Are you led by logic or emotion?

by compound complex 49 Replies latest jw experiences

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  AGuest

  Greetings, dear CoCo... and peace to you!

  Please forgive my verbosity but I want to answer truthfully:

  I am rarely led by emotion (most who know me are a bit confused at first because they say I think "like a man" (I am often mistaken for being a man here on the board)... meaning, I don't think/speak like "most women" they know... and so they confess that they had a "hard time getting to know [me]"... because I didn't/don't "fit" into their expectations. Once they do, however, they almost always comment that, "I had you pegged all wrong!" and we become VERY good friends).

  I try as best I can to be led by "logic" (because "logic" can rarely be defied. Note, I said rarely and "logic" because it usually applies to the physical world, not the spiritual).

  I admit that I am sometimes led by intuition (probably because I'm "a woman"... and a mom... but who knows why...).

  But I am almost always led by Christ, the Holy Spirit (because I look and listen to him... although not entirely always - sometimes I DON'T listen and then, well... - to guide virtually my "walk" in this life. Because what do I know, really? Nothing. Truly.)

  Anyway, great question... and peace to you!

  A slave of Christ,

  SA
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  compound complex

  Wasblind:

  Agreed!

  Night Owl:

  Thanks and welcome to JWN!

  CoCo
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  compound complex

  AGuest:

  A most welcomed and heartfelt/logical reply. I want to write more but will think first ... !

  Thank you for your beautiful thoughts.

  CoCo
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  moshe

  I have frequently wondered, if the people in society who seem to be led by emotion and make poor choices in regards to future planning/saving, might actually have been the clan leaders in a hunter-gatherer society of the past.
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  White Dove

  Emotion gets me interested in something.

  Logic lets me know to drop it or pursue it.

  Logic keeps me safe.

  Emotion lets me enjoy it.
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  Quentin

  I'll tell a story on emotion, about me. I had at one time a raging temper. Cocked pistol all the time.

  Kathy had placed a small magnitized digital clock on the ice box door. At the time I weighed about 380 lbs, every time I entered the kitchen area I knocked the little bugger off the door. One afternoon I knocked the clock, once again, off the door. Becoming enraged opened and SLAMED the refer door hard as I could many times over. Of course other itims droped off as well. The kitchen was small, like a crazed bull with red glowing eyes my 13D Wolvoren boots romped and stomped everything on the floor. Spoting the clock, untouched, I and my boots attacked it. I stomped and stomped that clock. In the prossess of stomping and grinding knocked a glass of juice off the counter, thankfully it was plastic, in a screaming frenzy I slipped on the puddle of juice hitting the floor like a sack of wet cement.

  Lying on the floor exhasted and dazed flat on my back and hurting bad I yelled for help, get me off this __________floor right_______now. Know what I heard? Laughter. Kathy and my daughter, about 16 at the time, were laughing AT ME, so hard they couldn't speak. Finally Kathy, still laughing, got her voice and said: "We can't pick you up you moron, you can just lay there, we're going to Sonic". They laughed all the way out the door. I lay there about 20 min then dragged myself up off the floor, went into the living room, ploped down in the recliner and cryed like a baby. What was wrong with me?

  By the way, they were not afraid of me, I had a long history of attaking inanimate objects. But, that episode was one of the worst and became the foundation of change in my life. Got up cleaned the kitchen went back to the recliner. They brought me a vanilla shake. We watched TV. They chatted like mockingbirds, me, silence. From that time forward, it was a slow procsses, I begain to change my attitude. There is a saying in Masonry: "Learn to cricumscrib your desires and keep your passions within due bounds"

  I still get emotional about things, that being our dual nature, but I no longer let emotion rule my life. As stated above, by others, I like to think I have found balance between the two.
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  compound complex

  Moshe:

  I believe I see what your premise is, but could you please enlarge upon the outcome for our hunter/gatherer ancestors.

  Thanks!

  White Dove:

  Stay safe, but enjoy yourself!

  Quentin:

  Wow! Here I thought I had issues. I hope you're all right ... ! We appreciate your candor and willingness to share what was a very painful stretch of time spent imprisoned to rage. I understand all too well.

  Thanks, all.

  CoCo
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  Quentin

  I've changed a lot in 15 yrs CoCo, a lot....
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  smsalvit

  i'm led by reason. it has me chained up with double locks, swallowed the key, took a crap then flushed the toilet. people often mistake my decisions for being cold-hearted and void of emotion, which may be true. anyone else here notice or been told the same thing before?
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  Leolaia

  Both. There is not one without the other.