Originally posted by Aster Phoenix
A dictionary should be sufficient to help you there.
no it wont sir. what I am saying, to you, is that an "affectionate emotional response" means something. I know what each word means, but the problem is, as a phrase, it is telling me nothing.
One would assume you know how emotions work. I'm sort of asking you to prove that you have some idea of what you are talking about.
You know what the amygdala is? There is a neurological disorder that comes from a disconnection of the amygdala from the thalamus, meaning information processed in the amygdala never makes it to consciousness. People with this disorder are able to identify people from basic physical characteristics, yet are convinced that their loved ones are clones or robots. The thinking is that, while they can identify the people physically, the emotional response from the amygdala does not activate, so they do not feel the emotions associated with the person, making them think the identical looking individual is an impostor.
now, one might be compelled to say that this means the amygdala is responsible for love, but, there is no doubt that the sufferer still loves those close to them, they just cannot recognize it. Also, if, instead of seeing someone, the sufferer talks to them, they get the same emotional recognition.
I'm looking for sort of an explanation at that level, because nothing seems simple, to me, about that. If you can put it into a single sentence, I'd be really impressed.
Originally posted by Aster Phoenix
I love my friends, some more so then others. It's really not that hard of a concept to grasp
lol, I'm more inclined to say you have never really been in love if you are comparing the way you feel for your friends to the way you feel about your lover...
All I can say is that there are very different emotions, to me, involved with those I am in love with and people who I love in the platonic sense
Originally posted by Aster Phoenix
As I said that comes down to whether or not you believe love is exclusive to humans.And you can ask all day until your fingers get tired, but I am not going to respond in exactly the way you want me to. So if thats the debate your looking for, go write up the entire debate, including the questions and responses you like and find someone willing to act it out with you, but that person is not me.
So if you do not like my response that is your problem and yours alone to deal with. I am not going to change my response simply because you don't like it.
lol, show some integrity. I don't want you to change your response at all, and in fact, your inability to defend or even provide general working definitions of what you are talking about is doing a way better job than I ever could of making you look even more ridiculous.
anyways, the fact that you can't/won't answer that question shows that love, at the very least, is not fully understood by you, potentially then, not making it simple.