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FEELINGS ARE PRODUCTS OF THE NATURAL EVOLUTION
We are products of the natural evolution. Our needs help us to stay fit and our feelings help us to answer our needs.
Our functioning is largely based on social things. We are pack animals. That's why we feel strongly about social things: they affect a lot our chances in life.
We are also adabted to a certain kind of living environment: to the nature. Just such environment makes us function best. That's why we feel strongly about the nature and the weather.
We are also adabted to certain kind of ways of living and to a certain kind of functioning of the human groups that we belong to. So we feel strongly about questions which have to do with the ways of doing things: do those cause us enjoyment or hurt us?
LOVE
When I say "love", I mean health and full functioning with all the needs answered from the point of view of life. Love is a charachteristic of a completely healthy system.
Answering needs makes the whole function well: that's why needs exist, that's what is meant by needs.
FEELINGS
tell of the needs of humans
The Rationality of Feelings, Likings etc.
Understanding the world that we live in via both the intellect and the emotions
is the natural and wise way to understand things.
Feelings and likings tell of our needs.
They tell of our own functioning.
Since the time begun, has our true nature placed a call upon us. A call to live a full happy life which gives the best survival for us and for our offspring.
What makes us strong are the things which keep us fit, which give us a full life and happiness.
What makes us weak, are catastrophes, the reasons why we become weak and suffering. We suffer in order to avoid those things. We feel love in order to reach for what is best for us, for our survival.
Hannele Tervola, Espoo, Finland, European Union
P.S. Even if you would not believe in the evolution, you might believe in intelligent planning. BUt in the end we have to just take a look at what feelings are like, what they do to us and form our picture of them based on those observations. Well, that is a difficult task in which buddhism, i.e. the art of being aware of all aspects of life, can help. One thing to notice is that feelings demand a holistic view of life in order to be rational. You have to relate to the reality and not to just some lies. You have to take a look at things and not just judge based on your prejudices. Please read my texts abpout feelings, about how they affect your state of mind, so you can see how they are ratioal in the light of the rest of my theories. One way to plan intelligently is to take one version and compare ti to another: theone that is better I will keep as a starting point for the next attempt, so the difference between intelligent planning and evolution need not be so great... I was saying that you should just observe because without observations you canot know. You can also trust those who know the subject better than you do: most women, emotional people and artists - they all say that you should give room to feelings, that is a practical fact. For most of them understand fgrom their own experience how following feelings is good for people, helping themselves and the working of a society.
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