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Love
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:19 pm
by Osric
What is love? Is it merely a result of brain activity? Is it all neurotransmitters and synapses firing in our brains? Or is it an addiction and excuse to procreate. Or maybe all the above? Without a brain, humans wouldn't be able to function. So without a physical component such as the brain, we wouldn't be able to experience this thing called love. That is one reason I don't believe in a soul too.
Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:22 pm
by Osric
Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:28 pm
by henry quirk
Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:22 pm
by bahman
Osric wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:19 pm
What is love? Is it merely a result of brain activity? Is it all neurotransmitters and synapses firing in our brains? Or is it an addiction and excuse to procreate. Or maybe all the above? Without a brain, humans wouldn't be able to function. So without a physical component such as the brain, we wouldn't be able to experience this thing called love. That is one reason I don't believe in a soul too.
Love is an emotion opposite to hate. It is produced by the brain and experienced by the mind.
Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:22 pm
by promethean75
A river that drowns the tender reed?
Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:24 pm
by bahman
promethean75 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:22 pm
A river that drowns the tender reed?
So hate!
Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:36 pm
by promethean75
I don't drink Hatorade, bahman. U do.
"So without a physical component such as the brain, we wouldn't be able to experience this thing called love."
It'd still be there, tho, becuz love is power infatuated with existence, so to speak. Even a rock is filled with eros becuz it exists and exerts its power and effects on everything around it. Think about it. It has its own gravitational force, its own inertia, momentum... It's swirling with atoms that are in a violent duel against nothingness and death.
Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:41 pm
by bahman
promethean75 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:36 pm
I don't drink Hatorade, bahman. U do.
I do drink Hatorade as well but in the right proportion. How could you find peace if you only love!?
promethean75 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:36 pm
"So without a physical component such as the brain, we wouldn't be able to experience this thing called love."
It'd still be there, tho, becuz love is power infatuated with existence, so to speak. Even a rock is filled with eros becuz it exists and exerts its power and effects on everything around it. Think about it. It has its own gravitational force, its own inertia, momentum... It's swirling with atoms that are in a violent duel against nothingness and death.
You are correct. Love is like attraction as hate is like repulsion.
Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:45 pm
by promethean75
"I do drink Hatorade"
Becuz u believe in freewill, that's why, and u may also believe that not all men are good... or at least don't act toward what they believe is good. This, too, is an error.
Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:49 pm
by bahman
promethean75 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:45 pm
"I do drink Hatorade"
Becuz u believe in freewill, that's why, and u may also believe that not all men are good... or at least don't act toward what they believe is good. This, too, is an error.
I don't respond evil to only evil but to good too! You need to find the right people though.
Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2024 10:31 am
by BuzzCap7
Osric wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:19 pm
What is love? Is it merely a result of brain activity? Is it all neurotransmitters and synapses firing in our brains? Or is it an addiction and excuse to procreate. Or maybe all the above? Without a brain, humans wouldn't be able to function. So without a physical component such as the brain, we wouldn't be able to experience this thing called love. That is one reason I don't believe in a soul too.
The brain is only a physical component of the body. As is the hand, foot, etc...
There is a non-physical aspect to us. Feelings/emotions.
As I understand it, the feelings/emotions (and all "thought" for that matter) comes from another place and your awareness (consciousness) of thought/feelings/emotions is put into your "brain" from a deeper place (your soul) so you are now and only now aware of what was put in your mind.
Like when you just ended reading the paragraph above, you likely formulated an opinion/thought.
That formulation of thought was done not only VERY fast, but it all came from your past experiences. Your past knowledge.
So the illusion of your thinking about a matter and consciously formulating an opinion is really done in a deeper part of you and the answer (accumulated from your past experiences) is then put into your consciousness so you now have an opinion on a matter. <-- There are very interesting studies done on this matter.
As I have shared in the past, when you look into a mirror, that is not really you. That is only the temporary you. You are really an accumulation of past "mirror you's" so-to-speak.
Mark
Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2024 11:32 am
by Me-Be
BuzzCap7 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 10:31 am
As I have shared in the past, when you look into a mirror, that is not really you. That is only the temporary you.
Looking, I am the ''looked upon'' - yes, a temporal you.
What is ''Looking'' can only be revealed as an image in a mirror, magically appearing as an apparent duality, an image of the imageless, where the seer and the seen are both simultaneously revealed as ONE inseparable Non-dual aliveness, here now.
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Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2024 11:49 am
by Me-Be
Osric wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2024 6:19 pm
What is love?
This can only be answered by the one who asks the question.
The one who asks the question is the only one who creates it's own definition of what love is, and known via their own direct experience of LOVE itself.
Love is a lot of things to all sorts of different people.
For me personally, Love is...
Love is suffering.
Love is emotional and mental pain.
Love is blind.
Love is crying.
Love is laughter.
Love is an addictive drug.
Love is hatred.
Love is a lie.
Love is the truth.
Love is sex.
Love is lust.
Love is desire.
Love is greed.
Love is charity.
Love is kindness.
Love is conditional.
And to me, that's the true nature of ''Unconditional Love'' which is absolutely free to be Everything and Nothing.
Nothing, because Love can only be Something... where there is identification with 'Thought'
Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2024 12:01 pm
by accelafine
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Re: Love
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2024 12:14 pm
by Walker
Because love is the meaning and purpose of duality, all the convoluted and seemingly unrelated activities of duality are branches of duality's meaning and purpose.