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"Trust your feelings"

On NPR, they were talking about how "trust your feelings" has warped far away from its original meaning. It used to just refer to how you felt when you met soemone, but now people tend to use it to ignore the facts they don't like and "feel" that they are right no matter what the facts say..

I've noticed religious persons moving farther from reality, and Trump supporters who just go with what they feel instead of paying attention to actual facts.

Has this affirmism been hijacked or misapplied? What do you think?

snytiger6 9 Sep 4
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It is easy to be a follower and a believer. And that is how religion works, with irrational emotions and feelings.

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I agree that religious and political true believers trust their feelings irrationally, and use that trust as an abysmal excuse for not dealing with reality and facts.

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Anybody who denies actual facts is just ridiculous, and yes, i agree the "rape" of the credulous has been taking place......

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I'm amazed that no one mentioned the power of reading over your writing before posting.

It is brought up form time to time. It is generally known on the site that I am legally blind, and dont' always catch my typos. However, I don't mind beign reminded when I didn't check or didn't check well. So, thanks. I think I corrected them all (or at least almost all of them) now.

@snytiger6 The rest were a lot more sensitive than I was. I apologize.

@Stephanie99 Like I said, I don't mind beign reminded or having it pointed out. After all it is nice if people can easily read the replies and posts I write. So, Thanks for letting me know.

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It's important to trust your feelings. But it's also important to discern what is and isn't appropriate to do with them, and to be accountable for what you say -- that's the adult way to trust your feelings. Otherwise all you've got is a bunch of overgrown whiny toddlers.

I think you put that very well.

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A woman I dated once, used to say that she knew God in her "knower" ( something shed undoudtedly heard her preacher say). It meant she really, really, really believed it. That's how a lot of religious people are. No evidence needed, just faith.

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Living on a whim is never good. Reason and logic are indispensable. Great post btw

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This reminds me of a great Carl Sagan quote.

Great quote!

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Both.
It's used to justify deliberate ignorance.

I like the way you think.
Clara?

@oldFloyd Thanks. Who's Clara? LOL

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Hijacked. I heard the show and I agree. One's feelings aren't a valid argument.

As a high functioning Asperger's Syndrome person (logic, is everything, feelings have no value in logical thinking), I agree with you 100%. Unfortunately, I have a lifetime of observing humans and have concluded that emotions/"feelings" color/affect/dominate most human's beliefs. It makes me want to "dope slap them" when I hear a person use the following to justify an opinion/argument: "How would you feel if..." (Logical fallacy, "appeal to emotion" )

@dahermit Wow. Someone who still knows about logical fallacies. I made it all through high school and college without a single professor mentioning them ever. My introduction to them came by way of a collection of comic short stories "The Many Loves of Doby Gillis" by Max Shulman. One of the stories was entitled "Love Is A Fallacy". Although the story is very dated culturally, it is still a good funny read, and "love Is A Fallcy" can be found in PDF format with a simple Google search for the story title.

My sister, who has masters in psychology thinks that although it is unlikely I'd eve be diagnosed as Autistic, and would fall into the "normal" range, I would probably lean in the autistic direction. I could say that would disagree with her either.

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