Feeling vs. Thinking

[cecilia97]

Neither is more important! They compliment each other. Look at Einstein…one of history’s greatest thinkers and also quite a feeling and spiritual guy.

A person who is totally one or the other is fooling themselves, or is going to drive self and others nuts.

 

[PoliSciProf]

For a little different take on this issue, check out Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell. It is about how we make up our minds in a few seconds.

 

[iamrefreshed]

Nope, I don’t even know what Myers and Briggs is. My wife said that feeling are not “right” or Wrong". I disagree with this. Feelings can be right or wrong.

There is a place for feelings aka emotions, however they must be tempered by the mind in my book.

I agree with your wife. So does Retrouvaille (a catholic marriage support group). They teach that feelings are neither right or wrong. They are just feelings. You can’t change them. They may be perceived (from the outside) as wrong but they are just feelings.

You cannot assign a right/wrong designation.

I feel tired.
I feel unloved.
I feel unwanted.

BTW, maybe for another thread, Retrouvaille also teaches that love and trust are choices. I had some issue with those but eventually came into the camp.

 

[EsclavoDeCristo]

Which is more important, thinking or feeling?

After Doing some “thinking” I think that thinking is more importnat than “Feeling”.

Please don’t misconstue what I am saying, but I believe that the mind must temper the emotions, by being informed what the truth is by the grace of God.

I think that there are “right” emotions and “wrong” emotions, and the rightness or wrongness of them depends on how the mind temper them or lets them run free.

I started this thread based on another thread that i am currently in. I think this questyion deserved it own table to be discussed at.

So tell me what do you all “Think” or “Feel”?

Funny! My wife and I have this discussion often. She uses the ‘f’ word, as I like to call it, quite often. You bring up a good question…

 

[chevalier]

I think it’s not so clearly men thinking versus women feeling. Women can be strictly logical and men can have feelings they can’t explain. Sometimes I’ve been in the position where I’ve been feeling a certain way and a lady has been asking me to frame it logically, in some organised way. I think we guys just don’t like admitting to ourselves that some “impressions” are what women call “feelings”… that is, that we aren’t always oh-so-horribly-logical.

 

[cecilia97]

I think it’s not so clearly men thinking versus women feeling. Women can be strictly logical and men can have feelings they can’t explain. Sometimes I’ve been in the position where I’ve been feeling a certain way and a lady has been asking me to frame it logically, in some organised way. I think we guys just don’t like admitting to ourselves that some “impressions” are what women call “feelings”… that is, that we aren’t always oh-so-horribly-logical.

So true…many men feel just as much as women. It’s the way we women are always willing to TALK about our feelings that sometimes gets us labled as too emotional or not logical enough.

I used to talk logic circles around my husband, but when something upsets me I cry. Que sera!