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Ciel
I hadn't seen your previous post, but have commented on it just now - take a look! Now, as you may be aware already, I am fully committed to advocate 'scientific reasoning' as opposed to 'motivated reasoning', to science's 'reasons' as opposed to the 'reasons' of the emotions.
And yet, in the real world it would be the height of non-rationality, indeed, it might be completely irrational for science to disregard the power of the feelings that even move the scientist when he is not engaged in working out his calculations...
For that reason (and many others) I do not agree with Dawkins that all religion is pathological (even he himself is moving away from that position, actually), but that only certain forms of religiosity must be so considered, and based on the overwhelming evidence, today there's only one that falls into that category...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 28, 2013 at 6:33 PM
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You have brought something forward for me here...One of the disturbing and hurtful parts of a previous relationships was always being told how good things were years before me...I realize now that it had to be selective memory and I could never please that person.
posted by
Kabu
on September 28, 2013 at 2:31 PM
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You are absoloutely right that one's sense of reality is a part of the equation in terms of how their sentimentality impacts it.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 28, 2013 at 11:15 AM
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OK Ciel perhaps one can be sentimental about objects, but hardly about people.
#Well I find I either like them tolerate them or feel queasy about them
and a few different things between. Mostly I feel on this site I quite like
most, because they are living entities striving to live a little bit dangerously
revealing their feelings. One can probably feel sentimental about objects
because they remind one of someone or something that is not present
at that time. I don't think one can be sentimental about a lost loved one
it is too painful to contemplate.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 28, 2013 at 10:38 AM
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