What is your aim?

Skwink said:
3) Convince Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker to get back together one last time and come to a town of 16,000 people.
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Cream? meh.
 
BvBPL said:
Yeah, I don't buy it. You can use perfectly rational techniques to engender emotional responses in yourself or others. Similarly, a rational examination of the psyche by a trained professional, and subsequent treatment by the same, is the best way to handle harmful irrational behavior and feeling in a subject. The cause of every emotion can be explained in a rational manner. You feel fear when watching a scary movie, well there's a rational explanation for why you feel fear even though it is irrational to be afraid while you are sitting safely on your sofa. Furthermore, the film makers used very rational systems in order to give you that sense of fear. Deeper issues with an individual psyche may require a bit more digging, but that doesn't mean that rationality is invalid as a means to explain or attend to these issues.
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For what it's worth, I develop feelings through thought, not the other way around. Not sure if there is a term for that.
 
eduhum said:
My aim is to become president of Spain. Seriously. I'm not even in college and I'm already entering in the world of politics ;)
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Forget it. You're Catalan.
 
Synsensa said:
For what it's worth, I develop feelings through thought, not the other way around. Not sure if there is a term for that.
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Could you give me an example. I am not sure I understand...
 
Gorakshanat said:
Could you give me an example. I am not sure I understand...
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Normal people, as SiLL said, develop feelings and then try to rationalize them through thought and reasoning. I do not get that opportunity. If I don't think about something, if I don't develop a line of reasoning, I feel nothing about the subject. Other people go emotion-thought, for me it goes thought-emotion.

I suppose the best example of this is my distaste for humanity. I feel the way I do not because I hate myself, but because I have spent several years thinking about why certain things get done, how people think, etc.

Before I was really in a position to think for myself (so, early childhood, really), you would have found that I felt pretty much nothing about mostly everything. As a result I've never felt happiness and never really felt most of the emotions others feel.

There are times, of course, where I feel an emotion first and then the thoughts come after, but in almost all instances, upon thinking it through, I come to the same emotional response as the initial one.

The only term I know of that describes this even remotely is Blunted Affect, which I do suffer from, but it doesn't explain how I develop emotions. Perhaps someone who is trained in psychology around here has any ideas?

I do get the feeling I didn't describe that well enough, hopefully you can understand it anyways.
 
Joecoolyo said:
Hmm, I might give this a whirl once I'm actually in control of the food I eat, i.e. when I ship off to uni. As of now, I'm at the mercy of what my mom stocks the pantry with in my house :lol:
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Oh man, you have a mom. Moms hate high-fat diets
 
Synsensa said:
Normal people, as SiLL said, develop feelings and then try to rationalize them through thought and reasoning. I do not get that opportunity. If I don't think about something, if I don't develop a line of reasoning, I feel nothing about the subject. Other people go emotion-thought, for me it goes thought-emotion.

I suppose the best example of this is my distaste for humanity. I feel the way I do not because I hate myself, but because I have spent several years thinking about why certain things get done, how people think, etc.

Before I was really in a position to think for myself (so, early childhood, really), you would have found that I felt pretty much nothing about mostly everything. As a result I've never felt happiness and never really felt most of the emotions others feel.

There are times, of course, where I feel an emotion first and then the thoughts come after, but in almost all instances, upon thinking it through, I come to the same emotional response as the initial one.

The only term I know of that describes this even remotely is Blunted Affect, which I do suffer from, but it doesn't explain how I develop emotions. Perhaps someone who is trained in psychology around here has any ideas?

I do get the feeling I didn't describe that well enough, hopefully you can understand it anyways.
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Did it ever ocur to you, when you revel in your loathing for humanity, that your capacity to see our shortcomings and seeming inability to overcome, that Almighty God may very well have given you a special perspective so that you would be enabled to shelter and herd those less aware, those lost sheep, to ease their way?

I suggest that you grow up and assume some responsibility for your fellow man, whom you see as needing help.
 
MisterCooper said:
Did it ever ocur to you, when you revel in your loathing for humanity, that your capacity to see our shortcomings and seeming inability to overcome, that Almighty God may very well have given you a special perspective so that you would be enabled to shelter and herd those less aware, those lost sheep, to ease their way?

I suggest that you grow up and assume some responsibility for your fellow man, whom you see as needing help.
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A God would not give a mortal purpose or an objective. Any God that would is a God not worth believing and worshiping.
 
Synsensa said:
A God would not give a mortal purpose or an objective. Any God that would is a God not worth believing and worshiping.
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Immortality is big word and very profound reality and I think one has to grow up to it by mortal action. God is both in finite and infinite so I do not see problem there.

Besides what MC suggest is that you can try to be selfless in certain way and I cant see how that wouldnt be in line with divinity.
 
Synsensa said:
Normal people, as SiLL said, develop feelings and then try to rationalize them through thought and reasoning. I do not get that opportunity. If I don't think about something, if I don't develop a line of reasoning, I feel nothing about the subject. Other people go emotion-thought, for me it goes thought-emotion.

I suppose the best example of this is my distaste for humanity. I feel the way I do not because I hate myself, but because I have spent several years thinking about why certain things get done, how people think, etc.

Before I was really in a position to think for myself (so, early childhood, really), you would have found that I felt pretty much nothing about mostly everything. As a result I've never felt happiness and never really felt most of the emotions others feel.

There are times, of course, where I feel an emotion first and then the thoughts come after, but in almost all instances, upon thinking it through, I come to the same emotional response as the initial one.

The only term I know of that describes this even remotely is Blunted Affect, which I do suffer from, but it doesn't explain how I develop emotions. Perhaps someone who is trained in psychology around here has any ideas?

I do get the feeling I didn't describe that well enough, hopefully you can understand it anyways.
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I willnt do justice to your long post but as fellow Gemini let me tell you that I can identify with much of what you are saying - we are little different:) thats all.
 
Skwink said:
4) Convince one of my friends that Rome>Greece
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How can you call him a friend if he doesn't have common sense? :confused:
Spoiler :
:mischief:
 
To marry a beautiful girl who I love and who would love me. To live my life with said person and raise a family so to continue the chain of life. I want to raise my children to be decent, honest people.
 
NickyJ said:
How can you call him a friend if he doesn't have common sense? :confused:
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:mischief:
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How is that common sense? What is common sense? What is "is"?

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