Emotions may not be consistent we're all human and cannot control the fleeting moods and fancies that flutter through our minds. However, we can control that which we dwell on or nuture into something larger. We may not be able to control emotion that flows within us, but we certainly can control the words that fly from our lips or our own actions.
We don't have to be slaves to emotion in order to continue to enjoy deep feeling. I took BW's post to be complaining about a lack of control over how emotion affects people's actions and judgments. When we decide which emotions to focus on, we can make our own Feeling experience richer for doing so and cut the white noise of unfocused emotion that scatters us and leads us into areas where we are not fuctioning at our best and doing the best for the values and beliefs we hold and/or loving and caring for those most important to us.
It seems that Feeling as far as judgment function should be stable. This what irks me so strongly in people who say "I no longer judge" it is like, what do you do then? Just float from one impulse and wildly flucuating emotion to another? I have been around people who DO live like this too much in my early life and I don't care for it at all.
Values should not be changing without compelling cause that can be explained clearly. I do agree that a Feeler who cannot explain how they came to a certain value judgement is lacking in backbone. This is what I disagreed so strongly with Kiddo about his scorn for Fi "moral core" that he felt was too rigid to suit the various moral moods of the moment. (Hi Kiddo! :hi
Gosh, the very idea that values cannot be consistant just sets my teeth on edge, reminds me of some of the people I know in offline life who live so impulsively. I see them as dangerous people. We should be able to come to know the people around us and be able to trust in their sound judgment from one day to the next without major swings in values with no sound explaination for the change. I cannot tolerate people like this.