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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 663950" data-attributes="member: 8704">I embraced my emotions a long time ago (I'm the most rage filled pacifist you'll ever meet.). I actually enjoy strong emotions, even bad ones, I try to never take anything personally as that just leads to more bad for me, but I always respond and let it out, and I normally fly way overboard while I'm about it. Anger and frustration are the ones that will get me, you know the old saying "got so mad that they only saw red" yea I've been there, it wasn't fun but it is a true saying. Of course I also find that I enjoy things more too, few people get emotional about a good sandwich or cry during action movies. My blood pressure gets to the point where I get dizzy and have to sit in dark rooms. I'm not going to change so I just ride it out. I'm sort of the opposite of what you are saying I embrace it and go with it, one big emotional rollercoaster, out of control but not taking it to heart. I can control my pain and not feel it, it's not all that hard, it's called Tylenol, or Bayer , Advil, Anancin, Goody's headache powder, etc..... take your pick. Pain is a symptom of a problem, not feeling pain is not really a hard thing to do, now not having a broken leg is sort of hard to fix with a pill or force of will or such. Don't confuse pain with emotion, pain is just your body's way of saying "hey you big goof you got a broken leg stop walking on it." Now not blaming your enviroment for pain is also easy, would you blame the rock you tripped over when you fell and broke your leg? Do you blame the car door if you slam it on your hand? Anybody who blames their enviroment for the pain they are experiencing has a problem not the other way around.  The man writes some of the longest indepth responses I've ever seen, that was blowing you off as being emotional? His post was longer than all your post. I really don't think he dismissed your point of view at all, I think that you were misrepresenting his point of view. The man is willing and able (and apparently likes to) discuss these kind of things rationally and in depth, and you respond in a way that makes it seem that you didn't even read the whole post. Everybody is different and everybody believes different things, but if you don't have a open mind to other possibilities then you might as well be emotionally, mentally and socially stagnant. I actually don't agree with his thinking but I accept it, heck I applaud it. I think you are mistaken in whom it seems is dismissing the opposing point of view, jgbrowning seems more than willing to openly discuss it and has, you just shrugged it off.I took the whole thing to mean that he doesn't let his emotions control his life, I could be wrong but I am pretty sure his point wasn't that he has turned himself into a lifeless animaton with no feeling or emotion, which is what you seem to be arguing against (I agree down with lifeless animatons). Do you really believe that people cannot control their emotions? Do you believe that people can't have a different perspective on what makes them happy or sad or angry, is the way you believe the only right way?</blockquote>

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