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  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    I can assure you I have experienced emotional traumatic events. These emotional traumas have put me in states of complete misery. I have, in fact, had the attitude of facing and standing up to these miserable states (what is called character strength), but that did nothing to bring my life a whole new sense of good value and worth. So, what makes you think that it can ever work out for me?
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    Been there and done that. I have already been crashed down by the worst misery and hopelessness of my life for a whole 10 year struggle. Nothing has changed during that entire time. So, what makes you think you are right?
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    I don't care how weak I am. It is nothing important to me. From my perspective, character strength simply has no place in this world. It is only my positive emotions that truly matter in my life.
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    However, if I did find myself in a state of complete anhedonia or misery and it lasted most of my life, then if someone very compassionate came into my life and tried to help me, then I would be willing to take their advice. But I cannot guarantee this advice would work out for me because, like I said, I am not sure anything can replace my inner light that I believe in. But if some jerk came into my life and gave me advice, then I would give up on such a person and not even waste my time with him or her.
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    When there is an argument/debate between two people with two entirely different worldviews where one throws out accusations and name calling and the other does the same, then such arguments can get absolutely nowhere. So, each person is left to his/her own personal values. I think that is just what it all comes down to and there is nothing that can be done about it. It's just the way it is. I do not agree with your value system, I detest it since it dismisses my inner light that I think truly exists, and, therefore, I am not going to waste my time with your suggestions since I am firmly convinced by my own personal experience and struggles.
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    Then what we have here is an agree to disagree scenario. Personally, I think that living a life of character strength alone can only be a life where you live out the motions. It is a life of nothing but doing things, carrying on in life, making the best of things, and is a life of nothing but words (value judgments). Especially since it was like that for me during my whole 10 year struggle. Not a single moment did I perceive any real good value or beauty in my life. I think that my values are the higher and transcended values while the values of the rest of humanity such as people like you are empty and nothing more than that of a mere machine. You nor anyone else can comprehend nor understand my higher values.
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    Even if I was a weak person, how could you blame me though? I am convinced that no character strength or anything else can replace my inner light. Personally, I think that the inner light is everything to allowing us to truly perceive the good value and beauty of things in this life. Also, I never thought I was special. I was just pointing out to you my struggle which was very important to point out in order to make the argument I was wanting to make.
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    First off, I do not agree with your definition of weak because I have my own defined terms. I define good and bad different than how most human beings define it and I define weak differently as well. A weak person, to me, would be someone devoid of the inner light. 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. Lastly, I have struggled 10 whole years with misery. My brain would have surely adapted to it on its own since the brain is a remarkable organ that can adapt to harsh situations. It doesn't matter what your belief system or outlook is.

    Your brain would still adapt on its own. The fact that this never happened to me during that whole struggle means that there is no adaptation or character strength that can replace my inner light. Based on this, I am convinced that positive emotions are the inner light and that they are truly all there is to life. I am convinced that the rest of the world is deluded and is only living by empty words. They are just dismissing and leaving out the inner light like it doesn't exist.
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    Such challenges that induce negative emotions would only serve to focus on situations and things themselves and to focus away from my own inner light I need in my life (my positive emotions). So, I am not fooled by those types of people who attempt to trick me into believing in some sort of good and worthwhile life that does not depend upon positive emotions. As for your question, no. I just live my life and enjoy my activities. Lastly, from my personal experience, I am convinced that there are negative emotions and positive emotions.
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    During my miserable moments undergoing emotional trauma, I have still chosen to remain in this life anyway to get the help I needed. So, that was indeed a challenge. However, my life was still complete hell and devoid of all goodness and beauty regardless of what I did with my life in that miserable state.
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    Yes, I go to the gym and I play sports outside with my family as well as going out and enjoying nature in general. What else is there that you are implying that I should experience?
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    I did not simply say that positive emotions are the objective good and negative emotions being the objective bad as that would be too simple. I also introduced the concept of mixed emotions:

    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.
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    Actually, reread my opening post since this is a whole new explanation of my worldview that I think is much better.
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    My view would actually be an upgraded version of hedonism. Like I said, I called it "New Age Hedonism."



