RE: Worship and Emotion
June 25, 2017 at 2:20 am
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2017 at 2:25 am by WinterHold.)
(June 24, 2017 at 8:35 pm)Astreja Wrote:(June 24, 2017 at 12:53 am)ignoramus Wrote: ... how on earth can anybody worship (a powerful emotion), something that doesn't even exist? Deluded to the core? God may not be real but the emotions certainly are.
Perhaps the emotional rush is part of what makes something seem real to someone -- even if it's imaginary. I don't know which comes first, though, the emotion or the belief that something is real, but I've experienced something similar in regard to a few works of fiction. Despite knowing that something was fiction, I wanted certain characters to be real.
Illusion is defined to be:
Quote:noun: illusion; plural noun: illusions
- a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses.
An idea gave birth to the illusion, belief is just a set of actions to honor and serve any kind of idea. Even if that idea is a mere "illusion". To serve the idea well, you have to develop feelings for it.
Emotions, idea, acts.
"Emotions" to an illusion is the problem's core.
Feelings come first.
