Re: Re: Re: Emotion - Phil

Hey Phil, I didn't see this video until just now

Vid response to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WuyIGFDryE

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News & Politics

Tags:

• crossmack
• burnvictim77
• emotion
• openness

[cradamik]

Hey Ian...I've heard you mention about "conquering" emotions (such as fear). Perhaps emotions are like waves out in the ocean. Maybe all we can really do is just ride the wave, respecting its power and its potential for destruction, but learning to ride that wave. Just my thoughts on this...take care, man!

[crossmack]

Perhaps emotions are like waves. But I think it is possible to control the size of the wave in our mind. The more we listen and respond, the more level the water is. Very few crashing waves.

[cradamik]

Yeah...and I know that after a while, all analogies break down, but I am just wondering...why control the size of the wave? This sounds like a lot of work and not a lot of fun. I've never surfed in my life, that riding the waves looks like a whole lot more fun. Why aim at a seemingly impossible ideal when a practical option may be available?

[crossmack]

I try to control the waves because I've found that if left unchecked, they destroy relationships and do massive property damamge.

[mparkansky]

i couldnt sit in a room with you for 5 seconds. and no thats not because your smarter than me, its because i cant stand people that think their better than everyone else because they lock themselves in their dorm and become popular on the internet because noone outside your door can stand to be around you because of your constant arrogant demeanor.

[crossmack]

The fact that you don't want to be around me has nothing to do with me. The intolerance is in you. Don't act like I'm causing you even a remote ammount of discomfort.

You are putting yourself through something because you aren't comfortable with what you are hearing.

[lesal21]

In the end all we have is each other...religion is relationships with people

[josephbeuys]

And lo, he came on YouTube, bearing fruit and occupying a 4:3 ratio of space...angels flocked at his sides and trumpets bellowed from his hair. Eyes both of fire and ice at once. Circles of logic and poetry spewing forth onto the earth in a chorus of prophecy.

[cradamik]

Crap...I need to learn to proof-read. I meant to say that even though my emotions are a part of my nature, I can still learn who to react more appropriately when they are triggered. Whew! : )

[cradamik]

Well...why build so close to the coastline, anyway???

:D

Okay...I think the analogy is breaking apart. In any event, I guess I'm talking about how I respond to my fear, not about controling my fear, or my anger, or whichever emotion. Some things (like my fear or anger "triggers") are a part of my nature, but that doesn't mean that I can work on how to deal with the way in which I react.

[StLennyBruce]

06:28 of this is absolute beauty. That is the only charisma I've seen so far outta you.

[EmilyElzbth]

This is an EXCELLENT analogy! :o) I'm such a fan of analogies. I try to use them as often as I can. I think that using them help people who see things in such a different way from you (well hopefully) understand where you're coming from without trying to change their views.

[drschnaggels]

I dont think people that become popular on the (Video based) Internet can be very unpopular in real life. And vise versu unless they change. Change is something Ian is presenting here and alot are getting the message, communication is the route to change. Monopolizing knowledge to science is the end of communication, it must be shared with beleivers, philosophers, religion and so on without arroganz and intoleranz between these groups.