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 Topic: What is Happiness?

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  • What is Happiness?
     OP - December 24, 2013, 01:58 AM
    Ya what a stupid question, but at the same time   I don't have an answer to it.
    I feel like I WILL BE happy only if I live my own life, if I have my freedom, If I do that etc...
    But sometimes it seems like a mere illusion
     What happens when you get everything?
    Does happiness really exist ?
    There are days that  I'm so full of life for no apparent reason.
    I remember when we were talking about happiness, my teacher said that "you can have everything, but still not be happy"
    Really?





  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #1 - December 24, 2013, 02:06 AM
    I agree with your teacher. Want and desire creates a need for more and more. To me, happiness is a time when you don't want anything at all, when what you have at that exact moment is enough, and you feel a joy from it.
    Sometimes it is a contentment, I suppose.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #2 - December 24, 2013, 02:07 AM
    A cigar called Hamlet.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #3 - December 24, 2013, 02:10 AM
    Quote from: three on December 24, 2013, 02:06 AM
    I agree with your teacher. Want and desire creates a need for more and more. To me, happiness is a time when you don't want anything at all, when what you have at that exact moment is enough, and you feel a joy from it.
    Sometimes it is a contentment, I suppose.

    True...

    Quote from: Ishina on December 24, 2013, 02:07 AM
    A cigar called Hamlet.

     Cheesy I really need that.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #4 - December 24, 2013, 05:14 AM
    Happiness is forgetting that you're alive.
    Quote from: yeezevee on February 11, 2016, 02:05 PM
    how fuck works without shit??


    Let's Play Chess!

    harakaat, friend, RIP
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #5 - December 24, 2013, 05:50 AM
    For me, it is feeling like I am alive.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #6 - December 24, 2013, 03:08 PM
    Your question assumes that the answer is the same for every single individual. But that's wrong.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #7 - December 24, 2013, 05:21 PM
    I'm pretty sure it was just an open-ended, conversation-starter type of question.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #8 - December 24, 2013, 05:22 PM
    Different for every person.  It's why all those global happiness indicators always produce different, contradictory results.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #9 - December 24, 2013, 09:36 PM
    Quote from: Ishina on December 24, 2013, 05:21 PM
    I'm pretty sure it was just an open-ended, conversation-starter type of question.


    Ok then:

    This is what i think about that:
    http://ramirustom.blogspot.com/2013/07/lets-start-from-beginning.html
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #10 - December 24, 2013, 10:00 PM
    Quote from: Ishina on December 24, 2013, 02:07 AM
    A cigar called Hamlet.


    Grin  that is so what I was gonna write when I opened the thread.

    I seriously need to log in more often to get in there first.
    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #11 - December 24, 2013, 10:28 PM
    I'll be honest, I have no idea what will really make me happy in life.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #12 - December 25, 2013, 02:08 AM
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #13 - December 25, 2013, 02:19 AM
    ^that  and



     grin12
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #14 - December 25, 2013, 02:22 AM
    You might want to hide that pic and title it WARNING ADDICTION TRIGGERS. For all those addicted to cash.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #15 - December 25, 2013, 02:23 AM
    Quote from: three on December 25, 2013, 02:22 AM
    You might want to hide that pic and title it WARNING ADDICTION TRIGGERS. For all those addicted to cash.

    Im serious, I will try that stuff just once XD
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #16 - December 25, 2013, 02:25 AM
    I have a dollar in my pocket. I am not sharing it. It is mine. See? You are so right..
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #17 - December 25, 2013, 06:32 AM
    Quote from: RamiRustom on December 24, 2013, 09:36 PM
    Ok then:

    This is what i think about that:
    http://ramirustom.blogspot.com/2013/07/lets-start-from-beginning.html


     Roll Eyes
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #18 - December 25, 2013, 08:14 AM
    Quote from: movingfeet on December 25, 2013, 06:32 AM
    Roll Eyes

