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"Buddallavisnuhova says that helping a homeless person by giving them a meal will make you feel good."
"Did you give that homeless person a meal? Did it make you feel good? Was Buddallavishnuhova right?" |
Buddallavisnuhova telling "person A" to give a meal to a homeless guy creates the illusion that some higher being dictates morals when really the morals are within "person A". "Person A", for some reason, needs to give meaning and purpose in his life by making shit up that is not based in reality. He sees that operating on pure emotion makes him feel good and associates it with the truth.
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It would seem that you don't think feelings are valid reasons to believe something to be true.
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The limbic part of the brain contains our emotional thoughts and provides humans with a sense of truth or importance, despite, the fact that this part of the brain can neither read or write. When you combine the part of the brain that reads and writes and the part of the brain that process emotions, then one will be able to form reasonable thought. The funny thing is, if one balances out these two parts of the brain the person will no longer have an emotional belief, but a rational thought.
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If phoenix_fire or Gods Mercenary said that they believe in certain religious messages about feeling good because they have followed them and had those good feelings, does that mean that they are wrong?
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Yes because their truth completely contradicts The_Genius's truth even though they all are abiding by the same supernatural beliefs! If they were honest with themselves they would read all the supernatural constructs and accept all of them as the truth.
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When given a choice between what makes you feel good and what makes you feel nothing, people choose what makes them feel good.
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correct, but where does critical thought come into play?
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That doesn't invalidate what they chose, nor make their belief in it any less true.
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Thus operating on pure emotion makes people immobile and irrational. Humans need to respond to challenges in order to progress in life.