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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4098606" data-attributes="member: 15538">Shilsen, in no way do I want this to sound like an attack or personal judgement. I shall state that your viewpoint is very unusual. Many people who would describe themselves as you do have a diagnosable personality disorder. I have no way of knowing if that is the case with you. But for most people, emotions can be explained away, but they cannot simply be explained away. While in general I am a fairly detached person, it is a fact that some mornings, not very often, but sometimes, I wake up and become afraid of the idea of losing my loved ones. I have lost all but one of my grandparents. I lost my best friend to a car accident.If becoming a &quot;robot&quot; was truly a conscious choice, then you are probably going to have to face some bottled emotions at some point. If that state is truly natural to you, then you have other problems. There is nothing &quot;logical&quot; about detaching from feelings any more than it is logical to not to be able to differentiate between tastes or logical to not understand a poem. Logic serves an end; it has no end unto itself.I hope this was not too personal for you, shilsen, and not too tangent to this discussion. I think it does matter how we view death and how we process emotions. To me, a detachment from loss is not logical, it is a failure to engage the world.I truly believe this:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 4098606, member: 15538"] Shilsen, in no way do I want this to sound like an attack or personal judgement. I shall state that your viewpoint is very unusual. Many people who would describe themselves as you do have a diagnosable personality disorder. I have no way of knowing if that is the case with you. But for most people, emotions can be explained away, but they cannot [i]simply[/i] be explained away. While in general I am a fairly detached person, it is a fact that some mornings, not very often, but sometimes, I wake up and become afraid of the idea of losing my loved ones. I have lost all but one of my grandparents. I lost my best friend to a car accident. If becoming a "robot" was truly a conscious choice, then you are probably going to have to face some bottled emotions at some point. If that state is truly natural to you, then you have other problems. There is nothing "logical" about detaching from feelings any more than it is logical to not to be able to differentiate between tastes or logical to not understand a poem. Logic serves an end; it has no end unto itself. I hope this was not too personal for you, shilsen, and not too tangent to this discussion. I think it does matter how we view death and how we process emotions. To me, a detachment from loss is not logical, it is a failure to engage the world. I truly believe this: [/QUOTE]

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