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It is great that RMS is trying to explore his emotional capacity and relate to others! Shocking in these comments how many people believe that people are not r
by artificialLimbs 6y ago
It is great that RMS is trying to explore his emotional capacity and relate to others!
Shocking in these comments how many people believe that people are not responsible for their own emotions. No one can "hurt another" emotionally. It is up to each person to take the mature (and logical) stance that "I am responsible for my emotions". If something someone does or says "hurts me" emotionally, it is because I have chosen to allow that emotion, or I have not sufficiently dealt with the circumstances that have caused it to arise such that I am unable to process it in a manner which does not put the responsibility for its arising on another.
I'm not saying that if someone shoots your mother you shouldn't feel angry or sad, but that the anger or sadness is not CAUSED by another. It arises solely within you. You can see that this is true because people react wholly differently dependent upon the individual. It is within human capability to positively act from a place of clarity rather than negatively react from emotion.
It seems clear from this short page that RMS understands this.
- wetmore 6y agoThis is like saying that when you shoot someone, it's the bullet that killed them, not you. Maybe it's technically true but it's not very useful, it's just pedantry used in an attempt to deny culpability.
- artificialLimbs 6y agoIt is not like saying that at all. The emotional world is connected with but is not exclusively the physical world. Putting the responsibility for one's emotional responses on another is the denying of culpability for one's self. I find it is useful to be wary of those who find it useful to point a finger and say 'he/she did this to me' when they become emotionally hurt or even happy, knowing they will non-usefully invariably want me to be nanny or projection target for their other emotions when they arise in whatever manifestation.
- davidcbc 6y agoPeople aren't robots, they are emotionally connected biological beings. Emotions are a biological response. You can't just 100% control your emotions any more than you can 100% control your thyroid.
- artificialLimbs 6y ago>> You can't just 100% control your emotions any more than you can 100% control your thyroid. I suspect you arrive at this conclusion because this is the way you have always operated and so it must be 'how it is'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%9... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pboh0Q0Z3DI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pboh0Q0Z3DI https://universe-inside-you.com/buddhist-monks/ https://universe-inside-you.com/buddhist-monks/ And these are only Buddhist examples.