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Data ([personal profile] littlelifeforms) wrote in [community profile] animus_network2013-02-07 12:52 am

[02] || [What is Love?] || [Video/Text]

Greetings.

[ As is usual for Data, his message is simultaneously sent in both video and text formats. ]

There has been a weeding recently and in one week is an event known as "Saint Valentine's Day", a holiday associated with romantic love. It is an occasion in which lovers express their love for each other in a special manner, most often depending on their culture and past.

But what is love? How would you define that feeling? I have been told about love before, but it is a most... complicated emotion and no explanation I have heard truly conveyed an understanding of the feeling.
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[personal profile] oathshackledbird 2013-02-22 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
My experience in this area are very limited, but it seems to me that as these races have evolved they have chosen to dismiss their emotions and by extension, the ability to relate to others properly. Emotions are so important to humans. It is what makes us truly alive. Perhaps they see that and suddenly wish they had not been so eager to cast their emotions away.

[He scowls slightly.]

Not that they would ever admit that. Instead, they call us and our attachment to them foolish. They play their little games all the while wishing they had not been so foolish themselves.

[Or at least, he would like to think that. To think deep down those who are so cruel to them are that way because they are suffering themselves...

...And, yes, he realizes just how horrible of a person that makes him--how unknightly it makes him. He just can't stop himself from thinking it.
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