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Instinctively Emotion?
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on 2008-02-04 15:47:01 |
Today, I was reviewing personification in figurative language, and we were giving a few examples. Like, for instance, an angry sea. But the thing I was thinking hard about is how humans kind of attach personification to a lot of things. I'm talking about how we think that inanimate objects have feelings. Like, when you're five or something, you think your teddy bear's feelings will get hurt if you don't love him. And how old men worship their new sports car and call it a "her". But I just wanted to know, do humans instinctively think that everything has emotion?  |
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on 2008-02-04 16:37:51 |
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Haha,I remember when I was seven,, If I sleep then all of my pillows must touch all of my body..bcoz just like you say,,the things have em0tion.. I think my pillows will sad if I don't use them all. XP In five,,my mom said that 'if you don't eat your meal until finished..your meals will cry' Apple..I just tell my opinion.. I think that's right.. Instinctively I do these 'weird' feeling..but n0w when i was teenager..i don't feel like that again |
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by bermudanwarrior
on 2008-02-04 19:48:34
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Aren't you talking about this?  |
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| inanimate objects are not living. they don't have feeling! |
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on 2008-02-04 23:41:42 |
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hmhm! maybe they love that thingy that much that they care too much. or maybe they believe in superstitions, that if you treat things as humans it will last. like how grown-ups treat their car like their goddess. (this is an exaggerated version of what apple mentioned..) |
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on 2008-02-05 02:54:23 |
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In the shinto religion, just about everything has a spirit attached to it or a deity that watches over it. People have been worshipping this sort of stuff for ages. I personally like the idea, I like the belief that there is life in everything and that by nurturing it's nature then the spirit will itself grow and in turn good karma will come your way. I think people are so disillusioned with the world nowadays that they don't just stop and marvel at their surroundings. I mean has anyone here ever climbed a tree adjacent to a birds nest just so you can marvel at the chicks being fed? It amazing. Ever watched kingfisher spear the water and come up with a fish? Amazing. Ever climbed to the top of a tree and been blown around by gale force winds? It makes you feel at the mercy of nature and the 'spirit' of the land. I think it's just a way of appreciating what you have around you. *as for cars, I think that's just down to the fact they have spent so much money on it that could have gone to something else, they revere the value over the actual sentiment*  |
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on 2008-02-06 07:09:26 (edited 2008-02-06 07:10:04)
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| Some person would see a specific inanimated object as a thing of hidden emotion, hence as a thing of symbolism to him/herself. I like those things, it sounds pretty metaphorical. |
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on 2008-02-07 03:22:09 |
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^ I can understand that. I have a sword that I was given by my instructor. I am its custodian. As such it has many responsibilities that drop on my shoulders. The sword was chosen for me based on me, so in my instructors eyes its my match in terms of weapon. Because of that I have quite an attachment to it. I like to think if I was disattached to my sword then it wouldn't work as well for me. |
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on 2008-02-08 09:39:23 |
I fell in love with my Teddy Bear and call it Tommy. I cried, talk, laughed and sang to him, never sleep without him, and treats him like he's alive. Lol, call me crazy, but that's what I did. Maybe I was just lonely :/  |
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on 2008-02-09 02:53:46 |
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That teddy bear looks like my little brother when he was 5! |
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on 2008-02-11 01:41:01 |
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@hikky- My sis also have a teddy bear and she treated it like her own child! X_X it's so weird... and she's not 10 years old! I kept calling her teddy bear b0b0c00mbs XDDDD Possibly to 'animate' the teddy bear's funny character. @renshi-sho- XDDDDD |
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Actually, I think man instinctively treats objects in his surroundings as living. A lot of these conceptions come from Early Man, when we watched fire 'dance' and seas grow 'angry'. In fact, if you think about it, all religious ideas are essentially that of personified objects (i.e. forces of nature). That's why we have so many gods in ancient religions.  --> |
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on 2008-02-14 03:04:54 |
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Yeah, like the greeks and romans, hell look at shintoism, there's a god or spirit for just about everything there. Even when you look at your homeland, a lot of people call it your 'mother' country. Symbolising the providence you get from a mother etc. It is quite intriguing. Maybe its a way of just simplifying and rationalising events happening. Associate an element with an emotion in order to empathise with its consequences. Just a thought... |
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maybe we say that because we don't want it to be damaged either because of cost or attachment. the item was probably associated with a traumatic(good and bad) memory. |