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rarghrargh-brownstarrarghrargh-brownstar Posts: 1,272
edited February 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
can someone please explain to me the difference between
"thoughts" and "feelings" ?


thank u
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Clears throat....

    Er......

    It depends upon whether you perceive the part of consciousness involving emotions as biological matter, or as a social/metaphysical construct.
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    Thoughts come from your brain.
    Feelings come from your brain and your other senses as well.
    At least, that's the way I distinguish the two ideas.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    There's a lot that's been written - a lot of it specious - on the way that the mind and the heart are somehow binarily opposed. In renaissance thought, we had five wits and many "humours" linked to various parts of the body...anger was supposed to come from the liver (hence the term livid). The notion of mental control over physical impulses and emotions is present in Christianity AND Buddhism....but since Marx, Nietzsche and Freud , more holistic notions of thoughts and emotions as "matter" rather than essence have led to ideas that consciousness and subconsciousness are determined by material being and circumstance.
    I'm not going to go into too much detail, although I'd love to, but that's just a very basic couple of thoughts/feelings on the matter.
    In modern psychology, ideas of dissociation of mind and body are linked with Melanie Klein's theories on splitting and fetishism, and discouraged in many respects.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    And you? Any thoughts/feelings on the subject? It's a good discussion topic.

    :)
  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    there's a book out there called "You can be happy, no matter what" espousing that all of our unhappiness (a feeling) can be wisked away with positive thinking....

    but the feelings come regardless of what we think of them... we're just left to deal

    to me... thoughts do not come from the gut, unless you have a bellyache :)... thinking happens all the live long day and the topics vary from stop lights to this rottenass 1/2 time show on tv right now...

    WHERE'S THE PJ?????

    feelings come from the brain, too, our brains process this and that, and if it's of any particular interest to us given our experience or circumstance, conscious or not, that thought promotes a physiological response... a feeling...

    palms sweat
    hearts twitter
    smiles come

    or the converse

    we get cold
    hearts hurt
    and furrows grow...

    all of that's because that particular stimulus means more to us than the color of mustard




    oh please... say it ain't kid rock... :x
    It's all yellow.


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