The Most Powerful Thing?

[Reeka]

I think the problem is that people have a misconception of what love is. They think it is some syrupy romantic fuzzy feeling or either hormones running rampant. Love is not so much a feeling as an action. Love is something you do. It is to easy to spout off pretty words and say I love you. Love is something you have to show, and I believe it is shown in ways most people do not recognize.

Again, Charlie, I have to agree. Instinct and instinct alone does not account for people risking their lives for someone else. I am talking apart from one's children. At the risk of sounding religious (I'm not particularly religious), a quote that comes to mind for me is, "Great love has no man than this, that a man will lay down his life for a friend."

[Tancred]

Regret can be either a strong negative force upon a man, or a great teacher. You may drift into despair, fear or anger, but it's often regret - clear hindsight and the yearning for what might have been - that'll help you either work to repair your mistakes or not make them again. Either that, or the frustration regret can bring will drag you back down into the clutches of anger or despair.

You could say that love and desire could cause you to regret your actions in the past, but if you see Regret as a seperate thing then I see it as the catalyst that gives these emotions their own power over a man.

Faith and Hope, too, can stem from regret - a belief that the past should not have been what it is can awake a need for the future to be better.

[Harkoliar]

that is one very hard poll jerome. very hard if you ask me .. ive been debating already for more than 10min.. and im still stuck.. grr.. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Originally posted by WillowIX: Hear hear! Nicely typed Charlie. [img]smile.gif[/img] MagiK, you make a good point. But you can still answer this poll. Which emotion do you grant most power? [img]smile.gif[/img]

Well Willow [img]smile.gif[/img] I'll let you know as soon as I can figure out where to plug my emotion meter in [img]smile.gif[/img]
(don't like the orifices that have been suggested so far )

You can't measure them so how can you say?

[Cloudbringer]

Faith, but faith nurtures love and vice versa, so I guess I'd say the two go hand in hand. Hope is part of that mix too.

From personal experience, I'd say the negative emotions are strong, but the postive ones have major, lasting impact that's something I'd rather have over the years.

[Cloudbringer]

Originally posted by Bungleau: Anger and hate can move mountains quickly, but once moved, they easily move back. Love moves mountains, and once moved, they stay. It's all about endurance. And who says... nevermind. Gotta keep the PG rating going...

LOL...well, just have faith in your abilities... LOLOL..dang, the things I'd say if we weren't in Jerome's serious thread and PG to boot! *keeps self from making earth moving jokes"


PS, In response to the comments on hate on 1st page- I'd say hate may be a very strong emotion but it not only is capable of hurting/destroying others, it inevitably damages the one who wields it in a variety of ways. Hate is destructive and self-destructive. It takes a lot of energy to maintain anger and hate and far less to love and share it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 05-06-2003, 10:09 AM: Message edited by: Cloudbringer ]

[WillowIX]

Originally posted by MagiK: Well Willow [img]smile.gif[/img] I'll let you know as soon as I can figure out where to plug my emotion meter in [img]smile.gif[/img] (don't like the orifices that have been suggested so far ) You can't measure them so how can you say?

Of course you can measure them my dear MagiK. Count the number of times a day you respond with love or anger or despair etc. Then come back and tell us. I won´t stop nagging until you vote in this dang poll! So there! LOL

[The Lilarcor]

I think the strongest force of the human soul is the ability to choose. We choose to have hape, we choose to be angry, we choose to happy, sad, we choose to love. Without choice, we would be like any other animal in the world. Its the ability to choose between right and wrong.
Free Agency is strongest part of the humans.

[Mojo]

I would have to say Love, closely followed by Dreams and Hope, which amount to the same thing in my opinion.

If you have nothing else, but you have love, that should be enough. On the other hand, love can inspire hope and dreams....

I reckon love, simply from experience - almost everything I do is due to love on one level or another. Also, knowing you're loved is surely the only reason you need to stay alive.

[Aelia Jusa]

Originally posted by MagiK: Well Willow [img]smile.gif[/img] I'll let you know as soon as I can figure out where to plug my emotion meter in [img]smile.gif[/img] (don't like the orifices that have been suggested so far ) You can't measure them so how can you say?

You're right measuring the strength of them isn't possible (at this stage - physiological recordings are as close as we can get and they aren't exactly uncontroversial ) but you can measure raw instances as Willow said. There's not really any controversy about what the emotions are, what characterises them, and what can induce them.