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11:09pm September 14, 2014
thaxted asked: The idea that there is a strict mutually exclusive dichotomy between thinking and sensing, that thoughts and feelings are opposites, or actually ENEMIES, bothers me so much. It used to actually enrage me. It still confuses me and makes me feel ill. And I am a natural thinker-type who had to take a lot of time to learn to engage with emotions, mine and other people's. 99% of the time when someone uses the word "rational" I think they are using it completely wrong.

I know what you mean.  To me, sensing and what Donna Williams calls interpretive thought, are two tendencies that most people have, and that I tend more towards one than the other, doesn’t mean the other is the opposite or that I have none of the other.  If I had no capacity for rational idea-based thought I wouldn’t be able to communicate the way I do.  And feelings to me are almost a kind of thought, not something separate from thoughts.  The language people use for all this causes a lot of the problems because they think feelings and thoughts are opposites, when feelings are fast-thoughts, in my mind.  Like a feeling is a thought that happens so fast that you feel it in your body rather than reason it out in your head.  It’s not the opposite of a thought, it’s a kind of thought.  IDK.  I know what you mean though.