[MD] Evil in the Church of Reason

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Hi guys,
From a scientific point of view, emotions arise from the limbic system and involve the hypothalamus. This part of the brain sits on top the brain stem and is considered primitive since most mammals have it.  See how silly science can be?  Relegating emotions to some pre-intellectual place.  Perhaps we cannot define them since they were there before we had words.  We can only define that which is derived from words.  

Mark

On Aug 28, 2011, at 12:20 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Joe
> 
> 
>> Take a long look at emotions.  To say they are unreal if foolish.  To
>> define
>> Joy is equally foolish, you are bound to miss something.  DQ/SQ.
>> 
>> Joe
> 
> 
> Interesting because yesterday I stopped by my old MoQ friend Steve Marquis's
> house, and we had a rousing discussion concerning emotions and DQ.  In that
> discussion, I started out postulating your point, which is that DQ is
> emotion.  Steve argued with me and we went round and round for a while.  I
> don't know if he reached any conclusions, but I feel I sure did.  DQ might
> not be emotional, but my personal response to it certainly is.  And since I
> only have my emotional intelligence to judge by, I have to admit that I
> can't go outside of that response in my analysis.  Deep down, whatever else
> "rightness" is, its a feeling in my soul that I call "emotion".  But this
> feeling I have, I have to construe as being *about something outside of my
> feelings, eh?  So I can't relegate DQ to "whatever you feel" anymore than
> "Quality is just in your head.*
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> *
> *Thanks,*
> *
> *
> *John *
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