I believe fear is more a primordial instinct. There are rational(primal) fears and irrational(learned) fears. Emotions are a little different, I believe.
Hate can cause fears though, just as love can also cause fears.
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People like clear opposites, and love/hate is one that is huge in our culture.
I personally am swaying more this way, the strength of an emotion has nothing to do with the emotion itself, but the context in which the emotional systems activate. Our later interpretation of this context will tell us what emotion it was we were experiencing, but that will be unrelated or at the very least, subsequent to the subjective experience of arousal.
Maybe what I'm saying is that emotions don't have strength, our reaction to stimuli does. It is more likely that the strength of that reaction determines our interpretation of the emotion than the other way around.
Love in its truest form is all encompassing. not romantic, oedipal, puppy, platonic or all these other trashy names we have for it but love in its purest sense.
all other emotions are just a reaction to love IMO. sorrow, joy, hate are emotions that are relative to love. joy is abundance of love, sorrow is deficit and hatred is absense of love.
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Fear is the strongest...just found that out very recent...not like when someone sticks a gun to your head ..been there that just made me angry...anger strong too..but when you think your gonna die and you experiencing death "type" issues fear of death is the strongest emotion ever...its easy to to take a bullet for someone else u usually dont have time to think thats a selfless act etc...but when your body is trying to shut down (accidental med overdose lets say..ahemm) the only comforting thought I had was of some ladies in my life...fear of death while dieing slow...I vote that....VERY SCARRY! I always thought the only thing in life I was scared of was sharks (big ones) now I know better...face slow death (while sober) is just anyways u all get my meaning....trying to make myself fearless again..but sticking in my head ...why did I have to be sober!
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