DWQA QuestionsCategory: Extraterrestrial InterlopersWhile the character of Mr. Spock endeavored to be always logical, he was nevertheless depicted as a good person. The meta-message was that being a good, helpful, and even generous person was logical. What is Creator’s perspective on goodness being logical?
Nicola Staff asked 3 years ago
We would say that goodness is completely logical because it is in divine alignment. The idea of living like Mr. Spock, largely devoid of any hint of emotion, leads to a very dry interchange and inherently one that is emotionally unsatisfying to people around such an individual. Everyone has emotional needs and these are filled in part through the sharing of emotions with others through exchanges of stories, expressions of interest, and concern for one’s difficulties and challenges, and moments of exasperation that might be shared. This is where people can treat one another with a loving touch, to be nurturing, to be supportive, to be a true friend by commiserating with an ongoing struggle and an expression of solidarity—gestures of friendship are an outreach of love in action. Without feeling, there can be no expression of love because the two are intertwined. So again, the ideal of someone who is imperturbable being a model standard of conduct is a misplaced notion because that is a limited way to be that ultimately will be unsatisfying to those in that person’s company. You would certainly not wish to have a life with such a person on a desert island; it would not only be dull, it would be deadening. The important things in life are feelings because that is how love is experienced, as a feeling, and how it is expressed in the conveyance of a feeling, and how it is recognized by the kindling of a similar resonance within the recipient of the loving gesture to feel love as well. In the absence of emotion, having only logic to experience, such an exchange done with love cannot be mounted let alone experienced and welcomed. Similar to being trapped with someone for an extended period devoid of emotion and only possessing logic, you would not want to be with an emotional person whom you intensely dislike for a host of reasons, because of basic incompatibility. It would certainly be most likely an emotional rollercoaster but none of it would be pleasant, enjoyable, or satisfying. So again, we are back to the question of balance, the question of emotional temperament whether on the positive end of the scale or the negative makes a great deal of difference, and the art of living is to seek ways to spend one’s time within the positive emotional range and avoid the negative to the extent one can.