Questions Regarding Emotions

- How often do you experience emotion? Which emotions are they and what events are normally connected to those emotions?

- Do you think you experience more or less emotion than the average person?

- If you could permanently eradicate certain emotions from the world, which ones would you get rid of and why?

- Do you think the world would be a better or worse place if emotions didn't exist? Explain your answer.

- Love can cause people to make irrational choices. With that in mind, do you see love as a weakness or a strength?

- If you have experienced love (either romantic love, parental love or both), how would you describe it?

- If you haven't experienced love, why do you think that is?

- Do you believe your parents (or whoever raised you) loved you? If so, How do you know they loved you? If not, why do you think they didn't love you?

- Have you ever experienced guilt and remorse? If you have, can you describe how it felt and why you felt it?

Demon wrote:How often do you experience emotion? Which emotions are they and what events are normally connected to those emotions?

I experience emotions rarely. Most often its he twin pair of boredom and curiosity. The first occurs in situations where I fail to find anything intellectually stimulating, or when I'm forec to do boring, tedious tasks.

Demon wrote:Do you think you experience more or less emotion than the average person?

I'm certain I do not.

Demon wrote: If you could permanently eradicate certain emotions from the world, which ones would you get rid of and why?

Boredom. I dislike experiencing it.

Demon wrote:Do you think the world would be a better or worse place if emotions didn't exist? Explain your answer.

Likely it would. I prefer to compete with normal people rather than other psychopaths. A world of just psychopaths doesn't sound too tempting. Read my topic on the Ik people for an idea on that.

Demon wrote:Love can cause people to make irrational choices. With that in mind, do you see love as a weakness or a strength?

Both depending on the context. Generally having someone yo can goad into irrational decisions just because he/she feels a certain emotion for you can be a very usefull thing.

Demon wrote:If you haven't experienced love, why do you think that is?

I guess its a strong emotional component that evolved in our species as a part of a bond between two people engaged in a sexual relationship. We are a species that lives in groups obviously. This sort of bond likely was beneficial for procreation when we all lived in small family groups like modern chimps.
Parental love is somewhat different, but that too is in place to scecure sucessfull procreation - in this case it increases the chance of one's offspring to survive.

Demon wrote:Do you believe your parents (or whoever raised you) loved you? If so, How do you know they loved you? If not, why do you think they didn't love you?

I assume they did love me, they invested a lot of time, effort and resources to raise me and they several times stepped even beyond the socially acceptable parent model to help me out.

Demon wrote:Have you ever experienced guilt and remorse? If you have, can you describe how it felt and why you felt it?

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I doubt I had. Of course I had some situatiosn where I regreted doing something in the sense that in retrospect I found out that the solution I pursued was not the most effective one available to me at that time.

- How often do you experience emotion? Which emotions are they and what events are normally connected to those emotions?
I experience emotion almost every day... Interest, attraction, amusement. Those are the main ones I think.

- Do you think you experience more or less emotion than the average person?
I'd have to say less. There's a lot of emotions I don't have that most people do, so...

- If you could permanently eradicate certain emotions from the world, which ones would you get rid of and why?
Annoyance, because I don't like being annoyed.

- Do you think the world would be a better or worse place if emotions didn't exist? Explain your answer.
Worse, because emotions are what allows society to function. If nobody had emotions, if nobody cared about anyone else but themselves, we'd probably all be killing each other off and the human race would eventually become extinct.

- Love can cause people to make irrational choices. With that in mind, do you see love as a weakness or a strength?
I see it as something that can be exploited, so... a weakness.

- If you have experienced love (either romantic love, parental love or both), how would you describe it?
It's to die for.

- If you haven't experienced love, why do you think that is?
I'm assuming because I'm incapable.

- Do you believe your parents (or whoever raised you) loved you? If so, How do you know they loved you?
They told me all the time.

- Have you ever experienced guilt and remorse? If you have, can you describe how it felt and why you felt it?
It's also to die for.

I find this thread triggering (that's not a complaint, just giving my reason for not responding).

-- Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:59 pm --

HOLY CRAP THIS THREAD IS REALLY TRIGGERING lol

I feel ambivalent toward it. I want to answer the questions because it would be good for me but when i move my mouse over them I wince, like my body is telling me 'don't go there'

I think if I honestly answered these questions they would undo all my defence mechanisms. no thanks.

Demon wrote:- How often do you experience emotion? Which emotions are they and what events are normally connected to those emotions?

I experience emotion daily. It's hard to determine, or describe, because the meds have dulled some emotions and heightened others. Probably, love for my cats and the few people I care about, anger, disgust; the last 2, most likely, because someone does something stupid and it doesn't have to be someone I know. Depression and Mania, obviously.

Demon wrote:- Do you think you experience more or less emotion than the average person?

No idea.

Demon wrote:- If you could permanently eradicate certain emotions from the world, which ones would you get rid of and why?

I don't think I would eradicate any emotions. It's our emotions and how we act on them, good or bad, that makes us who we are. Even those of us who are supremely fukced up.

Demon wrote:- Do you think the world would be a better or worse place if emotions didn't exist? Explain your answer.

Worse, see above^

Demon wrote:- Love can cause people to make irrational choices. With that in mind, do you see love as a weakness or a strength?

Depends on what kind of love you mean. Romantic love, yeah it's probably a weakness, it's also one of the strongest emotions.

Familial love can be a weakness, depending on your family. The only family I really love are my Brother, Sister, Niece, Nephew and my Sister-in-Law and it has never felt like a weakness to me. Now...if the people who love me are honest they would say that loving me is a weakness and a pain in the ass.

I'm not going to go over every kind of love that exists, but you get the point, yeah?

Demon wrote:- If you have experienced love (either romantic love, parental love or both), how would you describe it?

