What if we could do away with emotions?  Equilibrium, a movie I saw recently, presents a world in which people try to do just that.  Each day, people take a pill which suppresses and deadens emotion.  People who skip their pill or people who engage in sensory activities like art or music are arrested and incinerated.  People are not happy yet people are not sad.  They just are.
     Emotions are hard, of course; everyone knows that.  We wrestle with them every day. We may not always appreciate them, we may not always like them.  But we live with them.  Indeed, we can't live without them.  Emotions express who we are, what we do, what we think.  They enrich, they enlarge, they enable and allow us to find the fullness of existence.  We find them worth the  challenges they may bring.
     A universe devoid of emotion is a universe devoid of not just feeling but any capacity to have feeling.  The fact of our emotions tells us not just that the world is real but that it is real in a way that we can understand.  We relate, we connect.  No emotion, no human being.  And no feeling, nothing at all.
     How can our origins possibly be impersonal?