The memory of love will see you through
Love to some is like a cloud, to some as strong as steel
For some a way of living, for some a way to feel
And someone say love is holding on and some say letting go
And some say love is everything, and some say they don't know
Perhaps love is like the ocean, full of conflict, full of pain
Like a fire when it's cold outside, thunder when it rains
If I should live forever, and all my dreams come true
My memories of love will be of you
(by John Denver)
It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm
And in those times of trouble when you are most alone
The memory of love will bring you home
Perhaps love is like a window, perhaps an open door
It invites you to come closer, it wants to show you more
And even if you lose yourself and don't know what to do
The memory of love will see you through
Love to some is like a cloud, to some as strong as steel
For some a way of living, for some a way to feel
And someone say love is holding on and some say letting go
And some say love is everything, and some say they don't know
Perhaps love is like the ocean, full of conflict, full of pain
Like a fire when it's cold outside, thunder when it rains
If I should live forever, and all my dreams come true
My memories of love will be of you
(by John Denver)