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To be intensely emotional without being illogical?
To be intensely emotional without being illogical?
There is the case where the conclusion brought about by emotional judging may be parallel with the conclusion brought about by thinking in the most logical and rational manner. This case would allow the conclusions of the person to be logical as well as emotional by objective standards.
Another case would be that the values of the person lie in rational thinking so to be driven to rationalise by one's own subjective values would be a case where feeling drives someone to become logical. However, I'm not sure if it counts as an emotional response.
To be intensely emotional without being illogical?
Yeah.
I don't know about emotional, but a proficient Feeler will come to logical conclusions in a holistic way sometimes. I've taken decisions based on feelings i've had, and only afterwards did I explain to myself logically why I did it, and I KNEW why, even though at the time of the decision it was quick as lightning.
I'd consider myself to be an Intensely emotional person, but I am not illogical. I don't think the trick is stopping or ignoring emotion, it is knowing how to separate it. Live in duality of two truths, and then to pick and chose which truth is the more important or relative to the situation.
Ive noticed with most people it is just one or the other. I think this leads to being misrepresented when people are looking for you to take consistent and clear stances on things. Which is then misinterpreted as illogical. While I view the extreme of either stance to be illogical.
Exactly. Moiety has it right. Emotion and logic can work together. And, where does intuition figure into this? That's my secret weapon and what I follow the most. It's how I know I'll be happy with a decision (if my intuition agrees). But, that being said, sometimes you have to let your emotions do their thing, let logic do its thing, then let your insight bubble up from your deeps. Now those are good decisions! They seem right, they feel right, you can/are willing to back them up, and sometimes the logic arrives several months later (this is how I work).
emotion
n. A transient, neurophysiological response to
a stimulus that excites a coordinated system
of bodily and mental responses that inform
us about our relationship to the stimulus
and prepare us to deal with it in some way.
Cognition
n. 1. A general term for all forms of mental
processes including conscious ones such as
perception, thought, and memory, as well as
nonconscious processes such as grammatical
construction, parsing of sensory data into
percepts, and the neural control of physiological
processes. 2. A particular thought.
To be intensely emotional without being illogical?
You'd have to be very good at compartmentalizing. You have to restrain the pull of emotions, in order to remain objective.To be intensely emotional without being illogical?
To be intensely emotional without being illogical?
So many of us are trained from birth to over-ride our emotion, first in the interests of obedience, and then in the interests of logic.
And unfortunately that kind of logic has a vested interest in obedience, without being seen to command. That kind of logic is the kind of logic you have when you are not having any logic.
Watch here, watch every thread, and see emotion cut off, stifled, ridiculed in the interests of a phoney logic. How many times have you been told by the commanding voice here, to be logical. Hey, they say, if we are all logical together, everything will work out. But it never seems to happen.
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Agreed.
You'd have to be very good at compartmentalizing. You have to restrain the pull of emotions, in order to remain objective.
But it is possible to be very pissed off, or grief-stricken or what have you, and still be logical.