What's the best way for purging them and never experiencing any again??!
I don't mean specific emotions, but all emotions at large. :)
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What's the best way for purging them and never experiencing any again??!
I don't mean specific emotions, but all emotions at large. :)
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Your popcorn makes me thing you are trolling lol
I feel quirky about it, but it's a serious question in so far as i'm 100% curious about answers.
Look into practicing detachment, then you can become more bullet proofQuote:
Originally Posted by lemontrees
Lobotomy will work for what you're wanting.Quote:
Originally Posted by lemontrees
Death
lobotomy seems like an attractive option
You make such cute threads.
Why? Emotions are great!
except when you think you can function better w/ a lobotomy than w/ emotions!Quote:
Originally Posted by Maritsa
Control your facial muscles, for starters. Smiling can make one feel happier and frowning can make one feel sadder. Also, get really busy with stuff that requires concentration but not much creativity. And mentally repeat, "I am a robot. I am a robot." to yourself. (I have personal experience with this. These methods work with 83% reliability.)
no, nothing, I think I just have a morbid sense of humor. :content:Quote:
Originally Posted by Elina
in general it was spurred by wondering how to focus and get more things done, i'm so emotional it always gets in the way.
thanks for asking :hug:
4w5 ;____;Quote:
Originally Posted by Elina
aww :hug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Elina
good luck with sloth! lolol
Make good friends who will listen.
Hi Holon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Holon
Try to kinda rationally repeat to yorself that you're not feeling them when they emerge ("I'll be fine, I'm too good for this emotion" :)). Detach from them or block them. But you have to do it asap before they spread like a plague.Quote:
Originally Posted by lemontrees
Unfortunately, I think it's an oxymoron... the best way to purge emotions is to experience them and let them run their course. They only stick around if you try to block them or stuff them. So yeah, maybe go on an intense emotional frenzy so you can compress all that icky feelingish stuff into as short a time as possible, then toss that ultra dense emotional matter out the window, and try not to hit anyone on the head as you do so.
You'll miss them when they're gone.
Emotions help you understand, sympathize, and get on well with people. They are certainly a very important development in the social interaction with people. As far as helping you get things done it's better to accept your emotions and befriend people who focus on tasks who can encourage you to do whatever it is you need motivation and external encouragement on.
Productivity is over rated...we all die. You can lead a balanced healthy life. You don't have to shove emotions aside and become super machine. Not good.
@lemontrees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym8JjY4fy-M
I empathize, relate, feel ya...
I tend to wallow for a while and placate myself with platitudes.
i.e. this too shall pass, blah blah blah
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There you goQuote:
Originally Posted by Aylen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rquISgtM5Cc
Feel better :)
*Pats Aylen*
This. To deny, stuff down emotions is to create a future volcano, ime. I don't like splashing my emotions all over people, so when I become aware that I'm feeling something strongly I'll patiently find a safe place, then encourage my emotions to come out full force in whatever way they want. For me, crying is therapeutic. Dancing to myself, listening to music, wandering in my imagination, reliving past experiences, creating new imaginary experiences that let me "fix" things, sometimes physical activity, whatever it takes. I've found once I let my emotions out and really feel them in all their painful glory I'm MUCH better able to continue interacting with the world in a stable, even rational way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Misty
I've been wondering the same thing lately. I wish I was a robot.Quote:
Originally Posted by lemontrees
Certain kinds of emotions and specific sources and experiences that provoke them can be so dangerous and destructive that it really makes me wish I was immune to experiencing any and all of them. I would give up the "good" ones just to avoid being influenced by all the other ones.
I'm not my body, I HAVE a body.
I'm not my emotions, I HAVE emotions
I'm not my thoughts, i HAVE thoughts.
Selective dissociation mantra takes some training to get to work though.
As others have said; you're probably better of WITH them than without. Robots aren't too interesting.
Stress over every little thing. Then proceed to dump any emotions you feel into a bottomless dark hole within your soul. Keep doing this until you end up with depression.Quote:
Originally Posted by lemontrees
Then, regret.
Finally, hug your Fe PoLR dual. Everything is okay now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pink
The buddhist way of no desire, attachment and particular perspectives make emotions mild and manageable.
For productivity. Life is more interesting with feelings. But if you have a large workload, you might want to be rid of them for a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by Starfall
Without emotions you wouldn't be able to make even the simplest of decisions. You would be unable to place value weights on differing choices. Your mind would just keep going over and over criteria for making the choice/decision, but never reach a stopping point of actually making the decision.
Emotions lead us to being interested in things, approaching some things, and avoiding other things, etc. You wouldn't even feel compelled to move out of the way of an oncoming car.
Basically, without emotion, you would need someone else to tell you what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. You would be little more than somebody else's puppet.
I think there's balance, like sometimes emotions are more relevant and other times it's more useful to put them aside (if it's possible.)
but obviously everybody has them and they are important, a huge part of being human
Emotions are just chemical reactions in your brain that are hard to manage.
http://d3dsacqprgcsqh.cloudfront.net...A_460sa_v1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by anndelise
Can you see the feels?
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by Park
I think most people grossly overestimate emotions. So many think they're some magical forces coming from your soul while they're actually just extremely complex mechanisms. They are nothing more than cheap tricks to keep animals active and striving for better lives, food and reproduction. The puppet strings of nature, so to speak. Don't get me wrong, I do believe we couldn't really live completely without emotions. But only because they give us the illusion of purpose in a world which has no purpose.
You're absolutely right, emotions give us the illusion of purpose. But subjectively speaking that's so important! You could live your entire live being right (like an ILI would) without it being meaningfull to you (or others) (here ILI would say that there's no objective reason while being objectively right wouldn't be worth it and he'd be right).Quote:
Originally Posted by Pa3s
Anyway, the nature of the human animal is da feelz, Most fun things are completely stupid, irrational and evolutionary questionable and i like it that way :D
in the end playing it by the evolutionary rules or actually understanding the world or knowing that emo's are just idiotic is as meaningless as the emos themselves...all is naught and all will be gone, but untill i'm dead i'm gonna make sure i at least fucking enjoy it :D
(yes enjoyment is a chemical reaction, here's a poptart!)
Edit: that coffee dodging router has a hypnotic effect on me, i've been looking at it for at least 3 minutes straight!
That's a common way to think of it. But those emotions which make life enjoyable are also responsible for people's suffering. And people are not designed to be happy, at least not for a longer period of time. We're like addicts who get high on positive feelings and hit rock bottom once our body's drugs stop flowing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reficulris
There's no fundamental difference between you hugging your girlfriend under a christmas tree or smoking crack behind a garbage can.
No fundemental difference nope :) Although the fairly complex web of emotions can make you feel guilty for smoking crack or hugging some other persons girlfriend, even though that doesn't make sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pa3s
we're like addicts, but in the absense of the option of not being addicted (to emotions/highs) that isn't really a bad thing.
I'd say if you would try to maximize happiness hugging your girlfriend is probably more sustainable than smoking crack because the former will deplete your serotonine less extremely and such, and the subjective qualia are different (the closest analogy would be XTC loving strangers and loving your girlfriend).
but yes we agree but you're just looking at the grim part of the same coin while i prefer the well polished fun-mirror side ;-)
excess pain over time leads to dulled emotions. that is if you have any self-preservation instincts at all. eventually you become numb. or insane.
While Allie is absolutely right, i do not reccommend this method. ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Allie
What have YOU become?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotus