RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
October 14, 2017 at 11:33 pm
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2017 at 11:36 pm by Transcended Dimensions.)
(October 14, 2017 at 11:28 pm)Hammy Wrote: It's your personal experience that is irrelevant as it has absolutely nothing to do with your own argument.
What I said was very relevant. I am correcting the error you make when you say that your belief about emotions can't change your emotions. You said that you believed the world was horrible but you felt only positive emotions. But you talked like your belief about the world couldn't evoke negative emotions. They can.
(October 14, 2017 at 9:42 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: All I was saying was that, if I felt nothing but a positive emotion, judged and believed something in my life to be horrible, but that did not make me feel a negative emotion, then these judgments of things being horrible in my life would just be words and nothing more.
This is both trivially true and pointlessly obvious. Hardly profound.
There are times where beliefs/judgments make me feel negative emotions and then there are times they don't. I am referring to the times they don't. It is during these times that no real bad value is in my life. There are also times where beliefs of things being good in my life can't make me feel positive emotions such as during my miserable moments. These are the moments where no real good value is in my life.