RE: is irrationality always bad ? i need help !
April 4, 2010 at 6:28 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2010 at 6:30 pm by The_Flying_Skeptic.)
(April 1, 2010 at 5:39 pm)Rwandrall Wrote: I am starting to doubt that rationality is the only way to think, i mean outside religion there are phenomenon that we believe in although there is direct evidence contradicting it. An example is love. It has been proven to be a chemical reaction created by hormones, is it the best thing to believe that ? If we all believe that everything we do is only due to chemicals running around our brain, and that life is not really more than anatomy... It is a bit sad is it not ? In that way i can understand people believing in a soul, a purpose, or even a sky daddy. And since we are all, in one way or another, irrationalists, are we athiests any better than those who believe in God ? Is blissful ignorance always wrong ?
The truth isn't always romantic. I've seen people have no problem blaming a woman getting angry on 'the hormones' ignoring the fact that all emotions are based on hormones. My best advice would be to take these facts lightly and not let them get in the way of being romantic. Rationalism doesn't have to lead to the Dr. Manhattan syndrome or 'detached from humanity way of thinking'. Unless your girlfriend is a biologist, or has that knowledge of biology, I wouldn't say 'it's not love, it's just a cocktail of chemicals' or we should never use the phrase 'it's just' as if reality were 'less than' magical thinking. You may be with a girlfriend that hasn't a serious understanding of biology and is literal when she says 'I feel it in my heart' but if this girl is making you happy and you don't need deep understanding of science in a girl then you shouldn't throw away that moment when she says that to you. I'm single now but I'd prefer a woman that is on the same grounds with me on religion and science so I can say 'I feel it in my heart that I love you' knowing she'd understand that I'm being poetic and romantic and don't actually believe that any feelings are produced by the cardiovascular system.
Scientific Romanticism works, baby.
- parallel to science works bitches
