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Syl wrote:

eddie wrote:I love how we sit here and pick apart what love is.  
Just enjoy the colours of the rainbow and don't make it all about chemicals and light.

I agree...love can come in many guises, I can even love a fellow poster sometimes just by the words they have written....love can be fleeting or last a lifetime, it doesn't have to involve sex, even between a man and a woman love can be just romantic ....I suppose we all see love differently.

I like what you say here because you link love to the more general, appreciation for others. As a political theorist I have look into, in some depth, the physical attractions to become social animals. It's not love--which is fraught with sexual feelings and motives--but it is attraction, perhaps farther up the ladder. It is there, and it is powerful.

It's significant to a political world, because if you are an individualist, you tend to become a conservative...selfish, and self-serving, which is at the core of all conservative belief systems. But if you are a strong believer in our social nature, you are cooperative and a social problem solver...you believe in programs that tend to equalize and help one another. That's why I favor socialism, but I don't want to get into political economics and dogma.

Suffice it to say that it is a major dichotomy in my own work.

Original Quill wrote:

Syl wrote:

I agree...love can come in many guises, I can even love a fellow poster sometimes just by the words they have written....love can be fleeting or last a lifetime, it doesn't have to involve sex, even between a man and a woman love can be just romantic ....I suppose we all see love differently.

I like what you say here because you link love to the more general, appreciation for others.  As a political theorist I have look into, in some depth, the physical attractions to become social animals.  It's not love--which is fraught with sexual feelings and motives--but it is attraction, perhaps farther up the ladder.  It is there, and it is powerful.

It's significant to a political world, because if you are an individualist, you tend to become a conservative...selfish, and self-serving, which is at the core of all conservative belief systems.  But if you are a strong believer in our social nature, you are cooperative and a social problem solver...you believe in programs that tend to equalize and help one another.  That's why I favor socialism, but I don't want to get into political economics and dogma.  

Suffice it to say that it is a major dichotomy in my own work.

Thank you Quill.
I didn't work my post out as cleverly as you have....but we agree in part I think.

I do believe its love though....anything that nudges that feeling of euphoria, even momentarily, can evoke loving feelings....its what makes the world a happier place.