Powerful/Strongest emotions

[PAche]

hey good idea,this could act as an agony aunt thread too!i'll be the agony aunt for this time, but the position is open to anyone who just wants to help others

jazzy: next time, stop her before drinking and tell her how you feel.besides,i think drinking too much aint good for your health.anway.before she gets drunk or wake her up from her stoning,tell her your insecurities and make sure she listens,not go back to stoning.but don't be too harsh to her,or she'll just run away.communication is important in any relatonship,if you do not have that, the relationship is just purely doomed.unless you get into a drunken stupor everytime she does too,then maybe two pissed people can relate to each other

lolita:yes,love is a good feeling ( ithink).i'm guessing your target of affections isnt yours yet,considering you saying "come to think of it".if that is so, take your time to approach him/her,be his/her friend first then see if she/he is really who you think he/she is.well you didnt put much details in your post so all i can deduce is that you're unknown in that person's eyes :D

wasabi:guilt means you can still change.its a good sign if you feel guilty for doing what is deemed wrong by the community.anyway,you're human,we make mistakes.just learn from it and don't repeat it

[Sara]

[color=#6699cc]It's interesting that negative emotions seem so much stronger than positive ones.

I don't know about [i]ever[/i], but here are two very strong emotions I've had--one positive, one negative. One involves hanging out with my boyfriend, one goes back to--well, most of my life, heh.

The first (possession/love, the positive one) just had to do with how happy I was to be with him after a morning of snuggling. It's a very wonderful feeling, to feel that (for all romantic purposes) you own/belong to someone. (And that the other party is also happy with that.) However, I'm sure I've provided Azure enough ammo to tease me for the next three [i]years[/i], so I'll stop there before things get any mushier. :p

The second is the apprehension/terror/freeze-up/stagefright that happens just before you go onstage for the first time during a play. Once you say your first line, most of it evaporates (although it doesn't disappear entirely until after you've made your first exit and can collapse backstage for a few seconds), but the suspense building up until that first line--It's torture. Cruel, vicious, biting, twisting torture. You are a [i]clear path to the door[/i] away from running away and hiding outside in the parkinglot, half a bite of food away from being sick, one whisper away from screaming.

You'd think, being in plays and skits my whole life, it would get better. Nope.

Ah, well. [/color]

[Guest XxXMiAka]

such a powerful emotion! have u ever been in it?!

[Renegade Minx]

[CENTER][SIZE=1][COLOR=DarkOliveGreen]I feel that love is an emotion seen in numerous different ways by many people. It may be a powerful, sacred thing to some, and then to others, it may just be a random four-letter word. I feel that I have yet to experience love... I'm sure that if I experienced it, my naiivitivity would blind me from seeing it until I looked back in retrospect.

Per
9 haps, I believe, love is an emotion that no one knows until they experience it more tha


n once. Not just romantic love, either--- all types of love! Their perception of love grows as they meet people and adapt a bit of that person's perception of love. So the more you love others, the more you grow to understeand love. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER]

[Sara]

[quote name='XxXMiAka']such a powerful emotion! have u ever been in it?![/quote][color=#6699cc]Hey there, Miaka, and welcome to OtakuBoards. When you start a thread, please put a bit more into it than a one line statement--share an experience, tell a story, give some background to your question.

There is already a thread about "powerful emotions" right now, which I think your thread could fall under. Because Renegade Minx replied so nicely, I am going to merge the threads instead of closing this one.

Please be sure to read our [url=http://Otakuboards.com/rules.php?][b]rules[/b][/url] before you continue posting. Thanks![/color]

[shinji172]

Im not sure if you would classify this as love but the strongest emotion i have felt (and still feel) is the dedication to someone who i would risk my life for to protect. For me Its not for a girlfriend but just a few very close members of my family. I think That sort of dedication can be the strongest emotion of all.
However,if your not careful, it can also lead to the deepest despair if you are betrayed.

