The Justification of Emotions

YARM (Yet Another ReMAster): This post has been a long time coming!

Note: This title is a homage of sorts to one of my first posts, “The Justification of War”- which was written with a similar rationale in mind- that is, to play “the devil’s advocate”, by validating a stance that which I was previous opposed to.

It’s a “rule-of-thumb” that factuality can only be ensured after all emotion is isolated from the respective defining factors; after all, the innate instability of mere sentiments cannot be relied upon for consistancy or accuracy. I myself have been constantly growing more and more emotionally detached in general the past several months.

Although this of course was not intentional, it’s liekly that it was a necessity in order forme to gain the many insights I have attained, which further led to some extraordinarily raw conclusions– particularly in regards to love; among other posts, this is detailed in my post “Love“.

At first, I thought that I had subconsciously become more emotionally detached in anticipation of these insights- but after giving it a great deal of thought, emotional detachment was probably a crucial adaptation to prevent the otherwise inevitable emotional colapse from the merciless buildup of emotion trauma, due in part to self-initiated mind-fucking. I would have been hard-pressed not to become an utterly hopeless wreck, otherwise.

Believe it or not, for the majority of my adolescence (or all of it, before turning 19), I proudly considered myself to be a hardcore hopeless romantic. In fact, I have greatly desired to fall in love ever since I was seven years old. Never could I have even imagined the possiblity of coming to the conclusion that love does not exist.

But I now realize that love does exist– just not logically. As I have said many times before, truth can only be attained when taking all perspectives into account. This of course includes not only the logical perspectives, but the non-logical ones as well.