RE: Do you control what you believe?
October 23, 2012 at 10:29 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2012 at 10:30 pm by Darkstar.)
(October 23, 2012 at 10:25 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote:(October 23, 2012 at 8:20 pm)Darkstar Wrote: Anything that is voluntaary can be controlled by the conscious mind. I am only referring to the involuntary.if with involuntary you mean for example: the urge to eat in order not to starve, the urge to go to the toilet in order not to shit yourself, the urge to keep your hand out of the woodshredder because it hurts. I guess yes, you can train yourself to ignore those urges, or eaven loose these through serious illneses like mercury poisoning or altzheimers or just being a hopeless masochist - but whats the point when your not a hopeless masochist?
Yes, you can resist those urges, but that does not stop you from feeling them. Can you directly control your heartbeat? No, because it is involuntary. I had originally meant involuntary as in things like heartbeat, but I suppose biological urges could be classified as involuntary as well.
