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originally posted by: Raggedyman
Hmm, but
We can to a degree control our emotions while many let their emotions control them.
There can and should be a balance, change our world or calm our (personal) world down.
Not sure where you are going but, see many people let emotions rule their lives. We are emotional but not subjects to emotions. Maybe-kinda, probably not
originally posted by: peter vlar
originally posted by: Raggedyman
Hmm, but
We can to a degree control our emotions while many let their emotions control them.
There can and should be a balance, change our world or calm our (personal) world down.
Not sure where you are going but, see many people let emotions rule their lives. We are emotional but not subjects to emotions. Maybe-kinda, probably not
I think the OP is confusing emotions with instincts like fight or flight.
originally posted by: peter vlar
originally posted by: Raggedyman
Hmm, but
We can to a degree control our emotions while many let their emotions control them.
There can and should be a balance, change our world or calm our (personal) world down.
Not sure where you are going but, see many people let emotions rule their lives. We are emotional but not subjects to emotions. Maybe-kinda, probably not
I was going to say the same thing, that we can control our emotions. I think the OP is confusing emotions with instincts like fight or flight.
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: peter vlar
Tell me how you control emotions.
The Latin derivative for the word emotion, 'emotere', literally means energy in motion.
It is the feeling sensation and physiological reaction that makes a specific emotion positive or negative. Feeling is what you label as anger, sadness, joy or fear.
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
originally posted by: peter vlar
originally posted by: Raggedyman
Hmm, but
We can to a degree control our emotions while many let their emotions control them.
There can and should be a balance, change our world or calm our (personal) world down.
Not sure where you are going but, see many people let emotions rule their lives. We are emotional but not subjects to emotions. Maybe-kinda, probably not
I think the OP is confusing emotions with instincts like fight or flight.
The fight or flight response is a physiological response triggered when we feel a strong emotion like fear. Fear is the normal emotion to feel in response to a danger or threat.
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
The Latin derivative for the word emotion, 'emotere', literally means energy in motion.
Tell me how you control emotions.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
The Latin derivative for the word emotion, 'emotere', literally means energy in motion.
It's actually 'emovere' and it means 'to agitate or move out'.
emotion (n.)
1570s, "a (social) moving, stirring, agitation," from Middle French émotion (16c.), from Old French emouvoir "stir up" (12c.), from Latin emovere "move out, remove, agitate," from assimilated form of ex "out" (see ex-) + movere "to move" (from PIE root *meue- "to push away"). Sense of "strong feeling" is first recorded 1650s; extended to any feeling by 1808. A better source than Google.