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What's the worst emotion one can feel? (pg. 2)
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| yukii |
| guilt, regret, loneliness. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
Ok I'll bite, who scorned you Lira? |
Me? No one :conf:
Why? First you think I'm bragging, now you think someone scorned me just because I (rather intimately) felt scorn for someone's demise. What impression am I giving you, exactly? Perhaps it was not on purpose :confused:
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
ive always considered emotions to be the polar opposite of intelligence. |
That's how we usually think of them, I reckon. But, think about a person that shows no emotion, but has an outstanding intelligence: would you really say that's a desirable human trait? And that this person is fit to live in society? That'd turn out to be an autistic psychopath :p |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by djhaziel
I think apathy gets you nowhere , I usually try to stay away from people that tend to have that very marked in their personality |
Apathy is kind of the opposite of emotion... |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
That's why I think scorn is, by far and away, the worst emotion you can feel. But, I could be missing something here. In your opinion, what do you think is the most undesirable emotion there is? |
Without scorn there could be no greatness in the world. Without scorn, there would be no peer pressure and no-self motivation. We would all be languishing in mediocrity.
For me, the worst emotion is the absence of feeling altogether. Complete apathy. I don't really experience it these days, but in my teens I had minor depressive episodes charaterised by a complete disconnection from emotion. It's a strange feeling that I can only really equate to despair - despair at your inabilty to interact in a meaningful way with the outside world or enjoy things that you should. I can only imagine what full-blown clinical depression is like. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by djhaziel
I think apathy gets you nowhere , I usually try to stay away from people that tend to have that very marked in their personality |
You mean empathy? |
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| meriter |
| jealousy is terrible |
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| lenazi |
| when a woman starts crying for no reason and you want to punch her for silence. |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
You mean being rejected? |
Yes.
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Me? No one :conf:
Why? First you think I'm bragging, now you think someone scorned me just because I (rather intimately) felt scorn for someone's demise. What impression am I giving you, exactly? Perhaps it was not on purpose :confused: |
I just read your original post wrong, my fault :) |
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| djhaziel |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Apathy is kind of the opposite of emotion... |
Very true apathy is the suppression of emotions, I guess if we were talking about colors it would be compared to black.
Then again black is not a color... but in practice it still is. :p |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
But, think about a person that shows no emotion, but has an outstanding intelligence: would you really say that's a desirable human trait? |
you mean like arbiter? :p
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
And that this person is fit to live in society? That'd turn out to be an autistic psychopath :p |
I certainly don’t think emotions are bad or whatnot, I just see them as opposite rational thought processes, though obviously they both mingle together at parties.
People obviously need both to be “well-rounded” or functional members of their social sphere. But I still see intelligence as thinking, and emotions as feeling, therefore different. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
Pity. |
look here robot-man, you're about as reliable a source on this topic as ******** is on sensible eating standards! |
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