    You're just jealous because you're not in the CEMB philosophy clique. Nor am I, dammit.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #19 - December 25, 2013, 09:45 AM
     Cheesy My days of debating philosophy are long behind me. More pressing concerns are on my mind these days.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #20 - December 25, 2013, 02:32 PM
    Quote from: RamiRustom on December 24, 2013, 09:36 PM
    Ok then:

    This is what i think about that:
    http://ramirustom.blogspot.com/2013/07/lets-start-from-beginning.html

    I really got confused reading your blog  Cheesy
    And yeah, everyone has his/her own deifiniton of Happiness.
    It's not the same for everyone, different people, different desires.


  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #21 - December 25, 2013, 02:34 PM
    Which was what this thread was about anyway. You weren't preaching, you were asking for everyone's interpretation. The fact that he didn't get that is amazing.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #22 - December 25, 2013, 04:07 PM
    Quote from: movingfeet on December 25, 2013, 06:32 AM
    Roll Eyes

    what's that for?
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #23 - December 25, 2013, 04:07 PM
    Quote from: INcePtion on December 25, 2013, 02:32 PM
    I really got confused reading your blog  Cheesy
    And yeah, everyone has his/her own deifiniton of Happiness.
    It's not the same for everyone, different people, different desires.

    Do you want clarification on the confusing things? Ask me here, or email me privately.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #24 - December 25, 2013, 04:09 PM
    Quote from: movingfeet on December 25, 2013, 02:34 PM
    Which was what this thread was about anyway. You weren't preaching, you were asking for everyone's interpretation. The fact that he didn't get that is amazing.

    Why are you amazed that somebody misinterprets something? Isn't that common? Why are you amazed by things that commonly happen?
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #25 - December 25, 2013, 04:10 PM
    Quote from: movingfeet on December 25, 2013, 09:45 AM
    Cheesy My days of debating philosophy are long behind me. More pressing concerns are on my mind these days.

    When did that start? Today?

    Just yesterday you were discussing philosophy with me.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #26 - December 25, 2013, 04:34 PM
    Quote from: RamiRustom on December 25, 2013, 04:07 PM
    Do you want clarification on the confusing things? Ask me here, or email me privately.

    Thanks for the offer, but Philosophy itself is a very confusing subject. Even  when you think you understand  everything about it, questions are always there. This is the beautiful fact about it: to ask questions and never come to an end.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #27 - December 25, 2013, 04:53 PM
    INcePtion said: //Thanks for the offer, but Philosophy itself is a very confusing subject. Even  when you think you understand  everything about it, questions are always there. This is the beautiful fact about it: to ask questions and never come to an end.//

    Humans are fallible.

    We cannot have infallible knowledge -- that would make us god.

    So we only have access to fallible knowledge -- which means that it's flawed.

    So with every idea we have, it's something that could be wrong. But when we find a flaw in it, we can take the idea and make it better by fixing the flaw, so now we have a new variation of that flawed idea, which itself doesn't have any flaws that we know of so far. So in this way, our ideas evolve from flawed, to less flawed, to even less flawed. Btw, our scientific knowledge also evolves like this, from flawed theory, to less flawed theory, to even less flawed theory.
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #28 - December 25, 2013, 05:35 PM
    Happiness....is when you take a whole year worth of dump in one go so that you dont need to dump for another year . I hope santa can make my wish come true .
  • What is Happiness?
     Reply #29 - December 25, 2013, 07:33 PM
    I don't think happiness can be a consistent state, the same with any emotion, there are different triggers that give us that feeling, but I don't think any can be a constant, because there can always be something else to influence a different emotion. In regards to happiness, I think theres always a new aspect of happiness we a are seeking, we are satisfied shortly then that thing doesn't necessarily make us as happy as it did initially, which is why after time we are seeking something else to make us happy.
    "Make anyone believe their own knowledge and logic is insufficient and you'll have a puppet susceptible to manipulation."
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