Describe what life would be like without feelings.
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In the story, no one has any feelings at all due to what the community refers to as the "Sameness." If we all had no feelings, life would be much different from what we know of it as now. Of course, like many other concepts, there would be pros as well as cons. For example, life without feelings can keep the world at peace. There wouldn't be things like anger, jealousy and embarrassment. These types of feelings can lead to wars and conflict. I mean, try to think of the most infamous person in history and try to figure out what their root feeling was. Hitler was known for starting World War II because of his anger toward Jews. However, having no emotions is also not so happy because, I mean, imagine that feeling of sledding down your first hill or getting that puppy you wanted for your birthday? Without happiness and pain,what is actually left in the world. Of course, though in that particular world we wouldn't no what feelings were and wouldn't care. But there would still be something missing. I understand now that when taking away emotions they were trying to protect the people from harm in a bad way. Without feelings, our world would truly be a bland place such as the Community.
ReplyDeleteWell, without feelings, life would be boring. There would be no happyness to look forward to, and no sadness to avoid. You might think that no pain would be good, but pain is really a good thing. People get wisdom from pain and suffering. Without it, well, people would be that less smart. They would have that less experience with pain. And then they might hurt other people without their own knowledge. They could be unprepared for the war that will eventually come.
ReplyDeleteLife without feelings would be hard to explain your feelings to other people. You don't feel mad, sad, happy, or anything. It would be hard to describe how you feel. You won't feel anything when someone does something to you. Life would be complicated. It would be hard to live. You don't feel love or hated. You don't feel mad or sad. So that's why I wouldn't like life without feelings.
ReplyDeleteWhat would life be like without feelings? I can't imagine life without feelings. If nobody had feelings, than you could hurt people without hurting them. If you win something, you wouldn't feel any happiness or sorrow if you lose. If you walf past people on the street, they would al have straight faces. If you punched someone in the face, they would fall down, get up, and simply walk away. Some bad feelings are actually good. If you don't experience pain or unhappiness, you wouldn't be prepeared for anything. I could never live in a world without feelings. No one would care about each other. They wouldn't care about making each other happy, because it is impossible. Happiness, jealousy, depression, are all examples of feelings.This world would be completely blank without them.
ReplyDeleteI like your thoughts on this idea #07. Great job!
DeleteLife without feelings would be...dull... simply bland. You would not truly experience the beauty of life without feeling a bit of pain or happiness. If you don't experience pain, you won't be able to pity others for feeling down on themselves. How can we experience friendship without feeling happiness? These feelings are actually GOOD FOR YOU. Happiness. Friendship. You'll live through life longer. You won't have a pain in the world. A world without feelings is like a sandwich without jelly... A computer with no icons. It's not worth living without. But sometimes there are places in life where you wish that feelings didn't exist. Love is a dangerous feeling. If you love someone who loves someone else, you'll feel jealous. This can lead to hate. Hate is something that contaminates this world. War. Battles. MIllions die and the world is turned into a never-ending battlefield. Worlds without feelings have flaws... but it can also be a good thing, also.
ReplyDeleteWithout feelings our world would be without joy, laughter, hatred, grief, and more. The good things about this would be the fact that hatred would e gone along with war and murder. But at the same time happiness is gone and with it love and laughter. Love is essential for a family but in it's absence comes family units. In this world without feelings we would be thrusted into a world much like Jonas's world with a dull life.
ReplyDeleteLife without feelings wold be horrifying. You wouldn't feel any pleasures of life like love and friendship. There would be nothing you can enjoy without feelings. However, it could also not be that bad. There would be no fear, pain, and war. But you need these feelings to live life to its fullest.
ReplyDeleteLife with no feelings would not make you unique. Angry and happiness all tell each others futures and how different they are from each other. Nothing would be as much fun. On the other hand, it could lead to no wars and peace. Only life would have no shine to it,or dull.
