Thank you for sharing your insights and your critical questioning.

1. If emotions are byproducts of thought processes, then it follows that every individual owns their emotions 100% as they are the only one able to monitor/evaluate/replace/modify their thought processes and thereby change the emotional outcome.

2. If emotions are not byproducts of thought processes then individuals are valid in their blame of others for how they feel.

3. Ego (story and not real) when challenged responds in knee-jerk fear and hostility. Ego blames others for emotions arising when the story is threatened and may respond in unconscious behavior initiating aggression against others. Only individuals are empowered to kill their ego. Enlightenment can not be withheld or given away it can only be accepted from within. True self arises as ego dies. Ego is always dysfunctional because ego is not real, it is only story, however ego wants to be real. Ego is a bio-mechanism of the human brain. Ego by physiology will always reemerge needing to be killed again, and again, and again. Thoughts are autonomic. I am not my thoughts, the ego always throws out thoughts to be monitored by me to determine if they are valid or invalid. I discard thoughts that are invalid and do not blame others for my emotions. I blame others for their initiation of aggression against me. Holding an individual accountable is an act of respect, as surely as vengeance is an act of justice. Nobody is accountable for my emotions as byproduct of my thought processes. I don't have to give a damn what anbody else thinks, and yet I choose to. That's on me, and I own it 100%.

Enjoy your evening.

Woodchuck Pirate
aka Raymond J Raupers Jr USA