If you read this, answer it. Everyone has an opinion.

[brake4buddha27]

I was talking to Joyce and we went rather deep into an important topic. Since the religion thing was so popular, I want to know what you guys think of this:

Love

Post it. Ill wait to see what you guys think before i post.

Comments

[taboola]

is a chemical /slash/ emotional combobulation that connects two or more people or things on a level nearly impossible to describe literally or verbally. yet, i try anyway...Love, love love love...Love has no conscious. "Conscious commands, love inspires. Love is, indeed, one kind of desire; but it is a kind that takes us out of ourselves and carries us beyond ourselves, in contrast to the kind that is self-seeking. Love is freedom; conscience is constraint; yet, in two points, our relation to love is the same as our relation to conscience. We are free to reject love’s appeal, as we are free to reject conscience’s command; yet love, like conscience, cannot be rebuffed with impunity. Rebuffed, love will continue to importune us; and this for the reason for which a violated conscience does. Love’s authority, like conscience’s, is absolute. Like conscience, too, love needs no authentication or validation by any authority outside itself. Speculations about love’s credentials, or lack of credentials, cannot either enhance or diminish love’s absoluteness." (A.J. [Arnold joseph] Toynbee).

"Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, [is] the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny." (Emma Goldman).

...those are two quotes by which i stand by passionately. i don't know what theoretical conclusions you and joyce came up with (although i suspect that it was highly intelligent and thoroughly thought-provoking), but there's my take.

aaand, if you actually read all of that, then i'm a wee bit impressed. =O! give me a call sometime, eh?

=)

[taboola]

*sigh*

you know, i could have said that a lot simpler. Love is like the beatles song; it's all you need!

[brake4buddha27]

Thats very interesting, the contrast between conscience and love. But how much of love do you think is chemical?

[taboola]

out of all the factors that contribute, chemical contributions only constitute about 5 percent. the only reason why i mention it is because i think that it's a big part of the first Spark! kind of thing. but through the progression of love's development, chemical and hormonal passions subside and give way to the heart.

at least, that's my take on it. =)