Things are looking up....things are looking down. I'm so confused.
This is why I don't like emotions, it gets in the way of my thinking. Of course I don't do a lot of thinking in the first place. I've decided I'm gonna try something new. I don't know if you all will like it or not, but I have to do this for my own sanity. I need to be more confident, and stand up for what I believe! Hopefully I don't turn into an ass or anything, but it is quite possible.
Man, no one really writes in the blogs anymore. Does anyone actually read this other than Jon, Shayne, me, and some of my secret friends?
Dude, someone tipped Jon $10 for delivering pizza. We're gonna go to McD's now. Food is good, though McD's isn't the best. Oh well.......you all can go to hell (not really).
Friday, July 23, 2004
Man, I Just Don't Know
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Don't you find it ironic that you don't like emotions? The very fact that you dislike something is showing emotion, and the object of ill-respect is exactly that?
Here's an online definition of emotion: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=67&q=emotion
The plain and simple fact is that emotions drive us... either towards good actions or evil actions. Helping an old lady cross the street is good, and it gives you a good feeling. Helping an old Lady across the street while pickpocketing is evil, and with that stolen money you buy things that give you a happy feeling, although in an entirely different way.
Just think, what if emotions didn't exist? Nothing to cloud your judgement, nothing to feel passionate about, nothing to love, nothing to hate.
If one that is pondering this question is a religious type, then that person would come to realize that God has a purpose for everything, even if that person doesn't know why sometimes.
If one is not religious, then all that is left for them to answer the question is science. Biology currently accepts is Darwin's theory of natural selection, and thus that person might come to the conclusion that 'emotion' is a mechanism for an individual, and/or the species, to continue to exist. Or, they might think that, thanks to the current state of civilization, emotion is a leftover, just like an appendix, and has no real benefit anymore. Of course, the only flaw in that last thought is the assumption that we live in an ideal world with ideal people, which we don't. The main problem with the pro-emotion thought is that we depend on emotions to survive, which we don't do that either (Or do we? I'm so confused right now). Us humans are complex, and we have enough redundant systems to live and propigate, probably.
Are emotions a higher level of thought, or do they stem from the natural, animal urges and instints we have? Fight-or-flight, the desire to propagate for most males of the animal kingdom, the nurturing aspect for most females of the animal kingdom... Essentially, just a war to live? Emotions have a connection to all of those things (and several things I left out), so if you were to disconnect the capacity to emote, then you would have to disconnect your primial instints too.
So the conclusion here is that you can't get rid of emotion, it is part of you. It IS you. So you have a choice:
Continue to dislike your emotions, which winds up as a vicious circle, or
Accept emotions, but know that emotions aren't your life, but they do direct you toward something that will become your life.
Emotions can or cannot control your life. Emotion, ALONG with the capacity for logic and reasoning, is how you live your life. Otherwise, you are a lump of living organs, and who cares about a lump of organs?
I might be wrong on this (you Trekkies can check me), but even the most logical race known in Star Trek, the Vulcans, have emotions, contrary to popular belief. They just learn to control them.
The End.
[Editor's note: I didn't research any of this, so this is all up for dispute and argument. But I am living life, so I might know a thing or two.]
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