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 Topic: What does it mean to be happy?

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  • What does it mean to be happy?
     OP - August 29, 2011, 04:01 AM
    Question in title. That is all.
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #1 - August 29, 2011, 04:18 AM
    When you want to get the most out of the moments you have in dunnya.

    Or maybe when you really really look forward to getting to akhira, I suppose, depending on your personal relationship with G-d.
    "That it is indeed the speech of an illustrious messenger" (The Koran 69:40)
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #2 - August 29, 2011, 05:19 AM
    Quote from: Prince Spinoza on August 29, 2011, 04:01 AM
    Question in title. That is all.


    Having your cake and eating it Wink
    Little Fly, Thy summer's play
    My thoughtless hand has brushed away.

    I too dance and drink, and sing,
    Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

    Therefore I am a happy fly,
    If I live or if I die.
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #3 - August 29, 2011, 06:33 AM
    Means you're not grumpy.

    [/thread] Tongue

    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #4 - August 29, 2011, 07:37 AM
    Its carpet munching for some. Others torturing their enemy. Happiness is all subjective. One mans or womans hapiness is anothers suffering....
    Little Fly, Thy summer's play
    My thoughtless hand has brushed away.

    I too dance and drink, and sing,
    Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

    Therefore I am a happy fly,
    If I live or if I die.
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #5 - August 29, 2011, 10:34 AM
    to be in peace.
    A googolplex is *precisely* as far from infinity as is the number 1.--Carl Sagan
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #6 - August 30, 2011, 04:17 AM
    OMG, debuker is back! Salaam bruzzer!
    "That it is indeed the speech of an illustrious messenger" (The Koran 69:40)
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #7 - August 30, 2011, 04:26 AM
    coming back to claim the crown. 
    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
    My political philosophy below
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGat4i8pJI&feature=g-vrec
    Just kidding, here are some true heros
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTgvK6LQqA
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #8 - August 30, 2011, 05:59 PM
    Debonking!
    Little Fly, Thy summer's play
    My thoughtless hand has brushed away.

    I too dance and drink, and sing,
    Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

    Therefore I am a happy fly,
    If I live or if I die.
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #9 - August 31, 2011, 03:50 AM
    To be in sync with the universe.
    At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
    Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
    Downward to darkness, on extended wings. - Stevens
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #10 - August 31, 2011, 03:51 AM
    To live inside a vagina.
    قل للمليحة في الخمار الأسود
    مـاذا فـعــلت بــناسـك مـتـعـبد

    قـد كـان شـمّر لــلـصلاة ثـيابه
    حتى خـطرت له بباب المسجد

    ردي عليـه صـلاتـه وصيـامــه
    لا تـقــتـلــيه بـحـق ديــن محمد
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #11 - August 31, 2011, 04:02 AM
    But then you have to be born harakaat, and find happiness outside too.
    At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
    Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
    Downward to darkness, on extended wings. - Stevens
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #12 - August 31, 2011, 04:03 AM
     Cheesy
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #13 - August 31, 2011, 04:03 AM
    I'd probably just want to find another vagina to snuggle inside.
    قل للمليحة في الخمار الأسود
    مـاذا فـعــلت بــناسـك مـتـعـبد

    قـد كـان شـمّر لــلـصلاة ثـيابه
    حتى خـطرت له بباب المسجد

    ردي عليـه صـلاتـه وصيـامــه
    لا تـقــتـلــيه بـحـق ديــن محمد
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #14 - August 31, 2011, 05:44 AM
    Love glorious and triaumphant love....
    Little Fly, Thy summer's play
    My thoughtless hand has brushed away.

    I too dance and drink, and sing,
    Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

    Therefore I am a happy fly,
    If I live or if I die.
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #15 - August 31, 2011, 05:49 AM
    Quote from: z10 on August 31, 2011, 03:50 AM
    To be in sync with the universe.

    +1

     Afro
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #16 - August 31, 2011, 07:34 AM
    Jesus stop with these fucking threads. It means you hate everything ok?
    Rather be forgotten than remembered for giving in.
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #17 - August 31, 2011, 08:19 AM
    No idea.

    Just a feeling I have sometimes felt that hasn't lasted long in the end.

    Same as wanting to cry, or feeling aroused.  It's just a a passing moment that hits me when I don't expect it and then fades away again.

    It's like being on drugs, heady and exciting, you feel joy for everything, and pretty much everyone, because you're happy.  Everything looks different.  Dramas that seem insurmountable suddenly become something you can handle because "it's not that bad really", because you're happy.  You're on that rush of chemicals in your brain that feels like the greatest high you can ever have.

    The things that trigger it can vary, sometimes nothing needs to trigger it.  It's just a mood you wake up to in the morning.  Happiness. 

    But like all feelings it will pass.  It never lasts and the withdrawl is a bitch.  Because then you must talk about what it is to be sad.

