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Originally Posted by Mydriasis
Hey man that's what this is all about! Don't mean to say that it's all black and white because black and white make infinite shades of grey you know what I'm trying to say?
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It wasn't me who coined this idea. But I know you didn't mean to direct anything at me.
I agree in that emotions tend to be feel complex. I'm just trying the idea on for size. In a large amount of situations I see it clearly but in others it is a stretch.
But for example:
Acceptance comes from love certainly and so does disgust. With disgust we learn to find what we fear as disgusting, but is a leech really disgusting to a leech no?
I could keep going but it's weird because I really do see both sides of it.
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Cool.
My personal stance, is that emotions are all based on judgment.
So, i look at it, sort of like a battery. On one side is love, on one side is disgust. But, the actual actions taking place inside us are the same whether we are loving or hating, the similarity is that we are judging. Love requires the positive judgment, hate requires negative. Battery.
So emotions can all basically be broken down into two extremes, call it duality. And this is where i part ways with the belief that there exists only two basic emotions. TO me, there exists two basic sides of the coin: positive/negative, and all emotions can be analyzed in terms of what judgments the individual is making in the moment.
So to recap, I do think that emotions can be broken down, to two basic extremes. But the actual dynamics of whats going on with emotions are extremely complex.
Take suprise/anticipation for instance. Whats the difference between the two? When you are surprised you are judging what you are experiencing positively, when you are anticipating you are projecting futurely in a negative sense. In the sense that you are afraid that something is going to harm you, maybe not physically necessarily, but more harm your FEELINGS.
Or joy/sadness. joy is the positive judgement, sadness is the negative.
I hope that makes sense
