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Cool debate, never watched it despite it becoming as of late as something of a revelation. I do like how Peterson outlined the happiness of mankind ac...

Poor Oksa...

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Right. What's your personal pick here? And what did you mean by the "usual suspects"? Happy pills? Drugs? In a more abstract sense, "goods" (cars, a b...

Hmm, wallowsome Sunday...

Well, because you seem to imply that life is not worth living because it contains harm in it. Does life then only make sense in some highly idealized ...

How is that? Can you elaborate?

None of this makes any sense. Surely suffering is unavoidable in the every day world we live in. So, the question again is when is living OK?

Yeah, there is actually a correlation between a SD increase of 1 and productivity gains. Some think this is dubious given that intellectual ability go...

Philosophy in the ordinary sense has the highly personal gist of "love" for something. Nowadays, and in large part thanks to Nietzsche this sort of lo...

OK, I just reviewed some of this thread and a couple of points: As I have used a different language game of sorts as presenting this as either an all ...

Wow, I didn't expect this thread to turn into a go look into a *let's tell Wallows he is imagining things and burst his small floating bubble*. But, I...

So, why do people (I can't really speak for others here apart from myself) go to psychologists and psychiatrists? To feel happy, I surmise, or at the ...

I don't know, the feeling is deliberate, not foreign in the sense of being induced by something external. Like a logical conclusion, where one finds o...

Well, I do like to wallow a lot. I'm sorry that this bothers you, as you seem always agitated at something or someone. Don't eat the friendly pig in t...

Or maybe...equanimity?

No, I should elaborate. I do know what depression feels like, and this doesn't really feel like depression. More like some kind of blissful acceptance...

How did it manifest in? I take meds for my psychotic disorder. Do you think these are related?

How so? I can throw labels too.

A wallower.

What's your pick when the crash happens, or at least when the bubble bursts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn0SiKDMcBw

I think the goal of the testimony has been achieved. An educated electorate is perhaps the highest good that can be imparted by one's leaders.

Let's all reincarnate J. Edgar Hoover, so accountability is restored.

RIP: Rutger Hauer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU

Then what are you here for?

A wallower. I think, a lot of what goes on here is identity formation, where you seem to be constantly in dissonance or confusion that is protected/pr...

S, has nothing to teach. I suggest, learning from someone else if dialectics is your thing.

Nobody likes to be tested. Why would anyone want to be? And, how else can one not react with anger for being tested by a poor teacher?

In my head, where else? Well, yes, there's a fundamentally awry loop in the mind of the depressive. A sort of Hegeliian dialectical self-chastising te...

Yes, now you see the way...

But what about internalized anger of the sort: "I am angry over being angry all the time." The trees don't care.

Lol, I'm waiting for the Mueller testimony. Guy is made of diamond.

Nah, you're fine. I've seen worse. Sobriety is one hell of a drug, if you can tolerate the high, and no comedown!

Could be a midlife crisis, though it seems like a long one. Back in the old PF you seemed less savage, Hanny.

Alita is one of the better movies I've seen in a while. Refreshing in its concern for 'the moral'.

A pig...

I will definitely give it a read. Thanks.

Wow this thread is digressing pretty hard...

How? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/3956/on-disidentification/p1

Is it natural to disidentify with one's emotions? Is it even possible?

What do you mean by "disidentify with them"?

I see what you did there. So, you have denied the attainment of happiness, and inverted the issue to then attain equanimity with others by not trying ...

I usually understand it to mean that one is living in peace with respect to other people. Yeah, there we go with "people".

Amen. But, why? Doesn't the Buddhist have a point here? I mean, there's always some bigger fish out there. Not to sound depressive or anything, just a...

So, there are a couple things at play here that I want to mention. Trump would have stood no chance against someone like Sanders. Just read the WikiLe...

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Don't remind me of TimeLine. It was the best of times, and the worst of times.

Hmm, were reaching peak plasma concentrations of fermented grapes, I see.

It's so sad seeing this drama play out in my second home country being Poland. Ethno-centrists are having a wet dream in Europe.