Re: virus: Faith, Logic and Purpose

Dan DeBellis (debellis@greater.com)
Thu, 13 Nov 1997 19:40:51 -0800


Sodom wrote:

>I also like Tim's last comment about emotion acting counter to reason -
>anyone who has ever fallen in love knows that emotion can be as powerful
>or more powerful than reason at times. Hopefully we can all learn to
>recognize that we have, use, and like emotions, but that they are NOT
>accurate representations of reality.

They are however an accurate representation of your personal/internal
reality at the time.
They may or may not (depending on the individual) be aligned in such a way
as to support
that persons temperament in seeing and interacting with objective/external
reality as well as
examining and changing personal/internal reality. Aren't we all dealing
with this struggle?

Dan