Posted by Jim (206.79.177.145) on February 20, 2002 at 17:46:30:
In Reply to: Re: A Valentine's Day Themed Question posted by m1s1n on February 20, 2002 at 15:41:05:
Well, there's other crap at work. THE NEED TO PROPAGATE ONE'S OWN GENES ABOVE ALL ELSE, for instance.
But boiling things down to "chemicals," Space Ninja and Nigerian Mexican, doesn't really expain away things all that much, given how much we still have to learn about the way the universe works. The entire universe is playing out a gigantic chemical reaction. I'm sure this is nothing new to you guys, but to trivialize it or rationalize it away would be silly. We tend to put the ceiling at the limits of our current knowledge, but even now quantum physics is doing some crazy shit to our current way of dealing with reality.
I don't think that there's somebody I'm going dramatically embrace at the top of some precipice, our oneness sending out shimmering waves of light unto the land blah blah blah, but I do think that there's more to love than settling for the person that grates on your nerves the least.
Certain people help you grow beyond your limitations. Every now and then, you'll find someone that you, in turn, can nurture, be it with words of kindness or with the loving stroke of a Dirty Sanchez. And if you find someone you can help who in turn helps you, isn't that really (here's the big stretch) kind of like a limitless form of energy? Two people magnifying their happiness through eachother unto infinity (or at least until you find out she's been lying to you the whole damn time, the heartless bitch?)
So, I guess, while there may be no one "true love" individual, I do believe that true love runs deeper than the most slickest, most accomadating vagina, is stronger that the most violently erect penis, and can be found in different people under different circumstances.