[MD] Marsha's (s)OL: the question

[markhsmit]

OK,
No more pejorative "just" or "only" or whatever else we can agree on.
Still, it's kinda neat to get that tingly.  Gives one a chance to
snap back.
"Always" yours,
Mark

On Oct 26, 2009, at 9:35:59 AM, "John Carl" <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
From:   "John Carl" <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>
Subject:    Re: [MD] Marsha's (s)OL: the question
Date:   October 26, 2009 9:35:59 AM PDT
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 8:00 AM, markhsmit <markhsmit at aol.com> wrote:

> Hi Bodvar,
>
> Just an emotion, eh? A spark fired across a gap? If
> you can explain that to me then maybe we'll get
> somewhere.



Yay mark. Good answer.



> This so called intellect is just complex
> communication which is an extension of
> the so called emotion.



Oops. The infamous pejorative "just". Same as "only". Always sets my
spidey sense tingling...

tingling....

What is this tingling? ZAMM and Lila are stuff chock full of it. Author
describes how he's feeling, all the time, almost always what sticks out in
my mind is that he feels something he doesn't quite understand, and then
thinks about it till he figures out why he feels that way.

He even defines success in terms of feeling. When you feel good about a
project, you know its done. Peace of mind is the whole definition of when
the bicycle is fixed or the motorcycle maintained.

Peace of mind.

A feeling.

Feelings are emotional. Thinking is intellectual. They go together in us
humans, constantly. No matter how inferior our intellectual capacity, we
all feel things long before we can figure them out. We feel congruently,
while intellectually we vary widely. That's our social condition.

Our intellect also guides our feelings. When we know more about our
environment objectively our emotional reactions stem from the knowledge
gained. If I think about sitting on a hot stove before doing it (for some
rational or irrational reason) when I do sit upon it my emotional reaction
is quite different than if I'm surprised.

If I know intellectually that I'm all alone on a deserted island, the sight
of a footprint in the sand has a completely different emotional impact upon
me. My feelings arise from what I think, and my thinking arises from what I
feel. They blend and swish and arise together like fish 69ing in whirlpool
sea.

So what I'm saying is, there's no way to reduce one to "just" an aspect of
the other.

John, feeling good.
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