    A charge could either be positive or negative and you could certainly judge a negative charge to be something good if it was helpful. You could also judge it to be a positive charge. But the negative charge would still be negative. Our emotions are like positive and negative charges, in a way. However, our emotions would be good and bad "charges." So, the positive and negative that applies to our emotions is an objective (intrinsic) good and bad while the positive and negative that applies to charges is simply positive and negative. This means it doesn't matter how you judge your emotional state; a positive emotion can only make your life truly perceived as good and your negative emotions can only make your life truly perceived as bad. This objective good and bad would be an emotional definition of good and bad rather than the definition of good and bad that we as human beings are familiar with.
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    I have never experienced the more complicated emotions, what I assume you mean to say a thought form of emotion (i.e. a thought that is an emotional state).. If you mean to say that there can be a thought form of emotion, then I do not think such a thing exists. I think emotions can only be those biochemical induced states.

    If you felt a positive emotion of love or joy, then that would be a biochemical induced euphoric state by dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins. Negative emotions would be dysphoric states such as feelings of hopelessness, despair, and anger. I, myself, have felt a clear division of emotion into the positive and negative categories. So, I can clearly tell that there is a distinction of positive and negative when it comes to emotions just as how there is a clear distinction of positive and negative when it comes to our thoughts. You could either think positive or negative and you could also feel positive or negative emotions.

    When you said that grief turns into love, then that grief would be the negative emotion and then the love you felt later on would be a positive emotion. You could also have mixed emotions as well which means you could have a mix of both positive and negative emotions. Lastly, you could create works of art through negative emotions. But that would only be a negative form of inspiration that would yield nothing but bad value to your life since it is nothing but the darkness. The darkness can only make your life pure shit.

    If there was a product with a positive (good) rating, another product with a zero (neutral) rating, and another product with a negative (bad) rating, then the product with the negative rating would have a shit rating. It would very likely to be a complete shit of a product. It would be even worse than the product with a zero rating because something bad is always worse than something neutral. All I'm trying to say here is that, as long as your life is bad in any given moment, then it can only be bad in that given moment. If your life is good in any given moment, then it can only be good in that given moment. It's as simple as that.
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    I personally think that our emotions are the objective good and bad regardless of what people think. People can have false judgments in regards to objective things. So, our emotions would be an objective good and bad that humanity is not yet awakened to. Our positive emotions are an objective form of wanting and liking since they are the reward wanting and liking in the brain. Yet, if you were to ask many people if they think that their positive emotions are an objective wanting and liking, they would tell you "no." This proves that people are having false judgments regarding their positive emotions. Who knows, our positive emotions could also be the objective good and people are denying this, too!
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    There are two objective values. The first type would be the ones that situations or people have such as saying that the harmful acts of a criminal are bad or that the altruistic deeds of an empathetic person are good. But in order to truly perceive these objective values, then that requires our objective good (positive emotions) and our objective bad (negative emotions). They would be our own inner light and inner darkness. Again, we can only acknowledge values without our inner light and darkness, but we could not perceive them.

    However, if you cannot have two types of objective values, then it can only be our positive emotions which would be the objective good and our negative emotions being the objective bad. You might get the idea that this is a dysfunctional model for society, but it wouldn't be and I will explain why. During my worst miserable moments, I have still chosen to get help and to make wise decisions anyway knowing that they would change my life. Likewise, I still made other wise decisions regardless of my emotional state. This is still a functional model for society.

    So, a harmful situation wouldn't be a bad situation and neither would a situation of changing your life to recover your positive emotions be a good decision. They would just simply be decisions we would make anyway knowing that they would simply benefit ourselves and the lives of others But living a lifestyle that involves making wise decisions in the absence of your positive emotions is no way to live or be an artist since such a way of life would be devoid of goodness and beauty. Some people would actually say that there is no such thing as good or that it life does not have to matter to us. They would say to just simply live life as it is. But, based on my idea, goodness would not be a concept or an idea fabricated in the minds of humanity. It would instead be our emotions themselves. I liken goodness and badness to be pure energy itself.
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    I would like to say one last thing here. My version of a sacred monk might sound like the most simplistic way of life and being. But simple solutions often times are the real solutions. If you had a group of religious people defining the holy life as a tedious and grueling process of obeying a god, self sacrifice, etc., then the atheist could say that how he defines the holy life is just simply making the best of this life all the while having a wonderful and easy life playing video games.

