The Transcended Omniverse
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Since the previous topic I made that attempted to convey my religion/worldview did not work out and was one big incoherent mess, then let me try again one last time:
(Note: Psychologists divide emotions into a positive category and a negative category. I am firmly convinced this division is true based upon my own personal experience. The concept of inner light and inner darkness is all well too known in movies, anime, art, etc. So, that is why emotions would have to come in two categories: positive and negative. The positive emotions would be our own inner light and our negative emotions would be our own inner darkness just as how we have positive thoughts and negative thoughts).
My positive emotions are like the inner light of god in my life. Without them, then my life can only be empty regardless of what I were to think or believe otherwise. The rest of humanity needs this inner light as well. Otherwise, their lives and artistic endeavors would be empty, too. Our negative emotions would be the inner darkness and a life of no emotions would just be a blank life. Don't you hear depressed and miserable people claim their lives are a drag, not worth living, and devoid of any joy and beauty? This is a common complaint that depressed patients report.
I think this claim reflects our need for the inner light. When depressed people recover, they say it's as though they have crawled out of the darkest pit and regained the light back to them in their lives. This is my own personal created religion which is a hedonistic religion. I call my religion "New Age Hedonism." Hedonism is the philosophy of maximizing pleasure (positive emotions) and minimizing pain (negative emotions). Although, as I explain later on, I am undecided when it comes to the existence of god, the afterlife, and the paranormal. If these phenomena do not exist, then my hedonistic religion would instead take on a secular form.
As for what type of environment or artistic landscape I would use to convey my worldview, it would not be the fear mongering images of unsaved sinners being thrown into the lake of fire which is often conveyed by religions such as fundamentalist Christianity. My image would be a beautiful and tropical paradise. This symbolizes being happy, wild, free, and not having to adhere your life to any such horrible religious doctrines. It is looking forward to an afterlife of eternal bliss where you can finally be free of all depression, unhappiness, and misery. The New Age spiritual beliefs adhere to the doctrine of an all loving god who does not condemn people to an eternal hell or expect others to serve their lives to him. That is why I call my worldview/religion "New Age Hedonism."
The Missing, Higher Component: We have biological components to our human existence. We have sight, hearing, smell, breathing, and we also have the ability to think, imagine, and reason. If we were living a life of misery and unhappiness, then we could certainly think and believe that our lives are beautiful. But that wouldn't be enough. We need a higher component to make our entire world and atmosphere something truly beautiful, good, worth living for, happy, etc.
That component is something I metaphorically describe as the "divine light" or the "life of the cosmos." That component would be our positive emotions. Yes, we could certainly acknowledge certain things and situations as being good or bad and make wise decisions accordingly even while feeling miserable or hopeless. This is something I would still highly recommend. But it is our inner light that allows us to truly perceive our lives as good and beautiful and it is our inner darkness that allows us to truly perceive our lives as horrible, disgusting, etc.
(Note: Psychologists divide emotions into a positive category and a negative category. I am firmly convinced this division is true based upon my own personal experience. The concept of inner light and inner darkness is all well too known in movies, anime, art, etc. So, that is why emotions would have to come in two categories: positive and negative. The positive emotions would be our own inner light and our negative emotions would be our own inner darkness just as how we have positive thoughts and negative thoughts).
My positive emotions are like the inner light of god in my life. Without them, then my life can only be empty regardless of what I were to think or believe otherwise. The rest of humanity needs this inner light as well. Otherwise, their lives and artistic endeavors would be empty, too. Our negative emotions would be the inner darkness and a life of no emotions would just be a blank life. Don't you hear depressed and miserable people claim their lives are a drag, not worth living, and devoid of any joy and beauty? This is a common complaint that depressed patients report.
I think this claim reflects our need for the inner light. When depressed people recover, they say it's as though they have crawled out of the darkest pit and regained the light back to them in their lives. This is my own personal created religion which is a hedonistic religion. I call my religion "New Age Hedonism." Hedonism is the philosophy of maximizing pleasure (positive emotions) and minimizing pain (negative emotions). Although, as I explain later on, I am undecided when it comes to the existence of god, the afterlife, and the paranormal. If these phenomena do not exist, then my hedonistic religion would instead take on a secular form.
As for what type of environment or artistic landscape I would use to convey my worldview, it would not be the fear mongering images of unsaved sinners being thrown into the lake of fire which is often conveyed by religions such as fundamentalist Christianity. My image would be a beautiful and tropical paradise. This symbolizes being happy, wild, free, and not having to adhere your life to any such horrible religious doctrines. It is looking forward to an afterlife of eternal bliss where you can finally be free of all depression, unhappiness, and misery. The New Age spiritual beliefs adhere to the doctrine of an all loving god who does not condemn people to an eternal hell or expect others to serve their lives to him. That is why I call my worldview/religion "New Age Hedonism."
The Missing, Higher Component: We have biological components to our human existence. We have sight, hearing, smell, breathing, and we also have the ability to think, imagine, and reason. If we were living a life of misery and unhappiness, then we could certainly think and believe that our lives are beautiful. But that wouldn't be enough. We need a higher component to make our entire world and atmosphere something truly beautiful, good, worth living for, happy, etc.
That component is something I metaphorically describe as the "divine light" or the "life of the cosmos." That component would be our positive emotions. Yes, we could certainly acknowledge certain things and situations as being good or bad and make wise decisions accordingly even while feeling miserable or hopeless. This is something I would still highly recommend. But it is our inner light that allows us to truly perceive our lives as good and beautiful and it is our inner darkness that allows us to truly perceive our lives as horrible, disgusting, etc.
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