Posted by Racer on August 4, 2005, at 20:32:45
In reply to Analytical Logic and Emotional Logic, posted by pinkeye on August 4, 2005, at 19:06:19
The first one is mostly agreement, with a twist: I don't think about Emotional Logic so much as Mammalian Instinct. (Then again, I'm an odd duck, I'e been told...) Most of what happens to us emotionally seems -- to me -- based on the same sorts of instincts that most animal behavior is. And we are, after all, animals...
The second, though, is that I make a different, but related, mistake:
I try to explain my emotions. I try to justify them. If I can't explain WHY I feel a certain way, I don't feel as though I'm allowed or entitled to feel it. I "shouldn't" feel it. Does taht make sense?
Then again, I come by it honestly. In my childhood, I was often asked to "explain" my feelings that way. If I couldn't explain, for example, how or why I was hurt by something someone else had done, then I wasn't really hurt -- I was just being "bad" somehow. Selfish, usually.
Anyway, I think we're talking cousins in terms of the concept, if that makes sense...
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