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[–][deleted] 31 points32 points33 points 7 years ago* (5 children) | Copy Link
Happiness is just an emotion. The end.
Life is a mix of emotions. I don't know why most people want happiness to last and worry about being sad in general. They're just the part of life.
Movies, ( especially "rom-coms" ) brainwash and ruin people's lives.
I think striving for that 'zen' like peaceful mindset is what a man needs. If you achieve that, you are a legend because no one can hurt/fuck with you. It's the ultimate alpha mindset. I'll be happy if you post articles related to that.
[–]Stythe5 points6 points7 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
To add to this, every emotion is just chemicals in your brain releasing for various reasons. This is how we condition ourselves and develop addictions. Something like eating releases dopamine naturally. Drugs release it forcibly and in greater doses. Once you are aware of the connections and how they form you are free to change them as you will. It will be forced at first, but then it will stick.
As an example, here we say lift. At first people hate it. As their body changes, their strength increases, they get comments from people and get use do doing it they reinforce this habit. They are healthier and more affective in life and develop a "can do" attitude because they know they can already lift insane shit. That's about as tough as it gets physically, so why couldn't they?
As a negative example, someome who watches TV all the time makes a routine of sitting around eating junk food and getting that dopamine release from someone else's writing and acting and eating junk food. This too becomes a habit and the outcome is an out of shape body, lack of being able to associate with real people and avoidance of hard work because they want to get back to taking it easy.
Which connection do tou want?
[–]KartagoPill3 points4 points5 points 7 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link
Women aren't emotionally stable, but they can show it.
[–]TheYoungOwl_8 points9 points10 points 7 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link
Stop fucking worrying about what women are thinking so much. You are replying to a comment that did not even so much as imply women. He said "people" not "women."
[–]FuckyouAvast0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
Absolutely agree. With a work of fiction there are countless perspectives and lessons you could take. People throw around the adjective stoic a lot without understanding what Stoicism really means according to Zeno and Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius and the rest. Ancient philosophies like these already teach men most of what you need to know to achieve an impregnable constitution in the face of any or perhaps most life events. Trying to pull lessons about "realz before feelz" (what adult man speaks like this?) from Brave New World is just going to confuse readers.
[–]BasementDweller88 7 points7 points7 points 7 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
"Happiness is a moment before you need more happiness" - some NYC ad guy in the 60s
[–]FuckyouAvast-1 points0 points1 point 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
AKA Jon Hamm as Don Draper in Mad Men
[–]look4wolfpack8 points9 points10 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
I agree with this to an extent, but let's not forget the pragmatic realization here that a life spent in painful defiance is still a life of pain. The key to what you're saying seems to be the "amused" part, which is similar to the existentialist philosophy of absurdism and you even used the word absurd in your description.
Essentially, you have to recognize that life is a joke and laugh at it, but if you don't find it funny, sometimes it can be better to distract yourself for a while than to simply dwell on how painful and difficult everything is. I don't advocate drugs, but keeping busy and productive is a good method to get through tough times while investing in yourself. Keep coming back to the question every so often and see if your mind has opened to new ways of viewing the paradoxes of life.
We are here, and yet it does not matter. We desire, and yet we are left unfulfilled. We live, and then we die. It's not all that amusing, but once YOU understand it, you can be amused by the fact that you have ascended to a level most others in the blue pill matrix never will.
[–]WIDE_420lbs1 point2 points3 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
If you look at the tenants of Satanism it's basically that human happiness is the pinnacle of existence. Which is weird because that's basically the tenants of modern culture; Buy this shit so you can be happy. The actual pursuit of happiness has become myth when you can apparently just buy it or give in to every human-animal impulse and ride the cock carasel. Then the end you realize you aren't truly happy. People forget the actual pursuit of something.
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
To be fair, behavior also changes feelings and your hormonal balance. It's a chicken-egg kind of relationship. I am a pretty happy person, doesn't mean that I am also a satisfied one that doesn't want more out of his life.
[–]NietzscheExplosion4 points5 points6 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
I gave you an upvote.
Dunno why guys here don't like to hear the truth. Happiness means shit. Achievement, power and results occasionally give to a boost which may be happiness.
I meet fake happy people all the time. On occasion they try to engage me to be happier. I then, tear them apart and leave them in tears.
Conversely and logically, depressed angry people see me as very positive.
[–][deleted] 4 points5 points6 points 7 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link
"Realz before Feelz"
links to fiction
Shit post as usual. There's nothing wrong with being happy or striving for happiness. You can't live in perpetual amusement but you can definitely go online and pretend to.
[–]cottoncandyjunkie1 point2 points3 points 7 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link
I have noticed some very intelligent posts here and people that seem line they were "beta" last week and are here to hate women/woman
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 7 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link
When I say 'as usual' I'm just referring to OP, who deliberately glosses up his language and writing format to make the nonsense he spouts actually seem profound.
[–]Calypto-0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link
Have you been living under a rock? The Brave New World is practically nonfiction at this point.
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
No it's not, people are stupid and want stupid entertainment, and people capitalize on that because it makes money. It's not some ridiculous conspiracy to keep people subdued, it's about money.
Great book, espeically if you like eugenics and Shakespeare!
[–]bowie7470 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
I love your disseminations of social awareness/mass consciousness. Apt
[–]ShadyAction0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link
What the fuck are you blabbering about SOMA ?
[–]RedSugarPill2 points3 points4 points 7 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link
Soma is the name of the drug in Brave New World. Incidentally it's a blue pill. How about that! http://imgur.com/a/xdELL
[–]ShadyAction1 point2 points3 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
Oh it makes sense now ! Thanks for the heads up
[–]JackGetsIt0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
We are animals that always want more. Happiness is a temporary feeling we get when a fundamental human need is being met. The problem is that we are living a lot longer and our happiness is more and more contingent on how we script out and plan our futures.
Society is quite harsh on citizens that don't develop skills and contribute a lot back. This long term planning is stressful, un-intuitive, and the rewards are quite far off. Some humans do this long term planning, working towards a goal, and delayed gratification better then others. All of us are discontent after we've experienced the brief happiness that comes from short and long term goals because again we always want more. We are just built to keep traveling towards something. I think the best thing we can do is develop a contentment with the work and the journey itself. That way arrival at a destination is only more happiness and then it's back to the happy journey.
Everyone wants to be happy, but happines can take multiple forms. Happines is when you have what you want. Everyone wants something. Even those who want to not want anything.
[–]Thewelshpill-1 points0 points1 point 7 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link
your drawing some really loose parallels between fiction and reality
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