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    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
Post: RE: There are no higher emotions/values

(April 30, 2018 at 3:41 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: (April 30, 2018 at 3:37 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: But there are emotional theorists and neuroscientists out there who would disagree with that rebu...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 30, 2018 at 3:48 pm
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
Post: RE: There are no higher emotions/values

(April 30, 2018 at 3:34 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: You do realize that the paper you just shared says that emotions aren't perceptions of value, right?  And that the perceptual theory of emotion should be re...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 30, 2018 at 3:37 pm
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
Post: RE: There are no higher emotions/values

(April 30, 2018 at 3:22 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Positive emotions are the end result of a chemical reaction in the brain, nothing more.  Assigning them divine status in any way, shape, or form, is utterly...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 30, 2018 at 3:28 pm
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
Post: RE: There are no higher emotions/values

(April 30, 2018 at 3:00 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: (April 30, 2018 at 12:20 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: And you, nor anyone else is in the position to tell another human being that their lives ca...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 30, 2018 at 3:12 pm
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
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(April 30, 2018 at 12:11 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: (April 30, 2018 at 11:48 am)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: I think I have addressed those objections. You didn’t.  You didn’t even bother to quote an...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 30, 2018 at 12:20 pm
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
Post: RE: There are no higher emotions/values

(April 30, 2018 at 10:27 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: (April 30, 2018 at 9:29 am)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: Well, you can forget about that if you want.  Besides, it was just a metaphor anyway.  Inst...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 30, 2018 at 11:48 am
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
Post: RE: There are no higher emotions/values

(April 30, 2018 at 9:13 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: (April 30, 2018 at 2:19 am)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: I would metaphorically describe positive emotions as some divine life force or flow of divin...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 30, 2018 at 9:29 am
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
Post: RE: There are no higher emotions/values

(April 29, 2018 at 10:05 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: (April 29, 2018 at 11:13 am)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: All I'm saying is that our emotions are the only real perception of value and that there i...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 30, 2018 at 2:19 am
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
Post: RE: There are no higher emotions/values

(April 29, 2018 at 2:52 pm)Hammy Wrote: (April 29, 2018 at 4:38 am)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: People put emotions into two categories.  The 1st category would be the lower, basic emotions such ...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 29, 2018 at 3:44 pm
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
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(April 29, 2018 at 10:29 am)mh.brewer Wrote: (April 29, 2018 at 9:21 am)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: I think I've explained my worldview/philosophy quite clearly and coherently.  I don't understa...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 29, 2018 at 1:33 pm
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
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(April 29, 2018 at 11:05 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: (April 29, 2018 at 10:52 am)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: Actually, just forget everything I've written here since it is incoherent to you.  Instead...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 29, 2018 at 11:13 am
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
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(April 29, 2018 at 10:34 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: (April 29, 2018 at 4:38 am)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: People put emotions into two categories. Who does?   Quote:The 1st category would be the l...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 29, 2018 at 10:52 am
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
Post: RE: There are no higher emotions/values

(April 29, 2018 at 7:54 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: [Image: https://i.imgflip.com/upae9.jpg] Boru I think I've explained my worldview/philosophy quite clearly and coherently.  I don't understand th...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 29, 2018 at 9:21 am
    Thread: There are no higher emotions/values
Post: There are no higher emotions/values

People put emotions into two categories.  The 1st category would be the lower, basic emotions such as a feeling of sexual arousal, a feeling of excitement to go to the carnival, or feeling panic from ...
Transcended Dimensions Philosophy 58 11653 April 29, 2018 at 4:38 am
    Thread: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions
Post: RE: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions

I think the reason why I have such a difficult time making a decision when it comes to topics that have a lot of argumentation about them is because I am searching for the absolute truth and not what ...
Transcended Dimensions Atheism 357 53594 April 27, 2018 at 3:30 am
    Thread: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions
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(April 21, 2018 at 1:30 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: (April 21, 2018 at 1:09 pm)Hammy Wrote: I'm a bit like that lol. Except I'm fine with doing the thinking, and I love analysis, I am just only interested i...
Transcended Dimensions Atheism 357 53594 April 21, 2018 at 3:35 pm
    Thread: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions
Post: RE: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions

Now, many people have deemed my posts as incoherent. It seems to me that I'm the opposite of Spok from Star Trek. Spok is intelligent, rational, coherent, not interested in hedonism, has control ove...
Transcended Dimensions Atheism 357 53594 April 21, 2018 at 8:20 am
    Thread: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions
Post: RE: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions

(April 20, 2018 at 9:42 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: (April 20, 2018 at 7:34 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: .For example, I still decide to not take vaccines despite not being able to decide ...
Transcended Dimensions Atheism 357 53594 April 20, 2018 at 10:51 pm
    Thread: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions
Post: RE: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions

(April 20, 2018 at 7:55 pm)Hammy Wrote: (April 20, 2018 at 7:52 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: I have no clue what you mean by that. It's so sad that you think shite without evidence might be tr...
Transcended Dimensions Atheism 357 53594 April 20, 2018 at 8:40 pm
    Thread: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions
Post: RE: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions

(April 20, 2018 at 7:50 pm)Succubus Wrote: (April 20, 2018 at 7:34 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: I can clarify this one.  I cannot decide whether something is true or not.  However, I can still...
Transcended Dimensions Atheism 357 53594 April 20, 2018 at 7:52 pm