[Discussion] Are we slaves to our emotions?

[Donald J Trump]

Can you be a slave to yourself? There's no reason to pretend emotions aren't a part of who you are.

Yeah but the emotions are not me. It seems like they were put in me like a collar on a dog by "God" or "evolution" so that we can reproduce and try to live a "successful" or "happy" life. It's the void we seek to fill and ONLY through obeying the needs will the void feel. Essentially in your neutral state you don't even want kids but your emotions play with you and make you think like YOU want it but do you really want it or is it you trying to fill a void you started feeling out of nowhere?

 

[Donald J Trump]

I sort of empathize with the first part, constantly meeting women that my feelings grow on is quite annoying. Every year there's someone new..Jesus Christ.

However, we aren't slaves to our emotions. We are our emotions, emotions can be our ally and sometimes our foe if we don't handle them correctly, they are our essence. They mold and cultivate us into what we are, and can deconstruct us and decimate us into something much uglier than what we would or could be.

We can also cultivate our own emotions, try to view things as you being the one in power, rather than your emotions. It's not impossible to control and guide them.

it's annoying. Very annoying. I didn't ask for the feelings to develop. Right now I prefer that I didn't have feelings for others or wish that I could turn it off and on because I'm very young and I rather be doing fun stuff instead of spending even a second thinking about some girl nonsense. but no. My brain has to choose someone new every 6 months or so. I DON'T WANT THIS!I'm tired of my brain giving the time of day to people that don't even think about me a lot. It's essentially my body being a lil bit**. It knows the person it likes doesn't care THAT much and( nor do I) but the evolutionary bs kicks in and you start catching feelings. I view it as my body admitting that the others are superior which I'm not looking to admit to. I mean as a person you wanting someone else means you're not happy with just being by yourself.You're not good enough. You need someone else.

 

[Arian]

dude, we are just really really really complex and complicated chemical reactions U_U

our "free will" is just a combination of our chemistry and our enviroment....

 

[Inmate]

it's annoying. Very annoying. I didn't ask for the feelings to develop. Right now I prefer that I didn't have feelings for others or wish that I could turn it off and on because I'm very young and I rather be doing fun stuff instead of spending even a second thinking about some girl nonsense. but no. My brain has to choose someone new every 6 months or so. I DON'T WANT THIS!I'm tired of my brain giving the time of day to people that don't even think about me a lot. It's essentially my body being a lil bit**. It knows the person it likes doesn't care THAT much and( nor do I) but the evolutionary bs kicks in and you start catching feelings. I view it as my body admitting that the others are superior which I'm not looking to admit to. I mean as a person you wanting someone else means you're not happy with just being by yourself.You're not good enough. You need someone else.

Inevitably, we do need someone else to feel alive; to be reminded that our existence matters.

 

[Darth AniCetuS]

Yes under certain situations but not always.

 

[Chikombo]

No, just ask Sherlock Holmes he is cold af.

 

[Marin]

Our emotions are a part of us so it doesn't make any sense to say that you're a slave to your emotions when your emotions are you. Ofcourse, they're not the whole deal, you have your reason and rationale, but emotions constitute a fundamental part of you as people are emotional creatures.

I think your problem comes more from the fact that our control has it's limits and that our life is to a great degree influenced by outside factors rather than emotions themselves.

 

[Belserion]

then why did you quote him?

Why did you quote me?

 

[whiteboy2345]

Your problem is your inability to completely control your emotions, which is just how it is, nothing can be done about it.

Sometimes it's better that our emotions lead us, not always but sometimes.

 

[Chikombo]

If we are all slaves to emotion then we might as well create simulations and drugs for everything, there is something real about actually achieving something not just feeling like you have accomplished something. We are not slaves to emotions but I'm sure some people are to some capacity.
People are not guided by emotions then everyone would be nice and nothing would matter, we are guided by reason and harsh realities.

We don't do whatever we feel like.

