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2013-11-09 12:12:52 UTC
Many of the same people who are against feelings and think expressed feelings to be mush or pith are into the idea of some people - sociopaths - not having feelings. With people like that, one can't win. If one shows feelings, then one is supposedly weak or stupid; and if one does not show feelings, then one is supposedly a sociopath. What we see here is an irrational and hypocritical mentality; and it is outrageous that it claim to speak for ethics, rationality or sense.
The same people who are against feelings indulge completely in the very worst of feelings. Jealousy, hatred, envy, possessiveness, grudges and other bad feelings drive these people completely. They can't get over breakups and separations; they are constantly waging war against one party or another; they constantly hate people; and when they are not being downright sadistic they are being abusive, oppressive and mean. So first they attack others for having feelings, and then, after having made that attack, go on and attack them for supposedly not having feelings. In the words of someone I know, this is akin to a boy killing his parents and saying that he is an orphan.
Are feelings good or bad? Well that depends on the feeling. Things of nature were not created according to man's moral judgment, which means that they will bear no correlation therewith. We will see zero correlation between feelings and ethics. Some feelings will be good, some will be bad, and others will be a mixed bag.
So we have these people damning people for having feelings; then damning them for supposedly not having feelings. Really, I do not see how these people have passed grade school, their logic is so bad. You are bad if you have feelings, you are bad if you don't have feelings. And yet many of these same people pride themselves on their supposed rationality, while themselves obviously showing none.
Did these people overcome feelings? Absolutely not: Most of them are constantly in the grip of one bad feeling or another. Instead they turned away from healthy, life-affirming feelings such as love, compassion, gratitude, kindness and appreciation for life in its richness, and embraced the negative ones such as hatred and possessiveness. And many of these same people are also cruel and malicious to the level of what is ascribed to sociopaths. Their hatred of feelings makes them hate and abuse those who show any feelings; their definition of sociopathy leads them to scapegoat others for their own attitude and behavior.
So what do we really have here? What we have here is an ideology of oppression that makes the worst of all worlds. You are damned if you have feelings, damned if you don't have feelings. And then these people go on claiming to be possessive of rationality and ethics.
This ridiculous mentality has oppressed humanity for long enough. Mentalities this irrational, hypocritical and destructive should never have been invented in the first place; but now that they have been it is the job of reason to throw them out. The world would benefit through cultivation of better feelings, as well as through cultivation of better cognitive practices. And then we will see rationality and emotionality work together to achieve greater wisdom, faster, than either modality is capable of doing by itself - and vastly faster than can be credited to suppression of either modality.
The same people who are against feelings indulge completely in the very worst of feelings. Jealousy, hatred, envy, possessiveness, grudges and other bad feelings drive these people completely. They can't get over breakups and separations; they are constantly waging war against one party or another; they constantly hate people; and when they are not being downright sadistic they are being abusive, oppressive and mean. So first they attack others for having feelings, and then, after having made that attack, go on and attack them for supposedly not having feelings. In the words of someone I know, this is akin to a boy killing his parents and saying that he is an orphan.
Are feelings good or bad? Well that depends on the feeling. Things of nature were not created according to man's moral judgment, which means that they will bear no correlation therewith. We will see zero correlation between feelings and ethics. Some feelings will be good, some will be bad, and others will be a mixed bag.
So we have these people damning people for having feelings; then damning them for supposedly not having feelings. Really, I do not see how these people have passed grade school, their logic is so bad. You are bad if you have feelings, you are bad if you don't have feelings. And yet many of these same people pride themselves on their supposed rationality, while themselves obviously showing none.
Did these people overcome feelings? Absolutely not: Most of them are constantly in the grip of one bad feeling or another. Instead they turned away from healthy, life-affirming feelings such as love, compassion, gratitude, kindness and appreciation for life in its richness, and embraced the negative ones such as hatred and possessiveness. And many of these same people are also cruel and malicious to the level of what is ascribed to sociopaths. Their hatred of feelings makes them hate and abuse those who show any feelings; their definition of sociopathy leads them to scapegoat others for their own attitude and behavior.
So what do we really have here? What we have here is an ideology of oppression that makes the worst of all worlds. You are damned if you have feelings, damned if you don't have feelings. And then these people go on claiming to be possessive of rationality and ethics.
This ridiculous mentality has oppressed humanity for long enough. Mentalities this irrational, hypocritical and destructive should never have been invented in the first place; but now that they have been it is the job of reason to throw them out. The world would benefit through cultivation of better feelings, as well as through cultivation of better cognitive practices. And then we will see rationality and emotionality work together to achieve greater wisdom, faster, than either modality is capable of doing by itself - and vastly faster than can be credited to suppression of either modality.