which is the most TRUSTWORTHY guide through LIFE, your Emotion, your Logic, or your Faith?

Question

what you feel, what you think, what you believe in
which among the 3 you mostly derive your decisions from?

it's so difficult to choose.... majority of the answers are great.
i like echohound, TR & Michael's answer the most.
id still wait for 1 more day, id read all the answers over & over again.
Thanks!

Answer 1

logic. it's not perfect, but it offers me a way to question or reassess my emotions and my faith.

logic also provides a way to assess logic itself.

i find emotion and faith -- my own and others' -- less predictable, too different, too subjective. logic seems more akin to thinking on your feet.

with logic, you're not simply reacting to a situation: emotion. and you aren't tied down to preconceptions: faith. logic makes the most out of the present situation.

Answer 2

I agree emotions help you have a fulfilling life and gives you the best measure of how you are living. If you are aren't content your emotions are telling you something about your inner dialogue. Listen to what your emotions tell you and decide if what your feeling is a flaw. You can't always listen to your emotions, they come and go and chances are you will probably forget the bad and the good respectively. Sometimes they even get you into trouble, sometimes for things you regret. Logic is a supplement of the human body that gives analytical prospective. You have to think and feel at the same time , this is effecient. Faith is what you have and where you end up. Believe!! Live in the moment and forget what tommorow has, for today may be your last. Don't think about the past, for you will surely miss what is in front of your eyes!! Think and feel in the present moment because if you do you will know what faith is. Faith is determined by what you think and what you feel and the times you will give up with you think or what you feel. Neither emotion, logic, or faith is more important than the other. Without one your in trouble.

Answer 3

Any single "guide" is not satisfactory to derive decisions.

However, I would say that foremost, logic is probably what I use as my primary resource.

I have a different view of Faith than most people. I believe that faith is just as logical as science, but that it comes from personal experiences that you can't show others. I have gained wisdom and love through faith, which if I was lacking my logic would only add misery.

Feeling are also vitally important. My motivation comes through what I feel. There are many great thinkers that have lived and died without accomplishing anything extraordinary because they weren't passionate about what matters most.

Answer 4

I'm a very emotional person, but my emotions are so all over the place and out of control that I know they are not reliable to base decisions on. My faith, eh, I'm really still learning about Christianity and the bible, so I wouldn't say I use my faith too much to make choices. Logic is always what I can trust when I want to make an appropriate decision.

Answer 5

That's a tough question, because I rely on my emotions/instincts and my mind equally and, most importantly, in conjunction.

Generally, feelings are my starting point. My gut feelings (especially the really strong ones) have always been right, and whenever I doubt them I always realize later that they were right and I should have paid more attention to them. But after I have decided what my instincts are telling me to do, I have to adjust by thinking about it. If you only listen to your feelings or only listen to your brain, you're acting as half a person.

For example, my feelings are what told me that I wanted to be a philosopher, but I wouldn't have done it if I couldn't get a "stamp of approval", so to speak, from my brain. Philosophy is something that I know I will always be interested in, and I have a realistic possibility of making a living at.

Another example, in a previous relationship I had a really strong feeling that my bf was cheating on me, but I was afraid to trust my instinct in case it was wrong (I didn't want to accuse him of such a thing if I wasn't absolutely positive I was right). This feeling was torturing me for about 6 months, at the end of which I found out that I was right. Instincts are very reliable, it's never a good idea to doubt them unless you have a really good reason.

Conversely, I'm now looking into what graduate school I'd like to go to. I've thought in the past about going to a school far away from home, just for the travel experience, but I'm in a relationship that I know it would be a mistake to leave behind. I have a very strong feeling that walking away from this man would be the biggest mistake I ever make, so now I'm looking for a school closer to home. I will still get my degree, but without doing something that I know in my gut would be a huge mistake.

Answer 6

Logic is the basis of common sense which is the closest to instinct. Emotion is how you use teachings to interpret what you are feeling. Faith is simply the belief of something that has no logic or emotional basis. To take a quote from a scientist written book, Common sense Lost. "It is fine to have faith in what you are taught and cannot see to believe in as truth, but when you actually see it and it contradicts faith and the believed truth, you must use logic and common sense to guide you.

Answer 7

My Faith definitely guides me through life. I have this saying....whenever you get a feeling in your gut when you are doing something wrong it is God telling you that that He isn't approving. Although if I had no emotions or logic I wouldn't have been able to believe. So it's more a combination of all three.

Answer 8

If by logic you mean a rational decision making process based on a careful analysis of available evidence--then that's my choice.

If you allow emotion to be your guide, then it will pull you into situations that, objectively, are rotten. Gamblers are ruled by emotion (unless they're champion poker players or card-counters). Following emotions with no reference to reason leads people into bad marriages, counterproductive friendships,and hate crimes.

And faith is choosing to believe something in the absence of reason. If you had to choose a parachute, would you rather BELIEVE it would open, LOVE IT if it would open, or KNOW that it should open?

Answer 9

I mostly derive my decision from my Faith, but that is tempered by what I Think and Feel. We are triune beings - we are spirit, we have a soul and live in a body. All three must take part in the decision making process, but I think and feel that my belief takes precedence.

Answer 10

I mostly derive my decisions from logic, however I don't believe that any one of these aspects should be relied on idependently.

There are truths that I have learned that have nothing to do with logic and everything to do with my emotions and faith.

I don't believe that any extreme reveals truth: truth is found in the convergence of many ideas.