Monday, March 19, 2012

If you arrive at beliefs for largely emotional reasons, rather than employing a thorough mental analysis, you may at once sensibly distrust the actions brought about by this decision. Unrestrained emotions, in their purest form, are nothing short of basic sensory acts of the mind. Tools of thinking use very special sorts of actions that cannot be true or false on their own. So why fear the process? I will stop far short of offering what professes to be a full account of our mental behavior and just leave off with this: It is impossible to draw every possible supposition from the thinkers point of view considering that emotions essentially make quick decisions for us that are mostly adaptive (from a biological point of view) and do, at times, override what many consider to be common sense. We know the emotions of fear, lust, hunger, anxiety, disgust, happiness, and sadness.... for example. We experience the “invisible” emotion of fear, and then act upon it. Using your will to override your emotions helps them from becoming the one unbalanced force that guides your life. Of course, the act of knowing this has with it various conditions, not the least of which is the recognition of personal responsibility. The one thing we all actively seek to avoid.

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