Justice is very tricky . . . very . . . I see where you are coming from - I really like that it is coming from the heart.
I wonder though - even in a perfect world whether we would not need justice.
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If I may - I want to explore the dictionary from google . . .
a) just behavior or treatment.
b) the quality of being fair and reasonable.
c) the administration of the law or authority in maintaining this.
2.
a judge or magistrate, in particular a judge of the Supreme Court of a country or state.
Should we not be our own administrator of our selves . . . to discipline ourselves
. . . in a fair and reasonable way . . . so as not to harm others
so as not to harm ourselves . . . to judge ourselves
??? . . to be the magistrate in our own state of mind . . ???
No, of course not. It depends on the individual.
Some people smile and pretend to be happy when they actually are not. Itâs a mask they wear because they do not want people to feel them as it were in their vulnerability or perhaps they feel that no one would care anyway.
How happy is happy though, encode_decode? Is happiness ALSO inner serenity and stillness?
One does not need to look happy to be happy but then again, I think that something has to shine through on oneâs face. Not sure what it is though.
We are all different individuals though.
I like that word âsuggestingâ. It means what you are saying is not set in stone and that you are open to discussion. I will have to keep that train of thought in mind.
I agree with you there too. But I also think that it can be like a âcatch 22â no?
We have to be rational people in the first place in order to control our emotional state. Iâm not sure that I expressed what I wanted to there.
Yes, I agree again. It does require consistency of behavior. It requires discipline/endurance/self-awareness in and out of the moment.
Doesnât it also require a mind which is usually reasonable and rational?
Can we get blood from a stone?
How did you arrive at that percentage?
Again, I think that would depend on the individual. But you are probably thinking in terms of an individual who is basically calm, cool and collected usually. Not usually phased by something, not usually goes off when something triggers him or herâŚyour basic rational, reasonable and logical man.
God where can i find one of those? lol
You may be correct but Iâm just not sure of that 95% but how would I know anyway?
HmmmâŚnow that I am not sure of. I mean really. Iâm not sure of that.
Wouldnât an insane person necessarily be out of their minds with uncontrollable emotion?
In what other way might a highly rational man benefit from taking a breather from his rational logical mind?
Hmmm⌠thatâs not an easy one for me. I donât think that anyone is ever devoid of emotion.
It always lies there, somewhere within. Maybe Iâm speaking more of potential emotion as opposed to say kinetic lol emotion.
But if you are speaking about when a human being comes down from an emotional, a highly emotional experience, no matter what it is, that takes a while to dwindle down to a simple ripple within. I think that is different for everyone. I donât think that we can command our negative emotions to just up and leave.
When we are in an emotional state, then who is it that is the master and who is it that is the slave?
How does the slave eventually come to see who is the master? Does the master beat the seeing into the slave?
You tell me.
Would a highly rational person come down quicker than one who is not? Maybe not. Could it be because the highly rational person is not so equipped to handle his emotions. Okay, Iâm ranting here. Iâm losing myself.
I may not have answered your question in the way you meant it.
No not really but I will say that there have been times when I could say, as Quasimoto said to that rock - âI wish I could have been made of stone like theeâ and honestly come close to meaning it or almost meaning it.
Thankfully, I have no choice on the matter. Not really.
But are we not already such complex like forms, we humans?
You are basically speaking to the choir here, encode_decode.
I am known by some to be quite the emotional person, more often that not but that might also depend on the circumstances. I have often times wished that I could be less so, not altogether so but less so.
But I would never opt to become like Data, never having or tasting a real human experienceâŚjust simply having that cerebral unexperience of what it is to be human.
I never thought of the word or the concept in terms of being an advanced form of stimulus.
I do think that evolution-wise, our emotions can be both beneficial and destructive.
But we cannot lose the one in order to lose the other. We have to learn to find that middle path, to balance out that teeter-totter ride.
We have to learn to value emotions without seeking that high flair of adrenaline which can happen or that soaring of joy and pleasure although that soaring of joy and pleasure comes to us. It is something which happens to us. Can we avoid it? No, not unless we give up our humanity. I think that our emotions can be what saves the world at times and at other times destroys it. I think I said that before.
I guess at some point we will see in which direction we go.
Just that, as I have said, we are not all peas in the same pod. We feel differently, we think differently, we behave differently, we worship differently, we have been raised differently. We are all unique in our own way. Sometimes we just need to search that out.
Why judge a whole group by the actions and thoughts of a few.
Why dress everyone with the same colored coat? We are all multitudinous in our individuality.
I must say that I am really quite impressed by your post, I will be answering it properly soon - for now I owe you a response or two in another thread so I will make a comment on one element of your post.
I agree - even for those who donât express it, emotion is still there. The only cases I can think of would involve serious disabilities.