Is it hunger, is it sleep----sex----domination---love. gratification You tell me?
2007-06-13 11:41:59 · 23 answers · asked by denis9705 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The need to love and be loved - and I am not talking about lust! Real love comes from God alone - He can more than supply the need for love in everyone who will ask.
All so-called love outside of God's love is only a faint image of
what love could be!
2007-06-13 11:47:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The primal human will be driven to provide life's necessities...air, water, food, shelter. If those are not met, the other needs are typically ignored.
Once a man/woman is breathing, fed and covered, he/she will seek out companionship. Mirroring this is the need for sexual fulfillment. Most creatures attempt to combine the need for sex and the need for gratification in one other person.
After the necessities and love and security are fulfilled, a basic creature looks to "possess". Animals and people alike do this by expanding their territory and fighting anyone who infringes upon their domain.
Everything else is just an extention of one of those.
2007-06-13 18:49:40 · answer #2 · answered by grumpyetal 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
These drives are all observable in other orders of life. Every organism tries to dominate its environment, nourish itself and reproduce. I'd say the most significant (and human) drive is the drive to significance. With their development of self-awareness, memory and abstract thought, only humans have the capacity and compulsion to look for meaning in their lives. Many assume the "purpose" of life is to dominate one's environment and insure nourishment and reproduction. Others figure the "purpose" of life is to make something of it, to create a new kind of significance beyond the requirements of the instinctive drives.
2007-06-13 18:53:57 · answer #3 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Such things as air, water, food, etc are needs not drives. Survival motivates life to find these necessities.
And that's what it is all about for all life: survival. But not just of the individual. We are driven by our genes to reproduce. Everything, one way or another is about reproduction.
Sex is just a happy means to an end.
2007-06-13 19:33:22 · answer #4 · answered by davidifyouknowme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've said it before, so apologies if I bore you.
The last time our forms and functions were the same, it was the stone age. Use your imagination and work out what a stone age man might want in a specific situation and that'll be a significant drive.
Sleep, sex, food, power, protectionism, comfort, happiness, safety....thay're all relevant.
I doubt Otzi ever looked himself in a sheet of shiny ice and said "You know what, I really want to be on The Apprentice".
2007-06-13 19:13:30 · answer #5 · answered by Tree[Crash]Doh! 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Self gratification.
2007-06-13 18:46:12 · answer #6 · answered by simplesimon 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Charles Darwin survival of the fittest
2007-06-17 16:57:42 · answer #7 · answered by damian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The '69 Dodge Charger, or '69 Camaro... those are quite significant human drives.
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2007-06-13 18:48:39 · answer #8 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Survival.
2007-06-13 19:05:44 · answer #9 · answered by raven 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's always Maslow's pyramid, with bodyneeds (air, food, drink) at the base then once they are satisfied you progress up the pyramid to eventual self-actualisation.
2007-06-13 19:02:41 · answer #10 · answered by numbnuts222 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