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Re: Is Getting Angry The Best Way to Get Motivated?
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NuNativs
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Date: February 08, 2016 06:58PM Exactly JRose!
"Indeed, there is a Dark Side to Religion and Spirituality and when people say things like "Things happen as they are meant to happen," it can’t get any DARKER!!! This is exactly what the “Powers that Be” want us to believe." "All of these are False Beliefs that are designed to take away our Responsibility..." Re: Is Getting Angry The Best Way to Get Motivated?
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fresh
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Date: February 08, 2016 07:18PM >So, which will you be - Fearful or Angry?
you very well know that is a false choice Re: Is Getting Angry The Best Way to Get Motivated?
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John Rose
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Date: February 10, 2016 02:26PM fresh wrote:
<<<you very well know that is a false choice>>> Yes, I realize that Emotions do NOT have Polar Opposites, however… Some psychologists see Fear as the true natural opposite of Anger. One well-known model comes from Robert Plutchik, who developed a highly influential psychoevolutionary theory of emotion. According to Plutchik, the thing we call “emotions” are actually a series of complex cognitive and behavioral feedback loops that are adaptations within the context of a very long, multi-species evolutionary history. In 1980, he tied a bow around his theory with this attractive 3-D circumplex/cone that he called the Wheel of Emotion: 
This model describes the relations among emotion concepts by using the analogy of colors on a color wheel: Emotions can vary in their intensity and similarity to one another… and they can be mixed to form secondary and tertiary or even conflicting emotions. 
In this model, Awe is described as a combination of Terror and Amazement, Contempt is described as a combination of Rage and Disgust, and so forth. The eight primary emotions — which Plutchik observed in humans and animals as primary evolutionary adaptations — are arranged as four pairs of opposites. Here is a neat little table he made which illustrates these emotions in their biologically adaptive context: 
In Plutchik’s model, Fear is another state of primal, biological arousal, but in the opposite direction of the basic Approach-Avoidance impulse of Anger. Both Anger and Fear are negative, but the directionality of the emotions are reversed.  Re: Is Getting Angry The Best Way to Get Motivated?
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fresh
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Date: February 12, 2016 06:18PM I understand - I was just saying that there are other options as to how one responds other than fear and anger to a situation. my point being that anger is not justified as a better response than fear, because peacefulness is a better option. and peacefulness does not preclude action. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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