Logic and Emotion

I thought I'd write a quick something on logic vs emotion. There is no versus! They should go hand in hand really. You can never escape your emotional side and you don't need to. It's what makes us compassionate, loving, loyal, honest, and everything else good. You know how they say without ethics science is as bad as religion? Well, ethics are emotional no? I mean, even if we say we do it for this and that logical reason, we wouldn't care a damn square inch if there were no emotion involved. Anyone that says otherwise is blowing smoke up your ass. And, even a scientist cries, a soldier obviously cries, Buddhist monks cry, they break, they make mistakes. Perfect takes practice but do you really want to waste this life practicing for ultra-perfection instead of enjoying what you already have, which is more than adequate? I mean, look at the psychology studies. Bad behavior is learned, it's not innate! You would seriously have to have monster genes to be born that way. I'd say that more than 99.999% of the population is born decent. You don't think things would be a lot worse if people were "natural born killers?" Even hunters, I've read, heard from, and seen in movies, talk about crying after killing their first deer. I have cowboys on one side of the family, and lived in an area full of them as a kid, and still do. Ever hear cowboy poetry? It's not just Dixie Chicks that sing/spin beauty. Cowboy poetry is quite nice actually. Not all cowboys are "injun killers" and I know that. Do you think I'd watch the Lone Ranger, the original Black and White version, dress like a freakin cowboy if I pretty much weren't one myself? I mean, ok, I don't hunt, I don't shoot anything other than my mouth, I don't own a truck but you know, it's like your beliefs, even religion or politics, it's not where you are but who you are. And that's not to say I don't have Latino and European either. Where do cowboys come from? Europe? You don't say!! And I know, especially from living in Mexico and being among family, not all latinos/natives/blacks/asians/etc are all good just like they're not all bad. Does it look like paradise in other countries? Not really. I've been to two foreign countries, one on the other side of the pond, and Mexico as well. I remember Mexico rather well, and you know, things can be pretty damn rough there. I've been pistol whipped with a submachine gun after accidentally walking in on a drug bust by police. My cousin saved me, saying "No no es americano" cuz I was ready to start shit. I mean, come on, I walked around the corner and big ass poncho gives me the butt of his submachine gun. Dude, I think you guys could use some training. Granted, he stopped when my cousin said Americano, but man, ever heard of blocking off the street? But you know, others are really nice there so don't take that wrong. But really, cops there are in a pinch. If you're not corrupt, you're dead. They're fighting back now, and my thoughts are with them, I hope they win against the cartels. I've read and heard what happens to good cops. If you find them in one piece, they tortured them instead of dismembering them before they killed them. Yeah, but anyhow, another subject. Oh yes, back to the benefits of emotion. I stopped reading psychology today. I wasn't going to become a shrink, not after what I've seen and read, and after dating gals that wanted to psycho-analyze you on dates. Yeah, maybe you were trying to look smart, cuz I like smart gals, but see, that's what that sort of major does to you I guess. I dunno, but it happened multiple times. If it happened once or twice, ok, two gals that are a pain, but multiple times? I see a pattern here. Oh, and I read online, a psychologist that was pretty decent doing research. He studied and observed staff and patients and noted, and he joked about it but he said he was also serious. The patients got better faster than the staff. I wish I still had the bookmark. Oh, and I still have access to my Medscape.com account, thank goodness! I've forgotten a lot of Latin, pretty much all of it though I recognize it when I hear it, mostly. But anyhow, Latin does help a little in recognizing some medical terms, though I'm not sure if they've changed that by now. Haven't kept up, and sort of have other interests at this time, nature, photography etc. But I do like biology and there are aspects about medical, namely keeping our asses alive that are pretty beneficial. But yeah, Psychology Today, I think I threw away all my subscriptions, said that love is a chemical imbalance. Excuse me? Ok, that's so damn unromantic I just stopped reading it. I can't remember if I called and said stop my subscription, I don't really care about a refund, but really, that's pathetic. So, a mother bird that fakes being hurt to protect her young. That's a chemical imbalance? Oh animals don't feel? Scientists recently discovered that bacteria can think three steps ahead in colonies, and your cat, dog, or a bird can't feel? They aren't sad when their young dies, or their owners die? Hello? Is your brain on? Well, maybe it's your heart that quit working, not sure, but really, I'm no animal rights activist by far, but animals are cute, and have feelings, and even the not cute ones have feelings. Seriously, I've wanted scorpions, tarantulas etc for pets. I've had preying mantises, bees, wasps, jumping spiders, roaches, and other evil looking creatures, by some people's terms, for pets. Hey, I'm not gonna eat your kids, relax, but don't judge a book by it's cover is pretty much accurate. I'm not saying go kiss a gila monster, but you know, common sense goes a long way. But as I was saying (man I veer just like my college professors, and admittedly I enjoyed it their speals on their experiences), but yes, psychology, I dunno. I saw some potential but a ton of it is hogwash. Read Toxic Psychiatry by Peter Breggin , it pretty much explains what should be common sense, and remember, bad habits are learned, not innate. In psych 101 I learned that psychologists will do research outside the bounds of the law, and some have been arrested. Experiments they did in the past would be illegal today, and that was in the 1990s, that quote anyhow. So, I dunno but I don't like experimintation. Really. Aren't you born knowing what you need to know when it comes to emotions and whatnot? Really. Self help books? You don't need them unless you're screwed up enough to where you can't comprehend what's in them in the first place, meaning, you can't really understand much else in print either, or in a lecture of video/DVD. I mean, at that point you might as well move to Montana and sit on your porch smoking a pipe in your rocker. BTW, here are the product details on the book Toxic Psychiatry:

