Comments on: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways http://camelswithhammers.com/2009/07/24/how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:15:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: biisuto http://camelswithhammers.com/2009/07/24/how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/comment-page-1/#comment-242 biisuto Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:30:04 +0000 http://camelswithhammers.com/?p=1645#comment-242 Love is one of the most ephemeral phenomena about which to try and communicate, so my sincere congrats on the well-thought attempt. Not that we don't know it when we experience it...it's just far too slippery to apprehend. ...That is, unless we go for a simple, monist explanation I'm yet to disprove: "love is the emotional response of a subject to an object, that causes the subject to fixate their attention, to whatever extent, upon the object." it's that simple. the reason this gets confusing is only because of the mistaken notion that love is only ever a positive thing. we try to narrow the term to only those aspects considered most positive, but this is fraught with subjective qualifications that only render it fuzzy. if you think about it: unwanted "love" from someone often isn't a pleasant experience for the object of the unwanted attention, yet who'd say it isn't love?. Love is one of the most ephemeral phenomena about which to try and communicate, so my sincere congrats on the well-thought attempt. Not that we don’t know it when we experience it…it’s just far too slippery to apprehend.

…That is, unless we go for a simple, monist explanation I’m yet to disprove: “love is the emotional response of a subject to an object, that causes the subject to fixate their attention, to whatever extent, upon the object.”

it’s that simple. the reason this gets confusing is only because of the mistaken notion that love is only ever a positive thing. we try to narrow the term to only those aspects considered most positive, but this is fraught with subjective qualifications that only render it fuzzy.

if you think about it: unwanted “love” from someone often isn’t a pleasant experience for the object of the unwanted attention, yet who’d say it isn’t love?.

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