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LoneMystic
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Theory about emotions. True or false?
#18880951 - 09/23/13 02:58 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Some of the things i say here are assumptions for I've never had an experience with magic mushrooms. Yesterday, it was about 12 PM and i was pondering over an event that had happened earlier that morning.It led up to emotions being the roots of it. I'm far from knowledgeable and i'm here to learn. Please read the complete thread and criticize my ideas that may be far from original. This is what i wrote in the notes section of my iPod. I believe that emotions, just as mushrooms do, have thresholds. The starting thresholds for any individual vary. As people interact and grow, their thresholds for certain emotions do to. The more people use a certain emotion, the easier it is for that emotion to activate since its threshold has decreased. An example of this would be someone who takes the advice of smiling regardless of whether or not he is really happy. The first day he fakes his smiles but doesn't really feel a difference. By the end of the week his fake smiles turned into a real grin. The emotion, even when faked, became bigger and bigger within this person. Before he took the advice, he would only smile if he helped others in a huge way. Now this guy smiles if he hears about someone else helping others.His threshold for the emotion "happy" shrunk so much that he doesn't need to see someone helping someone else, he just needs to hear that it happened. Bi polar disorders may be caused from extremely little thresholds of each emotion within a person that causes the change from one to another almost immediately.
** so sorry if you didn't learn anything. I probably just took a cup from the pool of consciousness and peed it back in. Please be brutal with your criticisms for that may be the only way i'll learn.
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Re: Theory about emotions. True or false? [Re: LoneMystic]
#18881970 - 09/23/13 07:42 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's an interesting theory, but I can't say I have experienced this 'threshold' phenomenon in my life.
If I could give any reason for the fact that emotions feel freer the more often I experience them, I would put it down to increased confidence and internal acceptance feeling an emotion. Whereas an underdeveloped person might remonstrate themselves for feeling certain emotions, I believe that the more open and accepting one becomes, the more one is then allowed to feel things which previously would not have been acceptable.
Also, just experiencing the whole array of human emotions time and time again makes them more easily identifiable in my experience.
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LoneMystic
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Re: Theory about emotions. True or false? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#18882097 - 09/23/13 08:09 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thank you so much for your insight on this topic. Maybe the "Threshold" phenomenon only occurs in emotions like anger. I read something that said the more times you get angry the easier it is for you to get angry. Maybe this occurs because of some sort of mutation in the beliefs of the person getting angry. His/her environment adapts the the level of intensity that the angry person shows leading to the witnesses not reacting as much as they would have the first day seeing them outburst. The angry person therefore, must get angrier to achieve the same response that they got in the first outburst.
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Re: Theory about emotions. True or false? [Re: LoneMystic]
#18882819 - 09/23/13 10:50 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm not sure I agree with the theory that "he more times you get angry the easier it is for you to get angry". If anything, I've found the opposite with the more 'negative' emotions (at least, those that tend to make you feel unpleasant).
Does one get angry simply to achieve a response in others? I'm not sure about that one. Having been a very angry young man, I know that anger, to me, was like a drug. It made me feel extremely powerful. I'm not sure it had anything to do with other peoples responses, although I could well be wrong.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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Re: Theory about emotions. True or false? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#18883353 - 09/24/13 02:26 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
By the end of the week his fake smiles turned into a real grin.
Doing dumb things is funny. 
Kidding aside I think the intent to stick with something along the lines you mention might produce results, but perhaps for deeper reasons than the practice itself.
-------------------- rahz comfort pleasure power love truth awareness peace "You’re not looking close enough if you can only see yourself in people who look like you." —Ayishat Akanbi
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LoneMystic
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Re: Theory about emotions. True or false? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#18884034 - 09/24/13 09:29 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thank you for your insight. I've never taken classes on emotions or behavior. I was just wondering about something that came to mind. I guess not all people use anger to infuse fear on the people they're "angry" with. I've certainly seen a few that use the emotion for manipulative reasons. Thank you both for your insights on this, I'm sure it'll will sharpen my stick.
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Re: Theory about emotions. True or false? [Re: LoneMystic]
#18884048 - 09/24/13 09:33 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Nice to see someone here to learn. That little bit of humility will take you far.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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