What is the strongest emotion and why?

Originally posted by Shabazz916
" Keep your head, and you can manage fear, control fear, and not just survive, but overcome a persistent threat by thinking ahead. "

that is called knowing my friend

Originally posted by Oneness
It's called control, awareness of danger would be knowing. The natural feeling that passes through your mind when you become aware of danger, is fear.

that feeling is knowing... ppl who dnt know die.. its not fear its the common sense is knowing.. and common sense is not so common

Originally posted by Shabazz916
that feeling is knowing... ppl who dnt know die.. its not fear its the common sense is knowing..

No, the fear is the feeling that knowledge evokes.

Say you love someone, and come to find out, they love you back; is knowledge that, once realized, evokes the subjective emotion, the feeling of joy.

and common sense is not so common

Originally posted by Oneness
No, the fear is the feeling that knowledge evokes.

Say you love someone, and come to find out, they love you back; is knowledge that, once realized, evokes the subjective emotion, the feeling of joy.

Something that is common among society, is common among society. That expression is an oxymoron. What it really means is that common sense is worthless, or inferior to the cynic or hypocrite who uses it. By saying that you either believe you are superior to the general populace, or that the general populace is helpless, you included. I resent the expression.

you can not be a hypocrite to common sense... these days ppl. dnt pay attention to common sense because the media and the world pulls ppl. towards selfish goals

sadness. it makes people comit suicide and scars people for life. Fear is a second best

I can't think of anyone killing themselves due to sadness. Depression, on the other hand... That's a condition, though. Not an emotion.

honestly, pain I suppose is the strongest emption, followed closely by love but that's highly objective and subjective to the individual.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
I can't think of anyone killing themselves due to sadness. Depression, on the other hand... That's a condition, though. Not an emotion.

No it's not. Depression is a natural emotion. The condition is when you decide to stay and embrace the emotion of depression.

Fear is by far the strongest emotion.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
No it's not. Depression is a natural emotion. The condition is when you decide to stay and embrace the emotion of depression.

There's two "types" of depression. One is a general sense of low mood, and is not terribly uncommon. One is a serious clinical disorder where the the sufferer experiences frequent, re-occurring bouts of the same. The word is so versatile that you need to be extra specific when discussing it.

But regardless of how you approach it, it is neither A.) a "choice" as you purport (seriously, the f*ck is up with saying that?), nor B.) an "emotion". Depression is a state of mind that is composed of emotions. Many of them. Chief among them is often fear:

Originally posted by Giant Anteater
Fear is by far the strongest emotion.

Fear is in everything.

I'd say fear or anger. Both can cause a rational human being to do some horrible things without thinking things through.

Dunno what that emotion's called. It's when you wake up in the middle of the night because you have to pee really bad.. but you're too sleepy and it's too cold to actually get out from under the blanket and walk all the way to the bathroom. That emotion.

In my experience, it's love, hate, and rage.

paranoia is strong, and even though I always survive I still constantly think of causing the end of the world.. I don't believe it though, but I feel it...

or dreaming about faceless shadow people, they leave me with the chills....

Two of the most amplifying neurotransmitters are norepinephrine and oxytocin.

The effects of these "endorphins" are superior to dopamine.

Between love and hate, oxytocin is probably the more potent drug over-all although they're always interrelated.

Fear though, cortisol and epinephrine, no drug can match the fear of the flight response. I've said that earlier and I'm sticking to our main survival instinct as the top candidate for strongest emotion:

Example of a cortisol overdosed, drug-induced, flight response to epinephrine.

When you shoot heroin the sheer amount of dopamine your body is flooded with is paradisaical.

Emotions are drugs, and drugs are why we care, drugs are why we do what we do. We do everything for the drugs, drugs are both heaven and hell on earth.

My thesis is that no machine can experience what humans can, these drugs are the stuff of heaven. I want them, and they're produced naturally, but shit like nicotine, weed, cocaine, heroine, and LSD produce them is MASS STOCK.

Hatred (norepinephrine) is kinda the result of pain-killing endorphins associated with dopamine production and cortisol, all from epinphrine released when you're stressed. If you're drunk and are harder than an iron-coffin and someone hits you, I don't care if you were falling over sleepy before; all those neurotransmitters will turn you into a hyper-active killing-machine for a few minutes. It feels good to unwind like that, orgasmic even.

Meditation/hypnosis has more potential than drugs to allow a person to operate far more productively than normally humanly possible, you're training your mind to release the right mixture of neurotransmitters to turn you into one resilient son of a *****.

Wanting to pee.

I think fitness takes a good lead in things.

I would say nothing, if you feel nothing that means no anger to fight and no hate to throw.

pain