What is the strongest emotion and why?

Originally posted by Korto Vos
Even more to the core than that.

Don't you agree it's attachment that forms the basis of your perception that you are your own unique person?

You are attached to this concept of Self, and you blanket this individuality with emotions and thoughts aimed to shape and separate yourself from all others.

Your attachment, your desire for all things in the material world, to yourself and to the ones around you drive all the natural emotions of love, hate, fear, jealously, surprise, etc.

Cool. But as I stated attachment a collection of things that as you said spurn emotions. It's not an emotion though, but a perception.

I don't believe that attachment is the core of a personality though. Some philosophies teach people to detach themselves from the "ego" or sense of self. Some even seek truth in "nothingness" through meditation. Some embrace "ego".

But I do agree to a degree that the idea of attachment in everything we have experienced down to the very genes passed on by our ancestors tune us into the unique beings we are.

I'm blabbering.

Originally posted by Korto Vos
Even more to the core than that.

Don't you agree it's attachment that forms the basis of your perception that you are your own unique person?

You are attached to this concept of Self, and you blanket this individuality with emotions and thoughts aimed to shape and separate yourself from all others.

Your attachment, your desire for all things in the material world, to yourself and to the ones around you drive all the natural emotions of love, hate, fear, jealously, surprise, etc.

what do you mean by attachment?

because the way the brain produces sensations of the self is much different from the way it becomes addicted to a substance, which is very much different from emotional response...

Originally posted by the ninjak
Cool. But as I stated attachment a collection of things that as you said spurn emotions. It's not an emotion though, but a perception.

I don't believe that attachment is the core of a personality though. Some philosophies teach people to detach themselves from the "ego" or sense of self. Some even seek truth in "nothingness" through meditation. Some embrace "ego".

But I do agree to a degree that the idea of attachment in everything we have experienced down to the very genes passed on by our ancestors tune us into the unique beings we are.

I'm blabbering.

Yeah, I mean, like I said before, I don't think attachment is technically considered an emotion. But it's definitely, to me, a (if not THE) critical impetus for all other emotions

You seem cognizant of Eastern philosophies that discuss "ego" and attachment- that is good, I was hoping I didn't come off as spewing nonsense.

what do you mean by attachment? because the way the brain produces sensations of the self is much different from the way it becomes addicted to a substance, which is very much different from emotional response...

Attachment as in attachment with others and material objects. Basically desiring things that you don't have and clinging onto those that you do possess.

The most fundamental attachment is the attachment to Self ("sensations of self"😉- the notion that you are truly different from everyone else.

Originally posted by Korto Vos
Attachment as in attachment with others and material objects. Basically desiring things that you don't have and clinging onto those that you do possess.

The most fundamental attachment is the attachment to Self ("sensations of self"😉- the notion that you are truly different from everyone else.

ok, give me a semantic answer here, define "attachment" in this context

Hit someone under the belt using words they mostlikely will come back swinging.

Love and hate, I would agree are the strongest, but the second strongest are fear and joy. I don't see why people say hope is. It's rather weak. Fear is increadibly strong.

Yes, love and hate are the two strongest, and they are total opposites. So are the second two; fear and joy. Fear is STRONG. Just put things like a zombie apocolypse into perspective. Also, I don't see how hope is powerfull. "I Hope I get the job."

Some people can't love.

Love? Are you serious? Try anger.

Fear. Easily.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Fear. Easily.

Since all emotions are experienced differently. I mean how else would you compare being ecstatic to being envious? These emotions are experienced differently.

Fear has you crawling up in the corner, anger has you vandalizing, and mistreat others. So, anger would be more of an active emotion.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
I'll say it again: fear. It's influence outstrips anything.

Originally posted by Astner
Fear has you crawling up in the corner, anger has you vandalizing, and mistreat others. So, anger would be more of an active emotion.

Anger is but the child of fear.

Originally posted by inimalist
This is why the scientist in me needs a definition of emotion

One of those thins you feel.

Originally posted by inimalist

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Those things that power lantern rings and hit Broadway Musicals.

Actually Geoff Johns specifically said "psychological drives" rather than emotions in one interview.

Butthurt is the strongest emotion!

Originally posted by Arhael
Butthurt is the strongest emotion!

I don't think that there is a single strongest emotion. Love and fear can all push someone to limits that are not normally achievable. People run into burning buildings and lift vehicles off of the injured from a mixture of love and fear. People give of themselves in selfless ways out of love. People panic themselves into completely irrational action or loss of motor skills out of fear.

I suppose that hate is a strong emotion, but in reality when someone takes the time to say, build and plant a bomb to kill someone or to get a weapon and hunt them down it may have been initiated out of hate, but by the time they get into they generally are only able to complete the action because they have turned the person into an object of little or no worth.

Fear and Love also remain more strongly with the person feeling the emotion even after the person/animal/event that was the source of the fear or love is gone. Hatred usually does not remain in the same way.