Yes of course, communicate with God alone, happened the other day, then he told me to kill my son, said like Abraham, said not to worry that he wont die, I said 'wont that be attempted murder'? God said "yes, but don't worry, I'm God and I'll have you out in 5-10 with good behavior and if you read my book that will be easy!"
On Sep 29, 6:31 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 Sep, 17:39, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Emotions can be expressed in isolation. > > Absolutely. In that way, we communicate our feelings to God alone. > Not that God doesn't receive the messages when we are NOT alone, but > He is the only receiver when we ARE alone. > > > On Sep 28, 11:05 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 27 Sep, 17:13, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > What role does emotion play in our everyday lives? How does emotion > > > > affect our experience and being? These are questions addressed by > > > > some of the finest minds of our era. > > > > > For Piaget, emotion is the motivating force of action emanating from > > > > outside the individual in the form of sensations emitted by objects. > > > > His view is rooted in the Newtonian conception of a universe comprised > > > > in isolated objects requiring an emotive force to initiate a series of > > > > mechanistic interactions between objects. Piaget reduces all > > > > conscious human experience to a cognitive formulation of these causal > > > > relations. His abstract concept of emotion as force fails to > > > > explain the relationship between bodily feelings, emotions, and higher > > > > forms of consciousness in human beings. > > > > > Alfred North Whitehead indicates the factors in human nature which go > > > > to make up the particular emotions, arise from our apprehension of > > > > these permanent features of order in the world. His concrete concept > > > > of emotion gives insight into the experience of bodily feelings and > > > > their relationship to the growth and learning of human beings. He > > > > explains the emotions are the crucial mediating factors between the > > > > welter of awareness of these feelings in higher organisms. “We > > > > perceive other things which are in the world of actualities in the > > > > same sense as we are. So our emotions are directed toward other > > > > things, including of course, our bodily organs . . . the world for me > > > > is nothing else than how the functioning of my body present it for my > > > > experience.” > > > > > Jean Paul Sartre sees it differently in his book, The Emotions, > > > > Outline of a Theory. He sees our emotion as an “abrupt drop of > > > > consciousness into the magical.” He believes: “emotion is not > > > > accidental modification of a subject which would otherwise be plunged > > > > into an unchanged world. It is easy to see that every emotional > > > > apprehension of an object which frightens, irritates, sadness, etc., > > > > can be made only on the basis of a total alteration of the world. In > > > > order that an object may in reality appear terrible, it must realize > > > > itself as an immediate and magical presence face to face with > > > > consciousness.“ In other words, we modify our experience with emotion > > > > to make it more comfortable, according to our own nature. We emote > > > > sadness, anger or gloom because “lacking the power and will to > > > > accomplish the acts which we have been planning, we behave in such a > > > > way that the universe no longer requires anything of us.” > > > > > What do YOU think? > > > > As for me, I see emotions as the outward expression of inner > > > feelings. They are the way we communicate our inner feelings to those > > > around us. So, emotions are a form of communication of data (our > > > inner feelings) to those who cannot (and, perhaps, could not) perceive > > > them (the feelings) in an obvious way.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