    He doesn't have to adhere his life to these false gods. So, I think my simple solution to a transcended way of life and being is the real solution. Unfortunately, I think it is the only way which means that if I ever become unfortunate and struggle with misery throughout my life again, then my life would be completely devoid of all goodness and beauty. Lastly, for a person who obtains positive emotions from harming others, he would be a new age hedonist. But he would be misusing the power of the light for wrongdoing.
  • My New Age Philosophy: New Age Hedonism


    Consider it my own personal definition of transcendent then. My positive emotions, for me, are transcending life force of goodness in my life. I would be my own hedonistic monk. Likewise, consider this to also be my own personal good and bad which, for me, is an objective good and bad.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing


    Actually, let me present to you a logical argument that should make my point clear. I will first start out with introducing what I have to say and I will then present the argument to you along with an experiment below:

    We currently believe that it is our value judgments and outlooks alone that allow us to see the value in our lives. I think this is a false myth. Many people wish to dismiss emotions as nothing more than emotions and say that it is instead the thought that counts. I think it is the other way around. I think it is instead the emotion that counts. This is a theory that I have learned from struggling with much emotional trauma, hopelessness, and misery in my life.

    This is a world changing philosophy/theory of mine that would awaken humanity to their higher component (their emotions) and would encourage others to find cures for depression and other illnesses that take away our positive emotions. I am just saying it is a world changing theory just to get readers interested. It doesn't mean that it actually is. But who knows. It could be. You never know. I am going to present to you a logical argument that basically summarizes my whole theory. It is a logical argument that advocates hedonism as the only way to see value in our lives. Hedonism is the idea that pain=bad while pleasure=good.

    My Hedonistic Logical Argument

    1.) Wanting or liking something is the only way to see the good value and worth in said thing. Wanting or liking something such as an exciting new video game or movie is the only way to see good value in that movie or game. Having no wanting and liking towards it would mean that it wouldn't matter to you and, thus, you wouldn't be seeing any good value in it. Or, according to premise #2, you would be seeing bad value in it.

    2.) Not wanting and liking something is the only way to see bad value in it. It would be a negative reaction such as not wanting anymore people around you. It would be a situation that would matter to you in a negative way and, thus, you would see bad value in it.

    3.) Being in a completely apathetic state where you neither wanted, liked, nor did not want anything is the only way to see no value and worth in things. Nothing would matter to you at all and, thus, you would see no value in anything.

    4.) Simply acknowledging that things have good and bad value in your life is not actually seeing the good and bad value that these things hold. If you were completely apathetic where nothing mattered to you at all and you just said something such as: "Meh, this is really good," then you wouldn't be seeing any good value in said thing. You would just be blurting out a thought in your mind or some spoken words.

    5.) There is an objective form of wanting and liking. It would be our positive emotions. Here, I will quote this out to you:

    We have found a special hedonic hotspot that is crucial for reward 'liking' and 'wanting' (and codes reward learning too). The opioid hedonic hotspot is shown in red above. It works together with another hedonic hotspot in the more famous nucleus accumbens to generate pleasure 'liking'.

    6.) It would follow from premise #5 that our negative emotions would be an objective form of not wanting things (a negative response) while having neither positive nor negative emotions would be an objective form of things not mattering to you at all (a neutral response).

    7.) Your level of wanting, liking, not wanting, and neither wanting nor not wanting dictates the level of good, bad, or neutral value you see. If you really wanted something, then you would be seeing much good value in said stimulus. If you really did not want something, then you would be seeing much bad value in said stimulus. If you were very apathetic and nothing mattered to you at all, then you would be seeing much neutral value in said stimulus.

    8.) Moments where you want, like, not want, and are indifferent are moments where you see good value, bad value, or neutral value in certain stimuli.

    9.) You can have mixed wanting and not wanting. For example, if you claimed that something you wanted you saw bad value in, then there would have to be an unwanting thought there. So, you would see both good and bad value in that thing. (Note: I talk more about this when I discuss the concept of mixed emotions very soon).

    Even though thoughts of us wanting things make us feel positive emotions while unwanting thoughts make us feel negative emotions, if you did not feel mixed emotions during that scenario I have given of you seeing bad value in wanting something, then you could still be having mixed wanting and unwanting thoughts.

