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regular.joe · 12-26-2011, 06:57 PM

Emotion and intellect are not mutually exclusive. We, well most of us, are both emotional and intellectual creatures. We should not deny one over the other. I've made many decisions with a gut, intuitive emotional back ground. I"ve made many decisions with a Military Decision Making Process much like a flow chart and in depth war gaming and planning. Generally I use both, with lots of back and forth.

TW, you are reminding me of the movie Equilibrium where emotion is illegal and people take medication to have no emotions. Because emotions are what have caused wars, and the like. You may live a life based only on intellect, I wonder if you are a sociopathic person who does not feel any emotion. Do you emulate body language of the rest of us who do, so as to get along in this world? Hence, your extreme distaste for emotional content of our human behavior, and the focus on this in only it's negative contexts. I am not being derisive here, I am curious. I may have you all wrong, and if I do I am sorry. It is hard in text only conversation to read body language and tone of voice.

Any way, trust me, outside of the news, the human race has many great and fantastic attributes based on our emotional interaction with the world.

12-26-2011, 06:57 PM	#22
regular.joe Старый сержант Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NC, dreaming of large Russian women. Posts: 1,464	Emotion and intellect are not mutually exclusive. We, well most of us, are both emotional and intellectual creatures. We should not deny one over the other. I've made many decisions with a gut, intuitive emotional back ground. I"ve made many decisions with a Military Decision Making Process much like a flow chart and in depth war gaming and planning. Generally I use both, with lots of back and forth. TW, you are reminding me of the movie Equilibrium where emotion is illegal and people take medication to have no emotions. Because emotions are what have caused wars, and the like. You may live a life based only on intellect, I wonder if you are a sociopathic person who does not feel any emotion. Do you emulate body language of the rest of us who do, so as to get along in this world? Hence, your extreme distaste for emotional content of our human behavior, and the focus on this in only it's negative contexts. I am not being derisive here, I am curious. I may have you all wrong, and if I do I am sorry. It is hard in text only conversation to read body language and tone of voice. Any way, trust me, outside of the news, the human race has many great and fantastic attributes based on our emotional interaction with the world. __________________ Birth, wealth, and position are valueless during wartime. Man is only judged by his character --Soldier's Testament. Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. - Marcus Aurelius.