The Nature Of Love

[lupestripe]

Is love just a form of pleasant brainwashing?

Comments

[metamorphosys.livejournal.com]

Some days I would agree, others not. Take care.

[kitsunefury.livejournal.com]

Nobody can force you to love someone. Likewise nobody can force you not to, and nor can you really choose who you love or don't. It just sort of happens, much as we'd like to have control over that. Goodness knows I'd really like to be able to not love certain people that I do, but... eh. That's how things go I guess.

[sphelx.livejournal.com]

"Love is a device designed by bank managers to make us overdrawn"

[alexf0x.livejournal.com]

I would say that it's more like a drug hit. It's amazing when your on a high, but the cold turkey is a bitch.

[agrajag-fur.livejournal.com]

Love is equally as pleasant as it is crushingly heart rending. It's the good times we hold out for, of course.

[dark-raven-wolf.livejournal.com]

by you... of yourself.. yes

twice I have found myself.... wishing to exist... purely for the pleasure of someone else.. letting them set the game and the rules (wiht in reason)

which is.... as you should realise by now.... kinda contrary to my regular personality.... where I play on my terms by my rules

if that is not a form of self-minipulaton... I don't know what is

someone can't force you to love them... but you would be supprised how little your own life matters.... if it's the right someone and how much you would give.... even the world is not enough in payment for their happyness

[tr-wolf.livejournal.com]

Well no, cos it's not making you get rid of your thought patterns, as brainwashing usually does.

[selth.livejournal.com]

depends on what you concentrate! to a neurologist, this will be checmicals reaching in a brain... to a psychologist, the act of breaking completely from your parents (alright, I'm no psychologist), to a poet something I can't even describe...

and to a nerd like me, well... I'll just throw a link, it'll explain it too well : http://xkcd.com/55/

anyway... what is love? why do I remember a video all of a sudden?

sorry, this won't help!

[kiwihunter8.livejournal.com]

If it is, it's nature brainwashing you

[symphonic-rp.livejournal.com]

More like self-deception and illusion. When in love I see things through rose-colored glasses. I see nothing for what it really is, and that which I love appears more beautiful than it actually is.

Love is like selective blindness. I know this person is dispickable and has many faults and failings besides. But I love this person. So I choose not to see all that. I choose instead to see an illusion I have built around the person. And I will believe in the illusion in spite of all evidence to the contrary.