My Premise: The premise would be that my own personal definition of good and bad does not say that good and bad are concepts or ideas. Rather, good and bad are actual things like colors. Colors would not be concepts, ideas, or things in the physical world, but are mental states. For example, when you see the color red, that is a mental state. It would be a visual state. According to my personal definition of good and bad, good would be our positive emotional states and bad would be our negative emotional states. Haven't you ever heard people say "I feel good today" or "I feel bad today?" This is to be taken literally, according to my personal definition of good and bad.
Positive emotions would, therefore, be a synonym for good and beauty while negative emotions would be a synonym for bad, horrible, and disgusting. I will go ahead and say that positive emotions would be like cheerful colors such as yellow, pink, and purple while negative emotions would be like colors such as brown, black, and dark red. If you want your life to be in a shade of yellow, pink, and purple, then you need to experience those colors. Experiencing those colors is the only way to perceive (see) those colors. If you cannot see them due to being blind, then you can only perceive the idea of those colors, but not the actual colors themselves. This means you cannot see things in your life as actually being good and beautiful as long as you cannot feel any positive emotion. You can only have the idea of good value and beauty in your mind, but you wouldn't be able to actually see that goodness and beauty.
Likewise, negative emotions color our lives in a shade of somber, angry, sad, miserable, etc. colors such as brown, black, and dark red and this is what we should avoid. With all of this being said, my point here is that, if you want your life to be good and beautiful (or, according to my colors analogy, if you want your life to be in a shade of yellow, pink, and purple), then you need to feel positive emotions in your life. Negative emotions literally make our lives horrible and disgusting and, like I said earlier, we need to avoid negative emotions and have as much positive emotions in our lives as we can. Now that I have shared to you my premise, you can see why I refer to positive emotions as being the inner holy light since they are literally everything to our human existence since they make our whole entire reality something good and beautiful.
Positive and negative emotions are the only real good and bad things in life. It would be no different than saying that the only real colors in life would be the colors we visualize. Not having positive emotions and being in a negative emotional state such as the worst hopeless state of your life would be like a person blind to the colors purple, pink, and yellow who can only see the colors dark red, brown, and black. That was my personal experience and this personal experience is the very reason why I have this definition of good and bad. When people say things such as that we create our own value, heaven, or hell on Earth through our way of thinking alone regardless of our emotional state, this is actually false. It can only be our positive emotions that create a beautiful paradise for us here on Earth and it can only be our negative emotions such as hopelessness and despair that create a horrible hell for us here on Earth.
Therefore, we as human beings are not the ones in charge of creating a beautiful or horrible life for us. It can only be our emotions that do. It's about what is experienced on the inside and not about looking at things on the outside. That is why my personal definition of good and bad is about what experience (mental state) you are having in your life. As long as you do not have the inner experience to make your life beautiful, then your life cannot be beautiful. What we experience on the inside is how we perceive the world on the outside. Therefore, as long as you are completely dead on the inside, then everything else in life will be dead from your perspective. To say that one's life can still be good, beautiful, and worth living when said person is dead on the inside would be nonsense. According to my worldview, a lack of positive emotions is the only way we can become dead and empty on the inside.
Sure, we can become alive in terms of negative emotions such as fear and anger, but we would be dead in terms of having good value and beauty in our lives as long as we are not feeling any positive emotions. Positive emotions are like positive energy that make our entire world positive, negative emotions are like negative energy that make our entire world negative, and being in any non emotional mental state such as making a moral assessment or an intellectual value judgment would be a state of mind where you are dead and empty on the inside as long as you are not feeling any positive emotion to make your world beautiful or a negative emotion to make your life horrible. Lastly, feeling happiness, fun, enjoyment, and profound positive emotions such as love and beauty would bring your life the greatest and most profound beauty, joy, and good while. Feeling a normal, constant, stable positive mood would only bring your life a smaller, basic level of good value and beauty in your life. Therefore, the real goal in life should be to have as much fun and to enjoy our lives as much as we can. I would do so all the while choosing to not make reckless decisions.
Positive emotions would, therefore, be a synonym for good and beauty while negative emotions would be a synonym for bad, horrible, and disgusting. I will go ahead and say that positive emotions would be like cheerful colors such as yellow, pink, and purple while negative emotions would be like colors such as brown, black, and dark red. If you want your life to be in a shade of yellow, pink, and purple, then you need to experience those colors. Experiencing those colors is the only way to perceive (see) those colors. If you cannot see them due to being blind, then you can only perceive the idea of those colors, but not the actual colors themselves. This means you cannot see things in your life as actually being good and beautiful as long as you cannot feel any positive emotion. You can only have the idea of good value and beauty in your mind, but you wouldn't be able to actually see that goodness and beauty.
Likewise, negative emotions color our lives in a shade of somber, angry, sad, miserable, etc. colors such as brown, black, and dark red and this is what we should avoid. With all of this being said, my point here is that, if you want your life to be good and beautiful (or, according to my colors analogy, if you want your life to be in a shade of yellow, pink, and purple), then you need to feel positive emotions in your life. Negative emotions literally make our lives horrible and disgusting and, like I said earlier, we need to avoid negative emotions and have as much positive emotions in our lives as we can. Now that I have shared to you my premise, you can see why I refer to positive emotions as being the inner holy light since they are literally everything to our human existence since they make our whole entire reality something good and beautiful.
Positive and negative emotions are the only real good and bad things in life. It would be no different than saying that the only real colors in life would be the colors we visualize. Not having positive emotions and being in a negative emotional state such as the worst hopeless state of your life would be like a person blind to the colors purple, pink, and yellow who can only see the colors dark red, brown, and black. That was my personal experience and this personal experience is the very reason why I have this definition of good and bad. When people say things such as that we create our own value, heaven, or hell on Earth through our way of thinking alone regardless of our emotional state, this is actually false. It can only be our positive emotions that create a beautiful paradise for us here on Earth and it can only be our negative emotions such as hopelessness and despair that create a horrible hell for us here on Earth.
Therefore, we as human beings are not the ones in charge of creating a beautiful or horrible life for us. It can only be our emotions that do. It's about what is experienced on the inside and not about looking at things on the outside. That is why my personal definition of good and bad is about what experience (mental state) you are having in your life. As long as you do not have the inner experience to make your life beautiful, then your life cannot be beautiful. What we experience on the inside is how we perceive the world on the outside. Therefore, as long as you are completely dead on the inside, then everything else in life will be dead from your perspective. To say that one's life can still be good, beautiful, and worth living when said person is dead on the inside would be nonsense. According to my worldview, a lack of positive emotions is the only way we can become dead and empty on the inside.
Sure, we can become alive in terms of negative emotions such as fear and anger, but we would be dead in terms of having good value and beauty in our lives as long as we are not feeling any positive emotions. Positive emotions are like positive energy that make our entire world positive, negative emotions are like negative energy that make our entire world negative, and being in any non emotional mental state such as making a moral assessment or an intellectual value judgment would be a state of mind where you are dead and empty on the inside as long as you are not feeling any positive emotion to make your world beautiful or a negative emotion to make your life horrible. Lastly, feeling happiness, fun, enjoyment, and profound positive emotions such as love and beauty would bring your life the greatest and most profound beauty, joy, and good while. Feeling a normal, constant, stable positive mood would only bring your life a smaller, basic level of good value and beauty in your life. Therefore, the real goal in life should be to have as much fun and to enjoy our lives as much as we can. I would do so all the while choosing to not make reckless decisions.
