RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
October 26, 2017 at 3:53 pm
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2017 at 4:25 pm by Transcended Dimensions.)
(October 26, 2017 at 3:36 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(October 26, 2017 at 3:16 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: I did actually explain my reasons why I am convinced of my worldview. It is because of all the absurdity and unfairness in this life already.
That sounds like a healthy dose of self pity.
In what ways have your been victimized?
What are your emotional traumas?
I have never been victimized. I live with a loving and caring family. I just am simply aware that life is absurd since people die shortly and that is it. As for my emotional traumas, they were in regards to things such as having a horrible near death experience where I experience the horrible nightmares that I have had. I have had thoughts of avoiding certain negative thoughts which brought my life more and more misery. I was avoiding the idea of being depressed and that just made me depressed and miserable. It was a cycle that I finally broke free of.
As for the absurdity of life, all I have done here is applied that in creating my worldview. There are innocent people who are poor and there are cruel people who are rich. So, what if the good and bad value in our lives works no differently? What if it is only the happy people who live the good lives while the miserable and depressed people live the bad lives regardless if they are innocent or cruel? It doesn't matter who you are or what you think. If you have a lot of money, then you are rich. If you don't have that much money at all, then you are poor. In that same sense, if you are happy, then you are living a good, beautiful, and worthwhile life. If you are miserable and depressed, then you are living the bad, shit life. Depressed people who think they are living the good life would be no different than a poor person believing he has won the lottery or that he has earned a lot of money when he hasn't.
The poor person wouldn't be rich or earning big bucks, but he might have, at least, some money to get him by in life. Likewise, the depressed person might have some degree of positive emotion to give his life, at least, some small degree of good values. In short, money and water are materialistic qualities and there are poor people as well as people living in areas of the world scarce of water and money in their lives. Likewise, good and bad are also materialistic qualities as well and there are depressed, unhappy, and miserable people out there who have mostly bad value in their lives and little good value. Except, I wouldn't treat our positive and negative emotions as mere materialistic qualities of good and bad. Good and bad are powerful, profound things and, thus, our positive emotions would be something precious and vital which would be our inner light while our negative emotions would be something horrible which would be our inner darkness.