Massimo2002
Active Member
Emotions cause immense suffering and evil. We would be better without emotions completely. I know that this scares people because it's the truth.
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Humanity would be better without emotions
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Heyo
Veteran Member
Emotions are what gets you out of bed in the morning. Without emotions, you wouldn't have a reason to get up.
I'm a very rational person (compared to other humans), I also suffer from depressions.
The solution isn't to eliminate emotions, but to understand them and to manage them.
Massimo2002
Active Member
I disagree emotions cause hatred and meanness so to me it's just not worth it.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
One slight problem. As per the header and this post of yours, better and worth are in the end emotions. So you have to find another way to express what it is you want without using emotions, if that is your idea.
Massimo2002
Active Member
But better can exist independently from emotions.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Well you can always be a Vulcan.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
Not as how I understand how better is experienced.
Heyo
Veteran Member
Emotions also cause (better are) love and tenderness. There are positive emotions and some emotions are detrimental and can lead to destructive behaviour. That's why we have controlling rationality, not to negate the negative emotions, but to manage them.
Massimo2002
Active Member
I think that the bad outweighs the good.
Secret Chief
Degrow!
Illogical.
Understand the context in which emotionality evolved. It was biologically selective and useful for most of our history.
As a species we're in a unique position, having removed ourselves from our original habitats and cultures. Many of the psychological features than once served us well in small bands on the plains of Africa or forests of Europe have become dysfunctional, and should be recognized as so, and compensated for.
We're fish out of water. Many of our natural drives and reactions need to be recognized as dysfunctional, and suppressed or modified.
As a species we're in a unique position, having removed ourselves from our original habitats and cultures. Many of the psychological features than once served us well in small bands on the plains of Africa or forests of Europe have become dysfunctional, and should be recognized as so, and compensated for.
We're fish out of water. Many of our natural drives and reactions need to be recognized as dysfunctional, and suppressed or modified.
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Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Then you would take away everything that makes life bearable.
Massimo2002
Active Member
I dislike your naturalist evolution answers they are emotionally unsatisfactory to me.
Massimo2002
Active Member
Such as ?
I'd be dead now if it weren't for the emotions of other people.
Long live emotions.
Massimo2002
Active Member
I disagree life is suffering and perhaps death is a better alternative.
That may be true, but so what? Emotional reactions don't change the facts. True things are often emotionally unsettling.
What alternative facts or interpretations account for the observed reality?
Massimo2002
Active Member
Religious people who disbelieve in evolution and believe in a spiritual realm those are the alternative views.
They are not only contradictory views, but are unsupported by any objective evidence.
Massimo2002
Active Member
Then why do people believe in the viewpoint then ?