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11of101 · 05-04-2012, 15:50

Apart from the cocktail of endorphins, hormones and oxytocin - does love exist?

token56 · 05-04-2012, 15:53

You need to define what you mean by love first.

doctoremma · 05-04-2012, 15:54

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Originally Posted by 11of101

Apart from the cocktail of endorphins, hormones and oxytocin - does love exist?

Endorphins and oxytocin ARE hormones. But anyway, apart from chemicals, no.

ETA: accounting for the above comment, my definition of love is that it is a somewhat high-minded description of aforementioned chemical mayhem.

***Beruthiel*** · 05-04-2012, 15:58

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Originally Posted by 11of101

Apart from the cocktail of endorphins, hormones and oxytocin - does love exist?

We're ugly bags of mostly water (according to some). The rest made up of bits 'n' pieces.
If you care for someone and what to spend time in their company, why question it further than that?
If you wish, you can put a word on wanting to spend time in someone's company. Let's call it Love.

magicbastarder · 05-04-2012, 16:01

do walls exist?

magicbastarder · 05-04-2012, 16:02

apart from the cocktail of bricks, mortar and foundations, i mean.

*Sarky* · 05-04-2012, 16:48

It's purely a process mediated by interaction between a few thousand chemicals and your own brain's preferences for pattern-recognition. But that doesn't mean it's not also amazing beyond words.

ntlbell · 05-04-2012, 16:53

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Originally Posted by Beruthiel

We're ugly bags of mostly water (according to some). The rest made up of bits 'n' pieces.
If you care for someone and what to spend time in their company, why question it further than that?
If you wish, you can put a word on wanting to spend time in someone's company. Let's call it Love.

I'm not sure your child/ren would be happy with your views on love.

Regardless of this, I'm not sure what love has to do with not believing in religion and why the question was asked here?

**robindch** · 05-04-2012, 16:58

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Originally Posted by 11of101

Apart from the cocktail of endorphins, hormones and oxytocin - does love exist?

Geese exist:

Gbear · 05-04-2012, 18:06

To me it's just like asking does taste, disbelief or confusion exist.

They're all ways in which our nifty computer in our head processes external stimuli.

**Dave!** · 05-04-2012, 18:42

Not as some disembodied, nebulous, active "force" in the universe, no.

**bluewolf** · 05-04-2012, 18:52

Defiler Of The Coffin · 05-04-2012, 18:57

Yes. I feel it in the deep heart's core.

**Jernal** · 05-04-2012, 20:41

Yes but I prefer to call it what it really is : a biploar disorder.

WolfgangWeisen · 05-04-2012, 20:43

I'm not sure what the question has to do with atheism, however instead of thinking of an answer my mind has only been able to think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6g-Vh4vcD0

For that I thank you, 11of101

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token56 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Maynooth/Portlaoise, Depends Posts: 1,916 Adverts \| Friends	You need to define what you mean by love first.

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magicbastarder Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 7,437 Adverts \| Friends	apart from the cocktail of bricks, mortar and foundations, i mean.

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Sarky Herpivore Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Fort Kickass Posts: 19,123 Adverts \| Friends Mod: Ask Doctor Demento, Esoteric Order of Dagon, Legends of the Boards, The Cuckoo's Nest	It's purely a process mediated by interaction between a few thousand chemicals and your own brain's preferences for pattern-recognition. But that doesn't mean it's not also amazing beyond words.

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Gbear Registered User Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 3,493 Adverts \| Friends	To me it's just like asking does taste, disbelief or confusion exist. They're all ways in which our nifty computer in our head processes external stimuli.

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WolfgangWeisen Closed Account Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 232 Adverts \| Friends	I'm not sure what the question has to do with atheism, however instead of thinking of an answer my mind has only been able to think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6g-Vh4vcD0 For that I thank you, 11of101