Would we be better off without emotions?
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i agree to what your saying but not all decisions based on emotions are bad because if we didn't have emotions towards are decisions then no one would choose to become doctors and save lives and no one would chose to make or help fundraising for people in need but like i said i agree with everything you said about emotions but there are positive sides to them too.
690438
Thinking with emotions is something that I found to be the source of a lot of my problems. When I started to pause and think I found myself making better decisions. This usually comes with the desire to change as well as just being a natural part of growing up.
272069
Let me ask you this.  If you had a time machine and could change any event in your past, would that make you feel better about yourself today?  If it would then realize what it is about that event that is sabotaging you today.  If it is a past thing, often times we know intellectually that we are ok but our emotions are still tied to that past event.  Emotions stay the same no matter how old we get.  We cant stop the pain in life sometimes but we can increase the tools to deal with it.  When you dropped something as a young child you cried.  You can drop the same item now and it is ok, why?  You have information now that tells intellectually it is ok.  The emotions are the same but the tools to deal with that event are in place.  You have already experienced that event and it no longer shocks you.  So what is it about your life that is shocking you now?\n\nWhatever the issue is past, present, you need to see what is eating away at it.  It is ok to feel bad, it is the flipside of the coin to feeling happy.  The problem is if we become depressed about it, all life's issues become sensative and bigger problems than they are.\n\nYoung or old we all feel down at times.  Some just hide it better or keep themselves occupied to endure those moments.  Sometimes we feel like we are being taken somewhere and have no way to steer it.  The key is planning what you want to do.  Life is 90% how you react to it.  If you think you are successful and a good person, people will be convinced of it too.  Most reality comes from someone's perception.  They believed it and it became so.\n\nDepression is impression without expression.  Something gets you down, find a way to express it.\n\nIf you kind of hate yourself then you have not completely made full judgement on yourself yet.  If you hate yourself than you are having an expectation that you are not at yet.  Find out what that is and is it a valid expectation?\n\nGood luck to you!
522659
Always remember, happiness is a state of the mind...\nwhen we are happy our mind is the one that gives us this feeling of happiness not the heart...-lil bro\n\nIts because of the Hypothalamus in the brain which controls our emotions. I wish I could take it out(or at least the part of it  which controls the emotions which I dunno where)...if only it werent that important...(it controls our whole body!) then we can live without emotions. Now that would be fun.   -me ü
304603
No. While feelings are REAL, they are not TRUTH. Base your life & decisions on truth; not feelings.
525939
Crying is better than keeping it in, keeping it in is what causes more emotional problems
649170
in a word no, but on the other hand u learn to be without something and i am sure most people would learn to live withoout it \n\nbut it would kill me lol
1030965
No, I personally would only give money to someone who had obvious material needs, & not for emotional needs.  My advice to you is try to find a way to be happy that isn't based on materialism.
156957
We are only happy if there is a possibilty to be sad. if we have everything, we have no reason to be sad, so we're not happy. but we forget that if we lose everything, we can be sad too. so be happy.
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It'd be worst to be without the pain gene, I think fear is just limitation, You'll get hurt more without the gene but you'll live life alot more happily and freely. Things would probably be a lot less stable and more volatile, but You can't say it wouldn't be enjoyable. You'd need the pain gene no matter what, because if you were doing something and it was hurting you, you wouldn't know, you'd just end up dying from it. So having no fear, but being able to feel pain from things to keep you within some reasonable limit, would be better I feel. But i think it's best that we possess both of those genes. If we weren't supposed to have them, we wouldn't.
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Having a "thin skin" isn't a bad thing at all.  It's really an indication that you react to the world around you and that your feelings are in good working order.  Many people have built up such strong psychological mechanisms against feeling hurt that they have become numb to their own emotional pain.  The problem is that we can't choose which emotions we block out; eventually they all go numb - even happiness. So you are at an advantage if your emotional awareness tells you when something isn't right, or when you are with someone who doesn't have your best interests at heart.  You'll know much sooner when it's time to get away from someone, with your capacity for happiness still intact.  Lucky you.
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Absolutely! Look at the kids who grow up in daycares or with babysitters who are all stressed out from watching so many different kids through out the day, that they can't give the proper affection and attention that the child needs. Then look at the ones who are raised 100% by one of the parents (usually the mom) and get the proper affection, attention and discipline. (Positive discipline) The child learns proper manners, ways to handle lifes situations, how to talk to and address people, whats important in life etc.\nAll this of course being based on the parents being loving and properly raising their children.\n\nSo yes without a doubt, children are much better off having a stay at home parent. I believe it is far more important to have less material things and produce a child who will be a great person and example of how we are to be.
529776
Not necessarily.\n\nFeedback can be useful, but is not more important than the help by itself.
6095
Experience is a strict taskmaster, but it's more effective than any other method.  Yes, I think that you mature more quickly without a support system, but you also make a lot more mistakes.  All in all, it's better to have family and support than have to re-invent the wheel of life by yourself.
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You don't get hurt. That's about it. But actually you don't benefit from it because then you don't know what happiness is. You don't live life if you are heartless. You're just walking the face of Earth pointlessly. We have a heart and it was meant to be used to find happiness.
1009375
Yes. It would help you to get all of your anger and other feelings out. It would be a form of therapy. And who knows? You might be able to get it published.
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Yes, it is possible, and I understand you worry. However, some people have to be alone to realize their purpose is not human company, they might need to learn more about themselves and without the dsitraction of significant people, one is more likely to concentrate on self awareness.\nIt is alright to be worried, the important thing is your conclusions from this worry, what you do with. If you decide to learn from not having anyone indispensable, you will make it an advantage instead of a problem it seems to be.