Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[Transcended Dimensions]

You are right.  He did disagree with me on some points.  But he did agree with my worldview which was the idea that it can only be our positive emotions that make our lives matter to us in good ways and that these miserable artists were deluding themselves.

If that's the case, I disagree with him.

But it does, at least, lend an open mind towards my own personal experience which agrees with his worldview.  I'm not sure, but this could go into a neuroscientific debate between him and others and this is yet another debate that I just have to give up on.  Rather, I just have to go by my own personal experience just in terms of what gives my life personal value and worth. As a matter of fact, I asked him to present articles/evidence. So, maybe he will do that later on.