RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
September 29, 2017 at 12:31 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2017 at 12:35 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(September 27, 2017 at 8:32 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Let me apologize. I still wouldn't define anything about feelings as intrinsically good or bad, but the way I said it was unnecessarily rude.
Well what you said was that I didn't know what intrisic meant but I obviously do lol.
I don't think emotions is intrinsically good or bad either. But suffering is intrinsically bad.
(September 29, 2017 at 10:12 am)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: There is a difference between what is and what it's like.
Nope. "What it's like" is just a subset of what is. What is is all there is. 'What is' is by definition... what there is.
I find this whole notion of specific motions being intrinsically good or intrinsically bad.... to be indefinable and useless. Emotions are just labels for what we experience and we all give different labels. And I have no idea 99% of the time whenever these labels we call emotions fit me. So how could your theory help me?
I know what suffering is. Everyone knows what suffering is. That's intrisically bad. The emotions stuff is just far too subjective and hard to pin down to make it into anything useful. Especially when there's also people like me who aren't sure they even experience any.