RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
October 5, 2017 at 5:40 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2017 at 6:13 pm by Transcended Dimensions.)
(October 5, 2017 at 5:34 pm)Hammy Wrote: Actually it's more like... if you have positive and negative emotional experiences that aren't as intense as euphoria or dysphoria they're still real and merely defining all experiences as either euphoric or dysphoric doesn't change the quality of the emotion that is actually there. It's just unnecessarily re-defining things for no good reason. You're right when you say that changing the words won't change the reality. So why do you call all positive experience euphoria even when mild happiness is certainly not euphoric and why do you call all negative experience dysphoria even when intense suffering can be a lot worse than dysphoric?
Alright then, what I should have said was that there is no positive experience there for me independent of my happiness. In order for me to have a positive experience, then that requires me to fully recover from any miserable moment in my life. The same thing applies for having real good value in my life. My happiness and euphoria are the only way I can have real good value in my life and a positive experience. This is not a matter of personal definitions. This is the reality of my experience.