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Old 07-25-2004, 06:18 PM   #1
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don't throw the baby out with the bath water just because you don't like negative emotions, like ire, and fear, and rage. you are incomplete if you abandon all emotion.
and that is a blunt, honest fact
Failed to understand the point of that post - that started with an example of using rather than quashing emotions. Emotions are a powerful force. But does one fire high power rifles and 105mm cannons into the air only because happiness that a son was born? Yes if emotions are your enemy. No if a logical brain controls those emotions.

Apparently you failed to comprehend what was posted. No where did I say humans should be emotionalless - should be Spock. In fact I posted, by example, the complete opposite. Emotion is a powerful force. But human emotions are always controlled by a logical brain - when the human is an adult. There are many adults who are still children. They will fire military weapons in the air simply to celebrate a wedding - even in LA. No adult would ever let emotions threaten human life. The difference between an adult and an adult child.
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Old 07-25-2004, 06:20 PM   #2
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don't throw the baby out with the bath water just because you don't like negative emotions, like ire, and fear, and rage. you are incomplete if you abandon all emotion.
and that is a blunt, honest fact
Failed to understand the point of my post - that began with an example of using rather than quashing emotions. Emotions are a powerful force. But does one fire high power rifles and 105mm cannons into the air only because happiness that a son was born? Yes if emotions are your enemy. No if a logical brain controls those emotions.

Apparently you failed to comprehend what was posted. No where did I say humans should be emotionalless - should be Spock. In fact I posted, by example, the complete opposite. Emotion is a powerful force. But human emotions are always controlled by a logical brain - when the human is an adult. There are many adults who are still children. They will fire military weapons in the air simply to celebrate a wedding - even in LA. No adult would ever let emotions threaten human life. The difference between an adult and an adult child.
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Old 07-25-2004, 11:01 PM   #3
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that's crazy talk
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Old 07-26-2004, 10:58 AM   #4
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that's crazy talk
Crazy talk is when one advocates doing anything to appease one's emotions. It is also called 'being a child'. Politicians and salesmen love adult children. These are the easiest to separate from their money. True adults keep their emotions in check - buy what they really need and therefore have more fun and happiness.
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Old 07-26-2004, 11:23 AM   #5
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no, i meant you sound like you're crazy. not so much what you were saying, more ~how~ you say it. cuckoo...... cuckoo......
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Old 07-26-2004, 11:44 AM   #6
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has anyone here met tw face to face?
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Old 07-26-2004, 11:53 AM   #7
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no, but we DO have an artist's composite here
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Old 07-26-2004, 12:17 PM   #8
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Little-known but absolutely true factoid: tw and the Cellar lived within apx. 200 feet of each other for a year and a half in the early 90s and neither one knew it until later. Adjacent apartment buildings.
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