My challenge to those who answer, Love, to the question is there meaning in life?

Question

I felt love-(agape) was the most meaningful thing in life but I now profoundly despair.
We experience love so powerfully because of bio. chemicals, naturally occuring, others influenced by will, chemicals all same. I think that initself doesnt diminish the feeling at all, -explains it. But, Perhaps other chemicals could make an even stronger feeling, one that could challenge love in its experiental quality
EX:: lets say on another planet somewhere there are people just like us, but 2 types of people. 1 group of people have brains that produce chemicals making them feel love is the most meaningful+true thing, they affirm it. The other group for some evolutionary reason, have brain chemicals making them feel hate(x) is the most meaningful+powerful feeling. Both feel absolutely their feeling is truest, even have 'faith' when in doubt. Now Sub. any feeling in for x, imagine, feel, minus bias
Please help, this RUINS me. Im sure we tell love is true and should be, because of it's feeling.

Answer 1

Hey I'm no Psyche expert but from this lay persons point of view you have to expect that its much more complicated than that and take into account personality culture, experience, learning etc. After all in every group there will be a rebel, always a devils advocate...
How do you affirm your beliefs, go out and test them ... but in what way? Do you kill someone to experience rage and hate for comparison to love? And what about the chemicals in our brains that tell us were hungry -why do some people get anorexia if we only respond to "chemicals".

Answer 2

The love you mentioned- agape, is not a feeling, and that's what you got wrong. And by life being meaningful, it doesn't mean feeling good inside. The love you mentioned, is self-forgetting. Its the kind of love you would be willing to kill your son for (as Abraham was willing to do with Isaac). So no, its not about bio chemicals, if anything its about an ability to overcome it.

Those who answer that love is the meaning of life could be referring to a belief that by loving, you are no longer just your ego, but you commune with humanity, or you commune with God. Its based on an unconditional hope on an absolute. That love lifts you up from mortality to something infinite. You die in yourself, but you live forever in the absolute.

Now I'm not saying that this is what I believe. I'm just explaining what I understand to be the position of some people.

Answer 3

well lets look at this from the perspective of what these feelings ( chemically induced or otherwise ) create in the environment around them ( this includes others as factors ) if love is the truest thing? - they would feel bonded and fulfilled, happy close to each other and capable.

If hate was the truest thing? - they would be paranoid, suspicious, alone, and feel insignificant.

that is if they were thinking biengs just like us....
maybe they might learn, as some religions here teach us, to ignore these things and concentrate on some other aspect of conscoiousness.

that is, if they varied in thier emotional states like we do.

Answer 4

All is one, thus all things are equal. Or in our minds, neutral. From what we feel and experience we learn to place one thing over another in priority. So whatever one answers as the meaning of life is simply the most important thing to them. Truly you'll have to find your own meaning but I find it's the same for everyone. And that being: Finding your joy and living it out to your best abilities. In the end everything rewinds and erases. It really doesn't have meaning or purpose or reasoning other than what we make it as, so we should make it something as best we can, because despite our best efforts all we have is our perspectives. The universe takes care of all governing principles and those we cannot change. For example Gravity. Or Death. Those are on auto, as are all fundamental basics of the universe. All that we have to do is find what brings us most joy, and from there we'll begin to make our own meaning for ourselves. When it's time the universe's role will take us back from whence we came, to whatever end our awarenesses may find in this large realm of being. It's all we can do really. Everything that really matters, vis a vis the universal principles of all things, cannot be touched or affected by human action. Thus we rule our worlds with our perspectives and thoughts, and that justifies the means. For better or for worse, that's how I find life to be and it's those who master that Idea, and who realize that with a voice and a vision on the inside becoming more profound and more clear and loud than opinions on the outside, really truly master life. Everything else is just confusion, just wild ambition. Delusion almost. After all knowing and not knowing are two distinct feelings. To say that something is a mystery is a distinct emotional feeling. When truly on some level, all things are known. We simply do what suits us, from the scientists trying to "discover" the universe in their mathematical equations that were created, to politians finding great purpose in their wars and interactions. If we all died, I doubt the universe would be greatly affected by this. When it rains, it doesn't greatly affect your world at all, for another day, it will be sunny. Now for ants and earthworms, that's a very different story, it's almost as though their world becomes like New Orleans from the Hurricane Katrina incident. It simply matters on the perspective, and when one masters and understands, meaning truly comprehending these ideas, can they really live life to the fullest with profound wisdom and understanding. It helps to add clarity if you'll add "in my opinion" mentally after everything someone says to you, including this I'm stating.

Answer 5

That is one very clinical way of looking at the function of the brain and psyche, basically a series of chemical reactions and hormones in or out of balance. For me, it doesn't quite make the grade explanation-wise though, and I prefer to live my life using the concept of the Light and the Bulb. My body is the bulb, and my spirit/soul or what have you (the essence that is you) is the light, and it shines outwards, and my skin is not a barrier to this light. Our feelings are all part of everyday life, and some feel good, and others not so good, but not a reason to shun those "bad" feelings, but to embrace them, and take ownership of what and who we are. Trust your inner-most feelings, and please don't despair little sister, as you matter, and your love is real, but remember that love starts within, and radiates outward.

Answer 6

Your question doesn't really make sense to me(I hope I answer what you're asking...but I can't promise).
Ok,so you think chemicals make us feel love.
I disagree.It's our personal experience.Let me explain:
When you look at something pleasant,or experience something pleasant;your feelings & thoughts sort of give your body directions,& your body reacts to these feelings by releasing certain chemicals that make you feel a certain way.It's very personal,your body/soul can't lie to you,only your mind can.Be careful of that.Don't get too heady when it comes to love;it must be experienced in all forms & angles & depths.Hope this answers your question!

Answer 7

Its meaning in life. write down 100 things you love to do, or person who want to love, using your wildest imagination, before you demise or die. Even in another planet, I am sure, beings will love their bodies are made to be so. there's one creator. Our bodies are not make for negative reactions. So if somebody hurts us, we cry.

Answer 8

Please e-mail me. I'm not sure I understand what you want to know, or what point you're trying to make, or get at. Maybe you should refrain from asking questions late at night, or I stayed up too late trying to figure yours out.