From: TURTLE              
To: SCOTT STEEL         
Subject: Say what?      
Date & Time: 04/28/91 01:59:26
Message Number 16211

T>[Remark about not allowing his emotions to control him]
S>Do you deal with them as a separate entity or do you integrate them
S>by over-riding them with logical.
 
Neither one. I simply don't allow my /behavior/ to be governed by my
/feelings/. On a practical sense, your feelings cannot dictate your
actions by themselves; they simply try to make you behave in a certain
way. You feel hungry, you feel horny, you feel angry, you feel afraid;
these feelings don't govern you. You don't eat because your hunger has
taken posession of your body; you eat because your hunger makes you
feel as though eating is a good thing to do. You still CHOOSE to eat.
You hit somebody not because your anger forces you to, but because you
choose to, with the knowledge that you are angry at this person. Your
physicla movements are still under your conscious control. Feelings,
by themselves, are incapable of any sort of independant expression.