Why do some people get high off of extreme circumstances? A lot of people on this board are young or middle-aged men looking to the extreme ends of reality for meaning or thrills... they often fancy themselves men of an inner circle or conquerors of their reality, is this ego-centric hedonism or a true search for meaning?
>>41241166>is this ego-centric hedonism or a true search for meaning?What makes you think there's a difference?
>>41241166Can you give one example of the behavior you describe? It's difficult to answer to a strawman such as the one you constructed without knowing what exactly you are referring to.I generally feel most people do not seek out extreme circumstances, so I can't really relate to your question.
>>41241341I'm not strawmanning to any end per se, i'm trying to explore an attitude I've observed across some time in some people I don't know all that well... for example let's say there's a guy who constantly thrusts himself at demons and occult knowledge and into dangerous situations revolving around that sector of knowledge, let's say he often talks to others about his findings and likes to encapsulate them without reverence with terms like "just" this person seeks out the ends of the world to satisfy something, he has a reason to do it that isn't contingent on his actual life, he thrusts himself into it in a way I might describe as idealist, though the ideal eludes me... I am curious about this type of behavior among some particular persons or a "strawman" as you say
>>41241166Because working at mcdonalds fucking sucks
>>41241324I've seen people seek a true understanding of the world without ego-centric motivations, you could argue that demanding wherefore of the cosmos in any way is ego-centric, but for this line of questioning I'm only thinking about the generally understood definition of ego-centric behavior, like being fully conscious of the self and desiring an extreme esoteric experience to validate the self, outside of commonly imposed statues of validations and inside of vaguely defined by others, psuedo-clannic majoritively self-adjudicated statues.
>>41241386I guess it may really be that simple, being bored and unsatisfied is as drastic as burning alive to some
>>41241166>hmm is it one extreme end of this thing is it the other extreme end of that thing???>hmm extremophiles...>welp, guess i'll never know!!!!You just answered your own question, so now it's a matter of how much is which way compared to the other. Is it mostly ego-centric hedonism here for example? Or is it mostly anons trying to search for deeper meaning? I'd say, if I had to bet 1 million dollars, it's mostly anons trying to find deeper meaning here, we just don't see it expressed as much openly because the majority of them lurk more than they post, is all. The silent majority wants meaning, who doesn't in such a modern world filled with meaningless things while devoid of spiritually meaningful things in general? That's my honest guess right there, more and more everyday people are gonna want to search for higher meaning when that meaning is stripped away slowly from the world over time. The pendulum swing will do it's thing now, we'll have to get a rise in spiritual and religious stuff to help us get through these chaotic and dehumanizing times we call the Modern Age.
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>>41241379I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you are asking. The "guy" could have a million different reasons for getting into demonology. I don't agree with your presumption that there would be one categoric motivation behind risk-seeking behavior. >for example let's say there's a guy who constantly thrusts himself at demons and occult knowledge and into dangerous situations revolving around that sector of knowledge, let's say he often talks to others about his findings and likes to encapsulate them without reverence with terms like "just" this person seeks out the ends of the world to satisfy something, he has a reason to do it that isn't contingent on his actual life, he thrusts himself into it in a way I might describe as idealist, though the ideal eludes me...Holy word salad of a run-on sentence Batman, if you can formulate your ideas a little more clearly, perhaps we can get a discussion going.
>>41241166Because it's easier to accept a conclusion than ambiguity. Diving into and accepting the unknown is the original source of thrill itself, it's true nourishment. Getting a thrill out of power on the other hand is spiritual junk food. If you were allowed to be a tyrant of reality and force your preconceptions or "your own truth" on to it, you'd get quickly bored as you would with any other game you've mastered and couldn't possibly be defeated at. Yet that's the kind of power people think they want.
>>41241635OK God
>>41241635 the people who want it will never have it
>>41241926The people who have power all want it retard and they're all the worst kinds of people
