Do feelings exist?

[timbaly]

I want know if you people think feelings would exist if our parents didn't tell us about them or if the media didn't show them to people? The way i wrote this is kind of confusing, but i hope you understand

[liderDeFARC]

im trying man, im trying. So lets see i think they would, not the pity ones though. Pity isnt a feeling. I think hate and likeness would exist.

[timbaly]

Do you think love and relationships would exist?

[andresG]

Yes, I think feelings would exist. Feelings can be influenced by our parents and the media, of course, but they would still exist, even without those two mediums. Feelings are things that make humans special. Love, hate.... These things can be bad but also bring lots of good.

[timbaly]

Ok' but would marriage and relationships between to people in love exist?

[man in the red suit]

what kind of stupid question is that? (no offense)

of course, feelings would exist, that's like asking if people would know how shit if they werent taught how.
Of course feelings will exist, it is basic human instinct!

[timbaly]

But if nobody told you that you were supposed to have only one partner or lover would you care if your partner mated with someone else, because you love them

[man in the red suit]

of course, these are not things which you need to be "taught"

[MJM]

Monogomy isn't an instinct. I'd say that if you lived in a culture where polygomy was accepted (there are countries where it's the norm) you'd have other partners.
Don't confuse societies imposed norms with emotions.
Emotions are instinct as MITRS has said.

(Edited by MJM at 12:32 am on June 5, 2002)

[samaniego]

feelings do exist, in man regardless of upbringing, albeit that certain ideas are proposed to influnce your own feelings. marriage is an influnced idea not a natural one, we have no real need for it other than that we now feel the need to be, and our society expects it, but it is not natural. Love is you feel love for people regardless of what anyone tells you, and you give it at times to those who dont deserve it, so in summary the do exist, and are manipulated, by society.

[guerrillaradio]

Nietzsche writes that feelings are the most real things we have, and I'm inclined to agree with him. Cos feelings are purely personal, they only happen to us. In the case of something abstract and psycological such as feelings and emotions, for them to exist, they only have to be believed by the person experiencing them. And to "have" a feeling, it has to be experienced. Therefore, feelings exist.

[anti machine]

Feelings: love, hatred, pity, joy, are just abstract words invented by man to try and explain an abstract idea. I predict that in about 400 years everyone will look back at us and say "my god, they were so stupid! Love??? what the hell is that? Making up silly words! Haha!" By then it will be something else, trying to explain what we cannot.

[Supermodel]

Without feelings you'd be an automobile.

Well, an automobile that has sex and makes baby automobiles.

hmmmmmmm......I'm off to General Motors' website for a while..........what kind of options do cars come with these days........

[thebigcom]

you mean wuld we feel emotions if we werent told to early on in ou life by our environment. of course we would. it is not a matter of nurture, but of nature

[deadpool 52]

Feeling exist to those who feel them. ;)

[I Will Deny You]

Ever heard of neurotransmitters? It's scientifically proven that feelings exist.

Lindsay

[sypher]

I think feelings would exist but I don't think they would be "trained" as parents and media wouldn't be there to train. I don't think greed or pity would exist. I think depression would exist but i don't think that it would be as commen in people.