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Anew Leaf
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I reckon feelings exist for a reason. I think of it as the whole of your thoughts in a brush stroke. I don't see a problem with following what they tell you, because as I am sure you are aware, people who compartmentalize their thoughts have equal opportunity to be wrong.
I don't think it's much a problem. Until they start telling you to kill someone
True. I guess maybe what I am getting at is the feelings/emotions can be a form of compartmentalization being that they can act as the judge and jury and lawyers in a court of law.
Good topic and it's similar, although much less vitriolic, than the one I made about the point of feeling.
Honestly the intellectualisation of emotional content frightens me, because I adhere to it so strongly and i'm aware I do. However despite this there are times when I cannot stop the immediate reaction of this emotional content.
What's more even the positive emotions are frightening, after all what happens when they stop? It's like a drug; when i'm content I want the feeling to last forever and it is all the more bitter for me when it doesn't. So ive tried to prosper in spite of this, going against the emotions lest I fall into depression.
So far this appears to be a good move and has helped me move out of tragic cycles of emotional states that are of no use to me or those around me.
Interesting anecdote, thank you for sharing.
i think its a juggling act.
the way i see it, at various points in our early lives, we have encountered stressful situations of emotional dissonance and cognitive dissonance, which can conflict quite easily, and somehow, our brains have decided that one is more stressful and unbearable then the other, determining whether we'll be Feelers or Thinkers, and orienting our function order in order to better cope with the respective stress.
the reality is, we need to cope with both.
Hmm, I suppose then I am questioning my early decision making processes based on decades of evidence.