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Can you imagine what you would be like if you were born without emotions? Would it bother you?

Posted - April 1, 2017

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  • Hmm, I don't know how I feel about that. There are emotions I could definitely do without, like anger or depression. However, how do you experience the emotional high of excitement and happiness if you don't know what it's like to feel depressed or angry?
      April 1, 2017 1:06 PM MDT
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  • 44620
    Sounds like bi-polar.
      April 1, 2017 1:11 PM MDT
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  • 1138
    I'd really enjoy that sometimes. I CONSTANTLY try to make people appeased and happy... I am a people pleaser and it really has taken a toll on my emotional being. I think others would not be so touchy and SO offended by everything if we didn't have emotion (or limited emotion)... I think most would have less ego perhaps. I know I'd never not want to have joy though, or love... I'm just starting to glimpse what that may feel like, or what true joy could feel like, and THAT I think everyone would benefit from in life. Great question today.
      April 1, 2017 1:16 PM MDT
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  • 44620
    Thank you...Live long and prosper.
      April 1, 2017 1:19 PM MDT
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  • That' what transhumanism is about.
    Emotions are mostly lies but they are what makes us human.
      April 1, 2017 1:23 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    just call me Spock #io3547xo.25793.05A/57
    Live Long and Prosper
      April 1, 2017 1:38 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    If I were born without emotions, I wouldn't feel anything about that.
      April 1, 2017 1:41 PM MDT
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  • 44620
    Ah...you caught that, eh? Nice.
      April 2, 2017 6:00 AM MDT
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  • 745
    Not one bit. Bring it! (...oh please bring it)
      April 1, 2017 1:48 PM MDT
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  • I recall reading of your deep depression...and just adding this comment to wish you well.
      April 1, 2017 3:39 PM MDT
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  • 745
    Thank you, Vriginia. :)
    Wishing you a lovely day!
      April 1, 2017 3:59 PM MDT
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  • Hi Element 99,
    I have read that Leonard Nimoy, in the intensity of filming STAR TREK, would just remain in character over weekends and days off with family...and the impact on his personal life was negative.

    For myself, I am intrigued by the possibility there is a richer experience of life when we humankind can go deeper than the emotions...but I am thinking you prolly must fully engage the emotions first...

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    So yes, it would bother me to be born without emotions.
      April 1, 2017 3:51 PM MDT
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  • 8214
    It would just be logical.
      April 1, 2017 3:52 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    There are two situations we call emotions. Fear and depression are chemical responses, but most things that we call emotions are behaviors that have to be learned. You can alter a person's emotions by putting them in acting school.
      April 1, 2017 4:21 PM MDT
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  • Jewels Vern, your comment reminds me of something I read about Omar Sharif, when he was filming the movie DR. ZHIVAGO...all those years ago, 1965 I think:
    His housekeeper said that all during the filming, he behaved as a finer and better person than usual!
      April 1, 2017 4:26 PM MDT
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  • Internal contradiction.  If one were born without emotion he would not be capable of feeling bothered by it.

    Peace and long life.
      April 1, 2017 4:40 PM MDT
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  • 44620
    Good job...you caught that.
      April 2, 2017 6:02 AM MDT
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  • It was logical. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at April 2, 2017 3:40 PM MDT
      April 2, 2017 3:39 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    i was born without certain emotions myself cause of being asexual and yes it bothers me but theres not much i can do about it
      April 1, 2017 9:39 PM MDT
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  • 2465
    It couldn't bother me if I was born without emotions. 
      April 2, 2017 12:58 AM MDT
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