craigb
BTW - There's nothing wrong with wanting to discuss your points of view, only your choice of venue to do so.
 
You are a few levels below things with your thinking.  There are many levels to reality, like an onion.  Anytime something does not make sense it usually means you are not at the correct level to understand.  I would suggest you try to find a community that discusses things like NLP (where you'll actually find that there is NO "good" or "bad" just events and how you respond to these events is what's important) or energy work websites (which will talk a lot about raising your vibration by only surrounding yourself with positive things and people).
 
The Coffee House is neither of those places.  Happy hunting!
 

Still, nothing could matter to you at all without your emotions.  You would have no empathy and you would lose your humanity.  Living like that would be no way to live.  It would be a no quality standard of living and this is a proven fact as I've explained in the beginning of my theory.  The things you've mentioned to me presuppose that your life has positivity.  If you are going to have some sort of positive attitude that gives any sort of advice and suggestion to me, then that is already suggesting my life can matter to me in a good way because a positive attitude and outlook on life always presupposes something mattering to you in a good way.  You mentioned positive things and people.  By that, you would actually be saying good things and people even though you do not realize it.  That is why it all has to come down to your life mattering to you in a good way.  

Like I said, it can only be our positive emotions that can do this.  Lastly, if you or anyone else are a spiritual believer, then you would have to believe in good and bad.  God himself and his light or the spiritual forces of light would be sheer goodness itself and there would have to be spiritual dark forces which are sheer badness.  Denying the existence of good and bad would be no different than denying all of the goodness I have experienced in my life.  You would be denying all the joy, beauty, misery, and suffering I have been through in my life which were, in fact, real things.

You took my reply as if I was partaking in your discussion.  I merely attempted to provide places filled with people who actually will.  I'm really not interested in tackling the subject here even if I am the only one between the two of us who has PhD(c) after his name on the subject.  This is the Coffee House.  I come here for relaxation, semi-intelligent puns, music appreciation and silliness, not to dissect the vagaries of a 3D subject with someone stuck on a 2D plane.

Hey Matt,

craigb
You took my reply as if I was partaking in your discussion.  I merely attempted to provide places filled with people who actually will.  I'm really not interested in tackling the subject here even if I am the only one between the two of us who has PhD(c) after his name on the subject.  This is the Coffee House.  I come here for relaxation, semi-intelligent puns, music appreciation and silliness, not to dissect the vagaries of a 3D subject with someone stuck on a 2D plane.

Understood.  But in my view, positivity always presupposes the notion of good and negativity always presupposes the notion of bad.  Therefore, when you said to surround myself with positive things and people, then you would actually be saying good things and people even though you do not realize it.

SuperMarioGamer

craigb
You took my reply as if I was partaking in your discussion.  I merely attempted to provide places filled with people who actually will.  I'm really not interested in tackling the subject here even if I am the only one between the two of us who has PhD(c) after his name on the subject.  This is the Coffee House.  I come here for relaxation, semi-intelligent puns, music appreciation and silliness, not to dissect the vagaries of a 3D subject with someone stuck on a 2D plane.

Understood.  But in my view, positivity always presupposes the notion of good and negativity always presupposes the notion of bad.  Therefore, when you said to surround myself with positive things and people, then you would actually be saying good things and people even though you do not realize it.

The part in red above negates your first one word sentence.  You REALLY should find a better forum for this topic!
 
That said, the parts that I briefly touched on before that you missed are this:  At a different level, there is no concept of good or bad.  Those are simply labels given on a mass social basis.  Also, just as a magnet has two poles and subatomic particles usually carry a charge (neutrons do not, but quarks have either a +2/3 charge or a -1/3 charge, for example) you can't have something positive without having a corresponding negative.
 
(And, for the Coffee House crowd who expects additional weirdness, -2 is just as much of a square root of 4 as 2 is!  )
 

I think what craig is really trying to say is...
 
Go away.

Slugbaby



What's this "FOR DAILY WEAR" idea?
I get at least 4 days out of mine!

 
That's what it says isn't it?

craigb
 I am the only one between the two of us who has PhD(c) after his name on the subject. 

Oooh equations......I'm not great at them, but I think I know this one....
 
Is it c=not really?

I just wear them until they get absorbed into my flesh. Then I put on a new pair.
 
*not intended to be a factual statement

As Rod said "And You wear it well".