WHy is it that when you're out of love, you're either sad, or mad? opposite of mad is happy.. sad is happy... what gives!?
I read this somewhere (can't remember where) and I thought it was pretty clever. "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." There was a whole article about it. It just said the above and that hate is the opposite of like, not love. I thought that was a pretty interesting perspective on it.
i agree...but if hate is just the opposite of like, we can say that it is a form of attention, attention gives concern, concern is a form of affection..so can we say that hate is also a form of love?
Hate is as much of an attracting force as love. They are on one side of a coin, the flip side of which is despisation, real repulsion.
That sounds like it may be an interesting article... Who says that 'love' has an opposite, is it not possible that love could be the highest emotion available to man and that no feeling or emotion (even that of hate) can surpass the emotion of love. The world of matter is balanced, where each positive has a negative. Human emotion has no mass and is comprised of no matter, human emotion is also far from balanced, depending on the perspective of the emotion itself, or the view of the emotion.
Not just human emotion; animal too! But anyways: Have you not felt deep desire to get revenge; if something you loved was killed/destroyed would that vengeful feeling be the opposite of love? And couldn't spite also be an opposite of love?
That may be true, but even if it is so man tends to have the nature to go for the most beautiful. So whatever that higher/highest emotion be, Ill bet it will be called a segment of love. probably not. i dont know how to explain it well so lets just define based on a dictionary. love - A strong positive emotion of regard and affection spite - Feeling a need to see others suffer indifference - Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions care - Feel concern or interest Love and spite have the urge to satisfy a goal, to quench the interest that lurks your mind. To give end to your curiousity. Both have the need to "CARE". Indiferrence however have none of that. Thus the opposite of caring is that which does not care which is indiferrence or apathy.
despise - Look down on with disdain i think despise is like hate, only that its more specific so the theory is pretty much the same.
You can just look a word up in the dictionary and assume, some words mean more, for example "love" doesn;t just mean 'A strong positive emotion of regard and affection'. Love can mean pages and pages.
yeah you are very much correct, there are lots of forms of loves. From platonic love to the painful mashochistic love. There are so many that i can't help but wander what "pattern" they have to consider them love?
