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This-essay is a8002191.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %RITUALISTIC EMOTIONS 800219 Many of our emotions are learned from our culture. By watching others we learn how to feel when saying good-bye to a friend who is going away for a long time, perhaps never to return. We are taught now to feel about adults who show inclinations towards excessive intimacy with others than their spouse. Patriotic emotions are passed on through appropriate gatherings and celebrations on national occasions. The behavior of close ones on the occasion of a death in the family tells children what the proper feelings on such an occasion are. We learn how to feel by watching others feelings, and how others feel about each other's unconventional feelings. Often we rationalize our emotions, and then engage in cognitive arguments about our differing rationalizations; as if the variety of emotions we have---flowed from the variety of rationalizations. We behave as if we could change each other's ritualistic emotions by arguments which are designed to get each other to change the rationalizations which we have invented to explain our respective emotions---assuming that by changing the explanatory rationalizations would occasion a change in the ritualistic emotions which are thereby rationalized. We try to each other that certain ways of behaving (emoting) are not reasonable, and try to argue each other out of behaving in such unreasonable ways. Little do we recognize that to change ritualistic emotions will usually require participation in new emotions transmitting rituals of power equal to the rituals which interjected the extant ritualistic emotions. The power of a ritual originates in the power of the sub-culture which sponsors the ritual; and how central to our being that sub-culture is. If we have been cut off from the sub-culture which empowered our ritualistic emotions and are not participants in any sub- culture of comparable power, it may be exceedingly difficult for us to transcend the ritualistic emotions we learned in our former sub-culture. Healthy growth in ritualistic emotions involves participation in a healthy sub-culture which has power for us, and which empowers us to fulfill our unique personal potentials. Stagnant sub-cultures and alienation from all significant sub-cultures imprisons us in the ritualistic emotions of an earlier era. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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