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Leeway between Rationality & Emotion

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If you are rational thought and are attached to ideas and perceptions, then you tend to despice the emotions. You can notice this tendency if we start to feel emotions...We don't like to be feeling anything because we can get unti a kinda high from the purity of intelligence and the pleasure of rational thinking. The mind relishes the way it is logical and controllable , the way it makes sense. It is just too clean, neat & precise! but.... the emotions are all over the place, aren't they? They are not precise, they are not neat... Emotional nature is often despised.. We are frighten of it.. Men often frighten of emotions because we are brought up to believe that men do not cry. As a little boy, we were taught that boys do not cry so we'd try to live up to the standards of what boys are supposed to be. However, the ideas of the society affect our minds and because of that we find emotions very embarrassing.... If we are rational and we have figured everything out, then