Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Quick comment on Love

"Love" is often described as a condition where a single person is more important to you than the whole world.
And sometime more so, where being without that person is terrible thought, something which would ruin your life.

That's not love, that's a psychotic/neurotic condition.
It may be common, but that does not change that fact.

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Jed McKenna said sanity is a numbers game. If enough people have an idea or condition, it's not seen as insane.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think this song accurately captures the spirit of love as it's commonly defined. To paraphrase the artist, people think of love as a force for good when in truth it sometimes inspires terrible things. No, love is not a force for good, it's simply a force with multiple manifestations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FyFS5kFZ7w

Pascal [P-04referent] said...

Hmm... can it be considered insanity, anyway, if Nature intended it to be?
I think Love can be viewed as an individual insanity that's highly sensible for the survival of the species. :-)

Man has a name, do dogs have a God?Speaking of a numbers game, what's yours, oh heavenly vision? [Cue patented Dazzling Gaze #4, the one that causes divorces and forest fires.]

Anonymous said...

That's not love, that's a psychotic/neurotic condition.A psychotic/neurotic condition...that's the textbook definition isn't it?