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Can emotion be a way to truth as reason is?
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RE: Can emotion be a way to truth as reason is?
I'm emotional? I'd say so, I'm a sensitive fellow. But I'm not sure how I raped the English language at all.
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RE: Can emotion be a way to truth as reason is?
(September 9, 2010 at 8:41 pm)Watson Wrote: I'm emotional? I'd say so, I'm a sensitive fellow. But I'm not sure how I raped the English language at all.

Just to make my position clear, emotions have as much importance as logic and both can be measured by psychologists (IQ) for logic (EI) for emotions, but however the two may intersect, they are independant and are of use in completely different situations.

All the best

Chris
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RE: Can emotion be a way to truth as reason is?
Emotions in dire situations have been demonstrated to be at times detrimental, for instance I have been in situations where my life was in danger. I have had several mugging attempts with weapons at times and the only thing that got me through most of them was my training as a martial artist and my ability to nullify my emotions and keep them in check.

Emotions can lead you to do stupid things without giving them adequate thought and if not kept in check can even at times lead to your death. In situations such as I have described above you have but a split second to decide what to do, and that split second is the difference of you making it out alive or dead. I don't trust my emotions and as has been stated many times I too believe that the mind is the most powerful weapon we posses. Emotions are secondary and should always be carefully scrutinized before one acts upon them.
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RE: Can emotion be a way to truth as reason is?
I think the point of the OP was to insinuate that if you can trust in reason or your materialistic 5 senses, why not trust in intuition. I don't any reasonable person here disagrees that logic and reason adn the materialistic 5 senses aren't tried and true awesome methods of exploring reality. Are they only addressing the materialistic aspects of reality though. Is there anything outside of the tangible? As an analogy I think he was trying to get at if you use different tools to build a bird house (scredrivers don't work the same as saws or hammers) why would you limit the tools you use to explore something as abstract and unreachable as dimensions, God, etc. to only materialistic ones. I know the standad response is because that's the most objective way we have. Could that be because we spend almost all of our time in the material plane using those material tools that have been honed and trained. Could training tools that aren't materialistic by nature (intuition, sense of time, sense of balance) be practiced at and improved to the same usefullness level?

@CP- I had a similar experience in GCS at Washington, DC down the hill at the dark parkinglot. I was ver thankful for my training as well.
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