If your goal in life is "being happy," you don't actually have a goal. Nobody wakes up and goes looking for happiness like it's their phone or their keys. Lazarillo de Tormes wasn't chasing happiness, he was trying not to starve. Happiness is what comes after you get the necessary stuff done, it's not something you hunt for.Same with people "searching for meaning." They fill their lives with abstract garbage and end up emptier than before.This obsession is just nihilism. People spend all day online doing nothing and go to bed just as empty as they woke up. Looking for happiness on the internet is like looking for it by whipping yourself. Just log off more and you'll be happier.
So what are you doing here champ?
>>25564292Same as you. That's why I know it doesn't work.
>Felicity and pain always alternate. [The muse] serves as a focus and challenge. She gives happiness. Here I use the English language precisely—hap: happening. She provides hap; provides happening.
>>25564270People who think they should be happy all the time are the least equipped to deal with being sad. I try not to get caught up too far in either direction because neither are true.
>>25564315The trick is learning to be happy when things are just okay.
>>25564270I'm just looking to pass the time.
>>25564270It is not necessarily vacuous to say you're looking for happiness because happiness is one of the few things you can seek that isn't just the means to another end. You're trying to get money for security, you're trying to get security to make opportunities for your family, you want opportunities for your family because you want to meaningfully deny the entropy inherent in the world, etc. Why do you want happiness though? I don't mean biologically what is the mechanism, I mean it in the same way I meant these other things. What is the reasoning? It's easier in Greek where there are different words for happiness, just like there are for love. If I say I want happiness in English but when I say it you know I mean something more like the Greek eudaimonia it's obviously not nihilism.What you're saying is that seeking nothing is nihilism, because the kind of happiness you're talking about is nothing.
I had this weird eureka moment the other day. Part of me really wanted to make a video game, because I just thought it would be cool, but every time I sat down to make one I just got profoundly restless and understimulated and went back to browsing Twitter and Youtube a few hours in. It was a pretty silly problem at first, but I took it more seriously when I discovered that I physically could not get past this barrier. But I had to know whether or not I could make a video game, so I persisted.What I discovered, is that one specific mental block prevented me from making a game. It was that I didn't consider the act of game development to be a significant or meaningful activity. What I wanted was the finished game -- I had no interest in art, programming, writing, scripting, debugging, or any of that. But on a whim I told myself, "What would happen if you decided that game development does matter? What if you decide that all this is meaningful?" And to do this, I thought about how I love learning, and that while game development might not be a traditional field of study, by putting myself through this, I will learn something that a textbook can't teach you. What that something is, is unclear, but I'm now making a lot of progress.I think the West has conned itself into believing that it can have an ideology-free culture. We killed religion and immediately replaced it with hedonism. What weighed me down there, was simply the crippling weight of hedonist ideology. If the people don't orient their lives around God, they still have to orient it around something. If you don't give them an answer, they'll just cling onto the first thing they find
>>25564270Wrong.
>>25564564At least hedonism offers rewards. The only rewards of religion are guilt, stricture, shame and austerity. Religion is never fun.
>>25564666>The only rewards of religion are guilt, stricture, shame and austerity. Religion is never fun.>666Yeah, this checks out.
>>25564666Thanks Satan. So true.
>>25564270nice job saving the thumbnail you turbo cock fondler
>>25564679D'OH!
>>25564270>Lazarillo de Tormes wasn't chasing happiness, he was trying not to starve. Happiness is what comes after you get the necessary stuff donegay absurdism>just push le rock happiness in intrinsic contentment i.e. not contingent on external factors. A wise man is happy in slavery.
