It's hard to know what you mean by any of this. Are we back in the seducer's realm here? Or is it more a case of wanting to lose oneself in a dionysian orgy?skipair wrote:I think it's a great skill to be truly grounded, but expand your emotional and passionate territory - taking risks with them and really LIVING.
Of course, this is completely different from feminine emotions, which aren't tethered to the ground.
skipair wrote:However, in another sense, humans are emotional beings. It's so obvious that everyone is having emotions at all times. Sometimes they're nice, and other times they're a pain in the ass. But call this a product of an unwanted and illogical ego and you effectively take an enormous black dildo and shove it up your ass.
Not a big swinging one, I hope.
I would be interested to hear how you have determined that everyone is having emotions all the time.
The way you describe it here, it does sound like stupidity. Violently suppressing the emotions for the sake of trying to lead a "clean" logical existence is definitely very foolish, at least as a long-term policy. One might have to do this occasionally - e.g. in pressure situations which require a cool head - but as a principle for guiding one's life it can only lead to disaster.Understanding logic does not mean you try to control yourself to always act logically. You are human. Trying to act totally logically all the time does not make you perfect. You are HUMAN. You are MESSY. You are not and you never will be "logically perfect". If you try that you will become dissociated from yourself and the world, losing all natural skills and instincts while interacting with it. Do violence to your emotions and you will suffer. And hopefully you won't then say it's in the name of truth (stupidity more like it).
A person who is genuinely on the rational path doesn't have to attack his emotions at all. Indeed, he barely has to think about them. They will naturally fade away of their own accord in the light of his increasingly greater consciousness, like dew evaporating under the morning sun. He won't even miss them as they fade away, so little attention does he give them.
It's an entirely different process.
It sounds as though you are currently trying to break free of a sterile prison that your over-controlling mind has created yourself, which is a perfectly worthwhile thing to do, but does it really require such an over-the-top justification of your use of the emotions in this struggle?
Is this a pipe-dream driven by the emotions? Or one of those times when the situation is viewed logically?A complete human is someone who can feel out their emotions, embrace them, and create them. It is also someone who WHEN THE TIME COMES can see the situation totally logically.
It sounds a bit like being the perfect man (as viewed by women). He can be sensitive and cuddly and helpful around the house, knowing how to read her moods and how to listen and whisper sweet nothings when she desires it, but then, when the situation calls for it, he can be strong and ruthless as well. A veritable hunk of a man.
I wonder what creating an emotion means? "I think I'll whip up a jackson pollock type emotion, with three parts anger, one part depression, four parts happiness, and two parts angst, topping it all off with a sprinkling of bliss. Sounds like a useful thing to do."
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