ReplyDeleteI cannot even begin to imagine what life would be like without feelings. A world without feelings is both good, because there would be no war and no pain. But you also wouldn't have good feelings like passion and deturminations. If you didn't experience feeling, you would be the same as everyone else. You would be just like a robot.
ReplyDeleteA world without feelings is...well, it isn't a world at all! Feelings are, essentially, what makes us all fully human. Feelings are a crucial part of people's lives, and feelings help us think through things. Most feelings are pleasurable, such as love, friendship, and confidence. Others are not, such as fear, pain, and nervousness. But these feelings also help us know what is good in life, and what is bad. In "The Giver", the people of the community are happy without feelings--but that's because they don't know of a better life.
ReplyDeleteLife without feelings would be plain and boring. I mean sometimes people can be sad, angry, jealous, etc. For example, you wouldn't get to feel the feeling of love, happiness, or even sadness. Not that people would want to be sad. When you get to graduate from college, or even sixth grade, you wouldn't be able to feel happy just plain. Life without feelings would be plain boring.
ReplyDeleteLife without feelings would be boring. No one would feel anything. If yo won a game, you would never feel happiness, or if you lost, sorrow. Feelings is what makes life interesting. It gives people personality. Without feelings, everyone would might as well be robots. Robots feel absolutely nothing. Feelings is what gives the world taste, and diversity. Everyone has their own way in expressing their feelings. In the story The Giver, Jonas lives in a town which seems sort of bland. As you rea on, you can see that Jonas has personality, feelings. He feels nervous, scared, confused, and many more. Overall, a world without feelings, would simply not be exciting, or have diversity. Feelings is something many take for granted. Imagining a world without feelings actually seems a litttle scary. I never thought about it until now, and i realize feelings, is something that is very important to this world.
ReplyDeleteLife without feelings would be like a book without pages. A computer without a screen. Earth without a moon. What I am trying to say is that life is empty without feelings. Though it may start conflict, love is a feeling that can never be felt again. And anger may cause war, but it helps you calm down. And without feelings, people would not exist. The first people who fell in love would not be in love and there would be no feelings. Even without feelings, the Earth may not exist because someone needs to take care, or feel, for Mother Earth, and that would not happen with no feelings. There would be no music, no drama, no architecture, no food, no technology, and worst of all, NO CREATIVITY!!! So life without feelings would be the most boring place ever.
ReplyDeleteLife without feelings would be terrible. I mean, sometimes, when you accidentally scraped your knee, that feeling is horrible. But also, some feelings you actually want to experinece, like when you celebrate your birthday. Not all feelings are bad, but some are good. Also, when you feel pain, it actually helps you. If you never experinced pain, you would't know how it feels. Some feelings may feel bad, but sometimes it helps.
ReplyDeleteLife without fellings would is exremly hard to imagine because we have lived with feeling for our whole life. Without feeling, happiness, saddness, fear life would be boring. Everyone would be the exact same because without feeling, you can't react. Without ractions there is nothing to separate you from everyone else. Eveythig is the same, cold, lifeless. Feelings is what makes the world go raound without it life is stuck.
ReplyDeleteLife without feelings... this already seems like a terrible concept. Life is a concept that needs feelings to manufacture. If life has no feelings, you could beat up someone and they wouldn't even notice what happened. Happiness, sadness, and love are all main feelings that help run the concept of life. If a person thought of anything, the would not care or have an expression. When a person has no feelings, life would be bland. All in all, life would not be at all fun without feeling.
ReplyDelete#12- very poetic! Great writing!
ReplyDeleteLife was meant to have feelings. For example, someone does bad on an assignment, him/yourself wouldn't be sad. People need a happy life. Feelings are very important for certain things. People wouldn't love eachother, even parents wouldn't love you. You would fell as if you were a robot with nothing fun, sadness, happieness, or love in their life. Life would really be boring without feelings.
