What even is happiness? Near as I can tell it’s a sense of servitude either to a family or a god. So it’s the absence of freedom?
it's a chemical byproduct of your brain's incentive salience center
>>24973882Different things make different people happy. Family and God are big ones, but sometimes people dedicate themselves to their work, a craft, art, a hobby, helping the needy, etc. It generally is derived from alignment with or being apart of something that feels larger than your self. That doesn't imply a lack of freedom. You're free to not do that, and you're free to dedicate yourself to whatever particular calling you do have.
>>24973882Kek from the catalog I read this as>Time to die happyAnd thought it was a euthanasia thread. Carry on
>>24973882Cumming in your mom
>>24973884forgot to say i'm trans btw.
>>24973882It's freedom from freedom itself. You wouldn't get it. Also, this>>24973998
All happiness comes from withinIt really has nothing to do with external situations but only our perceptions of them
>>24973882>Near as I can tell it’s a sense of servitude either to a family or a godi think people who believe this must have never known the happiness of actual meaningful freedom, the sense that the world is vast and promising, that you feel surging within you the power to explore and act upon it, that it will respond in turn, and act upon and change you in strange surprising ways. this is the happiness you encounter when making art, for example.
>>24973882It is not servitude. It is mastery. You have to read The Doctrine of Awakening.
>>24974479Your post says having a gf makes you happy?
>>24973882Happiness comes from making progress towards a goal.
>>24974510That is what you would see if you look at the very surface-level of the story yes. But the point that the author is making is that the difference in the man being completely drained of energy and feeling full of energy and overjoyed had nothing to do with sleep, food, drugs, or anything physical changing. It was all mental. He found bounds of energy that had been inside him all along, just because his outlook on life changed. He hadn't even met up with his gf at that point.Your happiness and energy always comes from within. It doesn't depend on the world around you, it just depends on how you choose to percieve and judge your life situation. Once you appreciate this you don't even need the gf. The same happiness and energy is always inside you, ready to be harnessed whenever you decide to start feeling happy with what you have.
>>24973882An absence of pain, which you'll never have permanently, not in this universe
>>24973882Happiness is busting the biggest, fattest nut in a woman mating press position with her wide watery eyes looking directly in yours as she begs you to "breed me"
>>24974641kys faggot
>>24974630I would actually argue finding happiness comes from the exact opposite mindset to thisHappiness is not the absence of pain, but rather the mindset that no matter what life throws at you, you will carry on and be okay. No matter how mentally painful you think something will be in your head, you will carry on with it anyway and things will be okay.Trying to avoid "pain" is actually what causes most pain. Pain comes from resisting life. Someone who shuts themselves inside all day and avoids the world will be 100% successful in avoiding any of the "pain" outside that they might have encounted during the day - but yet will probably be one of the most miserable and unhappy people while doing so. Instead of overcoming the minor pains of daily life they now have to encounter the much greater and soul crushing pain that comes when you fear and resist the entire world.
>>24974630if you think this stupid nihilist position makes you sound smart, you should know that it only makes you sound like someone whose soul is too small to have ever known a meaningful experience
>>24974723>small soulFruitful symbolism anon.
Happiness can’t be something that you feel all the time, you’d get used to it after a while. One should aim to better onself and one’s life very slightly with each passing year to achieve contentment and the anticipation of something better soon. That said, one can absolutely feel sad all the time. I don’t know how that works. Something about it being easier to destroy than to create?
>>24976660Lots of words to say that you're faggot
