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Zstriker Wrote:Heh, that's a rather Realistic view.

I know right?

To be serious I just can't see love as nothing more than a superficial attachment to someone.

Love is just a definition that over complicates something and tries to make it feel special.
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Or, perhaps we attach love as a definition and label to the feeling that already exists? I know what love feels like. In the survival sense, it's useless. And when it doesn't work out, it hurts more than any sane thing should. But it does exist, to some degree.

And I did mean pessimistic. The only realistic view is one that says nothing at all, because it cannot speak from experience.
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Zstriker Wrote:Or, perhaps we attach love as a definition and label to the feeling that already exists? I know what love feels like. In the survival sense, it's useless. And when it doesn't work out, it hurts more than any sane thing should. But it does exist, to some degree.

And I did mean pessimistic. The only realistic view is one that says nothing at all, because it cannot speak from experience.

To one's own definition I guess.
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True enough. Gotta hope for something, right? (totally off topic, but Truancy by Isamu Fukui going for one cent? That's a shame.)
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Zstriker Wrote:True enough. Gotta hope for something, right? (totally off topic, but Truancy by Isamu Fukui going for one cent? That's a shame.)
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Zstriker Wrote:True enough. Gotta hope for something, right? (totally off topic, but Truancy by Isamu Fukui going for one cent? That's a shame.)

Not to be even more pessimistic.

"Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say." Miller, Henry

Aww fuck that sucks.

Guess thats what happened to the final book(I red and own both books).
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