[Chaos]

I find it amazing that so many people claim that anger is their strongest emotions when it's something so impossibly miniscule in a relative matter. Someone says something unfavorable to you, you get mad, and all of a sudden when you act upon your impulses you decide hate is the deepest thing you will feel? Please. I know what I've done in my life, and I know what I've seen, and I can fully say that my [i]wrath[/i] is my strongest emotion, but I know my anger isn't too bad. I mean, I have a Hell of a temper and I can do some very inhuman things, but what my [i]wrath[/i] brings me is so much more vibrant.

I am a very vain person. I had some things happen to me at a young age and I, apparently, resent the world for it, on a subconscious level. I, personally, think it's because I still have to see the reason for my wrath on an almost weekly basis. This, along with more life experiences, a lot of which I'm not too proud of, has lead me to be a very shallow person. I'm not emotionless, and my emotions are, in fact, very vivid, but mostly negative. I've been in relationships where I've cared for a girlfriend a great deal more than I'd rather admit, one in particular even though that's a different story for a different time, but I've never been so naive to believe I was in [i]love.[/i] I know what love is, and I know I don't have it.

Love is suffering, submission, exposing yourself, revealing faults, and sacrifice. You have to turn yourself inside-out to be with another person and connect. Humans, by nature, shelter ourselves because we're insecure creatures. Even the most open and friendly person has secrets and horrors. It's a fact of life.

So before someone else claims love or hate as their strongest emotion, think, please. You can feel anger or passion or sorrow, but you don't know absolute ANYTHING until you live it for more than a few years.

Sara, if I may single you out, made a great point of saying "possesion/love," even if you didn't mean to prove anyone's point, you kind of did. >_>;

[Godelsensei]

Guilt. I have a [i]huge[/i] guilty conscience. I lose sleep over it, even though I'm aware a lot of what I feel guilty for isn't really something that should haunt me for more than ten seconds every seventeen years.

I have this annoying way of remembering all sorts of things that the people I inflicted them upon have probably forgotten. This actually contributes to the other emotion I feel most often: embarrassment. I'm self conscious about things that happened years ago, that no one else remembers.
It's like I can't get over all the stupid things I've done. -_-;

[PAche]

well i'm not exactly saying what do you think is human's greatest but your [I]own[/I].anyway,if you were to ask me human's greatest emotion,that's easily be trust.

every emotion id based on trust in one way or another.think about it :D

[Retribution]

[QUOTE=Chaos]I find it amazing that so many people claim that anger is their strongest emotions when it's something so impossibly miniscule in a relative matter. Someone says something unfavorable to you, you get mad, and all of a sudden when you act upon your impulses you decide hate is the deepest thing you will feel? Please. I know what I've done in my life, and I know what I've seen, and I can fully say that my [i]wrath[/i] is my strongest emotion, but I know my anger isn't too bad. I mean, I have a Hell of a temper and I can do some very inhuman things, but what my [i]wrath[/i] brings me is so much more vibrant.

I am a very vain person. I had some things happen to me at a young age and I, apparently, resent the world for it, on a subconscious level. I, personally, think it's because I still have to see the reason for my wrath on an almost weekly basis. This, along with more life experiences, a lot of which I'm not too proud of, has lead me to be a very shallow person. I'm not emotionless, and my emotions are, in fact, very vivid, but mostly negative. I've been in relationships where I've cared for a girlfriend a great deal more than I'd rather admit, one in particular even though that's a different story for a different time, but I've never been so naive to believe I was in [i]love.[/i] I know what love is, and I know I don't have it.

Love is suffering, submission, exposing yourself, revealing faults, and sacrifice. You have to turn yourself inside-out to be with another person and connect. Humans, by nature, shelter ourselves because we're insecure creatures. Even the most open and friendly person has secrets and horrors. It's a fact of life.

So before someone else claims love or hate as their strongest emotion, think, please. You can feel anger or passion or sorrow, but you don't know absolute ANYTHING until you live it for more than a few years.

Sara, if I may single you out, made a great point of saying "possesion/love," even if you didn't mean to prove anyone's point, you kind of did. >_>;[/QUOTE][SIZE=1]I think it's blind of you to say that anger and love are not strong enough to be people's strongest emotions. Anger is not always created out of:
Them: *random bad talk about you*
You: Damn you all!

