Is It Possible To Have Feelings/Passion/Emotion Apart from Thinking?

A person who leads a feeling-driven life: Driving along one day and sees a puppy on the side of the road. The first thing that happens to the person will be an acute sense of sympathy and pity. They will feel sorry for this miserable puppy that was left alone. They pull over and get out, mindless of the freezing rain and the busy freeway. They hurry over and pick it up and hold it close under their coat to warm it as they hurry back to their car. They take it home.

Now, this may not all happen to a person leading a thought-driven life: They are driving alone one day when they see the puppy by the side of the road. The person will think about whether they should pull over and if it's safe and will throw back the reasons why or why not they should pull over. Let's say they decide it's safe and has good reason to. They then zip up their coat, thinking of how bitterly cold it will be once they open the door. They pull on gloves even. They hurry out and find the puppy...they check it over, looking for injuries and making sure that if they pick it up that the puppy will be in the least amount of pain. At this point the person would think about whether taking it home would be the best option. They know that if they take it home they are bound to get attached to it. After that, they need to be thoughtful of the fact that there will be vet's bills, shots, loads of food, toys to buy, maybe a fence or a kennel, and muliple other costly thins. Can they afford it? Or should they drop it off at the local pound? Should they leave it for another person? These are all valid thoughts that should be considered. Let's say they decide that yes, they can afford it and company would be nice...they've wanted a pet for some time but never got around to it. They pick it up, keeping it's muddy, wet paws off of the coat since they just had it dry-cleaned and they don't want to have that process repeated so soon. They take it to the truck and grab a towel out of the back to lay over the seat so that the puppy may be warmer and the seat wouldn't get muddy, wet, and dirty as well. They take it home.

This short scenario is one that displays the difference between the feeler and the thinker. One thinks ahead...one feels and goes with gut instinct, no rationality behind the actions. It is the difference of living a life of the mind or the heart. Which leads your life? Which displays itself in your actions? We are told that the heart is wicked above all things...who can understand it? A life lead by this will be one of fickleness...one moment loving the weather and the next moment complaining of everything weather-related. The person will be filled to the brim with contradictions and irrational choices. They let their heart do the thinking, but no heart can truly think...all it does is feel. It feels sad so it makes you cry. It makes you feel happy so you smile. It makes you mad so you yell. But the thinker stops to process...is it truly sad, should I truly be happy, is that a good reason to be angry? Maybe if he stopped to think about it, the thing that angered him makes complete sense if you think through it all.

When a parent takes a child's candy away from him, the first thing he feels will probably be either anger or sadness. Sadness at the loss of his treasure and anger at the parent for depriving him of it. However, if the child was to think through it (what child does?) he would understand that no matter how badly his body craves the sugar it's almost dinner time and it would spoil his appetite for his meat and vegetables. The parent is merely doing his job by caring for his child. So a large deal of thinking or feeling comes with maturity.
I say a large deal because some children can be more mature then some adults. It comes with a Biblically-led life. The more you seek God, the more wisdom stored, the more you learn about God and His character and law, the more you will be able to mature and think through the things of the world. Why this person says that, why that person did that, what the agenda pushed in that was. From that thought process we can get emotion. Emotion, feeling, passion...it's not bad, but put in the context apart of reason and thought it is harmful to anyone. The life of the Christian should be the life of the mind, not the life of the heart.

Our culture is one of immaturity. The general person you bump into on the street will not base his actions on anything solid or built on reason...for the reason that the heart is not built naturally with reason or meaning or purpose. The heart cannot think, that is not its purpose. When a person leads a life of emotion they are like grass in the wind...blown whatever way their emotions are driven. And the people in charge of the sheeple of today know this; they are manipulating and calculating with how to drive the sheeple a certain way.

Media is a large part of driving a people a certain direction. How you portray fathers, parents, children, family life, church life, daily life etc comes across in our media...our movies, our tv, our magazines, our books, our newspapers...and your typical sheeple will never even notice how brain-dead and heart-alive they are.