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Is it possible to understand love without having experienced it?

>> No.12848896

>>12848879
Absolutely fucking not at all. Love is like the book of the week that /lit/ overhypes to death except it lives up to every expectation and surpasses it. Even when its gone it continues to give if you understand the basic truth that love begets love

>> No.12848898

>>12848879
Yes, in the way you can understand murder without killing anyone, or war without being a soldier, and so on. But the experience of something changes your depth and range of understanding. No one understands anything completely and this is why experience is important. And with love we don’t want to merely understand it but to be affected and changed by it.
Anyway what kind of love? We are most of us forced to love in some way. If you mean can we understand romantic love without experiencing it, then yes but etc re above. Analogies to other kinds of love will help understanding it.
Love means vulnerability. Some of us need to understand the latter long before the former.
An earnest reply to this maybe meme thread

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>>12848879
Of course. Your love is the only love you ever feel.
Demonstrations of love are nice to experience, but who doesn’t get that from their mother?
If you’re just talking about sex, that’s something else entirely. That experience has quite a variety.

>> No.12848914

>>12848909
>Who doesnt get that from their mother
A lot of people actually

>> No.12848939

>>12848879
Off topic: How in hell are you supposed to play chess with those pieces. I've seen artistic sets of chess pieces, but I count at least nine different pieces there. Also, the board is flipped.

>> No.12849020

>>12848879
Even when you experience it's still largely hard to always understand. Still, it's nice to experience if you can.

>> No.12849028

>>12848909
Notice that this trip never posts in book threads and only posts in off-topic bullshit opinion threads.

>> No.12849029

No. Seriously
Love comes from within you. Feel it. That’s the experience. Bring it forth from your mind.

>> No.12849045

>>12849028
I don’t like Infinite Jest, BEE, not interested in Gravity’s Rainbow.
And anytime I make a thread, they are about books and writing, they are ignored

>> No.12849063

>>12849045
Nobody cares about the books you don't like. Not liking something doesn't mean anything to me at all - if anything it sounds like you trying to distinguish yourself from the hivemind.
Make yourself vulnerable and tell me what you think is good. Prove you're not another useless trip with nothing to say.

>> No.12849072

>>12848879
Experience does not really help understanding in this case, may make it worse,.

>> No.12849075

>>12848879
read Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

>> No.12849091
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>>12849063
I talk about book I like. Most recently finished Le Guin’s Wave in the Mind. Was wonderful.
The “hivemind” hahahaha.

>> No.12849097

>>12849063
butterfly is a joke, bro. You're getting trolled

>> No.12849104

No. Even if you’ve experienced it you can’t understand it. And on top of that there’s quite a few different types of love.

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>>12849045
>>12849091
>actually trying to defend the honor of your tripcode by proving that you do in fact read books
tripfags honestly

>> No.12849114

>>12849091
Go read GR qtpi :3

>> No.12849122

>>12849104
List them.

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>>12848879
Nope.
That is the classical Cupid Paradox.

>> No.12849127

>>12849126
I thought Cupid is dating Eros.

>> No.12849136

>>12849122

Brotherly love (no homo)
Homo love (full homo)
Fatherly love
Motherly love
Romantic love
True love
Lustful love
Material love
“In” love
Lost love

Probably more I forgot Ive experienced or haven’t experienced yet.

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>>12849063
>/lit/
>hivemind
How dare you.

>> No.12849141

>>12849136
You forgot friendship, the purest love of all.

>> No.12849154

>>12849122
>Oh there’s grape, watermelon, tangerine, salty walnuts...

>>12849127
Psyche

>>12849136
You listed Love, lust, and obsession.

>> No.12849155

>>12849045
Are you on lit 24/7?

>> No.12849160

@12849154
Is this a joke

>> No.12849165

>>12849154
Butterfly, are you the expert of love now? Are you in love with me?

:3

>> No.12849176

>>12849154

If you want to over simplify, sure. But I assure you the feeling of each is different and to confound things further the love for each different person is different even for the same type of love and the love returned from each person

>> No.12849182

I once fell in love. Who wants to hear me talk about it?

>> No.12849184

>>12849160
>>12848909
>>12849029

>> No.12849185

>>12849127
>Cupid dating eros

Now that's hot!

>> No.12849192

>>12849185
Wrong demigoddess oops

>> No.12849194 [DELETED] 

>>12849184
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpJ_fYyAeYk

>> No.12849197

>>12849184
You’re in love aren’t you :3

>> No.12849199

>>12849182
you'll probably do it anyway so sure anon tell me more

>> No.12849202

>>12849176
Of course they’re different. Hell, the love you for each individual changes from day to day, if not minute to minute. But it’s all from within you

>> No.12849204

>>12849202
Hey :3

>> No.12849214

>>12849192
No, I want that hot demigod-on-demigod action!

Throw Adonis and Ricardo in the ring too for the hottest, cum filled fuckfest since the 3rd century AD

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>You will never see the demigod age

Fucking capitalists

>> No.12849242

>>12849199
It was a hot summer's day. My phone had no reception but I was soon approaching a phone line and we spoke for minutes before the eventual hours that would once cloak our phone convos.
When I returned home, she was there.
When I felt depressed, she tried to cheer me up. Like the hardass I was, I told her I didn't care. I felt nothing. But deep down I appreciated every moment of care I had.
I gave it all away because I'm an idiot though and because of my own stupid selfishness. I never told myself I was in love at the time. I didn't care. As much as I lied to myself and to her, my heart didn't.
I'll never have something as pure as that was again because I've become jaded to life. My heart was never open but it didn't need to be when you're with someone who accepts you for who you are. She's with someone else now. Lucky her.
I'm a screw up and I deserve the punishment of being alone for the rest of my life. SMITE ME, LORD! I'M NOT AFRAID OF PUNISHMENT! I am afraid of being in love though.

>> No.12849265

>>12849136
You forgot self love, the purest love of all.

>> No.12849278

>>12849224
Awwwww :3

>> No.12849320

>>12848896
>Love is like the book of the week that /lit/ overhypes to death except it lives up
God, I want that so bad.

>> No.12849406

Its impossible to understand even if you have experienced it.