My home base here at the university is at the Engineering Resource Centre, and on Wednesday the director of the Centre had organised a 'Philosophical Colloquium' on love. We spent a few hours in our conference room with a ragtag group of engineers, philosophers, sociologists and doctors and talked about things like love being a choice, the transcendent, sacrificial love, and people being pretty on Facebook but not in real life. Names like Descartes and Plato and St Augustine floated through the conversation, catchphrases like 'spiritual orgasm' had the room howling with laughter, and I gained huge respect for the people I work with.
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