For What Price??

[stevie1time]

If there was such a thing ' Would you sell your soul to the Devil' We've all heard about selling your soul for fame and fortune in the movies...But if Satan gave you a price!! say illness in a relative cured or just plain old fame and fortune...etc etc...what would you let it go..if at all???

[China Doll]

The path to rationality is a long one so I would imagine even mibs has some hidden irrationality in their closet.

From what I could tell a lot of people on this thread might be tempted to sell their soul if Satan showed them that old water to wine trick ;0)

[mibn2cweus]

Theland, I'm here. Doesn't that answer your question?

[Theland]

Mibs - Touchez! And forgive me for speculating, but I would guess that your hero was Mr Spock from the starship Enterprise. Although Captain Kirk sometimes found the odd seed of irrational and illogical behaviour shining through the Vulcan countenance.

[mibn2cweus]

Fascinating . . . but no deal. My refusal to worship the �logic� of Mr. Spock does however raise an important issue.

I appreciate the essential role that emotions play in living ones life as well as the dangers inherent in allowing ourselves to be continuously and unquestionably guided by them. Emotions are a key component of an automatic inertial guidance system driven by the momentum of ones currently held beliefs.

It would be impossible to live if our every action required a consciously derived decision making process. The lightning quick response we are capable of in a fast unfolding situation that we later observe took place �without thinking� is a manifestation of the important role emotions play in guiding our actions.

Upstream of the emotional aspect of this guidance system are the beliefs that program them. The refusal to evaluate these beliefs make us a mindless automaton driven completely by emotions devoid of the benefit of reason. If our beliefs correspond to reality then what we feel is likewise real and not an illusion.

Doesn�t your heart go out to Data in his attempts to feel the quality of love? I think he may actually understand love better than our Vulcan friend (and a lot of humanoids as well).