Love Hate or Fear; what is your dominant emotion?

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We know about handedness, wherein one can write with the other hand if need be, but prefer to write with that which is dominant.

In taste there are preferences for savory over sweet, and in light there are ingrained preferences for light or dark.

In emotions people have a preferential tendency towards Love, Hate or Fear.

Everyone can do everything until pushed, whereupon they fall back upon their natural tendency.

Those with emotion-dominant hate will push and rage.

Those with emotion-dominant fear will hide.

People with too much aggression get slammed into jail.

Those with too much fear get dumped into anti-depressant laden care centers.

Therefore those dominated by love should have the day... right?

Do unto others that which you would do unto yourself. Feel the empathy of how others are feeling. Care...

... and you get mangled as bad as if your were Hateful or Fearful. Worse even.

Let's see Harper fix that. Let's see him use his wiliness on the international community and on the global economy for Canada.

There's a teeny-tiny percent possibility he likes where his kids are growing up more that Mulroney cared about his.

But after that, if a PM wants his name to be brought down in history for destroying a nation, I guess he doesn't have to worry if it was part of a march towards Armageddon, after which everything will be forgotten anyway.

Do you read what you post? This does not make any sense.

I think there are a few more options than just those three, and I think that claim is too simplistic to be meaningful anyway, and I think Cliffy's right, you're not making a lot of sense.

Hmm... well... okay... to water it down...

I just thought it's kind'a funny in a "cosmic" sense how people get slammed by society for being too hateful and/or too fearful and how they are supposed to be more loving, yet those who use love as their basic operating principal get triple slammed with obstacles compared to if they'd just been hateful and/or fearful.

Maybe it's something you have to have been LDS to see.

You guys know how a typical human can see 40,000 shades of colour blended out of three primaries.

You know how physical skin-sensations can be blended out of the four primaries of pressure, pain, hot and cold, i.e. itch is a blend of heat and pressure.

Likewise from the primary emotions you can get things like respect, which is a blend of fear and love.

I was just talking about how tradition will teach how one should not be hateful nor fearful, leaving the option of being a loving person, yet it does not teach how such will not make life easier and/or less confusing nor full of tar pits.

i.e. Suppose love is a person's dominant emotion.

What I have seen is that people get into quagmires gumming up their existence just as much from loving too much at least as much as it would have gummed them up for being too hateful or fearful.

Well, just to pick one point in your posts here, I don't think that's true at all, fear is no part of respect, to me that negates it entirely.

It's not always easy to see what the constituent emotions and their ratios are to form a feeling, just like it's not intuitively obvious at all that yellow is a combination of red and green, but yeah, fear is part of respect... which is one of the reasons why mob-bosses want respect. It's also funny (to me) how parts of the Bible got miss-translated. Where it says "fear the Lord", actually the proper translation was supposed to be "respect the Lord".

I suspect you're thinking of it in terms of what most people would call "admiration".


In any case, the only reason I launched the thread was as a spin-off from some philosophical commiserating I'd been doing about a pattern I noticed.

I noticed that some people are constantly in trouble for being too cowardly and gutless. Others are always in trouble for being too hostile and violent...

And others, when you analyze the misery of their life, always boils down to them being too nice and/or too affectionate to all the wrong people at all the wrong times, and it made me think that like with the sensation of taste, where there's five basic flavors - salt, sweet, sour, bitter and umami - and for every person one of those flavors will be the one they tend towards because it dominates somehow...

... so also of the three elemental emotions, it might be that for humans, one will dominate as their core motivator.

Actually, the really confusing part of the OP is: what the hell does Harper have to do with it? First off, he is an emotionless automaton, so he really doesn't fit into an emotional discussion. Secondly, he has no control over the economy. It is controlled by a global cartel of heartless multi-billionaires.

hatred is my dominant emotion

Behind all hatred is fear. Fear is the motivating emotion, anger and hatred are not emotions, they are just reactions to an emotion. But, Hey! If it turns your crank, crank away.

We know, CUBert, we know!

Tell me more Freud

No, what they want is fear and obedience, they think that's what respect means, but they're wrong. Respect in this context means esteem, a high regard some person or some quality of a person. Fear has nothing to do with it, fear poisons it.