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like, i've done a lot of pretty cool stuff and have had a pretty decent life, but like... what does it mean to be happy?
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Mar 3, 2016 14:43
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Happiness is just chemicals in the brain, OP. Take a pill that makes you happy and you will be happy.
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Mar 3, 2016 14:44
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Nobody is ever happy. Happiness is an illusion.
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Mar 3, 2016 14:44
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theosis faget!!
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Mar 3, 2016 14:45
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Crushing your enemies in battle, seeing them driven before you and hearing the lamentation of their women.
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Mar 3, 2016 14:47
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Jesus Christ posted:like, i've done a lot of pretty cool stuff and have had a pretty decent life, but like... what does it mean to be happy? different things make different people happy. what being happy means is that you have succeeded in one of the things that makes you happy.
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Mar 3, 2016 14:50
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Happiness isn't a state but a reaction to certain events. It's not something youre supposed to experience all the time. It's a more positive variation of the weird knotty feeling you feel in your stomach when youre watching a vase fall off a dresser, when it's still mid air and its just hanging there and youre watching it without being able to think, and in 1 second you'll be snapped back to dealing with rational choices and having to make a decision on how to deal with the pieces; but those 0.2 seconds where it's in the air and youre just watching and everything is inevitable and you're just purely feeling this very strong and very unnameable feeling of what is happening around you, those 0.2 seconds are the same phenomenological space where you get to feel bursts of happiness every once in a life, if youre lucky. e: which means the key to happiness is not to pursue it but perhaps to try and set up one's life in a way that leaves one phenomenologically sensible to as many of these potential moments and bursts as possible.
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Mar 3, 2016 14:55
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In modern times happiness is your perceived comfort. But we tried to pass a square peg into a round hole and here we are without comfort or happiness. So comfort should actually be the ability to withstand things, thus the absent of the reaction about the "bad" or "uncomfortable" leads to actual happiness. Or carbs, you could eat a lot of carbs
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Mar 3, 2016 14:55
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it's just contentment. a general positive quality and stability throughout your life that can weather the occasional pitfall without it being disastrous. in the broad sense anyway.
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Mar 3, 2016 14:56
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Alternative theory: happiness is to post pictures of the rad dog in GBS until genesplicer brutally owns you.
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Mar 3, 2016 14:58
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Mannequin was filmed at Woolworth.
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Mar 3, 2016 14:58
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As Kant reminds us, if it was nature's intent that we should be (and prioritize to be) happy beings, we would either not have been made rational beings, or rationality would have functioned in such a way as to make happiness the prime outcome of rational thought. Since neither seems to be the case, it's probably just the case that we are not as rational beings "meant" to be happy the same way a cow is "meant" to e.g. eat grass. If happiness was our purpose, Kant says, it would have been made a basic instinct, rather than a task of reason.
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Mar 3, 2016 15:04
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4 the fascist its apparently a series of overly aggressive flourishes 4 those looking to move on but wishing to be compensated the cost of a yamaha bolt
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Mar 3, 2016 15:06
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Jesus Christ posted:like, i've done a lot of pretty cool stuff and have had a pretty decent life, but like... what does it mean to be happy? Hey guys! i found Him!
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Mar 3, 2016 15:07
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Minimalist Program posted:As Kant reminds us, if it was nature's intent that we should be (and prioritize to be) happy beings, we would either not have been made rational beings, or rationality would have functioned in such a way as to make happiness the prime outcome of rational thought. Since neither seems to be the case, it's probably just the case that we are not as rational beings "meant" to be happy the same way a cow is "meant" to e.g. eat grass. If happiness was our purpose, Kant says, it would have been made a basic instinct, rather than a task of reason. But satisfying our basic instincts is what makes us happy. Happiness, therefore, is an indicator of whether we are doing a good job functioning the way we're "meant" to, so in a roundabout way we are "meant" to be happy. Eat it, Kant.
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Mar 3, 2016 15:07
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Jesus Christ posted:like, i've done a lot of pretty cool stuff and have had a pretty decent life, but like... what does it mean to be happy? I don't think you've done any cool stuff.
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Mar 3, 2016 15:09
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Applewhite posted:But satisfying our basic instincts is what makes us happy. Happiness, therefore, is an indicator of whether we are doing a good job functioning the way we're "meant" to, so in a roundabout way we are "meant" to be happy. This GBS poster just destroyed Immanuel Kant... you won't believe what happened next..
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Mar 3, 2016 15:09
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stfu by doctor dennis leary
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Mar 3, 2016 15:13
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Applewhite posted:But satisfying our basic instincts is what makes us happy. Happiness, therefore, is an indicator of whether we are doing a good job functioning the way we're "meant" to, so in a roundabout way we are "meant" to be happy. im pretty sure they didnt have sick nasty rails of coke in the neolithic era
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Mar 3, 2016 15:15
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Applewhite posted:Happiness is just chemicals in the brain, OP. Take a pill that makes you happy and you will be happy. you are wrong!!!
