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vinny the hack |
Do feelings serve any useful purpose? |
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The debate about what constitutes insults has several sides to it, but it seems to be generally agreed that being able to rise above feelings of hurt or
embarrassment is a beneficial ability. Are there any feelings that serve useful purposes, or are they all a detriment to human beings?
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. --Dean Martin
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Ducky M |
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vinny the hack wrote:I think that the first possibility is correct. For example, feeding the hungry is deemed to be a useful activity ( at least by the hungry! ) That activity is probably motivated by either a feeling of guilt or the desire to experience the euphoria of doing something deemed to be useful. |
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Dan Rowden |
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I would dare say any "feeling" that arises from sources other than false mindstates are likely beneficial. I mean, we can't really function
without them, can we? Being able to function seems pretty beneficial.
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Laird Shaw |
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Feelings serve very useful purposes. I'd go so far as to say that they're the bedrock of consciousness. Is it even possible to be conscious without
being in some mood, and what is a mood other than a state of feeling? Further, I argue that feelings are a key component of thought. One of the ways in which
we "know" that we have solved the equation correctly, or found the weakness in our opponent's argument, is that it "feels" right. Being
right is in a lot of ways not much more than a feeling. Finally, feelings give colour, texture and richness to what would otherwise be a bland life.
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Ducky M |
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Glad everybody agrees.
Perhaps a "Feeling Strait" forum should be opened so that this topic can be properly clobbered to death. |
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Muthaiga |
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Yes. They're what separate us from robots and libertarians.
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Robert Larkin |
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Feelings? I myself feel that on this bran' new Olio I 'know' that Dannytoro, Vinny the Hack, Decagon, Asplagis, Matthew whatever
whatever Wyatt, and me of course, are fit to admin here, and if it's time to separate the kids from the adults, let's go. Let the children wipe their
own asses, because we're here, kids, and we're laughing at the Vanguard joke(s), and KIR, and TPG (I and II), and Common Asskicking (Common Bullshit?
Common Babel?), because we can understand you and still kick your silly asses.
Now Victor Danilehenko and Philosophaster might be considered, but they have a certain Common Problem, and that's 'Western Philosophy', and if that is a particularly The Equine School problem, Daddy's here ... Just don't assume the problem would be in 'Western Philosophy' itself, because the measure of a study 'seating itself' in the humanities is a better problem than whether I can understand its normanclatures and its syntax, or whether Babel doesn't prove an awfully good symbol when you're denying any 'kinship' with it, and whether in kicking Damon Woolsey's ass all over the field with just a skim and an oblique comment elsewhere, by Vinny the Hack, we can't also get to damned near all of 'Western Philosophy' as a problem in the humanities. Yes, kids, Robert's here ... and 'us' is mighty hard to beat. We even think our liver joke is good, and Victor D. ought to have understood that. When someone saw someone drop some liver, he would say, 'That's okay, ma'am; it would have been an idjit anyway.' We had, for one, 'That's okay, Geneva, it would have been a Calvinist.' We? I! And that references - yes indeedy - the Dalai Lama. So who's going to deal with us, in politics, or art, or whatever you'd like? Now I don't care if anyone publicly renounces a field of study so reprehensible in what can be inferred from it that 'Obama vs. Palin' has genocidal and torturous meanings within it itself, but if you want to defend it, you'd better know more than 'just it', so what's Erichtho doing these days? |
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vinny the hack |
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Muthaiga wrote:For a second, I thought you said "librarians". |
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Muthaiga |
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Hey, some of my best friend are librarians. Actually, that's not true.
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vinny the hack |
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It's never true.
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Robert Larkin |
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See, kids, both Muttonhead and Vincenzo the Extraordinarily Inferior are pointing out, and they probably don't know it since Vizzini has hiked on
'never', and 'Ike' just checked the sound on 'hiked', and this is 'hardscrabble' and so even if by implication some day
Dan's and Jens' children for which they now hope and perish they never had, means that one implication of the Internet is this, that distant heirs of
dear old Dan and Dear Old Fat Stupid Nazi Jens think we should not ever have bombed Copenhagen now that we've kicked out Melbourne, and some of us can feel
a breaking in the air and which gives Robert a siren in St. Louis, and an edit on the fly.
And for our sweet patooties, and who are Rootie's patooties, we say what? That the Digital Revolution is itself a reminder of the Civil War, and the distinction is this, that money and class cannot be inferred unless some William Paley also be the Stalin of Librarians, and whether Stalin is a psychotic or is someone just a'stallin with Beadle Bailey means something to someone, that Dan had better also have read his emails, since knowing Uncle Robert is both a privilege and an honour and 'an icy stare' that you cannot forget that if you play games with this human heart, I shall literally destroy you. And we say that is an art of living, and that you must observe what you are doing in your repeated behaviours or else the concept 'wither' will refer to all of yours and that they shall wither on the vine before you can again vex all of humanity by ignoring this church, and which is The Eastern Baptist Church of Robbydharma, and of which you have been surely answered and as you have been surely served and as you have been required to observe but never to interfere with a church which is the protector of humanity. --Robert Larkin/Robbydharma |
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Robert Larkin |
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And I think we were just arguing limitations on the Celestial Game of Hearts and in which I displayed what might be made from the 'circles on the recycle
bin' in St. Louis, last night.
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