Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[Transcended Dimensions]

The fact that we might and yet to be discovered are in the title of the thread lends total rational credence to the subject being discussed.

The title is irrelevant here.  It is the discussion between me and that skeptic that I am focused on here.

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Actually, I would like to get back on topic now since this is the topic I wish to really discuss.  I will point out that long post I made earlier which was a discussion between me and another highly intelligent skeptic:

https://atheistforums.org/thread-51313-p...pid1625672

What exactly makes you think that the individual that agreed with you is "highly intelligent"? What is his/her degree in neuroscience in? Where did he graduate from?

I find that quite a bit of what this person says is questionable.

All I can say here is that my personal experience agrees with him.  I developed an idea based upon my personal experience and, sure enough, I met this skeptic who also agrees and upholds it.  His view was that it is only our positive emotions that make our lives and art matter to us in good and beautiful ways while feelings of misery make our lives bad.  However, he says we can delude ourselves otherwise since biology drives us anyway.  I don't have that biological drive, personally, because I am like the atheist who realizes that it is all deluded nonsense to think that an artistic endeavor pursued through misery is somehow the good life to live.  I have composed during my worst miserable moments and, regardless of what I thought, I could still clearly tell that my life was completely empty.