I thought I was experiencing romantic love once, but it turned out I was just an idiot.

My Mom always says she loves me and she probably does, but she should have done something about what happened to me as a kid. She could have stopped it, but she let it go on and on for years, until I was big enough to make it stop myself. So...fukc her.

Demon wrote:- If you haven't experienced love, why do you think that is?

N/A

Demon wrote:- Do you believe your parents (or whoever raised you) loved you? If so, How do you know they loved you? If not, why do you think they didn't love you?

Up two questions^

Demon wrote:- Have you ever experienced guilt and remorse? If you have, can you describe how it felt and why you felt it?

Yes, but I don't want to explain why

Demon wrote:- How often do you experience emotion? Which emotions are they and what events are normally connected to those emotions?

There's always some emotion at work, but mostly amusement...(googles 'is amusement an emotion?').. yes amusement. I get amused by misfortune, irony, ugliness, stupidity et cetera. I'm easily amused. :­P

Demon wrote:- Do you think you experience more or less emotion than the average person?

Less.

Demon wrote:- If you could permanently eradicate certain emotions from the world, which ones would you get rid of and why?

Sadness. Because it is annoying when people come and seek comfort from you when you don't give a crap. :­P

Demon wrote:- Do you think the world would be a better or worse place if emotions didn't exist? Explain your answer.

Worse. Everything would be boring.

Demon wrote:- Love can cause people to make irrational choices. With that in mind, do you see love as a weakness or a strength?

I think romantic love is weakness, and other love is strength. Generally speaking.

Demon wrote:- If you haven't experienced love, why do you think that is?

Tl;dw.

Demon wrote:- Do you believe your parents (or whoever raised you) loved you? If so, How do you know they loved you? If not, why do you think they didn't love you?

At least one, and that is because she has been telling me repeatedly. :­P

1. How often do you experience emotion? Which emotions are they and what events are normally connected to those emotions?

2. Do you think you experience more or less emotion than the average person?

3. If you could permanently eradicate certain emotions from the world, which ones would you get rid of and why?

4. Do you think the world would be a better or worse place if emotions didn't exist? Explain your answer.

5. Love can cause people to make irrational choices. With that in mind, do you see love as a weakness or a strength?

6. If you have experienced love (either romantic love, parental love or both), how would you describe it?

7. If you haven't experienced love, why do you think that is?

8. Do you believe your parents (or whoever raised you) loved you? If so, How do you know they loved you? If not, why do you think they didn't love you?

9. Have you ever experienced guilt and remorse? If you have, can you describe how it felt and why you felt it?

1. Not that often, I isolate myself from physical contact with others as much as possible, so therefore have no need to feel emotion, or put on a mask of emotion. When a situation arises where emotion is involuntarily triggered, it is usually anger or jealousy. Anger when facing criticism, or somebody pointing out a flaw in something I did/said. And jealousy when others have items I lack, or have insufficient funds to obtain. Imagine the business card scene in American Psycho, except none of the sweat. My mind goes blank, and all I focus on is potential ways to acquire whatever item is triggering my jealousy.

2. I believe I feel less of the common emotions, but on emotions I do feel, I am burdened by them more than others.

3. All of them, read next answer.

4. A better place, if you have seen the film Equilibrium, it is about this scenario. They take drugs, which by design are emotional inhibitors. While the message, lame as it is, is that emotions are part of the human experience, it doesn't ruin the fact that in the film, with the drugs, the world is a better place. There is no war, no corrupt businessmen, no crime. Everybody is equal, and they get $#%^ done.

5. Love is a tool designed by women to ensnare a man into a relationship. What the men claim is love, is all a web of manipulation spun by the woman to trap the man.

Here is the chain of events. Man meets Woman, Man feels he is a gentleman if he splashes out hundreds, if not thousands of pounds on Woman. The woman has no objections to this, and does not contribute at all to joint meals, or events. The woman acts vulnerable as the first part of the trap, making the man feel responsible for her, and making him feel as though he should protect her. Time goes by, the man continues to spend money on her. Eventually they get married, he works constantly, she sits at home, occasionally leaving to get her nails done, or buy the new prada bag. She will eventually get bored of this and decides to make her time more exciting, oh boy! Time for an affair! She, now transformed into a full blown whore sleeps with other men, getting pregnant in the meantime. Now she can do whatever she wants to her husband, and he has a moral obligation to
stay. She lies, and tells him he is the father. He couldn't be happier. The baby is born and she decides to leave him. In court, he is screwed over by her, as she makes rape claims and says she is a victim of physical abuse. What a strong independent womyn, standing up to the tyrant that was her husband. He then has to pay weekly instalments, lowering his quality of life, for a child that is not his. He loses his friends from the rape claims, and his life is ruined forever. The end.

And I know what you are thinking Demon, but this story is not about me.

6. Not applicable.

7. Because, it doesn't exist.

8. I believe they had a slight affection for me, simply because I was composed of their DNA, but I don't really believe they were ever really proud of me.

9. I felt regret for some actions, but only because I was caught, I guess that counts as remorse.

When's your birthday : P?

November? :­P

MikeAngel wrote:5. Love is a tool designed by women to ensnare a man into a relationship. What the men claim is love, is all a web of manipulation spun by the woman to trap the man.

That sounds like bullshlt to me. Then again, men are pretty weak mentally and easy to manipulate. Can't blame a woman for taking advantage of such easy prey.

And I know what you are thinking Demon, but this story is not about me.

Bullshlt. It was definitely about you. Why else would you have such blind, naive hatred towards women. Of course, there's the possibility you don't really hate women at all and are just saying it to stir up trouble. You're probably a woman yourself using a male alt. I'm onto you.