Ah yes! Agreed!!.. but we tend to generalize sadness and anger as negative emotions, I see them ALL as positives, the very nature of being human. To sublimate a few, is to minimize all as non entities. Worked for Spock, a half human. Humans should be all human?
Don't get emotional You'll cry an ocean you'll Be in love you see.
Why is it when one discusses emotional issues that the positive emotions are set aside. That only the negative ones attribute an weight to emotional stability?
Joy is an emotion, though never maligned, so why do we see anger, sadness etc as something to malign and hence malign all emotion. Emotional bias? Or an attempt to force people to be a specific way?
Men have been told for years not express tears, emotion maligned again to the point of being expected to ignore them. Yet he can be angry and find acceptance. Others will often excuse away the outburst in some psuedo righteousness.
I don't see the wisdom in this. In making some emotions acceptable and others ignored as if they are not emotion at all
All emotion is good, it is only the expression and direction of them that should be questioned. The more we try to sublimate emotions, the more we are apt to burst in the very exaggerated displays we are trying to avoid ...I think.
Have and am, though one of my parents have passed on.
There can be other reasons as well, besides bills, though in the US, I can imagine how hard it is for the elderly to pay bills, especially when health care becomes a huge monetary issue.
Sorry, by the time I got through the thread I forgot the premise of the OP's queery.
Oh there it is right above me
I think there is gravitation to emotional output. Emotional people relate to other primarily emotional people. Bonding is a very strange component of recognition of one's self in others.
It is probably wiser if one wishes to learn to handle one's emotions, to mate with someone who has already learned to master them to some degree?
Or are these folks who hide them better? It's all very difficult in a world where hiding one's true self is common, so ...I prefer those who show emotion as a result of their self, not as a weapon of blame toward others or a tool of ego painting; but as a direct result of seeing their own foibles.
And it's not easy for a common man to think so wickedly without becoming outraged.
The truely wicked, the one's who know and wield this power do not have this or many emotional compunctions at all. Civilians are just another brick in their wall.
Population is and has been a very big problem. Adding to this is the scare tacticts of media driven 2012, end of world prophecies all tied to Revelations and now you have millions of jesus's 'followers' wanting to be there, in the promised land for the liftoff to rapture.
Naw, I not overly sensitive in this area. I have my own religious beliefs and keep them to myself unless asked. I wish more people did the same. Besides, you've never been invasive or overly critical.
I agree with your other comments. Hadn't thought about population control but that's certainly a result.
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And it's not easy for a common man to think so wickedly without becoming outraged.
The truely wicked, the one's who know and wield this power do not have this or many emotional compunctions at all. Civilians are just another brick in their wall.
Population is and has been a very big problem. Adding to this is the scare tacticts of media driven 2012, end of world prophecies all tied to Revelations and now you have millions of jesus's 'followers' wanting to be there, in the promised land for the liftoff to rapture.
Its not like they can lauch rockets from Pallisades park is it? I mean rocket launching is somewhat limited as to area of coverage. I'm not defending the launch goons, as either side cares little for any civilians. I hardly see that as storage as well, the amunition has to moved to an area within range of targets, the children are not even an after thought. War ignores collateral damage.
I think it is used as intended, as control, unification. To practice a beleif in god is not the same as participating in a war of god's. But I sense some protectiveness in this area, so I will press it no further.
wealth/profit yes.. opposition removal yes (though it doesn't seem to be removed here does it?)...However the "oppostions" ares also created by those who want/have the wealth. It is really as I said, lather rinse repeat, watch the coffers grow, as the coffins plow by.
So who is getting rich? It is as you suggest very significant.
One other purpose of war is population control.
War is not the idealogy of the common man. This notion has to be set aside in favour of 'apathy and greed', even the notion of being the world's god. That notion must be ingested to totally understand power cycle at its core. Thinking of it from a common man's view leads you down a path that will not find understanding of anything but a common man's view yes?
And who supplies them with the target information? Surely not the parents or the children or their own bretheren.
This is an emotional media ploy. Build the curtain of hate with nonsensical spacial information for which proof either way is unattainable. You have been affected as intended.
And how ironic is it that your id is rocketqueen. In a rocket thread. In stark contrast to your own posts .. I wonder if rockets are actually fired by peacequeens if contrast means anything?
Another wealth My thoughts were more along the lines of the wealth of money/things and the wealth of self, where the machinations of the elite, control the 'self' we are not allowed to have. Real freedom from attachment.
If it were only crap on your doorstep. Perhaps we could minimize the dead children of war to mere poo? but for what? To off-handedly do away with their memory?
It is however a solution to one's own emotional involvement. To minimize it so it doesn't overtake our sympathy.
You are supposed to be sick and tired. This is where hate grows and swells armies for the cause. Most will be a soldier until the war lands in their own backyard, then they will terrorized minions of retribution, dam the reason.
Your intentions like the real one of the powers that be, is not a war ON terror, but a war OF terror. Sick ... and ... tired .... is their fuel.
60 years is but a snippet of time. maybe you meant 6000 years.
If god can kill, the most revered creature of the universe, then how can it's children be expected to behave any differently? An uncivil god fathers uncivil children.
RE: Emotionally stable
please accept my previous post as internaldrivlemusings ...(which seem to go on forever )