Anger has much deeper roots, roots you have no idea where they lead to or where they came from. Just because it is an impulse doesn't mean it's any weaker of an emotion. Actually, I believe that makes it all the stronger. If one emotion has the power to quickly grasp you, then later persuade you it was the strongest, I would consider hate and anger very formidable things.

Of course they're powerful, and we don't need to 'live it for a few more years' to find otherwise. Who is to say that the anger or hate we feel isn't an absolute? Step in another's shoes, and you'll see how truly blind you're being.[/SIZE]

[James]

[color=#332e1d][font=franklin gothic medium]Wrath is only a synonym for anger anyway; were still fundamentally talking about anger, whichever way you slice it.

I don't know what my deepest emotion is at this stage in life. If I don't, I doubt that many who are younger would. I agree that you have to live longer and experience the truest highs and lows in life, in order to have a better understanding of how extreme things can get.

It's not to say that I've never experienced extreme emotions - of course I have. Most of us have. And most of us have been through terrible things now and then, which we may rather forget. The big question is how we deal with these things.

For example, relationship problems would probably never bring out my very deepest emotions. At least, not romantic relationships. They might bring out some of my stronger positive emotions, but I doubt they'd bring out the darkest ones...simply because a romantic relationship is very different from a family relationship. I think that for me, my strongest emotions would probably be triggered by the death of a loved one.

So much so that I'm occasionally a little worried when I think about the possibility of my parents dying. I am so close to them that the thought of being without them, even at this stage, seems unbearable. So...those types of events will probably lead me to the very darkest places in my life.

But at this stage in life and at this age, I don't think I could express the full extent of my emotions.

And don't forget, many of you are teenagers. [i]Every [/i]emotion feels stronger when you're a teenager - [i]especially [/i]anger/frustration. But to a large extent, you grow out of that when you have completely passed puberty. At that point things become a bit more mellow and you don't get fired up as easily. So that's something to consider.[/font][/color]

[AlishaKitten]

I agree frear is a strong emotion but I don't think anything can beat sadness. That's something you must get over with and sometimes the things that makes you that way is unforgetable.

[Chaos]

[QUOTE=Retribution][SIZE=1]I think it's blind of you to say that anger and love are not strong enough to be people's strongest emotions. Anger is not always created out of:
Them: *random bad talk about you*
You: Damn you all!

Anger has much deeper roots, roots you have no idea where they lead to or where they came from. Just because it is an impulse doesn't mean it's any weaker of an emotion. Actually, I believe that makes it all the stronger. If one emotion has the power to quickly grasp you, then later persuade you it was the strongest, I would consider hate and anger very formidable things.

Of course they're powerful, and we don't need to 'live it for a few more years' to find otherwise. Who is to say that the anger or hate we feel isn't an absolute? Step in another's shoes, and you'll see how truly blind you're being.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]

Tch. Apparently irony comes in spades. I don't recall saying anger or love CANNOT be one's strongest emotion, because that would go against what I myself said. Please, if you're going to come down on me, use common sense.

My point was all of these people saying "oh luv ish mah strongst emotoin i luv my gf teehee" and crap like that. Or the petty ones saying because a person made fun of them or said something behind their backs they felt the most intense rage of all human history. That's absurd.

Hah, you're talking to the king of impulses. I have gone into blind fits of anger, hate, vehement fury even, and I know that all I have experienced from a spur-of-the-moment deal is nothing in comparison with a long-term, deeply seeded problem. At least for me. But I find it hard to believe that because someone told on you to a teacher you gained insight on your limitations of a human, or reached enlightenment because you stabbed someone with a pencil.

Everything in life is learned through experience, so of course understanding of our emotions follows suit. Don't preach to me about hate or anger, please. Don't treat me like some naive fool, please. I haven't come as far as I have just to get that kind of treatment.