    Or maybe my view of happiness is wrong.  maybe what I describe isn't happiness, but rather the mirror to lust vs love.  For like lust, my feelings of happiness can be extra intense, but like lust, they mean nothing because they fade.
    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #18 - August 31, 2011, 09:25 AM
    Quote from: Prince Spinoza on August 29, 2011, 04:01 AM
    Question in title. That is all.


    Hit one joint and see how your perspective will change Tongue
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #19 - August 31, 2011, 09:30 AM
    You been watchin Katt Williams?  Cheesy
    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #20 - August 31, 2011, 09:35 AM
    Thats one of my best part of the show Cheesy. I love how he said if you aint got nothing to do and you aint smoking weed, then something something that person is crazy. Its been long i have watch that
    "I'm standing here like an asshole holding my Charles Dickens"

    "No theory,No ready made system,no book that has ever been written to save the world. i cleave to no system.."-Bakunin
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #21 - August 31, 2011, 10:19 AM
    Quote from: debunker on August 29, 2011, 10:34 AM
    to be in peace.

    With your eyes and mind open.
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #22 - August 31, 2011, 06:35 PM
    Seeing world through rose tinted glasses
    Little Fly, Thy summer's play
    My thoughtless hand has brushed away.

    I too dance and drink, and sing,
    Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.

    Therefore I am a happy fly,
    If I live or if I die.
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #23 - January 29, 2012, 07:25 AM
    'Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days.
    Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic.'

    ^LOL love that warning!

    Hmm, of course it's just the chemicals in your brains, but what causes these to be triggered? I would leave it to the (cognitive-)neuroscientists and psychologists to give us the answers there Tongue No doubt each person have developed a different(specific to them) framework for reaching their defined happiness from a combination of genetics, personal history and current environment.

    I would go to say probably also a dynamic framework, varying in pace depending on your stability.
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #24 - January 29, 2012, 07:52 AM
    score one for physicalism.

    While I do basically agree that happiness comes down to chemicals, this is uninteresting. I think the better response would deal with the phenomenological experience of happiness.
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #25 - January 29, 2012, 11:34 AM
    Quote from: zoomi on January 29, 2012, 07:52 AM
    While I do basically agree that happiness comes down to chemicals, this is uninteresting. I think the better response would deal with the phenomenological experience of happiness.

    Or you could just relax and let it come to you.
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #26 - January 30, 2012, 12:56 AM
    the answer, or the feeling?
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #27 - January 30, 2012, 01:41 AM
    i have something about happiness on my wall.. in the kitchen.. says..

    Being Happy doesn't mean everything's perfect.. it means you decide to see beyond the imperfections..
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9vdUjuWxc
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #28 - January 30, 2012, 05:36 AM
    Quote from: BerberElla on August 31, 2011, 08:19 AM
    No idea.

    Just a feeling I have sometimes felt that hasn't lasted long in the end.

    Same as wanting to cry, or feeling aroused.  It's just a a passing moment that hits me when I don't expect it and then fades away again.

    It's like being on drugs, heady and exciting, you feel joy for everything, and pretty much everyone, because you're happy.  Everything looks different.  Dramas that seem insurmountable suddenly become something you can handle because "it's not that bad really", because you're happy.  You're on that rush of chemicals in your brain that feels like the greatest high you can ever have.

    The things that trigger it can vary, sometimes nothing needs to trigger it.  It's just a mood you wake up to in the morning.  Happiness. 

    But like all feelings it will pass.  It never lasts and the withdrawl is a bitch.  Because then you must talk about what it is to be sad.

    Or maybe my view of happiness is wrong.  maybe what I describe isn't happiness, but rather the mirror to lust vs love.  For like lust, my feelings of happiness can be extra intense, but like lust, they mean nothing because they fade.


    I don't think your view of happiness is wrong. You're talking about ecstatic happiness, like momentary happiness. Like finding out you've won 50 million dollars in the Lottomax  Roll Eyes (one day). It's a high that goes away. Then there's being content and happy in general. A feeling that's supposed to be there most of the time. Being generally happy with your life and self and whatever...or something. Like the difference between honeymoon love and whatever's there when it's gone. Of course, I'm speaking theoretically. The fuck would I know about this stuff?  Tongue

    Didn't Jeremy Bentham write about this?
    "We were married by a Reform rabbi in Long Island. A very Reform rabbi. A Nazi."-- Woody Allen
  • Re: What does it mean to be happy?
     Reply #29 - January 30, 2012, 07:22 AM
    Yea, I know.  I just don't think I recognise that comfortable place that is left over when the ecstasy fades. 

    I think I have 2 settings, either extremely happy high, or extremely fucking low.

    That comfortable place is a strange and unfamiliar place.  When I end up there I already think I have hit a low, and so the low goes deeper.

    But this will change one day.  I'm sure it will. 
    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
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