IBTL

George Berkeley was a shitheel.

 

i dont live to point out that you're incorrect, but in this case u are. how we feel at any point in time is depending on chemicals.

there are also neg effects from regular happiness. regular sadness.

 

If that's your arguement, then all of life from creation for the zygote on is a series of chemical reactions.

 

Search: Philosophy of the Mind


Search: The happiness machine


Stating we are all chemically based (however true) is reductionist.

Society seems to dictate whether or not certain forms of happiness are bad. Drugs=Bad, finding inner peace=good.

The reason why I think certain things are better than others is because of the effort involved. If some one shoots up to obtain happiness then it fires off neurons that last a few seconds. If someone else struggles to obtain happiness, and finds it then it would be worth more and arguably this happiness lasts longer. The "means" here play a big part regardless of the chemically induced ends.




BTW 8D_In_Trunk : : When I first read Berkeley, he blew my mind. Did you know he wrote all of his stuff in his early twenties?


And lastly,


IBTL...?

 

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HOW you get there is just as important, if not more.

 

Simple. One is real, one is not. Generally, people takes drugs to create an escape. Once it wears off, they're back in their slump and all the negative chain of events that occurs along with it. You could definitely argue the difference between the realities of being happy at your child's college graduation and bright future to come, and being happy for no reason. If by some chance there's a drug that will consistently induce seratonin into your brain (ADD pills), but with no side effects (none in existence), then society will come to a halt. It will be a place where everyone will be content with the way things are and just live to frolic in the field of flowers. Sounds like the hippy days to me. I'll pass on that.

 

Monty Python answered it but he was wrong. Douglas Adams gave us the real answer in his (five book?) trilogy, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

The answer to "What is the meaning of life" is....."42".

 

I did not know that, but it does not surprise me either. . . he duked it out well past the expected lifespan of the era.




I still think it'd be a hoot to watch him, Goethe, and Hunter S. Thompson have a sit-down.

 

happyness can be relative. You can become happier even if your already happy.

btw there is a drug that can consistently release serotonin, and its not ADD pills. its call cannabibis sativa/indica, and u just keep ingesting/inhaling it. only known side effect is high dorito consumption afterwards and great music lol. Society would not crash to a halt if everybody was on it. in fact i think people would be more productive and happy overall lol. if everyone was on ADD pills society would progress even faster btw. I will never pass on grass.

 

Just watch this movie and you'll understand.