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right now I choose the mind over intuition and it may be just as you imply, an escape from that which I cannot control. However for me it's not a path of numbing my emotions but rather governing them.
I look forward to more of your thoughts 42.
Reading those moral dilemmas you outlined reminded me of this movie I saw once.
I was raised to be pacifist on religious grounds, "die as a martyr for truth". Stand and take it as your community is butchered; your family killed in front of your eyes.
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originally posted by: Seeker42
a reply to: quintessentone
right now I choose the mind over intuition and it may be just as you imply, an escape from that which I cannot control. However for me it's not a path of numbing my emotions but rather governing them.
I am curious as to how you manage to achieve that though, the way I went about it was by suppressing conflicting emotions and thoughts, which obviously proved to be destructive in the longer run. I suppose that by ''governing'' your emotions, you mean learning to accept them as they are and let them be there, however intense or unpleasant, yet strive to act by way of your reason instead ?
I guess you would still consider what your emotions try to tell you, like when you have a gut feeling, but essentially leave it to your reason and logic for the decision making phase ? This is what I imagine people who govern their emotions achieve to do, neither suppressing or ignoring them, but mostly taking notice of them and letting their wisdom and intellect resolve the rest.
This is something I am training to do as well, but emotions tend to be more ellusive than before anyway, so governing them is a different process as a result. I still have them, but they appear to be more subtle and rarer than before.
Anyway, like you said with the way our body and psyche is constituted, it does seem like we have to resolve our personnal duality first and foremost. I tend to see it as a spiritual self of higher origin trying to govern the instincts and needs of a fleshy body.
I once did some horse riding and it reminded me of this struggle somehow, only much more frustrating in my case.
So, governing one's emotions to me is something like that, holding on to it (acknowledging) and becoming one with oneself (self-reflection) then understanding, all of this is governing it.
To me emotions and gut feeling are two separate things, where emotions has to be felt, yes, but then understood and then the choice be made whether to let it go (water off a duck's back) or to 'let it go' (it feels right to release it).
I always felt deep down like this world needed more love and understanding, not more suffering and division.
I am thinking at present of the popular conflict of the ego versus our soul
I remain open to the very real possibility that I simply misunderstood your concept of a cyclical nature (the light part giving rise to the dark part)
It is there is nothing new under the sun, so imagine how boring this would end up proving if it did really go on forever. I personally prefer hoping for Heaven, even if many say they would be bored by it, than to remain here trying to remember so I can forget, so I can remember, to forget again... forever. This occur to me now, but this idea feel familiar somehow.
my eerie and persistent feeling since very young that ''something'' was wrong somehow and that I ''forgot'' what it was.
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Anyway, as for your bit about me failing somewhat to grasp the importance of Christ's Ministry, because I quoted from the Old Testament...
you say you’re a Christian − don’t you believe that Jesus’s life and ministry on Earth were unprecedented?