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Originally Posted by Praxeas
heh...feelings is a plural noun. Feeling is a singular noun. Felt is a singular verb that comes from the word feeling
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I can feel (verb) that sandpaper is rough, but that's not my feeling (noun) about sandpaper.
I can feel (verb) there is a dark spirit present at church, but that's not my feeling (noun) about church.
'Feelings' can also mean 'opinions', and perhaps that the context someone is making when they say he was speaking his 'feelings'.
Opinions are like noses...everyone has one, but they don't look the same.
I might think you have a big nose and you might think I have a pug nose, but our opinions don't make us right except in our own minds, and our expression of those opinions don't need to be backed up with facts, nor are retractions in order with the failure of producing those facts.
I agree that some statements he made to be factual should be backed up, but his 'feelings' about the situation are just that.....his feelings. He isn't inviting us to agree with them.