Day twenty seven:
A while back (before I had the world's worst hang over and then caught a lung infection) I promised Danni and Emma another blog, to clarify that even I don't believe love only comes down to chemicals and biology.
So here goes; The Chemistry of Love Part Two (this time with less chemistry I promise).
Firstly I guess what maybe I want to clarify is that love having a biological process to back it up only furthers its existence rather than diminishing it. Because here we have this ridiculous phenomenon which renders us speechless, senseless and otherwise irrational and despite this isn't some pseudo-spiritual occurrence but one that messes with they very chemistry of our brains.
Oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine, we know they fluctuate as we fall in and out of love...when we have sex with stranger and bond with our new born children but why?
There's the mystery you should content yourself with Danni, or rather tear your hair out over. It doesn't make sense, heck half the time it makes the opposite of sense, it contradicts natural selection and general well being turning us into hyper-maniacs (literally, see the previous blog if you haven't already kids).
Mark Twain once described love as "the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired"
Just to play the devils advocate... how does unrequited love fit in to this?
John Marsden made the simple observation that love is "liking someone with all their faults". (No criticism here from me, if only because he's my hero, he once signed a book of mine "live, love, take risks" <3 )
Henry Louis Mencken- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
(This one I can not agree with more, though that is not to say it is a positive outcome!)
C.S Lewis- We love to know we are not alone.
Diane Arbus- Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Just a short blog today, assignments beg my attention so lets end with the best quote I've heard to date from the lovely Emily Dickinson who said; "That love is all there is, is all we know of love".
So till next time; Live. Love. Take Risks!
-Z
A while back (before I had the world's worst hang over and then caught a lung infection) I promised Danni and Emma another blog, to clarify that even I don't believe love only comes down to chemicals and biology.
So here goes; The Chemistry of Love Part Two (this time with less chemistry I promise).
Firstly I guess what maybe I want to clarify is that love having a biological process to back it up only furthers its existence rather than diminishing it. Because here we have this ridiculous phenomenon which renders us speechless, senseless and otherwise irrational and despite this isn't some pseudo-spiritual occurrence but one that messes with they very chemistry of our brains.
Oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine, we know they fluctuate as we fall in and out of love...when we have sex with stranger and bond with our new born children but why?
There's the mystery you should content yourself with Danni, or rather tear your hair out over. It doesn't make sense, heck half the time it makes the opposite of sense, it contradicts natural selection and general well being turning us into hyper-maniacs (literally, see the previous blog if you haven't already kids).
Mark Twain once described love as "the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired"
Just to play the devils advocate... how does unrequited love fit in to this?
John Marsden made the simple observation that love is "liking someone with all their faults". (No criticism here from me, if only because he's my hero, he once signed a book of mine "live, love, take risks" <3 )
Henry Louis Mencken- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
(This one I can not agree with more, though that is not to say it is a positive outcome!)
C.S Lewis- We love to know we are not alone.
Diane Arbus- Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Just a short blog today, assignments beg my attention so lets end with the best quote I've heard to date from the lovely Emily Dickinson who said; "That love is all there is, is all we know of love".
So till next time; Live. Love. Take Risks!
-Z
4 comments:
naww its so much easier to just blame chemicals... though i guess it would be cool to know what exactly triggers them, and how to control them!
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." This is my favourite.
I like the Arbus one, I think, but then maybe I'm just partial to weirdos saying weird things.
Also totally devasted that I wasn't tagged in one that didn't involve sky-ence (as much)
Whislt of course the modern atttitude to biochemistry/gentics is basically astrology/haruspexy repackage (note how in cop shows the bloke comes in with the DNA evidence two minutes before the end. All solved- absolutive.) and though this "vulgar"' attitude might be considered incorrect, mass education/democracy means that it belongs to the mob. Scientists have garantted employement re: food science, weightloss bullshit etc. becasue as Epicurus says "the limit of natural science is when it stops producing comforts" and in a purely monist material society that IS the limit and end. Sorry kids, no more space travel- enjoy your maccas. As far as I'm concerned (which is not very far) the scientists have made their own bed and now they must lie in it. If you deal with material you WILL be subservient to your own appetities and/or those of the mob.
Post a Comment