RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
October 3, 2017 at 1:23 am
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2017 at 2:47 am by Transcended Dimensions.)
It can only be our inner light that makes our inner universe something beautiful and good while it can only be our inner darkness that can make our inner universe horrible, bad, and disgusting. This means that if a serial killer broke into my home, inflicted suffering upon me, and he felt a positive emotion from this, then his inner universe would be filled with the beauty and goodness of the inner light while my inner universe would be filled with the horrible and disgusting darkness since I felt negative emotions of hate and misery. Although, that serial killer would simply be misusing the power of the inner light.
So, life is all a struggle to regain our inner light since life is unfair. People such as serial killers and abusers have it while suffering victims are without it. Likewise, rich and wealthy people have much of this inner light while poor people who struggle with depression and misery have little to none of it. Even though emotions are truly the only real good and bad in our lives, we could still adhere our lives to a moral code anyway. It would just be in the form of an idea rather than actually perceiving good and bad value such as the idea of regaining our inner light being something good even during our miserable moments where we cannot see that as being anything good. It would, again, just be like a blind person having the idea of red in his mind, but not having any real red in his life.
One last thing here. This is an important revelation to my worldview/theory. Since I have established that the only way to have real good value in our lives is through our positive emotions just as how the only way for a person to have real red in his life is through visualizing red, then the only way to have real good value in your life is through wanting and liking. Our positive emotions are an objective form of wanting and liking. There is no subjective form of wanting and liking just as how there is no subjective form of sight. A blind person cannot have a subjective form of sight that would allow him to visualize colors. In other words, there is only one way to visualize colors which would be through sight just as how there is only one way to truly see the good values in our lives which would be through our positive emotions.
Here is a study that shows you that our positive emotions are an objective form of wanting and liking:
So, life is all a struggle to regain our inner light since life is unfair. People such as serial killers and abusers have it while suffering victims are without it. Likewise, rich and wealthy people have much of this inner light while poor people who struggle with depression and misery have little to none of it. Even though emotions are truly the only real good and bad in our lives, we could still adhere our lives to a moral code anyway. It would just be in the form of an idea rather than actually perceiving good and bad value such as the idea of regaining our inner light being something good even during our miserable moments where we cannot see that as being anything good. It would, again, just be like a blind person having the idea of red in his mind, but not having any real red in his life.
One last thing here. This is an important revelation to my worldview/theory. Since I have established that the only way to have real good value in our lives is through our positive emotions just as how the only way for a person to have real red in his life is through visualizing red, then the only way to have real good value in your life is through wanting and liking. Our positive emotions are an objective form of wanting and liking. There is no subjective form of wanting and liking just as how there is no subjective form of sight. A blind person cannot have a subjective form of sight that would allow him to visualize colors. In other words, there is only one way to visualize colors which would be through sight just as how there is only one way to truly see the good values in our lives which would be through our positive emotions.
Here is a study that shows you that our positive emotions are an objective form of wanting and liking:
Quote:We have found a special hedonic hotspot that is crucial for reward 'liking' and 'wanting' (and codes reward learning too). The opioid hedonic hotspot is shown in red above. It works together with another hedonic hotspot in the more famous nucleus accumbens to generate pleasure 'liking'.
‘Liking’ and ‘wanting’ food rewards: Brain substrates and roles in eating disorders
Kent C. Berridge 2009 Mar 29.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2717031/
