RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
October 6, 2017 at 4:30 am
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2017 at 5:35 am by Transcended Dimensions.)
(October 6, 2017 at 12:34 am)Khemikal Wrote:(October 5, 2017 at 6:24 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: On 2nd thought, perhaps you are right here. From my perspective, I thought that people who struggled with hopelessness and misery such as those miserable genius artists were simply living by a false definition of a positive experience and good value/beauty in their lives when there was no actual quality of it there. But you are saying that there was an actual quality of it there for them and that I do not have this quality due to my disability. That quality is what I metaphorically described as being the inner light. The inner light is a quality of sheer goodness and positivity itself that goes beyond words. It would be no different than how a blind person cannot have any real quality of red, green, or blue in his life and can only live by the words red, green, and blue in his mind since he cannot visualize those colors. For me, my own inner light and inner darkness would be my positive and negative emotions while the inner light and inner darkness for other people would be something different.Then your satisfaction is indicative of nothing in particular, and the concept of Real Good and delusions of good is incoherent. Your satisfaction is your satisfaction. Nothing further.
So, you found my assertion of positive emotions being the only real good in life for every single human being incoherent and I can understand this. But if you are also saying that what I just said there was incoherent in regards to my inner light being my positive emotions and their inner light being something else, then it is simply beyond your comprehension. If you find this whole concept of a quality of good (an inner light) incoherent, then it is simply beyond your understanding. I think I have made perfect sense and that what I have said is coherent. But it would be like explaining the magnificent powers of god or something entirely new that people cannot relate to, understand, or comprehend. Another example would be people who have near death experiences. They have whole new experiences that are bizarre. It doesn't matter how well they relay these experiences; no one would be able to understand or comprehend.
This is because it's something beyond words. I am trying to explain the idea of an inner light (a quality of goodness, love, joy, and beauty) that is beyond words and perhaps this is the reason why others cannot comprehend it. All I can say to you here is that this inner light is the most powerful, profound, and beautiful thing that we all need in our lives. Without it, our lives would truly be empty and we would be living by nothing more than just these empty words of goodness, love, joy, and beauty going through our minds. It wouldn't be any real version of those things in our lives; only a mechanistic (i.e. "dead" and "empty") definition devoid of any real quality of those things. With all of this being said, it doesn't matter how coherent I am in my explanations; no one would be able to understand or comprehend either. I will just give one last example here. Try to explain the concept of empathy to a sociopath who does not understand it since he/she cannot relate to it or comprehend it. It doesn't matter how well and coherent you explain it to him/her; that sociopath would still not be able to comprehend it.