i'm angry

[Bread Regal]

is that some kind of eastern thing?

[Luke de Spa]

far from it, dude

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by Luke de Spa

no, not metacognition

generally we separate emotion and cognition into separate categories, right?

something like disappointment seems to be comprised of both. there's an emotional basis that's given detail and complexity via cognition. which would imply that emotion and cognition are really on a spectrum. i haven't really thought about this before so apologies if it's trite, but there are many similar mental states. longing, ennui, hope, cynicism

i think there certainly is a spectrum but one with an x and y axis and not just x (which would be a continuum)

i don't see them as cut and dry separate at all

each shapes the other whether you like it or not. and one can be reasonable while the other is not at the same time

[reprise85]

for example sometimes i can feel like someone is attacking my character when they are just being nominally critical and although i know logically that is the case, i still feel shame or whatever, and knowing i'm feeling things about something that isn't actually happening helps but does not take away the shame

not the best example, sorry.

[Luke de Spa]

shame seems to imply yet another axis – global vs. specific, insofar as one's character is concerned (with guilt being the other extreme in this case)

anyway, i think we're in agreement here. brains are messy things

[Trotskilicious]

today someone didn't say thank you when i held the door open for them so i ripped out their throat and then pissed on their corpse

[vixnix]

Thanks jonny. I always thought you were mean/funny so I couldn't help but like you even when it seemed like you didn't like me.

I discovered Eastern philosophy when Keanu Reeves starred in Little Buddha. That was in the mid 90s. Then my Dad rolled his eyes at me and told me I'd be better off reading Hesse's Siddhartha. Took me a few years to read that. When I was 18 I nearly joined the local Krsna consciousness group on a whim. I kept going there for a while and read a bit of the Bavaghad Gita (my Dad had a copy of that as well) and the Sri mad Bhavagitam. Right before I went into hospital when I was 20 I had borrowed a book called Introducing Buddhism...you know, it's a series...you can get Introducing Chomsky and stuff like that. They have cartoons. That was when I was living in this dive in Prahran. Anyway. I started reading a book by the Dalai Lama then, too.

So yeah, a little familiar. Not very well read but a little bit.

I'm working on myself through Eastern philosophy at the moment, my psychologist is teaching me about mindfulness, acceptance, breathing exercises, sitting with feelings and allowing them to exist. That kind of stuff. So it is happening.

Being a mother of 2 young boys with no family support and no high school or uni friend's nearby can be pretty hard. I think most people would strugge not to lose their temper, especially when their marriage needed work as well. It is what it is. Most of the time I'm ok but when I'm breaking up the 6th fight in an hour because they are deliberately winding each other up and hitting each other and climbing on the furniture sometimes I yell and get angry for a few seconds.

[Trotskilicious]

this guy told me nickelback was from the 90s so i cut his legs off and then let him bleed to death

[Trotskilicious]

it wouldn't have been so bad but he continued to insist this was true even as he lay dying

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by Luke de Spa

shame seems to imply yet another axis – global vs. specific, insofar as one's character is concerned (with guilt being the other extreme in this case)

anyway, i think we're in agreement here. brains are messy things

yeah shame is not the best example, as i'm not even sure if i'd call it a feeling. guilt is a feeling - i feel bad for doing something. shame is like, i don't know, i'm a bad person - something like that. so guilt is i did bad shame is i am bad. so shame does seem "global" vs guilt being "specific" - which i think is what you meant and in that case i agree

[Sonic Johnny]

the other day this slightly jewish looking guy didn't say "bless you" when I sneezed on the tram so I went back in time and fathered hitler

[Shallowed]

Oh, Jew.

[slunken]

Originally Posted by vixnix

Right before I went into hospital when I was 20 I had borrowed a book called Introducing Buddhism...you know, it's a series...you can get Introducing Chomsky and stuff like that. They have cartoons.

the ones on wittengenstein and semiotics changed my life

[slunken]

i was pretty angry when i got home last night and the place smelled chokingly of skunk concentrate

[slunken]

i get angry when someone would spell that word "chokking", or more commonly, "shinning"

loosing

[TuralyonW3]

I get angry at my boss at work for mismanaging my time

[slunken]

lol

[slunken]

i get mad at all my teachers for telling me what to do

[Shallowed]

Sometimes I feel so happy
Sometimes I feel so sad
Sometimes I feel so happy
But mostly you just make me mad

[slunken]

listening to that right now omg get out of my head

[TuralyonW3]

Linger ooooooooooooooooooooon

[slunken]

seriously one of the best bands ever. i listened to the full cut of "sweet jane" the other day and then i fully transcended.

[TuralyonW3]

fully tumescent

[TuralyonW3]

i've been checkin out Nico's solo stuff (after chelsea girl) it's pretty

[Shallowed]

I've only got Chelsea Girl. It's definitely one of my favourites of all time.

[hnibos]

Originally Posted by TuralyonW3

I get angry at my boss at work for mismanaging my time

What do you do about this?