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[leggierissimo]

[Oh, what's this? It looks like Joshua has found a book. There isn't a name or title visible on the cover at all, but he seems to be seriously pondering something on the pages.]

Well, who would have thought.

[He marks his page with his finger, closing the book just enough to look down at the PCD, smiling.]Did you all know, the life span of any

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[wingsandwill]

[He's... Not sure he believes that, but then again, he's still very new to this emotions thing.]

Or the situation that prompted the emotion persists.

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[leggierissimo]

Perhaps that situation should be stopped, then. Or ignored. Either way, isn't allowing yourself to react to it a second or third time just as bad?

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[wingsandwill]

Some situations are not easily stopped or resolved in such a short timeframe, nor always possible to ignore.

Feeling emotion in regards to a situation is not inherently bad, either, whether once or repeatedly.

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[leggierissimo]

Then the appropriate actions are not being taken.

Oh, of course, if that feeling is pleasant. There isn't anything wrong in feeling good.

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[verydistinct]

That's about the chemicals meant to trigger certain emotions, and the physical lifespan. That's done by letting the emotion take control for that length of time. Mentally, emotions work differently.

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[leggierissimo]

Ah, but in order to keep those feelings of self-loathing and grief going, one has to actively think about them. That's much more than a chemical reaction.

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[verydistinct]

That's not what it's about. It's the physical effects from the emotion, when you let it take that much control. You can hold the physical reaction, like a raised heart rate, tears, tensed muscles and pain, or stamp it down before that length of time has passed. Mentally it can stick around, or keep at the back of the mind.

Even more, what you said is theory, not fact. It wasn't tested or explored much further than being written in a book.

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[leggierissimo]

Oh? This book seems to suggest differently. It states it as being scientific evidence.

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[grandtheftbody]

Oh, but I think most people are masochists. Or perhaps they simply find it difficult to immediately forget something that happened only a minute and a half before?

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[leggierissimo]

Oh, I don't know. I can think of one person that probably could forget that quickly.

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[grandtheftbody]

Really? A friend of yours?

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[leggierissimo]

A friend of an acquaintance.

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[feel_nevermore]

What's this book you're reading?

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[leggierissimo]

"My Stroke of Insight".

[Don't ask him, he didn't name it.]

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[feel_nevermore]

And who's the genius who wrote that, then?

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[leggierissimo]

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, by the looks of it.

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[bloodseal_soul]

That applies to physical chemistry. By that logic, someone without a body should not be able to feel emotions at all.

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[leggierissimo]

You say this with confidence.

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[bloodseal_soul]

I've had... some unique opportunities to see that particular effect in action. A body isn't required to have emotions, only the physical responses of them. Adrenaline to go with anger, that sort of thing.

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[leggierissimo]

You've known someone without a body?