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The Only Emotional Feeling Stronger Than Love Is Hate.
Greed and lust closely follow behind.
 verum  02 Jul 2009 10:41
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I agree
 
 Maggie_May  16 Jul 2010 06:23
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I think love is a powerful emotion and feeds into so many others, like lust, joy, happiness, passion etc. But I think as far as emotions go obsession is the strongest, in my eyes if someone is obsessed it can outlast everything other emotion including love. It depends on the person, for me personally I prefer love but I have known people who have been obsessed and it seems very powerful.
 
 kddan  03 Jul 2009 09:26
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Hate is hate is the most passionate offspring of love, therefore they are relative.
 
 Bacchus  03 Jul 2009 04:36
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I disagree that it is the only stronger emotion. Personally my two strongest emotion are anger/hate and humor. For some love may be the strongest. We all have different emotions and feelings. Everyones ranking order is different.
 
 Specter87  03 Jul 2009 02:00
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Don’t confuse destructive potential with power. Hate is more likely to destroy the progenitor than the recipient. To have power you must have control. And ultimately if you think about it, even at its worst hate can only equal the power of love for a brief time. Because hate has no ability to create, so it can only temporarily counter what love creates then its fury spent it slouches off and love and determination begin to rebuild.
 
 finsch  02 Jul 2009 15:43
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 I find this comment irrelevant to the topic. Maybe it's just me.
by  Specter87
 03 Jul 2009 02:03
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I don't know, I've always felt anger could be the strongest emotion. When people get really angry they can be capable of anything. I also tend to think that love isn't a single emotion, it is just a word used to describe several emotions at once, such as lust, pleasure, happiness, adoration etc.
 
 Evileye  02 Jul 2009 12:39
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 Very true
by  Specter87
 03 Jul 2009 02:04
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Our societies exist but they barely coexist. This world is shrouded in anger and plagued with war and violent ideals and actions which just ultimately consume and over shadow all love. Its pessimistic and highly negative, but unfortunately hard to debate.

Suppose to be a comment for Grenache.
 
 verum  02 Jul 2009 10:56
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 But war and conflict do not prove hate is stronger than love because those struggles are often more do to economics or politics than direct I hate you feelings.
by  Grenache
 02 Jul 2009 11:03
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If the claim were true then our societies couldn't exist. Cooperation, order, contribution, family, friends, they all tie back to love one way or another. Granted sometimes hate will bubble to the surface and overpower love but that doesn't mean it's a stronger emotion, instead it means hate gets the short end of the stick so much of the time that we repress most of it and every now and then it has to break out of the repression.
 
 Grenache  02 Jul 2009 10:46
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 I would say love is more universally common, as in more often more people love more than they hate. But I think generally, hate can be so much greater and overwhelming considering an individual case.

Would you say one would love a person who gives them emotional and physical desires and who they marry and have children more than they hate the person who takes all that away in the most gruesome and despicable fashion.
by  verum
 02 Jul 2009 10:52
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