[quote name='James][color=#332e1d][font=franklin gothic medium]Wrath is only a synonym for anger anyway; were still fundamentally talking about anger, whichever way you slice it.[/font'][/color][/quote]

No, those are two different things, James. They have different connotations. It's a certain expression of the word and a certain understanding of the meaning. I don't know, maybe my thinking is skewed, but maybe the English language has so many ins and outs to express different things? ;D

[Cyriel]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=Purple][quote name='Retribution]Hate is stronger than love because of the fact its higest aim is to take another's life (ultimately, anyway). And when you reach the level of taking another human's life, I don't see how you can go any higher.[/QUOTE][QUOTE=Pumpkin']Retribution is right. Hate can be a stronger emotion infact it is possible to hate and love someone at the same time. That is a very strong mixed emotion.[/quote]I [B]disagree[/B]. I would have to agree with Kamuro when he says that [B]love is the strongest emotion[/B]. It's true, of course, that hate does overwhelm and control many people. It's extremely contagious and destructive. However, hate is also easy to give in to. It's like the easy way out. I would say that love is the stronger emotion because people actually have to bring themselves to work to overcome and defeat their hate. It takes more effort to forgive than to punish, and more effort to love than to hate. So perhaps more people hate because it's the easier thing to feel, but that in no way makes it the stronger emotion. I think that the stronger emotion is the one that you have to apply to, even if other things threaten to topple it or overcome it. The stronger emotion is the one that you have to work for, and strive to achieve, because then you won't let go of it. Love is that thing.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[Tasrai]

[QUOTE=Godelsensei]Guilt. I have a [i]huge[/i] guilty conscience. I lose sleep over it, even though I'm aware a lot of what I feel guilty for isn't really something that should haunt me for more than ten seconds every seventeen years.

I have this annoying way of remembering all sorts of things that the people I inflicted them upon have probably forgotten. This actually contributes to the other emotion I feel most often: embarrassment. I'm self conscious about things that happened years ago, that no one else remembers.
It's like I can't get over all the stupid things I've done. -_-;[/QUOTE]

[COLOR=teal][SIZE=1][FONT=arial]I know exactly how you feel. I mean it doesn't even have to be something big. I remember when I once told this girl I knew in the sixth grade a lie. It wasn't even a bad lie (as in it would hurt her) it as just a little lie. But sometimes years later, when I lay down to sleep I remember it and feel guilty all over again and then I can't sleep.

But I don't think that is my strongest emotion. I think my strongest or most powerful to me, so far in the life I've lived is protection if that is even an emotion...But for example in first grade this two kids were really picking on my best friend and they had been doing it all year. Finally, my friend came to me and asked me to help. So I told the bullies to leave her alone when they didn't....well we sort of got into a fight. They were boys and third graders and I was a first grade girl, but that didn't stop me from beating their butts.
Similiar experiances have happened over the years, but I've managed to not get in anymore fights. I guess you can say I stand up for the small guy. Maybe both of these emotions are triggered my extremely strong sense of right and wrong. :animesigh [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[GreatBird]

I believe that Anger is a a extremely powerful emotion. [U]When controlled[/U]! Anger is a very strange emotion it can help or destroy you. Such as someone using anger to defeat evil. But even for the right cause its a dangerous weapon. The reason its dangerous because people dont know how to control it. The weakest emotion is fear. Fear can consume a person faster than anger ever thought about doing. Its because people let fear get the best of them and it eventually controls them.
[RIGHT]-GreatBird[/RIGHT]

[James]

[QUOTE=Chaos]
No, those are two different things, James. They have different connotations. It's a certain expression of the word and a certain understanding of the meaning. I don't know, maybe my thinking is skewed, but maybe the English language has so many ins and outs to express different things? ;D[/QUOTE][color=#332e1d][font=franklin gothic medium]Wrath: Forceful, often vindictive anger.

Wrath is a synonym for anger, in the English language. As I specified in my post, anger is anger. Whether you are talking about a "forceful and vindictive anger" or a "jealous anger" or a "silly, clown-like anger", you're still talking about [b]anger[/b].

