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Originally Posted by Gilda
I'm sorry, I was just trying to avoid offense, and I thought I'd said some things there that might be taken as offensive to some.
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I'm sorry you felt that way, Gilda. I'm glad that at least I did get to read your post, which I thought was quite poetic and some of the best words I've read from you. I am not sure what could have been found offensive, honestly... I think you'd have to work a lot harder than that to offend anyone here on TFP.
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Originally Posted by xim
The subjective feeling referred to by the word-symbol "love" is the existential experience of chemicals automaticly released by the brain from the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of pairbonding. The desire to pairbond is emotionally hardwired into the biomachine to increase the probability of survival and reproduction.
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Hey now, I'm an anthropologist here... so the whole chemical thing is familiar ground (not to mention someone else already posted something like this earlier). This isn't really what I'm looking for... I'm not so much into the biological definition, but into the behavioral/applied definition (using social science words here).
I have a hard time figuring out from your post, xim, how *you* have experienced those chemical reactions known as love, and whether or not you think it can be sustained (for pairbonding or otherwise) via getting into good daily habits, regardless of the level of passion each day. Can you give us some more insight into those aspects of your perception?