“One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans—anything except reason.” - Thomas Sowell

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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Sensory sensations don't qualify as feelings imo, they're sensory data not feelings

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I disagree, but that's fine. I personally don't see a difference between my senses and my emotions, beyond the fact that one is more concrete and can be shared with other observers (senses) and one is more fluid and changeable (emotions). Either way, you DO feel your emotions and you feel your senses. So, I don't agree with you (or society) separating these things from each other. I'm not saying that there isn't a distinction to be made, don't mistake me. Your feelings simply aren't always emotions, and your emotions aren't always properly felt. You sell yourself short if you don't heed your "feelings", and you sell yourself short if you get lost in them. They are tools at your disposal, not things to rid yourself of, or to smirk at.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Fair enough, you may have a point there

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I appreciate you for hearing me out, Magnora. Especially because you run this site and respond to the user-base. I was ridiculed a lot in highschool for trying to make this distinction between feeling and emotion. It wasn't until I had a solid English teacher who taught me that a lot of writers throughout history have had similar sentiments, one of them being James Joyce. As a guy who started to go blind in his later years, he seemed to experience different emotions and sensations than he had before, making him write slightly different as a result. Another good author who talks a bit about this is JRR Tolkien, although I only saw this sentiment show up in his Letters (a compilation book of his letters published by his late son) not in his big books.