(September 25, 2017 at 7:51 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: I know that. But I was trying to make a point here. Even though you can perceive objects through other senses, you cannot see (visualize) them. Let me make it easier for you to understand. Now, I am going to give a religious analogy just to get my point across even though I, myself, am not religious. We can still use whatever analogy we want as long as it gets our point across regardless of how nonsensical the analogy sounds. You, as an unsaved sinner, can never see the magnificence, love, and beauty of Jesus without his holy light within your inner being. It doesn't matter how much you acknowledge the existence of his magnificence and love. You need his holy light in order to truly see his love and beauty for what it truly is.
In that same sense, our positive emotions are like the light of Jesus as they allow us to truly see the beauty, worth, and good value that things and situations hold. Likewise, our negative emotions would be like the opposite of Jesus' light (the inner darkness). They are what allow us to truly see things as horrible, disgusting, etc. So, our positive emotions put us into states of sheer love, joy, goodness, and beauty while our negative emotions put us into states of sheer misery, despair, hate, suffering, agony, and badness. In short, our positive emotions are our own inner paradise while our negative emotions are our own inner hell and absence of the light. Having no emotions at all would be a completely neutral state of mind. It would neither be heaven nor hell for us regardless of what we were to believe otherwise.
Using that analogy I'm not convinced at all that you are not religious. In fact, I believe that you are religious and this whole objective good/bad emotion is a thinly veiled attempt/position in support of religion. While I don't really care if you need religion, it would irk me if you are being disingenuous.
Could you substitute the word "experience" or "feel (not touch)" for "see"? I don't know why you are stuck on the visual "see".
Your definitions/examples for good/bad emotions are certainly extreme and definitely subjective. I doubt that any other individuals experience your good/bad emotions to the same depth and extent in the same context.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.