    This is because when you have a wanting thought that makes you feel a positive emotion, the unwanting thought does not always make you feel a negative emotion to mix in with that positive emotion. You could, for example, have an angry thought at a friend that makes you feel angry which would be an unwanting thought. But, at the same time, you could still want that friend in your life. That is, you could have the thought that a certain attribute of this friend is bad and another thought of him/her being a good person anyway.

    Therefore,

    Conclusion: It is only our positive moods/emotions that allow us to see the positive qualities of life such as good value, worth, joy, love, beauty, etc., our negative moods/emotions that allow us to see the negative qualities of life such as bad value, suffering, misery, hate, torment, etc. Having neither positive nor negative moods/emotions would be a state of mind where nothing mattered to you at all and, thus, you would not be seeing any good or bad value in your life. Your level of positive and negative emotions dictates the level of good or bad value you see in your life. From this, I can gather that our emotions are like the sense of sight. They allow us to see the good and bad value in things just as how our sight allows us to see objects.

    Having no sight would mean that no way of thinking or value judgment can allow you to see objects just as how no way of thinking, belief, outlook, or value judgment can allow us to see any good or bad value in our lives without our emotions. Therefore, seeing the value in our lives is not a matter of value judgment at all since it is not a thought form of awareness (perception) at all. It is instead purely an emotional awareness. This means that our emotions do not have some sort of mind control effect and make us perceive, through our thinking, the value in our lives. It is purely the emotions themselves that make us perceive value in our lives. Our positive emotions are like a divine and sacred sense. They are like a divine light energy or force that is intrinsic goodness itself flowing through our very conscious being.

    Our negative emotions would be like a horrible and negative spiritual dark energy flowing through our conscious being.Since I have presented to you this logical argument, it has now become quite obvious that we absolutely need our positive emotions to make our entire lives and atmosphere something perceived as profoundly beautiful, joyful, and good. Our positive emotions are like the divine and sacred light energy and water for a sacred plant. The plant needs this light energy and water to grow and thrive. Without them, then the plant will only wither away. In that same sense, we are like these sacred plants and we need the sacred light and water (our positive moods/emotions) for our conscious perception of good values and qualities to grow and thrive. Our positive emotions are simply a transcending and profoundly beautiful source of energy and growth for our consciousness.

    Lastly, depressed and miserable inspirational figures such as Abraham Lincoln weren't really seeing any good value and worth in their lives at all if they had no positive emotions. If they had a little bit of positive emotions, then they would only be perceiving a slim amount of good value in their lives. Therefore, these inspirational figures are conveying a false message when they say things such as that depression and misery are good, they inspire us, allow us to see greater good value in our lives, etc. Inspiration is a positive quality and can only be perceived by our positive emotions.

    So, it is not the depression and misery itself that allows us to see greater good value in our lives. It is instead the positive emotions that inspire us and make us see greater good values in our lives. These inspirational figures are, in a way, blind fools who think they see the truth when they can't. I am the only one who knows the real truth and it could change the world. So many people drag their lives on and on in unhappy lifestyles and this needs to be changed. People need to be awakened to the fact that an unhappy lifestyle is nothing at all. It is a no quality standard of living and people need to be awakened to the real good quality standard of living that my theory has proven.

    I don't care how offensive and insulting my theory is. The truth needs to be shared to the world regardless of how offensive it is. I am fed up with those types of people who only throw out and dismiss my positive emotions as trivial things that only a spoiled child would crave and all the emotional trauma I've been through as no form of real suffering in my life. This only serves to dismiss all the real suffering I've been through as being "all in my head" since, according to these people, it is nothing more than our value judgments and ways of thinking that either allow us to be in a state of joy or suffering. I think that is complete nonsense.

    Experiment

    Now that I have presented this logical argument to you, I will now present to you the experiment that can be performed to prove that wanting things is the only way we can see the good value in things. Take note that I am leaving out liking to make things easier, more convenient, and just for the sake of this experiment. If there were an item that a person said he did not want, but had to obtain anyway since he saw much good value in it, then how would this person respond once you take that item away from him? I am quite sure he would want that item. There is just no way he would be completely indifferent towards the situation of that item being taken away from him.

