adam j. hunter:
oh and also, I think I answered my first question, fear/desire/aggression/nurture are all emotions with a message, they are all motivating you to do something. Felicity is basically just an appreciation. fear tells you to avoid, aggression tells you to stop/destroy, nurture tells you to help, desire tells you to get, felicity tells you to not do anything. and that is freedom, not having to do anything, being infinitely content with the current conditions.
that's one way to say it, but to be more precise (from the link I gave):
tarin:
functionally speaking, the former (the 'good' feelings) are identity-reinforcing while the latter (the felicitous feelings) are first identity-loosening, then identity-abandoning; phenomenologically speaking, the former (the 'good' feelings) feel (generally) blissful while the latter (the felicitous feelings) feel joyous (and feel less and less at all the more felicitous they become).
while it is blissful to sustain oneself in bliss, it is supremely joyous to go out of existence.
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as 'i' am 'my feelings' (and 'they' are 'me'), and as felicitous feelings are first identity-loosening (they demonstrate, experientially, that 'i' do not have to hold tight to the reins in order for things to be fine, and well, and safe) then identity-abandoning (as not holding tight to the reins demonstrates, experientially, that the reins could very well be lost completely), can you now understand what it is about felicitous feelings that leads to the pce?
it is both ridiculously safe and fun to be here.. where all of us are, as humans, but a poorly-placed footstep away from paralytic injury, and a missed heartbeat or two from utter oblivion.