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1 edition (August 15, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312113668
• ISBN-13: 978-0312113667

He's written other books, in fact, these pharmecutical drugs do cause people to act up. I've seen it. People taking the happy pills aren't happy at all. Many of them turn violent, more "crazy" than they were originally, etc. It's in his other books and I've seen it. Oh, by the way, do shrinks ever talk about the numerous rapes that happen in psych wards every year? I'm serious. Now they wouldn't do that, they're professionals. Oh, kind of like soldiers, bad cops, bad lawyers, bad doctors, bad teachers etc. Reminds me of that Dokken song, Down in Flames - I think that's the one, one part says "trust me, everything is fine, trust me everything is fine." Riiiiight! And if you go and babble about "well they're not all like that!" Uhh reading comprehension? Did you steal the short bus my friend? Take a look at these links:

http://www.google.com/search?q=large+amount+of+rapes+in+psychiatric+wards&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/psychiatric+inpatient+wards++places+of+healing+or+torment/158085

And you wonder why "crazy" people never get better? Think of what I learned in criminal justice 101, they used to mix the car thieves, the murderers and the rapists. Probably still do. The car thieves, petty criminals would come out psychotic because being ass raped and threatened with your life repeatedly does that to a person. Violence alone is traumatizing, let alone rape. Take a look at our soldiers in Iraq.

Again, let me re-iterate I've not only dated kooky psych gals but have been "befriended" by kooky psych major guys. Some of the mormon, so umm yeah, let me do the math. And I know, dummy, before you comment, that not all mormons do that, and other, non-religious or other religions do that also. Give it a rest will ya? I'm saying that from past experience. Online debates are nothing but unhappy little psycho-monkies that don't want to debate, or exchange information, they want to verbally and emotionally abuse you from behind a computer screen, and don't give them your info, cuz they will pester you in person too. That's common knowledge/sense too.

Ok, so apart from sloppy writing, and jumping all over the grid when it comes to subject matter, my point is that emotions, the ones we were born with, are good. We got this far with what nature gave us, we don't need to try to be Mr. Spocks and turn into Jeffrey Dahmers. Really. I don't like to cook that much. I've been cooking since I was a kid, I'd forget from lack of practice and try to take it up time and again throughout my life. I didn't just cook eggs either. I know how to read recipes, I knew the difference between a tablespoon and teaspoon since before I went to kindergarten. I've held measuring cups since before them and took part in the cooking. I know food is better for you generally, and tastes better with ingredients you put together, since I was maybe 4 or 5. This tv dinner, spaghettio crap, it's gross. It's like eating mostly fake food, contaminated with aluminum and who knows what else, and of course it tastes that bad. I mean, man, it's disgusting. The food is of better quality at McDonald's and that's not that great for you either, but not nearly that bad. Even eating McD's once a day shouldn't kill you. But anyhow, yeah, I write a lot, am super tired, pretty thirsty and hungry, so it's time I found some food, got me a drink of water or juice or something, and got to bed. But I want to re-iterate that emotions, just like the character James T Kirk from Star Trek said, are what makes humans strong, and what makes us good. You ever read those news stories about mall shootings etc. "He was so emotionaless, he had a blank look in his eyes as if there was nothing there." Ding ding! We have a winner! Emotion is not bad. I didn't get the emo thing entirely, I finally just went along, but we're all EMO unless you're a freakin psycho. Think about it in the right context too. I mean, some of the responses I've gotten from people showed it was obvious they can't think for themselves or just like to be major assholes. And you know, when you act like an asshole, you're not really thinking for yourself are you? Think about it real deep, get back to me when you're NOT an asshole ok?