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Originally Posted by Toaster126
Some of us can have inner peace without the crap on the edges, Cynthetiq. Having strong emotional responses removes or hinders the ability to use logic and reasoning to guide your actions. That is "bad".
Manic depressives \ bi-polar people have mania. That's certainly an emotional state, and I would say it is bad. It's cool to disagree with that, but at least acknowledge it's just a difference in opinion, not some fact.
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Sure but that's not the scope that I was talking in. If we're to use that as the basis, then the whole conversation takes a completely different turn.
My opinion is that there are no attachments to emotions. Emotions stand on their own. Go back look at any philosophy about the human condition and from what I read and recall there isn't anything about the emotion itself as being quantified as good or bad. They just exist.
Again the emotions themselves aren't the issue, the issue is ACTING upon those emotions. If you act out in a BAD way then you attach that the emotion is bad. But if the emotion just exists as it is, and no action is taken then the emotion is just what it is, an emotion.
The manic or bipolar is acting on the emotions they are having. It's the acting on the emotions that causes the problems, not the emotion.
We are talking the same thing just using different language to get there. You are stating that action on the emotions is what is bad. Same thing I am.
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