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Honestly magpam, imo you're trying to get people to find some mystical quality to love and getting annoyed that people can offer up simple explanations without the need for such mysticism. We understand love pretty well tbqh and if that subject you're doing is suggesting otherwise (either that...

It depends what you mean by these things... but if you mean that there's anything which can't be understood by examining biological/psychological/social components then I would say it does not exist.

I don't know how much it'll matter what uni you go to, just make sure u work hard mate :)

It's the driver's fault but there are mitigating circumstances... i.e. The question (I think, please don't quote me) would be whether a reasonable person would have avoided the accident.

Oh god no it's happening again !

Yeah so you're after something to 'love' which is external of your mind? Well no, that does not exist as far as we know. I don't see what's so important in having it external though...

Why do you think something doesn't exist if it's just a construct of our mind enforced by neural/chemical processes? There is no sort of... magic which exists externally of two people who are in love, but in both their minds there is something going on.

Do any of these places actually have majorities? It'd be interesting to see a map which shows shades of colour.

You can tell me that you 'feel' a spiritual connection and I will probably believe you, but that doesn't mean there's anything there anymore than a feeling.

But love's not something that has to 'be there' to exist. The people walking around your house might not exist, but your feeling that they did definitely does.

btw I added :o But yeah, if that's what you think then we actually exactly agree. I love love, I think it's one of the most beautiful things we people have and it is every bit as special and amazing as anything else there is... but I also think we need to be realistic about where such...

Do you believe there's a biological/genetic/socially constructed explanation for love? If you don't then I'll continue arguing with you but if you do then I don't really care too much how exactly you believe it comes about. I find the terminology of for instance me saying "caring for people you...

Well, it does... in the terms which I have described. It exists in terms of something we have constructed, which is imaginary in the same sense that looking at a painting and concluding it has a meaning (i.e. It illustrates fear or hatred or something) is completely constructed but every bit...

It is if you consider that you evolved for a completely different life to the one you live now. You're selectively altruistic/caring for people who you get close to... You're also creative so you are creative with how you express your altruistic feelings.

altruism makes logical sense too... especially in light of evolution, remember it's survival of the species not necessarily survival of the individual. It's not like it's something we can choose to reject really because it's incredibly built into us genetically to care for one another for...

Why is there no logical reason? It makes perfectly logical sense for a creature to evolve a sense of a desire for companionship, a desire to be a part of something 'special' and greater than themselves and then in desiring this to come up with all sorts of creative ways to try to express this.

Well.. yeah it's there, it's just that it's nothing more than a construct of the human mind. It's kind of like asking whether 'art' exists or whether there's a meaning to life, these things exist only in the minds of human beings. So sure they exist, but only when you define them in terms of...

Love is just lust and friendship as occasionally post hoc rationalised by a complex emotional and logical creature, imo. The reason why I imagine it's associated with such special magical feelings is because we like to create things which we think are greater than ourselves, to give us some sort...

If I have the power to create/destroy God by the whims of my mind surely it is I WHO ARE'd GOD!!!!1111111

I've seen this discussed at length on another forum http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=178993 and I'm led to believe that you can't really say they're created from 'nothing'.