do you think lust and love get confused often to be one in the same?


infatuation do you think thats something that happens more often then love, if so how simple is it?

Lust at first sight.
Not Love.

Lust at first sight. Companionship at first talk. Love does not exist other than as some hyped up Hollywood catchphrase. It refers to a purity which cannot be achieved, and hence is an abstract concept unnatainable by us.

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:eek: I can't believe these words just came from Fal. However, I do agree.

I have a brain. It's just easier not to use it normally :)

fal about your comment before, i would like for you to go as much in depth as you can go on the topic.

Love is an abstract term, it refers to the perfect feeling you can have be it for another, for a thing or some such. Chemicals in the brain set our mood. Certain actions or experiences release certain chemicals, and psychology proves to us that we can begin to auto assosciate sights with the release of chemicals, or such actions (Classical or Operant Conditioning, I forget which). An example would be that eating chocolate releases a feel good chemical into the brain (serotonin?). If you eat chocolate A LOT your brain will assosciate the release of the chemical with the smell and sight of chocolate, so you get the feel good effect from just unwrapping the bar.

It's entirely possible that our brains assosciate a certain look or appearance, due to past experiences, with the release of yummy chemicals. This means that when we see someone that's good by us, we feel good. This could be misinterpreted as "love at first sight". Especially if the chemical release is that extreme.

People seem to get a crush on someone and "fall in love" with them. Then they get a girlfriend, and "love" them. Dump them, find someone else and wouldyabelieve it, they're in "love" again. If "love" is something so easy to come by (ie everytime we experience lust/companionship in greater than before levels) is it really love? Does it sully the term love if we use it so often?

Well couldn't that just be like a crush/puppy love? I mean alot of couples get married and are happy together for the rest of their lives as opposed to 5 months high school flings...

love is a useless crock, unless youre talking about the platonic unconditional love that can exist between family members or friends.