Yeah but the emotions are not me. It seems like they were put in me like a collar on a dog by "God" or "evolution" so that we can reproduce and try to live a "successful" or "happy" life. It's the void we seek to fill and ONLY through obeying the needs will the void feel. Essentially in your neutral state you don't even want kids but your emotions play with you and make you think like YOU want it but do you really want it or is it you trying to fill a void you started feeling out of nowhere?

You are responsible for your emotions, if you say I felt like killing someone you will be held responsible not your emotions.

 

[Pyro NB]

Nobody is free of emotions or feelings. We all feel something... no matter how shallow and fleeting it might be.

Alexithymia

 

[Оdin]

Alexithymia

Doesn't disprove my point.

 

[Pyro NB]

Doesn't disprove my point.

They are people who can't understand the concept of, recognize, or even explain what emotions feel like and often tend to treat themselves like robots. I would say they aren't slaves to something they basically don't have :/

 

[Оdin]

Nobody is free of emotions or feelings. We all feel something... no matter how shallow and fleeting it might be.

They are people who can't understand the concept of, recognize, or even explain what emotions feel like and often tend to treat themselves like robots. I would say they aren't slaves to something they basically don't have :/

They still feel, which is what my previous point was for.

 

[Pyro NB]

They still feel, which is what my previous point was for.

Ok but if the original question at hand was "Are we slaves to our emotions?" and my answer to this question was yes but some are free of emotions. You then respond to me with "Nobody is free of emotions or feelings. [...]" which I respond back with a psychological condition that 10% of the general population have that causes them to not comprehend emotion. So as far as the general question yes some people are free of emotion and as far as the addition concerning feeling yes pretty much everyone feels something one example would be pain but just because one feels pain doesn't make them a slave to it. Now though it is slim there is a chance that a person with Alexithymia could also not feel pain which voids this person of anger, joy, sadness, pain, love, hate, dislike, like making this person truly free of emotion and feelings.

 

[Оdin]

Ok but if the original question at hand was "Are we slaves to our emotions?" and my answer to this question was yes but some are free of emotions. You then respond to me with "Nobody is free of emotions or feelings. [...]" which I respond back with a psychological condition that 10% of the general population have that causes them to not comprehend emotion. So as far as the general question yes some people are free of emotion and as far as the addition concerning feeling yes pretty much everyone feels something one example would be pain but just because one feels pain doesn't make them a slave to it. Now though it is slim there is a chance that a person with Alexithymia could also not feel pain which voids this person of anger, joy, sadness, pain, love, hate, dislike, like making this person truly free of emotion and feelings.

To me "free of emotions" means someone who doesn't feel anything (not true since everybody feels something), which is why I said that when I replied to you initially. In which case... misunderstanding resolved.

 

[Pyro NB]

To me "free of emotions" means someone who doesn't feel anything (not true since everybody feels something), which is why I said that when I replied to you initially. In which case... misunderstanding resolved.

Understood but just so you know the term feel applies to both emotions(happy, sad, hate, love, etc.) and sensations(hunger, pain, thirst, etc.). While yes generally humans feel all of these there are those who feel one or the other and there is also a small chance that there are people out there who feel neither emotion or sensation(one scary mf imo).

 

[Kishi Uzumaki]

You like or not it gonna be that way as biological animals your brain will create chemical responses according to the situations you're in so only thing you can hope is gain control over it to some extent with the logicalness of your mind then maybe you can make right decisions even in front of the strong emotions you feels .

 

[Narushima]

It's thoughts that lead to emotions. Focus your mind on positive thoughts, and you can learn to control yourself. Then those positive emotions will make you take positive action.

Thoughts and emotions interact, and while thoughts can be translated into action, what can happen is that events outside our control evoke an emotional response, to which our thoughts are in fact responses:

Event --> emotional responses --> thoughts --> behaviour

People with mood disorders tend to become enmeshed in loops of the following form where emotions and thoughts feedback into each other:

Event --> negative emotional responses --> negative thoughts --> negative emotional responses --> negative thoughts --> negative emotional responses --> negative thoughts --> …

The key is to break the loop – cognitive behavioural therapy approaches work on the thoughts, antidepressants on the emotional responses.

 

[The Work]

Yeah I only go to the gym to look good because of girls.

So it makes sense