Which rules you?

[HisHoliness]

Your logic has a gap. You believe that I am narrow minded - by which, I am assuming, you believe that I don't consider others viewpoints - when, in fact, I do.. I have just rejected them all, because of my logic. Unfeeling - my feelings are a product of my logic. Incapable of being someone... - wrong again. I am not someone who doesn't rephrase rote objectivist idealistic statements. But that doesn't mean I can't become one. Man can always change - that's logical to assume. We are not borne with a personality, so I can change. Lonely and unsatisfied - wrong again. I am sure that there are other people out there whose ideas and feelings are products of their logic, and I imagine we'll be very happy together. It is illogical to assume there is no one else like me.
Your logic is wrong.



Your emotions tell you that? I thought that my posts would have.

Yes, but that is a logical assumption from my posts. You see that I am young and feeling the need, and so it follow that it is normal for who I am (why else would I post it?) and beautiful - achievement is a logical thing, and spreading wings and voicing opinions is a precursor to achievement in some area.
This is illogical. It is logical to assume that I can believe what I want - because I am doing it. It is illogical to say neither side of an issue should assume their own right-or-wrong -ness. Each side is either right or wrong on an issue, because of objective reality. I know that I'm right because I side with logic, and therefore, objective reality.

No, that's logical too. I am human, and therefore, can have breaks in my normal philosophy that I don't expect.

I hope for your sake that none of the girls at your school see your posts in this thread. You're in for a long romantic dry spell if you actually practice with this attitude.

 

[Ria]

Well, I found it logical to pour myself a glass of red wine and chill!!!

 

[COOL_BREEZE2]

Well, I found it logical to pour myself a glass of red wine and chill!!!

A logical and emotionally sound choice. :clap

I just had an emotional lemon chicken, rice and chunky veg dinner. :nod:

 

[Ria]

A logical and emotionally sound choice. :clap

I just had an emotional lemon chicken, rice and chunky veg dinner. :nod:

Oh, good emotional choice there and logical to realize it is what was best for you tonight. :nod:

 

[DavyBoy]

Hmm, in response to the original post.... I'd say I use a lot of both. I wear my heart on my sleeve sometimes with my emotional reactions to things, but most of my actual actions are results of logical thinking - i.e. I rarely do anything without thinking about it first.

 

[Butterfly]

I would just like to ask, how can anyone even think of letting their feelings rule them? It's entirely outside logic, and how can you deny logic? It just doesn't make sense to me. Your logic is the thing which keeps you alive, and which promotes your long run welfare. Your feelings are primeval half-thoughts that carry no reasoning in them. How can you let those rule you?

So basically, you'd like to think of yourself as a Vulcan?


I have a feeling you may revise your opinion once you are all grown up, and have actually experienced a whole lot more of real life
But I also suspect that your pride will never let you acknowledge that to anyone, possibly not even to yourself.

 

[GraceAbounds]

Your heart, brain, or both?

I try my best to use both even though my natural tendency seems to lean more toward pure logic.

But my walk with the Lord made me acutely aware that I was made with a brain and a heart for a reason. I believe that to not utilize both blessings would be to not live my life to the fullest potential that God created me to achieve.

My mind knows what my minds knows, but it is my heart that touches other people and let's them know that my heart sees the hidden and wonderful potential in them that my logic/mind can't.

 

[Carthage]

So basically, you'd like to think of yourself as a Vulcan?


I have a feeling you may revise your opinion once you are all grown up, and have actually experienced a whole lot more of real life
But I also suspect that your pride will never let you acknowledge that to anyone, possibly not even to yourself.

Vulcans think they're rational, but objectivists always beet them hands down.

You might be right. But then, that would be an emotional pride and not a logical choice to do so.