Ser RL,

Raving Loonie wrote:

Earl Dombroski wrote:

Ser RL,

Just to offload some random thoughts...

    toots is best used as a term of endearment, not hyperbole, and
there should not be hyperbolic endearment unless you wish to hurt a
girl's feeling - as you learned long ago

Duh!  ... as to 'suggest' that I have no emotional interests, herein.

Why speak in opposites?  We both know that I suggested nothing - I
stated quite clearly that you do have emotional interests, herein.

  emotions are physical events; there are no emotions for which there
  are no physical observables

Emotions seem to be neurohomormonal. In evolutionary terms, prototypic
stuff. Probably present in most animals.

Emotions are simple and crude. There is probably a rather limited
variety of different types.
Emotions, themselves are simple, easy, boring stuff ...

"Feelings", OTOH are all together a very different thing. A feeling is
a very rich painting. ... a broad panarama of appreciation.

I use the word emotion to encompass that which you call emotion and
also that you describe as feeling.

Perhaps by avoiding my meaning, I take you as deceiving.  If it is only
symantics, then we can move on.  You may instead re-read what I wrote
with clearer understanding and respond.

Unless of course, as you so often have, you did understand, and you
have responded

    obliquely

The individual brushstrokes are made up with emotions, memories,
objects, tangible sensations and ... the full range of cognitive
objects.

Never any need to confuse emotion with feeling, eh?

No, I relish the spectrum without giving weight to the names of the
parts.  Just me.  ymmv.

  Emotions seve as contextual tags. Simple.  Feeling are the big
intelligent tapestries constructed of many emotions and other
appreciations withing a broad spanning perspective.

Was it Neitzsche, or Dick Van Patten, who said, "To label me, is to
negate me?"

    why the deceptions, RL?

You don't know me Earl.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much, n'est pas?  In fact, I suspect
we know each other better than you want me to know.

ambivalence  ...> 'abstraction'

A level of reality that is 'sub' to making any decision of a certian
'type'.
Understand?

No need to decieve. No need to decide.

The need has never been greater.

Leave the parrot at the door.  pull the string

Earl