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Mar 3, 2016 15:19
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haha kant was a really unhappy dude i bet but that's ok i would still give him a friendly noogie.
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Mar 3, 2016 15:20
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Happiness is the surrendering oneself to the will of God Happiness is the bottle laudanum behind the bathroom mirror. Happiness is the denial of the flesh so the spirit may prosper. Happiness is the chocolate cake stolen from that fat kid in the schoolyard Happiness is the anorexic reward received when the teenager starves herself for social acceptance Happiness is the burglar's satisfaction when he steals something of sentimental, rather than materialistic, value from an old woman's home Happiness is the martyrdom of the self, destruction of the monad, the sacrifice of individuality so that All may be embraced Happiness is the murder of the enemy of your father's father Happiness is the purpose a father and husband feels when they fulfill the manly expectations of their family Happiness is the when the misanthrope's finger hovers over the red button of atomic annihilation Tonsured fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Mar 3, 2016 15:23
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It's the feeling you get when you're right in the middle of taking a huge poo poo I believe Maslow referred to it as "self-actualization"
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Mar 3, 2016 15:24
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*exhales massive cloud of crack smoke*
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Mar 3, 2016 15:24
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It's whoever dies with the most stuff. I'm a hoarder so I'm off to a great start
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Mar 3, 2016 15:52
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I'd be the last person to know. I'm indifferent in life at best.
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Mar 3, 2016 15:54
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Happenis is a big dick, OP. Yours or someone else's. Doesn't matter.
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Mar 3, 2016 15:56
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Tonsured posted:Happiness is the surrendering oneself to the will of God You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown reboot looking pretty dark
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Mar 3, 2016 17:14
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It means you're doing the right drugs
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Mar 3, 2016 17:14
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happiness is a warm gun - john lennon also five guys burgers and fries
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Mar 3, 2016 17:15
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Once basic needs are met, and the struggle for basic food and shelter is eliminated, then happiness is fully controlled by the self You control your inner well being through introspection, self improvement, and minimizing negative relationships You control your sense of worth by rejecting materialism, and embracing service to your fellow man You control the quantity and quality of your friendships by the amount and depth of your social interaction So bootstrap it rear end in a top hat
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Mar 3, 2016 17:15
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That feeling you get when you don't gently caress up dinner but before you put it in your mouth because dinner you make yourself never tastes as good as it should but you are happy that you didn't burn that poo poo
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Mar 3, 2016 17:16
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Happiness is a marketing term used to sell you useless junk you didn't know you wanted. It is an ideal state created as an illusion to distract the proletariat from their exploitation. As such it's a state never quite achieved, you always asymtote towards it, getting closer and closer with ever more material goods you possess but with diminishing returns so you never quite reach it. Apparently, if you're very very lucky and disciplined, you can trick your mind with a combination of CBT and self hypnosis to redefine your definition of "happiness" while also suppressing any useless desires for stuff you don't have. From there you can reach the point where you honestly say, while puffed up in self-delusion and cognitive dissonance, that you are happy. I think cults still teach this skill, somewhere between the part where they take all your money and the part where they offer you a drink of delicious cool-aid.
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Mar 3, 2016 17:27
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answer me honestly w/o thinking about it - is there a song in your heart right now?
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Mar 3, 2016 17:28
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ur gay
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Mar 3, 2016 17:30
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Jerry Mumphrey posted:answer me honestly w/o thinking about it - is there a song in your heart right now? 
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Mar 3, 2016 17:31
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i hope everyone finds the song in their heart mine is an uptempo, dixieland version of 'hail to the chief' and a dopey looking basset hound is being inaugurated president 
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Mar 3, 2016 17:40
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ive got some ghosts in my closet
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Mar 3, 2016 17:42
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Shaquin posted:it's just contentment. a general positive quality and stability throughout your life that can weather the occasional pitfall without it being disastrous. in the broad sense anyway. YES Contentment is what people actually want but it lacks the excitement implied in 'happiness'. "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" are "inherent and inalienable rights" according to the Declaration of Independence, but you have to figure out for yourself that the pursuit of happiness is essentially a hamster wheel. Also the definition of "pursuit of happiness" has changed over the years and has become BUY poo poo ghlbtsk fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Happiness is not climbing the mountain, not getting to the top, not the adventure, not the accomplishment, but engulfing the entire mountain in ones womb and birthing the universe in reverse, beams of light shooting out of your eyes and ears as your womb consumes the entirety of known existance.
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