A post in another thread made me think about how I feel about "reason" and "emotions". While I can get pretty emotional at times, I really don't like my actions to be driven by emotions. Of course you could say that you can choose to be driven by "good emotions" and not by "bad" ones. That "blind love" and "love" aren't the same, for example. But from my (short) experience different emotions can get so mixed up that you can't tell the difference between them, at least not when you're under their control.
So what am I left with? "Pure" reason? Becoming an "android"?! (poor androids who want emotions in order to become more "human"...) At one point it seemed that I could act soooo "rationaly", and that no emotions would steer me away from that path. But I couldn't. I mean, I knew all the good reasons to do something and still didn't do it. I kind of knew WHY I wasn't doing what I was supposed to do, but not how to correct that. Being over-analytical can be such a pain sometimes.
Uh, of course there's another problem with being always inclined to "reason". The biggest there is, probably: you tend to consider yourself "right" and others "delusional", "wrong", "led by emotion". Whenever that happens I try to remind myself how I was when I acted on an emotional impulse. Or that I'm NOT 100% "reason".
So, how are you? Emotional, rational? A mix of these two?
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
Who is sexier, Spock or Bones? I rest my case.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: So what am I left with? "Pure" reason? Becoming an "android"?! (poor androids who want emotions in order to become more "human"...)
The Greeks would have applauded your androidness and wrote epic poetry about you .
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I kind of adressed this here, read at your own peril.
Hobbes Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I've always found Bones much, much sexier. But that's just me.
Seriously, I think the best way to handle it -- although probably the hardest -- is to have an emotion while simultaneously recognizing that you're having one and understanding why you are.
This requires a certain level of disconnect from the emotion at the time it's occurring, so I doubt anyone will confuse you for a truly passionate person, but it's also not exactly a purely rational viewpoint, either.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Bones is way sexier as a character. As the voice of reason between the two extremes of Spock and Kirk, he was the one with a little depth, who could be both passionate and analytical, friendly and angry. He was really the only real human on the bridge.
Plus, I don't recall Deforest Kelley whoring out his Star Trek fame like most of the other bridge crew did. Leonard Nimoy did 'In Search of...' and many PBS documentaries, and various commercials. Shatner, of course, was in the pathetic 'T.J. Hooker'. And I couldn't read about a convention in the 80s or 90s without seeing George Takei's name in the lists.
Yeah, give me Bones and Deforest Kelley any day of the week.
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