    As long as he is seeing much good value in that item, then this means the item is very important to him and, thus, he would want the item if you were to take it away from him. This experiment should discover evidence for my theory and make my theory known to the world. Here is another experiment. Take, for example, someone who says he doesn't want to go to work, but that he has to since it is important. This person would be seeing much good value in going to work. If you were to block his path, then I bet this person would become frustrated. He really wants to go to work and you would be in his way.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing


    By saying that, then you would be agreeing with my theory. According to my theory, pain would be our negative emotions and pleasure would be our positive emotions. You can't have pain and pleasure without these emotions. Sure, you could have physical pain and pleasant smells such as the smell of a rose, but these types of sensations do not allow you to perceive any sufficient quality of good or bad value in your life at all. I could be in the worst emotional state of my life and I could smell the most intense pleasant smell. But as long as I am still in that horrible miserable state, then that scent would not give me much awareness of good value in my life at all. It would only give me an awareness (perception) that is very slim.
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    Well, my theory is just pointing out here that, without wanting, then nothing can be of any good value to you. That is, nothing can matter to you in a positive way. You need your positive emotions in order to want and, therefore, make things of good value to you. When I said that logical and rational thought processes alone (value judgments) do not allow us to see value in our lives, I am saying that the only thing that can allow us to see value is a force/energy, if you will. It is like a divine force that is literally intrinsic goodness itself. That force would be our positive emotions.

    Without this sacred life force in my life, then all value judgments (words alone) are completely dead and, thus, cannot allow me to see any real good value in my life. Words alone hold no power to my life and are a no quality standard of living. Having this divine life force is the only real good quality standard of living. People haven't been awakened to this standard and my theory is trying to make it a known truth to the world. I was trying to establish this as an objective fact by pinning up our thoughts (good value judgments) with our positive emotions.

    Since positive emotions are an objective form of wanting and since I have established earlier that good value judgments are always thoughts of us wanting things, then it would have to follow from here that our positive emotions are an objective form of seeing good value in our lives. Establishing this objective goodness would, therefore, establish the idea that a divine life force (our positive emotions) really are needed in our lives to allow us to perceive the positive qualities of life.
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    I am going to present to you an experiment that can prove that things that are good to us can only be things that we want. If you were to set up an experiment where you had an item that a person said that he did not want, but had to obtain anyway since obtaining it had much good value to him, then how would this person respond once you take that item away from him? I am quite sure he would want that item. Since that item was something very important (good) to him, then he wouldn't just have utter indifference towards the situation of that item being taken away from him.

    Let me actually clarify something here before I move on. There is the difference between conceptual values and our value judgments. For example, if there was a mother who was feeding vegetables to a little child and the mother said that these vegetables were good for him, but the child said he hated them, then these vegetables would be good and would be good for him. However, the child would not be seeing them as anything good since he hated them. This means that the vegetables would be good from a purely conceptual point of view while the child's value judgment would be a bad value judgment since he thought of them as being something bad. In order for this child to see these vegetables as being something good to him, then he would want to eat them or have them. The child cannot simply acknowledge the vegetables as having good value. He needs to actually want these vegetables in order to see them as something good.

    You can't have a subjective when there is an objective. That all goes back to what I said before. There is an objective form of sight which is the real sight that allows us to see objects. Therefore, you cannot have a subjective form of sight since this form of sight will not allow you to see objects. Thinking you can see when you are blind will not allow you to see objects. In that same sense, you cannot have a subjective form of wanting and liking when there is already an objective form (the positive emotions). It is only the positive emotions that can allow you to want and like things (see good value in things).

    Here is the objective wanting and liking:

    We have found a special hedonic hotspot that is crucial for reward 'liking' and 'wanting' (and codes reward learning too). The opioid hedonic hotspot is shown in red above. It works together with another hedonic hotspot in the more famous nucleus accumbens to generate pleasure 'liking'.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing
    I am going to present to you an experiment that can prove that things that are good to us can only be things that we want. If you were to set up an experiment where you had an item that a person said that he did not want, but had to obtain anyway since obtaining it had much good value to him, then how would this person respond once you take that item away from him? I am quite sure he would want that item. Since that item was something very important (good) to him, then he wouldn't just have utter indifference towards the situation of that item being taken away from him.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing
    There is an objective form of wanting. It would be our positive emotions. Here, I will quote something that points that out:

    We have found a special hedonic hotspot that is crucial for reward 'liking' and 'wanting' (and codes reward learning too). The opioid hedonic hotspot is shown in red above. It works together with another hedonic hotspot in the more famous nucleus accumbens to generate pleasure 'liking'.