ReplyDeleteI think that a life without feelings would be excruciatingly boring. It would miss out on good feelings, such as happiness and excitement, or bad feelings, such as anger and sadness. Happiness is a feeling that...well...makes you happy. Who wouldn't want to be made happy? Excitement is a feeling I have a lot of firsthand experience with. Some experiences come alive when there's more excitement and enthusiasm. Without it, it could end up to be much more boring, even if it actually would make you excited. But how would you know??? You wouldn't be able to feel anything! Even anger and sadness will be missed. I'm not saying I LIKE these feelings, it's just that they make life so much more interesting. Without anger, even sadness, everything will be bland and uninteresting. I feel anger (ranging from mild annoyance to the point where steamis shooting out of my ears) every day, and without it, life will be...different. And not in a good way.
ReplyDeleteLife without feelings? I can't even imagine that happening, unless nobody actually never even know what it meant. Life is precious,it includes having hope, feelings, and everything! Feelings are the only thing life can't have for every single person. Life and feelings are sommething that keeps everyone together, have hope and give people the idea of what the difference between pain and happiness. Like, number twelve said, (well, I am adding to it) life without feelings is like a piano without keys, a sentence without spaces, and a galaxy with out planets and "stars". Impossible to live without. Everyone will be like a bottle of water without water, just an object in space. No feelings, no love,and no hate. Plain empty, emptyness in one's heart is like a person without a heart. That is simply all I have to say. Life without feelings is like someone who doesn't have a heart, empty.
ReplyDeleteWithout feelings life would be boring. Of course, you wouldnt know what feelings were, therefore you would not know what it felt like to experience feelings. Feelings describe your varied emotions, and not being able to express your thoughts would be indescribable. Feelings express love, happiness, and sorrow. If you were to have no feelings, you would not be able to feel many fascinating emotions, and keep you from having a happy life. If you have never experienced feelings before, you would be in the same mood every day. Your feelings would be plain and boring.
ReplyDeleteA life without feelings is impossible if you think about it really hard. It is only possible to robots or life less and heartless objects. A life without feeling would be hard for a being, they won't be bored, tired, hurt, happy, sad, mad, angry, or anything then they would probably be like nothing do nothing, feel nothing, see nothing, or even be nothing. A life without feeling! Pure impossible feelings are everything, it makes one human it makes one LIVING! It is almost impossible to live without feeling.
ReplyDeleteIf there was a life without feeling it would be boring, but it wouldn't be possible because boring is a feeling!
In my opinion, life without feelings would be worthless. Life is full of feelings,like love,hope, and happiness. Even the bad ones are worth having like jealousy, anger, and sadness. They are all worth having. Without feelings, there would be no diversity in life. Everyone would feel exactly the same. I can't imagine life like that. So basically, life in heaven would be extremely B-O-R-I-N-G.
ReplyDeleteA life without feelings, in my opinion, is Sad. How can you have life in the world. Feelings are what make humans sentient creatures. We would be just like animals. A rabbit, mindless. All it does is Eat, sleep, wake up, breathe, stay alert and so on. Mindless. There will be no happiness if there is no anger if you don't know what anger or sadness feels like.
ReplyDeleteLife without feeling would be... Empty. Although it is great to feel the absence of depression or anger, it may not be a good thing after all. If one never feels sadness or frustration, who knows what would happen when they do. And no happiness? Someone who can't feel happiness can't be considered a person at all! If life had no feeling, I would not have a brain. Nor would anyone else in this world. People are not people without feelings. Animals are not animals without feeling. Anything is NOTHING without feelings.
ReplyDeleteLife without feeling would be boring. Their would be no intrest in life. There would be no stories to tell. Nobody would be able to forgive. Life would be total annoying just being nice all the time. If someone made you mad you wouldnt even notice.
ReplyDeleteFeelings, we all need them. If one did not have feelings, then how can we be human? If feelings didn't exist than we humans wouldn't have faces because we ALWAYS SHOW AN EMOTION. However, sometimes not having feelings can be a good thing, such as NO ONE wants to feel jealous or angry. But besides the "bad" of feelings , feelings can also be a good thing. Joy, happiness, and love are all the feelings we enjoy having.
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