So yes, wrath could be considered a "type" of anger. But we are talking about the deepest emotions. So "wrath" would be considered an extension of anger, in the same way that you have different types of love (ie: romantic love, platonic love, etc). That's the point I was trying to make.[/font][/color]

[Ryo the Tactician]

Most people are going to say hate, because it overpowers all other emotions. Even if you really love somone, or you're taken away by an emotion of strong friendship, happiness or elation, at their purest form none of them will make you feel as intensely as burning hatred/anger will. In my opinion, at least, not in all cases but for the most part, anger is on a different level than other emotions, so it's difficult to say if a moment of intense happiness or intense anger is stronger.

I think the strongest emotion I ever had was a mixture of anger/hatred/sadness. And it was in a dream too. Strange. It was anime related in a way too. It was directed towards a person. Has anyone ever felt anger/hatred so unadulterated that it makes you cry with emotion, bringing about sadness at the task you're goign to do? I don't want to get into details, so I know this might be confusing, but that's kinda how it was in my dream. I wonder, does that dream actually count as an emotion? I'm not sure, but it certainly was powerful.

Oh, and sadness is a good point. Sadness [B]burns[/B]. It festers in the pit of your stomach, unabating. Well, that's more dread...but I find the two intertwined. Sadness doesn't leave, not for a long time. And when it's there, it's just so painful. It's like, whenever you start to feel happiness, the memory comes back and smashes you in the back of the head. Goodbye happiness.

~RtT

[Sapphire Flare]

RIGHTEOUS FURY!

Sometimes I feel like I could just shoot starbolts out of my hands when I'm standing up for something! (like from Teen Titans :animesmil )

Either that or inspiration, you know that feeling that you can't describe in words but you're so happy and you start feeling a little hot? You know?

[Patronus]

Fear is by far the strongest emotion- in my humble opinion, anyways.

It makes people do things they wouldn't normally do- either courageous or foolish, it depends on the person. For some people- my boyfriend's one of them- fear is absolutely overwhelming. He can't function when he's afraid. Well, I mean, seriously afraid. Not like horror-movie scared. Then he screams like a girl.

I'm sure all of you have heard the story of a woman lifting a car off of her child. That's what fear, plus adrenaline can do to you.

[TokiOsaka]

Okay, well, that's funny, how old were you? :D
~Osaka

[Retribution]

[SIZE=1]To clarify what I meant, Chaos, I'll reword my arguement. I meant to say that no matter how you come across that hate/love/whatever, be it being told on or stabbing someone with a pencil, it doesn't matter. It doesn't need to be profound -- [B]it only needs to be the strongest emotion for the person experiencing it[/B]. But even that can be skewed in perception, I'm just saying that a person's strongest feelings could have arisen from being told upon. It's not rational or probable, but it's possible.
[quote name='Cyriel][SIZE=1][COLOR=Purple]I [B]disagree[/B]. I would have to agree with Kamuro when he says that [B]love is the strongest emotion[/B]. It's true, of course, that hate does overwhelm and control many people. It's extremely contagious and destructive. However, hate is also easy to give in to. It's like the easy way out. I would say that love is the stronger emotion because people actually have to bring themselves to work to overcome and defeat their hate. It takes more effort to forgive than to punish, and more effort to love than to hate. So perhaps more people hate because it's the easier thing to feel, but that in no way makes it the stronger emotion. I think that the stronger emotion is the one that you have to apply to, even if other things threaten to topple it or overcome it. The stronger emotion is the one that you have to work for, and strive to achieve, because then you won't let go of it. Love is that thing.[/COLOR'][/SIZE][/quote]

You see, anger being destructive and more contageous than love, it makes it stronger. The ends and final outcome of love may be more beautiful and bearable to gaze upon than that of hate, but that doesn't make it stronger. True -- it is easy to give into hate, and that's what makes it more durable, more powerful than love. Love easily collapses when you add drops of hate to the concoction. What if all of the sudden, your father started to beat your mother, and genuinely hated her? I'm sure your mother would go through denial, then eventually come to hate your father. Hate destroys love more easily than love destroys hate.

Just because it's harder to do doesn't make love stronger -- just harder to commit to.[/SIZE]