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Six of us saw Twilight on Sunday night. It wasn't as bad as I'd hoped it would be. :( The characterization is still hilariously bad, but apparently the screenwriter edited some of the antifeminist attitudes out. That's probably a good thing, and this may be one of those rare times when the movie is better than the book. GLITTERY MONSTERS! How can that level of epic fail not be entertaining? 4SRS.

In the quest for self-knowledge, I have figured out that I have thoughts about things other people have feelings and beliefs about. Feelings for most people are very definite, almost binary. They must rarely take three or four feelings and experience them all together. In fact it's so rare that they have words like 'ambivalent' just to express that they feel more than one way, because apparently that's abnormal. Which I just figured out. :\

Tell me of your feelings, flist. How many do you generally have on x subject? In t amount of time will your feelings change by y amount? Let's graph this out so that I can get a handle on it. Screw XKCD, I will use math to figure this out.

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[terriblelynne.livejournal.com]

I was taken to the movie by a friend, completely unspoiled except "young adult novel about vampires". I managed to stomach it right up to the sparkly scene, which moved me to turn to my friend and say "You've GOT to be shitting me."

[tanniynim.livejournal.com]

I find myself ambivalent (1st definition, not the Psych version) quite often.

I view situations through multiple viewpoints almost constantly (I am a shapeshifter afterall), but *feeng* them is different.

If I were to pull numbers out of thin air, I'd say I experience multiple (usually 2-3) emotions about things 30-50% of the time. My mind, if set, is only changed through good argument, but I don't usually set myself on anything unless I'm sure.

As far as Twilight goes, I'd watch it if there was something in it for me. Like, say, a blowjob or $50. ;)

[lifeblender.livejournal.com]

I feel multiple feelings on subjects regularly, but almost always those about making choices. Simple choices like dinner or driving will give me a 1-3 emotions, but choices about relationships will usually give me 2-5 at once. Concepts and non-interactive events usually only generate one feeling at a time in me, although often more than one in sequence as I examine them. Feelings about relationship choices take several hours to change, while simpler choices take only a few minutes.

[bouncyone.livejournal.com]

"Tell me of your feelings, flist. How many do you generally have on x subject? In t amount of time will your feelings change by y amount? Let's graph this out so that I can get a handle on it. Screw XKCD, I will use math to figure this out."
this is in an interesting question. there are certain things that bring up the same exact one feeling. there are other things that bring up a whole bunch of feelings. it is also frequent to experience both poles of the feeling at the same time. (so i'll feel excited and scared, happy and sad)

oh, and they can definitely shift all over the place in a small period of time.

the more and more i play with my feelings, the more i discover i can do with them. i don't think there are limits to what i can feel.

[azuzil.livejournal.com]

re: self knowledge and feelings

I'm not entirely sure I understand the question here. what I think you are asking is if people have multiple thoughts/feelings at the same time about one specific "idea" or "situation." If that is the case then yes I do constanly have many emotions and thoughts around most things.

I find thoughts change much faster than emotions but at least twice the speed if not more.

[dreamsoffire.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's because my brain operates on a constant system of self-analyzation, but I almost always have more than one emotion in regards to a subject. At times, I'll have emotions that completely contradict eachother regarding a subject, depending on precisely what aspect of it I'm thinking about at any given moment. These emotions are usually rather dynamic, as well, but mostly because my opinions on things are very rarely set in stone, themselves. Most of the time, I'm equally able to argue both sides of a disagreement and end up playing devil's advocate to my friends all the time.

I don't know if that helped, at all... just my thoughts.

[rens-sanctuary.livejournal.com]

I have feelings on stuff all the time. I figure that's why I almost always can find the word I need to talk about it. On simple ideas I have about 2 feelings. Pasta good, cooking bad as an example. For ideas, and I mean the things people call concepts (love, God, the Universe) I have about 3-5 feelings on.

I can look at something one day and have one feeling and the next it can change to feeling 2. Not usually, but if I'm in a funk I'll hate something I love or vice versa. The fluidity of my feelings is dependent upon the aforementioned mood and the evidence to support an argument.

I THINK that's what you meant anyway. Hit me up with the questions, if any.

[rens-sanctuary.livejournal.com]

Twilight the movie IS the book. It's like crack really but you can't not watch it it's that wtf?!edness.