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[garote]

Was just listening to a Terry Pratchett audiobook, read by Nigel Planer. Witches Abroad.

Pratchett is well known for lacing his favorite fictional world with sudden jolts of well-phrased wisdom. I just had to transcribe this for the future:

"... He never told people they ought to be happy, and imposed a kind of happiness on them. The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in."

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[zeroheretic.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. But what about when you fall in love with someone? Isn't that from the outside in?

Hmmm. Wait, that ain't exactly happiness. More like a twisting, sweet agony.

Forget it.

[garote]

Gnahahaaa!!

Naw, I daresay love is something that rises up out of you to meet another. :)

the Science of Love

[(Anonymous)]

According to modern Science, Love is an obsessive/compulsive disorder.

Apparantly, there is little difference in the chemical and electrical response of the brain between the two phenomena of love & obsession.

Of course, that's not necessarily MY viewpoint.... I rather think that love is the realization that there is someone else in the world that can REALLY understand you. Perhaps not all of you, or all of the time, and especially not when the whole language thing gets in the way, but it's someone who knows and understands what the rest of the world does not.

Re: the Science of Love

[garote]

Apparantly, there is little difference in the chemical and electrical response of the brain between the two phenomena of love & obsession.

I'd have to say ... there is little difference between obsession and obsession. I think love is something beyond this, and not tied to any particular brain state. I agree with your personal viewpoint.