When you have this attitude of wanting unpleasant emotions, you're acting as though they're good. But, they're bad, and it makes no sense to treat the bad as good, since bad is bad, and good is good. Also, seeking good or bad emotions is nothing good or bad by itself, and it becomes good or bad...
Thanks for your response. But, I'm curious if you've actually read that file I presented in my opening post. Are you able to open it? I was able to. Now, in regards to your post, people do seek unpleasant emotions, such as fear. But, that philosophy file explains why unpleasant emotions...
I wish to share my philosophy, which is based upon my personal experience/struggles. Many people might disagree with it, but I wish to share it anyway. It's the pdf file below. In this file, I discuss my personal struggles later on, and what conclusion they've led me to. Anyway, here's the file:
As for the color red, it's a visual state (a mental state), which is an experience, since mental states are inner experiences. Red could also be called a perceptual state. Also, I realize people do derive positive emotions from feeling negative emotions, such as if a person felt good from...
According to my philosophy, when a person feels horror (a negative emotion), he's perceiving horror, since feelings of horror are perceptions of horror. Perception and experience are the same thing. For example, when a person sees (perceives) the color red, he's experiencing red. So, when a...
I'd like to being with a quote by William Shakesphere:
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
All things in this world are nothing good, bad, beautiful, horrific, tragic, disgusting, valuable, precious, worthwhile, etc. by themselves. So, life just is, and things just...
Other Person's Response: You were curious about the doctrine of hell at one point, and read into information regarding hell. That's when you felt worried about the possibility of going to hell.
My Reply: Right. But, this wasn't an emotional trauma, though.
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Other Person's Response: When people live the Christian life in order to avoid hell, that's a selfish purpose because they think of themselves and how horrible it would be for them to suffer an eternity. But, this selfishness eventually gets them to the point where they're Christians for a...
Other Person's Response: If you were naturally creating awesome music in your head, then the beings can either take that music out of your head and share it to audiences of souls in the afterlife, or they could compose music for you. I don't think you've created entire songs in your head...
Other Person's Response: So, you'd want people to be aware of your gaming progess because they'd be aware of all the items you've collected, all the adventure you've done, and all the hard work, time, and effort you've put in?
My Reply: Yes.
Other Person's Response: You said you're no...
Other Person's Response: You still do certain tasks as an adult, even when you're not in the mood to do them, right?
My Reply: Right. But, that's no way to do tasks. So, we need to be in the mood to do them. To be more specific, we need to be in a positive mood to do them, since we need...
Other Person's Response: According to your philosophy, it would be better to feel nothing about ourselves than to feel negative about ourselves.
My Reply: Yes. But, it would be best to feel positive about ourselves, since that would be coloring us in positivity.
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Other Person's Response: Perhaps these beings just wanted you to undergo some suffering here on Earth. Maybe that's why you have the ability to recover, but not the enhanced ability to fully recover instantly. If you had the enhanced recovery ability, then you'd immediately recover from your...
Other Person's Response: Here's the Stanford link to emotions:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotion/#9
My Reply: Thanks for sharing.
Other Person's Response: If emotions were so vital, then why does god and the astral beings (heavenly beings) allow our emotions to be taken away from...
Other Person's Response: In regards to liking, it can't be a negative emotion, right?
My Reply: Right. So, liking can only be a rewarding feeling in the brain (a positive emotion), and disliking can only be a disrewarding feeling in the brain (a negative emotion).
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Other Person's Response: A certain scent, such as the smell of a skunk, is just a scent that's nothing pleasant or unpleasant. But, when a person smells a skunk, and he thinks it's a pleasant scent, then his brain will interpret the scent as pleasant, which makes it a pleasant scent for him...
Other Person's Response: Emotions are external, such as expressions of love and joy, while feelings are internal.
My Reply: But, again, I use the terms feelings and emotions interchangeably. So, I don't call those expressions emotions. Rather, I just refer to them as expressions of love...
Other Person's Response: Sometimes, is the material in this discussion section randomly assorted?
My Reply: Yes. But, for the most part, it's structured. So, sometimes, you'll read a response and reply that talks about one thing, and then immediately read another response and reply that...
Other Person's Response: Some people would say that your philosophy is too simplistic, since your definition of good and bad is way too simple.
My Reply: It's often times the most simple things and solutions people overlook. So, my philosophy might be true, despite its simplicity, and people...
Other Person's Response: If you're intellectually capable of learning how to compose, then you should be intellectually capable of learning how to discover the truth in regards to controversial topics.
My Reply: I think I might be intellectually capable of learning how to compose because...