Why do we have emotions?

Question

Why do we have emotions?

Answer 1

That question has been asked since the beginning of time; in my opinon it's the grand design of our maker, it helps us to consider our conscience as a guide to help us live as our maker intended. Love, hate, fear, greed, etc all plays a well designed role. It's quite in depth, but I hope this helps.

Answer 2

emotion is energy (e) in motion. There is only one emotion, joy.

All others like fear, anger and sorrow are obstructions to joy. By monitoring our emotions we can return to joy which is also a return to love.

Answer 3

I agree with Ross.  Obstructions is a good word here, I would use resistance.  It is caused by the lower vibration of negative emotions.

When we are in a bad mood, for example, it is impossible to feel say gratitude, which is one reason that someone gave Ross a thumb down, most likely.  

Cheers!

Answer 4

Because we are not robots?.

Answer 5

because certain stimuli cause chemical reactions in our brain. these chemicals make us feel funny stuff like love, anger, sadness and fear.

What purpose do they serve? Im not sure. They could make our experiences her on earth more personal and meaningful. they could be propogating our species by allowing us to bond with others for purposes of reproduction or fto escape dangerous situations.

Or maybe they are just meaningless and get in the way. Who knows for sure?

Answer 6

"Those who feel it, know it best." ~ Bob Marley

Answer 7

so instead of thinking whats right

we feel whats right for ourself

so we can experience it

Answer 8

God has emotions.  We are made in His image.  

Answer 9

I think it's the energy body, or our spirit, that is reflected into us as emotion which creates our physical body What propels emotion is desire which is coming beyond the spiritual body from the mental body that is creating the spiritual body, that is reflected into us as our mind and intellect.

Answer 10

Social reaction. Since we are social creatures (creatures who care) we are subject to emotion.

Answer 11

its explainable through evolution and survival of the fittest, an example being that anger allows us to trigger a fight or flight response which kept us alive back when there were lots of predators about.

Answer 12

Same reason we 'have' everything else, we perceive them.

Answer 13

Emotions serve many functions, but perhaps one the most interesting is how they facilitate social interaction on a physiological level that stimulates a cognitive reaction to abstract entities.

For instance a goal or a desired event (say for instance a successful hunt) the probability of this event can be increased if the effectiveness of the groups ability to recognize, evaluate and determine actions that well favor the realization of this event are achieved. Emotions serve to this end in that they produce the same physiological reaction in all the groups members when thinking about a particular abstract event, in this case a goal that has yet to be achieved.

This results in a psychological common page whereby communication effectiveness is increased because there is a direct feeling that every one can relate to with regards to the abstract, in this a unrealized goal.

Being that the abstract construct can be highly subjective for each different member the general feelings that manifest about the abstract are the same and so there is a starting point of communication. This will increase the odds that a hunt will succeed and this in turn increases the survivability of the genes responsible for emotions.