Posted on 10/20/2009 8:39:23 AM PDT by Salvation
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A conscious state or experience. More particularly in scholastic philosophy an experience of the external or internal senses, namely of sight, smell, touch, hearing, taste, and bodily, or somatic, sensation. Feeling is often simply equated with emotion, but emotion can also be spiritual, whereas feeling is, properly speaking, in the material order.
Not right or wrong -- they just are.
It's what we do with feelings that gets us into hot water.
Feeling: I feel so angry about the lack of obedience of my children.
Thought: I feel that my children disobey me because they are teenagers.
Whenever you can substitute the word “am” in a sentence for the word “feeling”, it is, indeed, a feeling. I ‘am’ so angry about the lack of obedience of my children.
Whenever you can substitute the word “think” for the word “feel” then you are expressing a thought. I ‘think’ that my children disobey me because they are teenagers.
The word “feeling” is often misused in this way.
Another hint for judging your own speech on feelings and thoughts — if the word feel is followed by the word ‘that’, it will express a thought.
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The use of "to feel" when "to think" is meant is so widespread, it is not longer funny. That's how I feel and I can prove it.
LOL at that quote.
I guess it’s just one of my pet peeves.
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