RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
September 29, 2017 at 3:08 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2017 at 3:24 pm by Transcended Dimensions.)
(September 29, 2017 at 2:50 pm)Khemikal Wrote: From a dubious analogy to a failed one?
Again, find something that is actually true about the thing you want to talk about. I do not possess a divine energy transciever, nor am I filled with jesus magic...and yet I'm not "living like a machine", nor is my standard of living even remotely low.
Alright, let me try again. If a person had no positive emotions such as due to being in a completely miserable state, then you would still say that he would be able to identify the good and beautiful values in life. This is still not the same thing as actually seeing those good and beautiful values just as how a blind person who identifies colors is not the same thing as him visualizing those colors. Therefore, it would still have to all go back to my sight analogy. Since this sight analogy is the analogy I have to go by, then let me try to make it more clear. If you were to see the good value and beauty of this life like how a sighted person would be able to visualize colors, then it would simply be amazing.
It would be beyond anything imaginable! If a person was blind his whole entire life, gained his sight for the first time, and saw all these wonderful colors, then it would be profoundly beautiful to him. Of course, in order for it to be profoundly beautiful to him, he would need to feel a positive emotion in order to see that as something beautiful. If everything I said here still does not make my worldview clear to you, then it is simply beyond your comprehension. Our positive emotions are the ultimate state of being and living and you cannot possibly comprehend their power. It is like a divine power/force in this universe that you cannot even begin to comprehend.