There are no higher emotions/values

[Transcended Dimensions]

But there are emotional theorists and neuroscientists out there who would disagree with that rebuttal.  I also disagree with it.

And I give a shit about your take why?  I mean, you're obviously not a deep thinker if your other posts regarding science are any indication.

Keep in mind, I really don't care about what you believe, or you in general.  I'm not looking to be converted to your gibbering form of woo.  I'm just pointing out how ridiculous and unthinking your position is.

Was both my opening post and that religious view I advocated gibberish?  Or was it just my opening post and some other posts that were gibberish?  Again, that religious view I advocated would be this right here (along with some added things):

I would describe positive emotions as some divine life force or flow of divine energy within our conscious being.  This divine life force makes us alive on the inside since it makes our whole entire reality perceived as beautiful, good, and worth living for.  In other words, it transforms our whole entire reality into something amazing, beautiful, and great.  No other mental state can do this.  All other mental states in of themselves are "dead" and "empty" since they do not do this. 

I would also describe positive emotions as being a divine inner light or inner fruit.  If you hear the word 'fruitful," then that means filled with inner positivity.  It means you are in a mental state where you truly experience positivity in your life which is no different than, again, saying that you are truly perceiving things from a positive perspective (i.e. perceiving things as joyful, beautiful, and good).  Again, positive emotions are that mental state and they are the only positive mental state.

When you feel positive emotions, it's as though you are filled with the force of the light and, when you feel negative emotions such as misery and despair, it's as though you are filled with the force of darkness.  The goal is to become the being of light by pursing the force of light to make your life beautiful and to avoid the inner darkness which makes your life bad, horrible, and disgusting. 

When we lose our ability to feel positive emotions, it's as though we have become dead on the inside since we lose that force of light within us.  Intellect, morality, and character is just words, intentions, and ideas in our minds.  None of these things can allow me to perceive/experience the sheer beauty and joy my positive emotions have brought my life and neither can it allow me to experience what I've experienced through my miserable struggles. 

Those hopeless and miserable states I've been through were such horrible states that no words, ideas, etc. can allow me to experience something so horrible.  Let me say a few more things here before I conclude this packet.  People can act as though certain things are real and claim these things are real.  For example, people have acted and claimed Thor was real.  But that doesn't mean Thor was real.

So, just because people act as though value independent of positive emotions is real and claim it's real does not mean it's actually real.  You cannot trust a person's claim just because they act as though it's real and claim it's real.  That's the reason why I cannot trust people who claim that they perceived their lives as something beautiful and great despite their misery and inability to feel positive emotions.

There are many factors that can take away our ability to feel positive emotions and I don't trust anybody when they say that your life can still be something beautiful without your ability to feel positive emotions, that you can create your own value in life, and that value is something far more than just a matter of feeling good or feeling bad.  I think our emotions are something far more than just pleasant and unpleasant feelings.  Like I said before, they are like the inner light or inner darkness to our conscious being. 

So many people go about their work and everyday life despite feeling miserable and they dismiss their emotional state as something trivial.  They would claim that the true value in their lives comes about through helping others and contributing to the world.  I completely disagree with this.  You need that force of light within you to make any endeavor in your life beautiful and worth living for. 

I don't care how fleeting positive emotions are; I still think they are the only real source of beauty and joy in our lives.  To conclude this packet, I know my worldview/philosophy is like a religion.  But I am actually undecided when it comes to the existence of god, the paranormal, and the afterlife.  If it's the case that these things do exist, then my worldview would apply in the form of a spiritual belief or religion. 

But, if we live in a universe where those things do not exist (i.e. a purely naturalistic universe), then my worldview would still apply.  But it would take on a secular form.  I would describe the religious form of my worldview to be Spiritual Hedonism, Divine Hedonism, or New Age Hedonism since it would be the hedonistic philosophy taking on a spiritual/religious form. 

But hedonism in a purely naturalistic universe would simply be hedonism.  By the way, hedonism is a philosophy which states that pleasure (the positive emotions) are the only good things in life and that displeasure (the negative emotions) are the only bad things in life.  So, according to hedonism, the only way our lives can be good and beautiful is if we are having fun, enjoying our lives, and experiencing profound beauty and joy through our positive emotions.