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[fayanora]

Sometimes, I feel like a Vulcan amongst humans. I push much of my emotions aside and rely heavily on logic, and then I run into proverbial walls because most other people have - at best - only a passing acquaintence with logic, and at worst go entirely on emotions. I'm not like Data, I have emotions and instincts, even whims. But even my whims are

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[consortofvenus]

Oh, Faydoodle, I'm with you.

[fayanora]

:-)

[underlankers]

Emotions guide all decisions. I have examined why and how I think, and have found that often my reasons for thinking something are far from the reality and the way I wished I thought is not the way I truly think. The greatest sin of the Hellenistic-Age Philosophers who have created Modern Western philosophy was to condemn emotion. To deny it is to create a hollow shell, one brittle and crumbly to the touch, not sturdy in any true sense.

Western Man shuns his emotions and his very body itself. The Flesh is not evil, the Emotion not weakness. To pretend that they are is the fault of the Damned Greeks. They are 2,000 years gone and we have seen the blood their ideas have created. Time to grow up and accept all aspects of humanity, not just our imagined ones we like.

[fayanora]

I'd be lying if I said there was no emotional aspect to my beliefs and ideas and so on, but I really do run everything through my logic centers. It's such an ingrained habit I don't think I can even circumvent it anymore.

[christinaathena]

Logic is, indeed, meaningless without emotions. Logic can only tell you how to get to a goal, it can't tell you whether a goal is useful. To claim that logic alone can lead you to meaningful actions is to pretend that the emotion is logic, which prevents one from seeing one's own biases, because those biases are misanalyzed as "logical" or "objective"