RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
September 29, 2017 at 3:24 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2017 at 3:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 29, 2017 at 3:08 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: 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.Back to the dubious analogy? Why, no matter how often or how strongly you reassert what I have already commented on...my response will be the same........
Quote: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.-aaaand that's how I know I'm not "enlightened" - that's not happening, despite my ability to both perceive goodness -and- feel good about it. Can you see the problem here? If you are enlightened, it isn't for the reasons you've offered...they're common to humanity...whereas enlightenment (lol?) is not.
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