(March 7, 2012 at 1:18 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Every human being suffers from some deficit of rationality, I've found. We call this emotional response, and it's a hilt-less sword; you can wield it but it cuts you almost as often as it cuts the other guy [you're not allowed to wear gloves in this analogy]. Maybe not as badly but it still cuts.
Emotional responses consistently hurt the user the most, I think. I can't speak for anyway else, but when I'm emotional I seem to fall back on to a more simplistic world-view that more readily makes connections between things that, in retrospect, aren't necessarily connected. I can also project my faults onto others, although I often catch myself now and stop it. Emotional responses tend to give us a fast track to actions/responses that might've been beneficial once upon a time, but rarely is now. By the way, that almost sounds like I'm saying emotion is redundant/valueless - I don't mean that.
Some of my irrational behaviours include:
- Purchasing take-out when I know the extra money I spend on it could go to one of the millions of starving people around the world and feed them.
- Worrying about what people I've never met (and very likely will never meet again) think of me. It isn't like a crippling phobia or anything, but it's there.
- Maintaining similar patterns despite being aware of how much change often makes me happy.
(March 7, 2012 at 1:18 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Final Fantasy games. Fuck I hate these games.
Just to piss you off, I like them
well, not all of them; mainly 6-9. What I liked most was the visuals and the music. The music is wonderful and I still listen to it sometimes. I assume you dislike the amount of fanboy/girl-ism surrounding them?I don't mind some anime; I enjoyed the Ghost in the Shell movies for example.
