Marc, you got anemia right but I think you might want malaria for paludism, or at least that is the common English name for it.

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Love.
Possibly one of the hardest things humans have a concept of. Love is and always will change. It is not a "thing" it is a "feeling". Many people feel love in many different ways. Though, for the sake of space i'll phrase it this way. Love is a feeling of attachment, and in humans, love is finding the one person you can spend the rest of your life with. Usually someone who shares the same feelings on various topics with you, and you two can get along well. Love arises when a relationship becomes serious, not the childish love of when you are first seeing someone, but the love you feel when you realize, that you want the other to be with you forever and you cant live without that other person by your side, and you cant remember how you functioned without them. Love is passion, passion is by definition, complete devotion. Love is when you want, by basic instinct and by human feeling, want to be with someone, not even sexually, for that is shallow urge, you want to be with them, laugh, cry, argue, love, grow old with, that's love.
@Arun, I hope that helped.

hell bender, that was so beautiful. how could anybody say god doesn't exist after reading that?

Thank you.

you're very welcome, young man.

Doesn't convince me. I cannot believe that love is some magic feeling, and unique to humans. Many species feel Ina similar way, and at the end of the day there is a reason for this. If it is derived from devotion, as you suggested, than this devotion has a reason. Why couldn't this reason be that you have appeared to have found the perfect mate; the one with the most favourable mutations/genes to pass on to your offspring.

@Arun, I understand what your saying, but what your asking is beyond Human Cognitive function. We don't know is the simple answer. Have you ever been in love? Then you know the feeling, explain it. Explain how you feel love. I sure as hell can't explain to you what it feels like to be in love from my own experience, as I would surely fill up the 10,000 Character limit easily. So go ahead, tell me. What is love?

All I can tell you is that it is what I stated above, and that, there are certain chemical reactions within the brain, that activate genes within your DNA that tell your brain that your significant other is good to bear your offspring, but humans in their very nature are not this cold. There are HUMAN emotions tied in. Animals love too, as you say. But they do not love the same way we do, the closest to human love we see on a daily basis is from Dogs. Now dogs share 75% of our DNA. Thats 25% percent that they have differently than us. Dogs, feel love, you know that, I know that, but they feel it differently than we do, that much you can also believe. Now you want to speak on the topic of devotion, humans have to option of deciding who they wish to devote themselves too, as do most animals. I'm no scientist, I'm talking out of my ass and a 10th grade education, but devotion is separate chemical sequencing in the brain, that can coincide with love, but does not always have too.

what did i just read

X, you actually read it?!

You read what I wrote, and how, to the best of my ability, attempted to explain to Arun what love is.

The thing is, we do know. Aside from a very small number of exceptions, people fall in love with nice or good looking or clever people. All these traits are beneficial to the offspring thepat will hopefully be produced. Love is simply the way to get you to procreate with the right people.

So your saying you don't believe in love?

I'm saying that love is an exaplainable occurance due to all life's purpose. To survive, and breed.

were not animals. We feel, that's what makes us human. We have other reasons for love than breeding.

That's where we disagree then. We are animals. We feel, as do other animals. Love is a process almost solely for breeding. I doubt a consensus will be reached here but by all means continue the debate :)

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In the technical sense, we may be animals. But Humans and Humanity are not animalistic, even the most "uncultured" tribes of Indians, or natives, anywhere, have a concept of love. Love is not a base need for animals, they procreate without love, they procreate on base instinct, while, humans, on love and devotion.



honestly, I'm out of facts to argue with. So, that's all I've got, I hope one day you can fall in love and feel it for yourself.

even the most "uncultured" tribes of Indians, or natives, anywhere, have a concept of love.

even darkies?

So let's take the most uncultured tribe as a control (no outside influence)*. They often bond and mate without this true love, sometimes having multiple partners, but ok, sometimes sticking (for whatever reason; perhaps love) with one partner for their entire life. However, so do many animals. Gibbons are exceptionally faithful for example. Combine this with the fact that they are pretty good at communicating with each other, and you have a different species that exhibits the same characteristics of 'true love' that we are seeing here. I'm not trying to appear like a pessimist; it's just what I believe. I believe in the scientific evidence of something, whether it favours me or not.

Also, being in the 10th grade (not sure how old that is, 14, 15?), do you really think you have felt true love? If so, how can you talk about it? Have you read something that you think describes the true love you hope you will feel? It would be nice, but in the UK, something like a third of marriages end in divorce. A marriage begins with the thought of true love, yet so many end without it.

* For the record, your description of tribes was very ignorant.

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You said that just to get the 69th post didn't you (considering that the issue you raised was already answered)?


I suggest you contact the local police station. Your sense of humour appears to have been stolen.

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