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Science proves that love is blind(neuroscience of love)
BBC NEWS ^ | 06/14/04 | N/A

Posted on 06/15/2004 5:54:41 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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1 posted on 06/15/2004 5:54:43 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This explains the Democrats' love for Bill Clinton.
It also explains quite a few of my own past relationships.


2 posted on 06/15/2004 5:59:33 AM PDT by counterpunch (<-CLICK HERE for my CARTOONS)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

God is Love
Love is Blind
Stevie Wonder is Blind
Therefore....


3 posted on 06/15/2004 6:00:16 AM PDT by Ronly Bonly Jones (truth is truth)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
They have found that feelings of love lust lead to a suppression of activity in the areas of the brain controlling critical thought.
4 posted on 06/15/2004 6:01:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic, and reason.


5 posted on 06/15/2004 6:02:03 AM PDT by ko_kyi
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To: TigerLikesRooster
They have found that feelings of love lead to a suppression of activity in the areas of the brain controlling critical thought.

Ain't THAT the freakin truth!

6 posted on 06/15/2004 6:12:55 AM PDT by bikepacker67
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Good article!

thank you for sharing it!


7 posted on 06/15/2004 6:16:29 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Scientists have shown that there is a degree of truth in the old adage that love is blind. They have found that feelings of love lead to a suppression of activity in the areas of the brain controlling critical thought.

Corollary: Love Hurts.

8 posted on 06/15/2004 6:16:34 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Going off half-cocked is for people with the patience to hold off that long.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

You love her
But she loves him
And he loves somebody else
You just can't win
And so it goes
Till the day you die
This thing they call love
It's gonna make you cry
I've had the blues
The reds and the pinks
One thing for sure

(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah

Two by two and side by side
Love's gonna find you yes it is
You just can't hide
You'll hear it call
Your heart will fall
Then love will fly
It's gonna soar
I don't care for any casanova thing
All I can say is
Love stinks

(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah

I've been through diamonds
I've been through minks
I've been through it all
Love stinks

(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah

J. Geils Band


9 posted on 06/15/2004 6:19:20 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

E. Pluribus Unum wrote:

They have found that feelings of love lust lead to a suppression of activity in the areas of the brain controlling critical thought.



I get all goofy over my daughter.... That kid lights my life up, bigtime. She's away right now on a trip and I am about mindless because of it. I can't wait til she gets back. it AIN'T lust....


10 posted on 06/15/2004 6:20:06 AM PDT by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!")
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"...feelings of love lead to a suppression of activity in the areas of the brain controlling critical thought."

Suspicions confirmed:
Love makes you stupid.

11 posted on 06/15/2004 6:22:52 AM PDT by Redbob (we're going to miss you, Ronnie!)
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This is no secret to most people. This is why, after the relationship has matured, and cooler heads are prevailing (is there a pun there somewhere?), people often see the other in a different light, often times, a FAR different light.

I have read that this can take up to 3 years, but at some point, you are going to fall out of that initial "love" that you feel, rationality is going to take hold, and that person had better be worth something in the REAL world, or your relationship is doomed. Oh yeah, I would never advise anyone to have kids within this period.

12 posted on 06/15/2004 6:28:55 AM PDT by Paradox (Occam was probably right.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This just proves the old saying that a man's brain is not located behind his eyeballs.


13 posted on 06/15/2004 6:31:32 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (DEMS STILL LIE like yellow dogs.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Does this apply to a$$holes as well?


14 posted on 06/15/2004 6:35:32 AM PDT by slimer ("The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato)
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To: Paradox

thank you Professor Love. dont spoil it for me. am still dreaming,


15 posted on 06/15/2004 6:46:50 AM PDT by lillybet
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To: Paradox

thank you Professor Love. dont spoil it for me. am still dreaming,


16 posted on 06/15/2004 6:47:09 AM PDT by lillybet
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To: Ronly Bonly Jones

Substitute Ray Charles for Stevie Wonder and you'd have a fitting eulogy.


17 posted on 06/15/2004 6:48:28 AM PDT by .cnI redruM (Reagan was put on earth to do two things: kick butt and chew gum, and he ran out of gum around 1962)
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To: Paradox

Thankyou Professor Love, dont spoil it for me am still dreamin


18 posted on 06/15/2004 6:50:46 AM PDT by lillybet
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

"A Midsummer-Night's Dream"

19 posted on 06/15/2004 6:50:48 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Paradox

Thankyou Professor Love, dont spoil it for me am still dreamin


20 posted on 06/15/2004 6:51:04 AM PDT by lillybet
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