RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
October 29, 2017 at 12:10 am
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2017 at 12:57 am by Transcended Dimensions.)
(October 28, 2017 at 8:37 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(October 28, 2017 at 2:33 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: It's because it makes things much more convenient for me. Lastly, psychologists often divide emotions into two categories: intrinsically positive and intrinsically negative (i.e. feeling good and feeling bad). I have every reason to think this division is true based upon my own personal experience. After all, positive and negative, good and bad, light and darkness is a well known concept in many movies, anime, artwork, etc. Feeling good and feeling bad is an actual quality of good and bad.
You've got it wrong. Good and bad are descriptions of things which we like or dislike, and no more. To say that descriptive words have "qualities" really is nonsense.
I've mentioned this before and you didn't respond I believe-- to say that feelings are "intrinsically" good or bad is gibberish when in that context, since they are DEFINED that way.
Check it out: a "dog" is a 4-legged mammal with long canine teeth, etc. etc. (you can fill in the rest)
My "discovery": My beagle, Victor, is intrinsically a dog.
You could say that water is an orange or that water is a table, but that would not change the fact that water is still water. Water is still H20. In that same sense, good and bad would still be our positive and negative emotions. People who have near death experiences have whole new experiences that words simply cannot describe. Therefore, they had an actual quality (mental state) that they cannot articulate. In that same sense, there is a version of good and bad that can't be articulated either. Sure, we could use the words good and bad to describe our positive and negative emotions, but the emotions themselves are a form of good and bad that goes beyond words. They are, again, an actual quality of good and bad. If you still cannot understand and make sense of that, then it is simply beyond your comprehension. My personal experience and values are simply beyond your comprehension.