RE: Why Is Thinking Important?
November 9th 2006 02:45
Damo, you’re words, your thoughts, are too wealthy to be reduced to a few-word comment. Therefore I come here.
Our emotions are, yes, part of our reality. They do, indeed, let us understand and fully enjoy the wonderful. Oh, how I applaud and subscribe to that notion. Would that we could simply enjoy the enjoyable. But we can’t. We also need to understand there is a yang of life..
You’ve touched on the ‘wrong’ of emotions when you said “should a sadist be allowed express [sic] his feelings freely? Or should we think about the logical consequences of his answers?” I won’t pretend to know the answer, nor will expound on it now. Let that be the food of thought.
We do still have philosophers and thinkers with us and I long to be cast among them, even though I’ve so much more to learn. Someday, I might be blessed to be counted as one of them.
For today, let’s hold to the truths that we are a people who need each other; our powers of good and inspirational thought, as well as the things that hold us down give strength to others. Our wisdoms and our deficits give room for thought. We’re here to teach one to the other.
I’ll go not to speaking of war. Probably that’s a personal issue. An uncle I was never allowed to meet was killed in WWI; he was a pilot and that’s how he died. My father did his time in WWII, the trauma never left him. I am a child of the 60’s, Viet Nam. Forty years later, I still am left with nothing to understand. Oh, heck. Looks like I talked about war against my will. Apparently it’s an issue.
Thinking? Feeling? is there a difference? No. Who thinks and who feels IS.
Our emotions are, yes, part of our reality. They do, indeed, let us understand and fully enjoy the wonderful. Oh, how I applaud and subscribe to that notion. Would that we could simply enjoy the enjoyable. But we can’t. We also need to understand there is a yang of life..
You’ve touched on the ‘wrong’ of emotions when you said “should a sadist be allowed express [sic] his feelings freely? Or should we think about the logical consequences of his answers?” I won’t pretend to know the answer, nor will expound on it now. Let that be the food of thought.
We do still have philosophers and thinkers with us and I long to be cast among them, even though I’ve so much more to learn. Someday, I might be blessed to be counted as one of them.
For today, let’s hold to the truths that we are a people who need each other; our powers of good and inspirational thought, as well as the things that hold us down give strength to others. Our wisdoms and our deficits give room for thought. We’re here to teach one to the other.
I’ll go not to speaking of war. Probably that’s a personal issue. An uncle I was never allowed to meet was killed in WWI; he was a pilot and that’s how he died. My father did his time in WWII, the trauma never left him. I am a child of the 60’s, Viet Nam. Forty years later, I still am left with nothing to understand. Oh, heck. Looks like I talked about war against my will. Apparently it’s an issue.
Thinking? Feeling? is there a difference? No. Who thinks and who feels IS.
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