What is the most powerful emotion?

[9Westy9]

What is the most powerful emotion? No right or wrong answers just fire away.

Personally I view Love as the most powerful emotion. It can either result in large amounts of joy and happiness and make people do things that they wouldn't usually do (in the good way). On the flip side love can also breed unrivalled sadness and sorrow when taken away/ not received.

What do you guys (and girls ) think?

 

[McBell]

What is the most powerful emotion? No right or wrong answers just fire away.

Personally I view Love as the most powerful emotion. It can either result in large amounts of joy and happiness and make people do things that they wouldn't usually do (in the good way). On the flip side love can also breed unrivalled sadness and sorrow when taken away/ not received.

What do you guys (and girls ) think?

Define "powerful".

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Fear. It has more motivating power than any other emotion.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Depends on the person. Personally I would say anger and fear.

 

[9Westy9]

Define "powerful".

2. Effective or potent i.e a powerful drug.

 

[McBell]

2. Effective or potent i.e a powerful drug.

Then I go with fear.

 

[Revoltingest]

The taste of bacon is the master of all the lesser emotions.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

The taste of bacon.

You do a disservice to bacon by attempting to reduce the subtle complexity of its taste to a single emotion. It is a veritable feast of emotions.

 

[Revoltingest]

You do a disservice to bacon by attempting to reduce the subtle complexity of its taste to a single emotion. It is a veritable feast of emotions.

I'll have to ruminate on that one.

 

[Awoon]

What is the most powerful emotion? No right or wrong answers just fire away.

Personally I view Love as the most powerful emotion. It can either result in large amounts of joy and happiness and make people do things that they wouldn't usually do (in the good way). On the flip side love can also breed unrivalled sadness and sorrow when taken away/ not received.

What do you guys (and girls ) think?

xenophobia

 

[ChristineES]

I think any emotion has equal power. Anger, happiness, jealousy, etc. can influence us to do a great many things- whether positive or negative. There is one thing, I am not 100% positive that love and hate are actually emotions or at least not emotions all the time.

 

[9Westy9]

I think any emotion has equal power. Anger, happiness, jealousy, etc. can influence us to do a great many things- whether positive or negative. There is one thing, I am not 100% positive that love and hate are actually emotions or at least not emotions all the time.

Interesting point. I guess emotions all have different levels of power depending on the catalyst of that emotion(s).

 

[Sunstone]

If you wish to consider altruistic love an emotion, then altruistic love is a pretty powerful one. It seems to have the ability to over-ride other emotions, albeit it is quite rare and usually fleeting.

 

[Badran]

Depends on the person.

I agree, i think no emotion has an inherent power to it more than the rest. I think it varies from one person to another.

 

[Walkntune]

What is the most powerful emotion? No right or wrong answers just fire away.

Personally I view Love as the most powerful emotion. It can either result in large amounts of joy and happiness and make people do things that they wouldn't usually do (in the good way). On the flip side love can also breed unrivalled sadness and sorrow when taken away/ not received.

What do you guys (and girls ) think?

Love is the strongest emotion.It casts out all fear.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I agree with Gjallar, it depends on the person except for a majority of people it'd be fear.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Love is the strongest emotion.It casts out all fear.

True love. Normal love can actually increase fear.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Love is the strongest emotion.It casts out all fear.

I think the fear of losing what you love is what makes it strong, thus still fear.

 

[Penumbra]

I think it must depend on the person.

Most commonly, it's probably fear.

 

[Two-bit guru]

It's angst, with a touch of remorse.