# Do we control our emotions? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 15, 2024, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/do-we-control-our-emotions/10660 "2024-01-15T05:48:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 141
**Author:** ![citizenschallengev4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/citizenschallengev4/32/28718_2.png) [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/do-we-control-our-emotions/10660/141 "2024-02-10T16:48:55Z")
I agree with Lausten, it’s all the other stuff, you wrap that insight into, that I believe gets you into your dead end. > [@inthedarkness](#): > > So in other words what you’re saying is that no one has answered it. How can’t you consider that an answer? What is it you want to know, what god is thinking? When it comes to how we deal with, what we know - it seems dang relevant. > [@inthedarkness](#): > > Life doesn’t mean and little or as much as you want it to, it is fundamentally meaningless and that line is just avoiding acknowledging that reality. That’s the God’s Eye View. If you enjoy nihilism, guess it makes sense. But I enjoy having people in my life, even if they can be a pain sometimes; and I have hours in a day filled with chores & activities that help bring satisfaction, job well done and all that; and I have desires that I strive towards. Life is dynamic and has plenty of meaning to me, which is important to all sorts of people within my larger family groups (_that gets complicated, trust me_), even if I occasionally think I’m worthless, I still matter to them, so I’d better matter to myself. Of course, none of _that_ matters to the rich or the starving people scattered all over the world - that’s were a healthy respect for relatively is helpful. Of course, I also discovered something about me, that I suspect is true for many - realizing it feels good to be needed, and to care about others and to help others. I have the feeling that has a genetic/evolutionary aspects to it, meaning it’s not just my imagination, there are also physical aspects to it. > [@citizenschallengev4](#): > > What do you chose to be present to? > [@inthedarkness](#): > > Also irrelevant. But your “irrelevance” is relative. Reminds of getting tired of a kid’s questions and defaulting to “because”. Says everything, says nothing. > [@inthedarkness](#): > > Also as a side note they referred me to this rather questionable neuroscientist Who’s the they? I certainly didn’t. I keep encouraging you to give a real scientist a try: > [@Is There Free Will? Dr. Robert Sapolsky, and other ramblings](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/is-there-free-will-dr-robert-sapolsky-and-other-ramblings/10672): > > Fascinating and definitely overwhelming. Oh the nuances . . . Is There Free Will? The Unsettling Science Behind Our Everyday Decisions Dr. Robert Sapolsky - interviewed at [Finding Mastery](https://www.youtube.com/@FindingMastery)[[Is There Free Will? The Unsettling Science Behind Our Everyday Decisions | Dr. Robert Sapolsky] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFb4nY4Bqv8) Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will By Robert Sopalsky Reviewed by John Martin Fischer, University of California, Riverside “Robert Sapolsky’s Behave , his now classic account of why h… I don’t agree with all his interpretation, but the man certainly knows his physiology and that’s worth taken into your little mental bank account, to process as you see fit. I mean you keep complaining about these quacks you’re told to read, well stop reading them (_you know garbage in garbage out, and all that_) and start digging your intellectual teeth into something with some heft. Good luck. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/do-we-control-our-emotions/10660)._