(September 29, 2009 at 2:48 am)Saerules Wrote: There is more than one way to feel... through our body is one way... and that is limited to a threshold... but the other is emotional, and it is as limitless as the imagination. Just as there is no limit to Vice and Virtue, no limit to disgust and delicacy, and others of which there is no physical absolute: there is no limit to pain. Simply: pain itself is not a part of us... just as Vice and Virtue are not in themselves a part of us.
Emotions are limited by the body too. We feel emotions in our brains, and brains are part of our body. We are finite beings. How is it without limits when all emotions are felt physically in us? Unless you believe in non-physical souls or something? Please do explain.
Saerules Wrote:You could experience said horror via a vivid enough imagination to place yourself within said imagination, and the empathy enough to feel from said viewpoint. In other words: you can build any situation with your imagination, and emotionally put yourself in the midst of it. In fact... you could experience just about anything by doing this.
I think to experience such horror as losing a child through imagination alone, I'd actually have to believe my imagination in order to truly feel the horror. In other words I'd have to be deluded. If you believe you have lost a child when you haven't, and you truly truly believe it and it's totally deep seated in you, I can imagine that being the same...but imagination alone, without you actually believing it. I disagree. But how is this relevant to my point that we are physical, limited, evolved, finite beings that have a limit to our emotions? And that possibly because losing 1 child is horrific, losing 2 children might not be able to be twice as bad, because the emotions would overload before that....or if it could be double, losing ten children might not be able to be ten times worse.......because my point is at some point, a limit is reached, whether it is thought there is or not. Because we are, as I said: Physical, limited, evolved, finite beings...so we therefore have a limit to our emotions.
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