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01 Mar 2009, 9:46 pm

being the silly person I am, all I remember was someone saying 'finally! A math joke that works!...;)



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04 Mar 2009, 1:51 am

"Love" is a broad range of fluctuating feelings that arise, change, and disappear for irrational purposes, reasons, and responses. Therefore Love cannot be defined in a rigid system of logic / rationality, such as maths.

There are (loosely speaking) types of love: selfless-love, mania-love (possessive/dependent), eros-love (which includes courtship, romance, and sexual desire), social-love, logic-love (i.e. principles, superego), and ludus-love (game-playing). I believe there is a sub-type I call parental-love (the nurture-caring feelings of parent for child) though that may be a form of mania-love.


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04 Mar 2009, 1:56 am

"Love" is a broad range of fluctuating feelings that arise, change, and disappear for irrational purposes, reasons, and responses. Therefore Love cannot be defined in a rigid system of logic / rationality, such as maths.

There are (loosely speaking) types of love: selfless-love, mania-love (possessive/dependent), eros-love (which includes courtship, romance, and sexual desire), social-love, logic-love (i.e. principles, superego), and ludus-love (game-playing). I believe there is a sub-type I call parental-love (the nurture-caring feelings of parent for child) though that may be a form of mania-love.


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04 Mar 2009, 1:19 pm

I want to see someone define hate mathematically.


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04 Mar 2009, 5:14 pm

Surely hate is just the negative of love (definately that way round and not the other). Apart from that it is identical. In my experience I have only felt true hate for someone I have previously truly loved - there is the same obsession, infatuation, but the desire is all negative (to harm, to kill, instead of to protect, to die for).



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05 Mar 2009, 4:32 am

merrymadscientist wrote:
Surely hate is just the negative of love (definately that way round and not the other). Apart from that it is identical. In my experience I have only felt true hate for someone I have previously truly loved - there is the same obsession, infatuation, but the desire is all negative (to harm, to kill, instead of to protect, to die for).


Not quite. Hate, along with anger and fear are generated most primitive parts of the brain. Love is generated in the central cortex.

Along those lines, in a more perceptual sense, its possible to hate and love someone all at once. At some point your feelings must have been thus.


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05 Mar 2009, 4:41 am

"love" is all you get when you are a lousy tennis player.