RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
September 30, 2017 at 6:53 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2017 at 7:14 pm by Transcended Dimensions.)
Quote:That's a complete non-sequitur. It doesn't matter what emotion is made of. It's not going to change how meaningful it feels if the very meaningfulness of emotions themselves is the fact that it feels meaningful then whether emotions are made of thoughts or not is irrelevant.
Also, emotions may not be made of thought. There may be no 'thought form' of emotion. But thought is entirely tired to emotion. In that... you can't experience a feeling without being conscious of it. Without experiencing it in... thought form.
In fact, in that sense, all emotion and everything we experience is 'thought form'. If by 'thought form' we mean it is phenomenologial. Everything we experience is phenomenological. The only world science knows is the world of phenomena, the only world scientists experience is the world of phenomena, the only testable world is the world of phenomena, the only experiencable world is the world of phenomena. Because the world of phenomena is the world of experience.
From my view, I think that thoughts can only be thoughts. Emotions would have to be a separate category. You are right though. Thoughts can make you feel emotions. You go on to say later on in your post that it is positive and negative experiences that can give our lives real good and bad value. I do not agree that there are positive and negative experiences through our thoughts alone. I think it can only be our emotions that are the real positive and negative experiences we can have. Just because you believe that your life has good value during an emotional state such as a state of complete misery does not mean that you are experiencing any real good value. There would be no positive experience there and, thus, no real good value in your life. This would have to mean that our positive emotions really are the only way we can truly judge good value in our lives. We could think of a certain decision being wise (good) such as choosing a longer duration of positive emotions over a single and momentary intense positive emotion, but if such a decision was thought of as being good during a moment where we had no positive emotions, then that would not be any real good value in our lives. It wouldn't be any real judged good value. Therefore, our thoughts alone would not be positive or negative. They would just be certain types of thoughts that allow us to make certain choices and feel certain emotions.
If you believed that your life was good and beautiful during a moment where you had no positive emotions, then that would not be any real good value and beauty in your life just as how that would not be any real red for a blind person who cannot visualize colors. Sure, the blind person is thinking of the color red and, yes, he could even believe that he is visualizing the color red if he has been taught the wrong definition of visualizing red. But it's not any real red in this blind person's life. We as human beings have been taught the wrong definition of good and bad and, now, we are like blind people who believe we have real good and bad value in our lives in the absence of our respective emotional states. I hope that, by making this sentence, it has cleared up the idea that a person who believes his life to be good not having any real good value without his positive emotions being nonsense and a contradiction in my writing.
Edit: I realize a contradiction. Let me fix it.