RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
November 6, 2017 at 2:57 am
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2017 at 3:02 am by Transcended Dimensions.)
When I tell others that my personal experience was something profound and powerful, they would tell me that I am defining those terms wrong and that the real profound and powerful values/experiences come about in our lives through the rational values rather than these emotional values. I can assure you that my emotional states were truly profound and powerful states of mind for me. Others would dismiss my emotional values as nonexistent and they would dismiss my personal experience as a matter of me mistakenly calling it a profound and powerful experience when it never was. But I am doing the same thing when I say that these rational based values that others have are nonexistent and that they are instead the ones mistakenly calling their rational based values profound and powerful states of mind when they never were. So, who is right and who is wrong here? I think this could just be one of those agree to disagree scenarios where neither claim can be proven. Actually, I find it sort of interesting. It would be no different than a situation where, in one universe or reality, we have the good witch and, in the other universe or reality, we have the bad witch.
You see these sorts of parallel realities presented in artwork, anime, video games, and movies. This is sort of the same thing going on here because I am in my own universe/reality where I live by emotional values and others are in their own universe where they live by rational values. I think the rational values do not exist and cannot bring our lives any real profound and powerful state of mind and neither do others think that my emotional based values are any real values and that they cannot be any profound and powerful state of mind either. I think that the rational based values are nothing but empty words and others would think that biochemical emotions are nothing more than empty and meaningless pleasant and unpleasant states. But, as I explain later on, these emotional based values really do exist as pointed out by the neuroscientist/skeptic. As for what I said in regards to me living in another reality, again, this is just a metaphor here and I do not literally mean that I live in another universe or reality.
One last thing here. Going back to my parallel universe analogy, I would view my biochemical emotions as being the real emotions and our rational value judgments not being any real emotions while others would view their rational value judgments as being real emotions and the biochemical emotions as not being any real emotions. Perhaps it is the case that, for me, my biochemical emotions are the real emotions and, thus, real value judgments in my life that give my life real value while the rational value judgments for these other people are real emotions and, thus, real value judgments that give real value to their lives. Maybe our emotions develop. That all goes back to what I said earlier in regards to the inner light and inner darkness taking on the form of our rational value judgments. It could be the case that my inner light and inner darkness (which would be my biochemical emotions for now) has not developed and moved onto my rational value judgments to make them real emotions and, thus, real value judgments in my life. I don't know about this one.
You see these sorts of parallel realities presented in artwork, anime, video games, and movies. This is sort of the same thing going on here because I am in my own universe/reality where I live by emotional values and others are in their own universe where they live by rational values. I think the rational values do not exist and cannot bring our lives any real profound and powerful state of mind and neither do others think that my emotional based values are any real values and that they cannot be any profound and powerful state of mind either. I think that the rational based values are nothing but empty words and others would think that biochemical emotions are nothing more than empty and meaningless pleasant and unpleasant states. But, as I explain later on, these emotional based values really do exist as pointed out by the neuroscientist/skeptic. As for what I said in regards to me living in another reality, again, this is just a metaphor here and I do not literally mean that I live in another universe or reality.
One last thing here. Going back to my parallel universe analogy, I would view my biochemical emotions as being the real emotions and our rational value judgments not being any real emotions while others would view their rational value judgments as being real emotions and the biochemical emotions as not being any real emotions. Perhaps it is the case that, for me, my biochemical emotions are the real emotions and, thus, real value judgments in my life that give my life real value while the rational value judgments for these other people are real emotions and, thus, real value judgments that give real value to their lives. Maybe our emotions develop. That all goes back to what I said earlier in regards to the inner light and inner darkness taking on the form of our rational value judgments. It could be the case that my inner light and inner darkness (which would be my biochemical emotions for now) has not developed and moved onto my rational value judgments to make them real emotions and, thus, real value judgments in my life. I don't know about this one.
