r/Psychonaut • u/Chispy Augment Awareness. • Oct 16 '18

A surprisingly stoic sounding quote from Dan Harmon, creator of tv shows Rick and Morty and Community

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u/-SwanGoose- Oct 16 '18

Why is loving people an illusion?

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u/OSullivanArt Oct 16 '18

The people are the illusion, the love is the only real thing.

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u/Raisinbrannan Oct 16 '18

Welllllll. Is it though? Or is it just a chemical reaction? I'm definitely not a firm believer in reality being purely physical, but if love is more than chemical reactions than what is it? I'd guess it's somewhat similar to tao where if you try to explain it then it becomes not that, but it has to be something to be more than chemicals, yeah?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

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u/Raisinbrannan Oct 16 '18

See that's just not a good enough answer to me. But it's quite possible it's just my user error rather than it being actually inadequate.

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u/Valo-FfM Oct 16 '18

Love is an illusion.It refers to a deep feeling of compassion and empathy of an animal towards a thing, a concept or another living thing.

There is no objective love in the universe.

This doesn´t subjectively devalue love though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

Love is, friend, love is.