    In order for my theory to hold true, then I will first need to establish that thoughts of wanting things can only be thoughts of things being good to us (i.e. good value judgments). Once I have done that, then I can say that, since there is an objective form of wanting (our positive emotions), then they are an objective source of seeing the good value in our lives. So, I will now begin. A good value judgment can only be a thought of something being desirable and cherishable to us. For example, if you said that you did not want to go to work today and that you had to go to work anyway since going to work had good value to you, then you would be wanting to go to work. Here is another example. Even if you had a sinister desire and you judged that desiring thought to be bad, then this sinister desire would still be a good value judgment while you would be having a different thought (a bad value judgment).

    These two thoughts have different characteristics. One is wanting and the other is unwanting. Therefore, that is why they are distinct from one another. Since I have established that good value judgments are wanting thoughts and bad value judgments are unwanting thoughts, I will now say from here that good value judgments always make us feel positive emotions such as feelings of joy and excitement while bad value judgments always make us feel negative emotions such as anger and despair. The only exception would be if you had some mental health condition such as anhedonia which doesn't allow you to have positive or negative emotions. But like I was saying, it would follow from here that positive emotions are an objective source of seeing good value towards stimuli while negative emotions would be an objective source of seeing bad value towards stimuli.
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    I said that emotions are a sense dependent upon thought. When you have a thought (value judgment), then we could consider this to be nothing more than just a word/phrase going through your mind. It would just be an idea such as that the sunset is something beautiful to you. However, once this thought makes you feel a positive emotion, then this value judgment has taken on a form that is beyond any idea or words to make that sunset something beautiful to you beyond words. That value judgment is now an actual emotional state. It is like turning the word "good" into some divine life force or energy that is literally good. This divine energy will take on different forms (feel different). For example, if you felt a positive emotion from the idea of a sunset being beautiful to you versus the idea of going on a vacation, then these feelings will be different. So, you would be perceiving different qualities of goodness. Objects themselves do not possess intrinsic goodness or badness. Rather, we perceive good and bad value towards objects through our emotions.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing
    This is an important notice to everyone here. I have now modified my post to not only make my theory more coherent, but to also make it better. Therefore, go ahead and reread my opening post again one last time.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing


    Actually, please read my opening post again because it clears this objection up you are having. I have now modified my opening post to fully convey my theory that is both brief and gets my point across.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing


    Actually, please read my opening post again because it clears this objection up you are having. I have now modified my opening post to fully convey my theory that is both brief and gets my point across.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing


    I'm glad you finally understand my worldview. If this worldview is true, then it could change the world because most people currently believe that it is only our value judgments themselves that allow us to perceive value in our lives. But I am saying that our emotions are like the sense of sight and that they are the only things that can allow us to see the value in our lives.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing


    Go ahead and reread that post where I posted that logical argument. I have now made it much shorter into a very brief argument.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing


    That's not the full insight. I established earlier that our positive emotions are like the sense of taste in the very beginning of my logical argument. This means that if we have a good value judgment that makes us feel a positive emotion, then we are sensing something good in our lives. Therefore, our positive emotions are a sense like sight and hearing.
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    Sure, there might be things in the world that are objectively good or bad. But it is up to us whether we have good or bad thoughts in regards to these things.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing


    It would be a good thought the person is having. But, from our perspective, it would be a bad thought. We would have bad thoughts about this person's good thought even though this person was having a good thought from his/her own perspective.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing


    Yes, it is my worldview. It is something I have learned from my own personal experience.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing


    If it's too long for you to read, then I can present each individual paragraph I make and we could discuss them one by one.
  • Emotions are a sense like sight and hearing


    Yes, I would take into consideration into whatever these falsehoods are. However, I am currently unaware of these falsehoods. Therefore, feel free to point them out and discuss them.
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    Never mind then. I will just wait for someone else to fully read and respond to it. This logical argument fully explains the concepts I am presenting. By breaking it down, I would only be leaving plenty of room for objections to my logical argument. Therefore, by fully explaining my logical argument in such a long winded manner, I would have thoroughly addressed any objections to it.
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    I understand your point of view. But feel free to fully read my logical argument I just made above and give your response.

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