Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!husc6!caip!princeton!allegra!ulysses!burl!clyde!watmath!sunybcs!colonel From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc Subject: Re: What is Love? Message-ID: <930@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 12:20:46 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.930 Posted: Tue Sep 16 12:20:46 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 02:07:55 EDT References: <717@hou2f.UUCP> <7406MIQ@PSUVMA> Organization: Save the Dodoes Foundation Lines: 22 > Actually, my favorite definition was written by Robert Heinlein. > Paraphrased: Love is the condition when the happiness of another > person is essential to your own. And I thought Spinoza's definition was wide of the mark! This one looks as if a robot had thought it up. "Work faster or I'll kill you." "I guess that means I love you." *BANG* __ "since feeling is first whoever pays attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you" --E. E. Cummings -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: colonel@sunybcs, csdsiche@sunyabvc