ALChemy19 Mar 2006

But all you're really experiencing is a chemical cocktail in your body. "love" itself is just a word you use to represent it. Saying you don't know about love if you haven't loved is like saying you don't know about lions if you haven't been a lion. Sure you're likely to know lions better if you've been one but you can know enough about them while never being one to say for instance "I know they are an impressive creature". I'm not saying you can know everthing about love by reading Shakespeare but you also won't likely know everything about love by being in love either. The fact that you're saying that things like love and unicorns can't be believed in without direct experience leads me to believe that you really don't believe in God - or did you experience him directly?