I do not agree with your definition of weak because I have my own defined terms — TranscendedRealms
As long as he has the inner light, then he is filled with powerful good life force and he is like a being of light. — TranscendedRealms
Lastly, I have struggled 10 whole years with misery. — TranscendedRealms
When I am in my most miserable and hopeless state due to an emotional trauma, then my whole entire reality is the most horrible hell. But when I reach a state of full recovery, I am able to see harmony, peace, joy, beauty, and goodness. This is a perception that I never had during that miserable moment. This is a perception that goes beyond a value judgment. In other words, it goes beyond a mere thought and it is like a blind person recovering his sight. — TranscendedRealms
Based on this, I conclude that we might have a sense like sight that allows us to see our entire world as good and beautiful. I would personally call it the "Divine Sense." It is a new sense that has yet to be discovered by science. When we are in a positive mood or emotional state, then that is this sense allowing us to perceive stable qualities of good value as well as enhanced and more profound qualities of good value and beauty in our lives. Likewise, negative emotions such as misery and hopelessness are this sense allowing us to truly see things as horrible, bad, disgusting, etc. That is why I say that positive emotions are an objective good while negative emotions are an objective bad. So, this objective good and bad would be an intrinsic quality (our positive and negative emotions). — TranscendedRealms
"Lead, Kindly Light, amidst th'encircling gloom,
Lead Thou me on!
The night is dark, and I am far from home,
Lead Thou me on!
John Henry Newman, hymn, Lead Kindly light — Cardinal Newman
So, when a person is completely miserable and hopeless and a person comes along, giving the suggestion to just work at developing a new mindset, then that is only focusing away from one's own inner light which is the very vital and precious thing that allows us to see the goodness in our lives in the first place. — TranscendedRealms
I am fed up with people in my life dismissing my inner light as nonexistence and all in my head. They think it is just my value judgment. — TranscendedRealms
Actually, most of the people in the world believe in some kind of religion, and accept the idea of God, transcendent realms, divine light, and so on. — Bitter Crank
Mixed Emotions: Now, if you were in a situation where you had mixed emotions, then you would be perceiving both good and bad value at the same time. It would be something like 20% good and 80% bad in regards to certain things and situations. It all depends on the degree of positive and negative emotions that are there. So, the fact that these miserable genius artists still saw their lives and art as beautiful means they would have to have had some degree of positive emotion mixed in. Otherwise, they would just be deluding themselves.
Lastly, as for life experience and getting out, I do this all the time. I go out in nature and out in the community. So, there is no problem here. — TranscendedRealms
how could you blame me though? — TranscendedRealms
Then what we have here is an agree to disagree scenario — TranscendedRealms
I just realize that humans have such a poor grasp of reality and they like to make up stupid crap to deal with that lack of understanding. — Jeremiah
Look, the point is that telling someone that their ideas are stupid and a waste of time doesn't advance a discussion — Bitter Crank
Maybe we have a "Divine Sense" but it is not "new" as much as you have recently discovered it. One might identify this sense as an inner light; one might also identify it as the loving presence of Jesus or the Holy Spirit, or an inner illumination. Various terms in various traditions. — Bitter Crank
Almost all will be found wanting — Jake Tarragon
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