Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Hurting, "no"s and choice. Message-ID: <1334@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 18:01:01 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1334 Posted: Mon Jul 29 18:01:01 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 22:42:11 EDT References: <5557@cbscc.UUCP> <591@unc.UUCP> Reply-To: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious oyster) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 15 In article <374@oliven.UUCP> rap@oliven.UUCP (Robert A. Pease) writes: >Try this one to see if you cannot MAKE yourself feel an emotion. > ... >Now, don't tell me you can't choose to feel an emotion! I think the point is that one cannot *NOT* feel certain emotions. I know people who can choose not to be happy (or at least it seems that way), but I would have to turn myself into an emotionless zombie before I could feel no sadness at the death of a friend. Can you at least agree with *that*? -- - joel "vo" plutchak {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster "Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is all confusion."