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"Now I'm a little confused," my father responded. "Emotions are good and the way to feel happiness, romantic love, and psychuous pleasures. Yet, I thought emotions can also sometimes be bad. In fact, I thought emotions sometimes caused negative mystical reactions."
Emotions are not subject to condemnation, guilt, or right or wrong judgments...only actions are right or wrong. Next to the mystical concept of original sin, perhaps the most pervasively damaging, unjust concept projected by the Christian ethic is the moral judgment of emotions. Especially malevolent and harmful are the condemnations of emotions such as found in the Sermon on the Mount: "But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." By condemning human emotions, Christian neocheaters discovered an effective tool to condemn everyone...to make everyone guilty, keeping them more controllable for usurping power and values. Since everyone by nature possesses a full range of automatic feelings or emotions that cannot be directly controlled, shut off or stopped, nearly everyone is victimized by Christian-style "sin" and "guilt".
While you innocently experience negative, irrational emotions, you never have to act on such emotions. And since only human actions are subject to choice, only human actions, not emotions, are subject to moral judgment.
Personal emotions possess an untouchable ownership and privacy. Emotions are subject neither to criticism nor judgment. Only actions can be criticized or judged as right or wrong. Feelings and emotions can have a rational or irrational basis, but they are never "right" or "wrong". Emotions are spontaneous, automatic reactions that are not in the immediate or direct control of a person. No one ever needs to feel guilty about any emotion. Again, a person is responsible only for the actions he or she takes.
Many innocent people repress emotions because of false guilt. In doing so, they never can know themselves. To fully experience pleasure and happiness, you must develop an integrated awareness of your emotions along with a mystic-free, guiltless acceptance of those emotions. Then you must reject mystical guilt to fully experience your earned emotions of happiness, pleasure, love. Happiness, pleasure, and love can be experienced only through emotions. To the extent that you repress emotions is the extent that you deny earned pleasures and happiness. You must experience emotions in order to psychologically live. If you continually diminish self-awareness or repress emotions, you will steadily lessen your capacity to feel emotions, love, and happiness.
Fear of being hurt or rejected prevents the development of many romantic-love relationships. That fear keeps you defensive which, in turn, prevents emotional openness with your partner. And that openness is necessary for developing romantic love and psychuous pleasures.
The achievement of romantic love involves a willingness to take risks. Moreover, the fear of being hurt by being open is unfounded. To the contrary, you are always hurt by faking or concealing emotions from yourself or a loved one. Denial of feelings traps you into emotionally repressive situations that diminish the potential for love and happiness. Being emotionally honest and open is the safest, happiest way to live.
"Being honest with myself and not concealing my feelings from myself, I must ask you this as a single, divorced man: enjoying multiple sexual affairs is OK, isn't it?" After about ten minutes, the breeze started again, carrying the sweet words of a woman:
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