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Don't we all want someone to love us?

Love is a shit-load of chemicals released into your brain, influencing you to stay with your wife/husband/whatever and children and be a decent family man/woman so your genes can pass on successfully. That's it.

And we don't want someone to love us, we kinda need it. Evolution fucked us over that way.

Love is a shit-load of chemicals released into your brain, influencing you to stay with your wife/husband/whatever and children and be a decent family man/woman so your genes can pass on successfully. That's it.

And we don't want someone to love us, we kinda need it. Evolution fucked us over that way.

Eh, I think it's more than that. I would agree that attraction or infatuation are just chemicals, but love is different. People don't just want to be wanted or have a spouse/kids, but they need companionship as well, which is what I think love is.

And we need those thing because we're genetically wired to need it. Love (long-lasting love) is powered by a variety chemicals that form attachment, attraction, longing and so forth. Did you know a man's testosterone levels drops when he becomes a father?

And we need those thing because we're genetically wired to need it. Love (long-lasting love) is powered by a variety chemicals that form attachment, attraction, longing and so forth.

Well, yes that's true, but people also derive meanings from those chemicals, making it more than just wiring.

Did you know a man's testosterone levels drops when he becomes a father?

And no I can't say I knew that lol.

Did you know that if your grandfather had a lot of food as a teenager, you're four times more likely to develop diabetes than someone whose grandfather barely ate enough as a teenager? Or that rats who are cared for by nurturing mothers handle stress better than those whose mothers mostly ignored them?

Neither did I, until this morning.

Yes, we do place meaning on these things, but it has ever been our nature to ascribe meaning to the meaningless.

And yeah, our testosterone levels drop so we're less aggressive, more responsible and more faithful to our families. The more we bond with our children, the more it drops. It really is just biology and chemistry.

But I concede your point. Even if it is just chemistry, it doesn't make that emotion any less real in the one experiencing it. It is just also rather comical that by injecting enough of the right chemicals and hormones, or by the body naturally producing more or less because of some condition, that people can change completely.

Did you know that if your grandfather had a lot of food as a teenager, you're four times more likely to develop diabetes than someone whose grandfather barely ate enough as a teenager? Or that rats who are cared for by nurturing mothers handle stress better than those whose mothers mostly ignored them?

Neither did I, until this morning.

Lol, Colby, why exactly did this discussion make you think of that?

Your comment about testosterone levels.  Our experiences cause weird things physiologically. (Plus, they're all just random biology facts.)

On a more related note, Mental Floss just put up a video about this.

(Also, the video mentions my school.  :D )

I want to fucking rage right now.

Fuck you Bank of America for taking out money and leaving it negative.

Which means the money my Dad sent me for storage is fucking gone.

Fuck you Bank of America.

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Do the South African thing to do: burn that motherfucker down.

Do the South African thing to do: burn that motherfucker down.

yes but then i would be thrown in prison and never see my money or my cat again ;-;

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Do the South African thing to do: burn that motherfucker down.

yes but then i would be thrown in prison and never see my money or my cat again ;-;

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Just wondering @Laurentus, do South Africans get away with arson, or is the criminal system actually effective?

The police aren't worth shit, and people get away with just about anything. It's basically considered rational to be a criminal here, since the police most likely won't be able to do anything about it.

People blow ATMs up here all the time.

The police aren't worth shit, and people get away with just about anything. It's basically considered rational to be a criminal here, since the police most likely won't be able to do anything about it.

People blow ATMs up here all the time.

this doesn't help.me

Also my dad doesn't think it's racist or wrong to ask if a cook friend of mine is Hispanic  (he's white)

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I'm lacking some serious context of the American way of life, but why would that be racist?