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5 words that sum up the regressive mindset... "We choose truth over facts." - Joe Biden
1 posted on 02/14/2023 12:34:13 PM PST by robowombat
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To: robowombat

As usual, libs have it exactly backwards. Emotion is the antithesis of Reason.


2 posted on 02/14/2023 12:36:25 PM PST by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: robowombat

Post-rationalism is real.


4 posted on 02/14/2023 12:40:05 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: robowombat
They conflate their feelings for facts.
5 posted on 02/14/2023 12:42:28 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwa)
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To: robowombat

The sequence of responses as usually understood, begins with a perception of a stimulus in the external world. The meaning of the perception is based on interpretation, a cognitive process which may or may not be rational. The emotional response follows, congruent with the meaning of the interpretation. This is where liberals go astray: they assume that since the emotion fits their interpretation of what’s going on, it must mean they are right.(“it just feels right.”) They don’t realize it is all based on what is too often ideologically distorted interpretation way up the chain.
When conservatives remind us that “facts don’t care about your feelings,” they are making a mentally healthy corrective observation. Naturally, to avoid cognitive dissonance, the observation is furiously opposed.


7 posted on 02/14/2023 12:52:04 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: robowombat

Facts don’t care about your feelings.


8 posted on 02/14/2023 12:54:52 PM PST by PackingHeat357
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To: robowombat

I feel like stereotypes exist for a reason...


9 posted on 02/14/2023 12:54:54 PM PST by null and void (You can’t have a police state without a state police.)
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To: robowombat
Emotions are a consequence of evaluation. First one observes an object, then compares it to a standard of value, then makes a value judgment whether or not it is a value, then that judgment is accompanied by an emotion of like or dislike and the desire to gain or keep or avoid or get rid of the object.

Since it is a consequence, it is not a means of knowledge or survival, or a proper guide to action, like reason is.

16 posted on 02/14/2023 1:20:17 PM PST by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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Literally put, the emotions’ role is to provide the impetus to act (the passion) once the intellect has determined what that action should be.

Yep...Long ago observed the inability of Rats in my own family to engage in the process described above.

17 posted on 02/14/2023 1:26:13 PM PST by PerConPat ( politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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you can prove it to yerself by just listening to them, they’ll say

I FEEL we should do A over B

we say

I THINK we should do A over B

they don’t think they feel!

listen to them, they’ll telll you who they are...


21 posted on 02/14/2023 2:40:56 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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And that today’s liberals epitomize this explains why some have likened them to over-sized children,


One of the curses of the Bible is to be ruled by children..................


22 posted on 02/14/2023 3:44:37 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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bkmk


23 posted on 02/14/2023 4:26:28 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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Liberals are stuck in junior high mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. That explains their immature outlook on life.


26 posted on 02/14/2023 4:51:16 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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