Saturday, April 9, 2016
Intro
Originally my blog topic would have been on death but I thought that was too morbid and sad. After two blogs I probably would have been so depressed about having to write about death I would have stopped altogether. So I picked love instead, which is certainly a more pleasant topic well maybe not if you have had a really bad breakup or something but I don't know that much about love and I've never been it so I thought it would be interesting to explore why humans love? Has it existed since humanity started? Do animals have the same emotional complexity that we do when it comes to love? The obvious love question how do you know you've found the one? The Ancient Greeks divided love into 7 sections storge, eros pragma, philautia philia agape, ludus. philia seems to be the most important aspect out of the 7 meaning deep friendship. I would think that when you're looking for someone to love it has to start with a deep friendship before it could develop into a mutually romantic relationship.
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This should be fun -- the question that has plagued us for ages. :-) I wonder about the development of love, the abandonment of love (for example, one revelation can turn feelings upside down), the role of biology and pheromones...on an on. I'll be interested to see where this takes you.
ReplyDeleteI really love the idea your going with, I think it would really cool if you delved more deeply into the influence that media has played in shaping ones perception of love. I've read studies that more people are breaking up because of a distorted, fantasized version of love that they have learned from various media sources, which are meant to be no more than entertainment for entertainments value, has made their love/relationship seem inadequate. And that people give up instead of working things out because of the availability factor such as Tinder, Match, etc. Also the degree to which we experience it in relation to other animals on the planet, and what purpose/advantages it's had on us as a species as we've grown and evolved. How has religion distorted love?
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