emotions are just a reflection of beliefs, they follow that, so they have no blame in themselves for anything

anyone who blames emotions is ignorant of the beliefs creating them

negative emotions come from negative beliefs

if that belief is true then that emotion is justified

so the real problem is true vs false. not positive vs negative

There are innumerable works about emotions and their effects, but only few do mention that emotions can be addictive too.
An omission that ought not to surprise, since addicts do not only tend to deny their predicament, but elaborate sophisticated cover-ups, excuses & deceptions, and sometimes even try to seduce and to corrupt those who do not cherish anxiety, angst, distrust, hatred, envy, greed, frustration, grief, guilt, shame, hostility, regret, humiliation, jealousy, rage, remorse, resentment, sadness, sorrow...

emotions are just a reflection of beliefs, they follow that, so they have no blame in themselves for anything — OmniscientNihilist

I used to think that, but now I have to disagree. For the past year I've been finding my thinking at the mercy of a rollercoaster of emotions the likes of which I never knew before. I start feeling the emotions physically first, without any apparent prompt, and then over time as the emotions linger I find that my mind latches on to things to try to blame them on, and so my thinking turns dark as well. I'm aware in those states that previously I had thought differently, and I try to remind myself of what I thought then and why, but it doesn't make the emotions go away. Then in time they go away of their own accord, or for reasons I haven't completely sorted out, and I start thinking clearly again, and see the ways that I thought while those feelings were drowning me as incorrect, and I make mental notes about all the fallacies involved in them to remind myself later when I feel that way again that the thoughts I end up thinking are wrong. But that's still not effective, and the thoughts don't go away until the feelings do.

start feeling the emotions physically first — Pfhorrest

1- beliefs which are subconscious
2- emotional reaction to your own beliefs
3- thought reaction to your emotions

cause and effect

Particular Projection/Reflection* modes engender particular emotions.

Emotions tend to distort and impede the operations of mind.

* "Another view of Consciousness" chapter 2

Would you agree that calm rationality is as much an emotional state as anger, anxiety, love, joy, etc? I often feel that people get into the notion that calm and rationality is an absence of emotion when really it is just one of the least negatively stressful and materially and emotionally lucrative emotional states to be in. Born of a desire to be part of a collective which perceives itself as rational above all other things because it owes a lot of its success to rationality.

From my notes on Lisa Feldman Barrett’s ‘How Emotions Are Made’:

Social reality: When you are born, you can’t regulate your body budget by yourself - somebody else has to do it. In the process, your brain learns statistically, creates concepts, and wires itself to its environment, which is filled with other people who have structured their social world in particular ways. That social world becomes real to you as well. We’re the only animal that can communicate purely mental concepts among ourselves. No particular social reality is inevitable, just one that works for the group (and is constrained by physical reality)...

Culture works most smoothly if we believe in our own mental creations, such as money and laws, without realising that we’re doing so. We don’t suspect the involvement of our own hand (or neurons, as it were) in these constructions, so we just treat them as reality. But we constantly mistake perceiver-dependent concepts - flowers, weeds, colours, money, race, facial expressions, etc - for perceiver-independent reality. Many concepts that people consider to be purely physical are in fact beliefs about the physical, such as emotions, and many that appear to be biological are actually social...

When you create a social reality but fail to realise it, the result is a mess. Every psychological concept is social reality. Not all cultures have them...

When we misconstrue the social as physical, we misunderstand our world and ourselves. In this regard, social reality is a superpower only if we know that we have it. — Lisa Feldman Barrett

Inasmuch as the human psyche is a complex system which includes interactions between body, environment, sensitivity, affect, emotion, motivation, perception, cognisance (cognition and recognition), self awareness, and social awareness, the OP consists of simplistic (hence, unsound) premises and conclusions.

For example: it focuses on negative emotions (fear, hatred, envy, greed) without reference to positive emotions (e.g., attraction, interest, love, joy, acceptance, gratitude, relief, etc.), or to the combination of negative and positive emotions in secondary (or complex) emotions (e.g., submission, awe, remorse, aggressiveness, etc.) which are appropriate responses in various circumstances, or to social emotions (e.g., sympathy, compassion, kindness, etc.) and common phobias which are essential to human survival.

Best to cultivate the positive and to get rid of the negative

Okay, let's get simple: if your nation is invaded by another nation, aggression would be an appropriate (reasonable) response.

:groan:

Good case in point.
You required a negative emoticon to communicate.

Like all his weaknesses, Homo justifies his emotions too, claiming that they are essential for his survival as well as for being human, which might also be the reason for his belief that emotions make up a “person” (Latin: actors mask). A belief which has reached religious scales, considering that all the lost, the losers & those who want to play a role in life, make – with the help of media & commerce – ever more spectacles of their emotions, thus turning them into the most popular and successful self-deception-tool of modern times.

from "Selfrealisation" by waechter418.wordpress.com

Yeah, like I have time for your vanity project. We are done here.

Thank you for joining.

Imagination and Intellect are responsible for scientific and technological developments – combined with Emotions, latter can have destructive results. — waechter418

so, you think scientific and technological developments were driven by Intellect ???? LOL! They were driven historically by warfare , and scientist primarily driven by ego greed and glory and winning pure competition and the emotive rush of conquering the unknown. What about reproduction? Take out emotion, and I say you would not have humanity's intellectual achievements.

Also, I posit that you cannot have human qualia consciousness w/o emotive states.

any solid counterpoints/evidence?