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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 3 2006, 12:42 AM (1,075 Views) | |
| Dr. Jim | Jul 3 2006, 12:42 AM Post #1 |
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Nihil estis, Omnes sum
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Here's a philosophical thinker for you: Is a chemically induced hapiness true happiness? My two cents: While a person who is being given the drugs will think themselves happy entirely, and in most cases blame it on something other than the drugs, I don't think they are truely happy. Originally happiness is based on environment, and from the neutral view, they're simply drugged. |
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...Matt was no exception to this. When he stood in the street and noticed his chest started to really hurt again, he made the decision to look down. He screamed like a grown man would scream when that grown man sees a laser burning his chest, and that is like a little girl... -From Super Naked Moose Man | |
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| Tom Joad | Jul 3 2006, 12:55 AM Post #2 |
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Gap tooth so my dick's got to fit.
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All hapiness is caused by chemical reactions in the brain, the only difference is some chemicals are natural and some are artificial. Think about cheese. Cheese is a mild opiate, therefore it will slightly make you happy. Many times I have found myself very joyful while biting into a cheeseburger. I think cheeseburger love is true happiness. |
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| Krispy | Jul 3 2006, 02:04 AM Post #3 |
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Disgraced Dictator
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Matters on when you are measuring the happiness. If it is measure at the moment of drug induced high, then yes, they are genuinely happy. However, if you are sampling a larger amount of time, you might find that this drug induced happiness is simply a distraction from an incapacity to harbor it outside the drug itself. This person would be incomplete estimologically and therefore not truely happy. |
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| Necronomicon | Jul 3 2006, 02:12 AM Post #4 |
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omar comin' yo
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Happiness is just a chemical state in the brain. From a technical point of view, there is no functional difference between artificially and naturally induced happiness. Since they produce the exact same short-term result, physiologically speaking, neither can be said to be more legitimate than the other. The only real difference lies in the consequences of administered synthetic happiness vs. natural happiness. (As an aside, cheese is not an opiate, unless your cows have been getting into the poppy fields) |
| omar yo. omar comin | |
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| Tom Joad | Jul 3 2006, 02:25 AM Post #5 |
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Gap tooth so my dick's got to fit.
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Cheese is an opiate! At first when they found this out, the scientists thought the cows were chewing poppy too! Great minds think alike. |
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| Kett | Jul 3 2006, 03:18 AM Post #6 |
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Planning World Domination
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Note to Self: eat more cheese! Anyway, happiness varies from person to person. Do drugs make you happy? You bet they do! But people can become resistant to happiness, which is why to be truly happy, one must also have bad times. Not just to compare to, but to get the happiness-resistance back down a bit. Hi. I have no idea what I'm talking about, and kinda just made this up. If it's right, yay! If it's not, I blame public schooling. |
| The vast majority of schooling is spent teaching young minds what is heresy and not worth considering. The rest is spent scoffing at closed-minded individuals refusing to accept the new sciences of their time. | |
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| Dizzarth Stumpy | Jul 3 2006, 06:16 AM Post #7 |
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Pessimist
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hapiness is just a flaming moe away... |
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STUMPY WAS RIGHT. HIS TOUCHING SOLILOQUY HAS MOVED ME, TRULY A MANIPULATOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. I HAVE ALLOWED HIM USAGE OF HIS PREVIOUS ACCOUNT. EHRHRHRHRNGGHH LC is the best and brought back my embarassing sex tapes. | |
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| Dr. Jim | Jul 3 2006, 03:21 PM Post #8 |
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Nihil estis, Omnes sum
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It's also illegal in fourteen states I was thinking less from a realistic technical point of view, but more from a philosophical point of view. You know, what people who don't believe in chemicals blame their hapiness on. |
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...Matt was no exception to this. When he stood in the street and noticed his chest started to really hurt again, he made the decision to look down. He screamed like a grown man would scream when that grown man sees a laser burning his chest, and that is like a little girl... -From Super Naked Moose Man | |
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| Necronomicon | Jul 3 2006, 05:36 PM Post #9 |
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omar comin' yo
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I stand corrected. Eh, I can live with addictive opiate sandwiches. Damn vegans trying to ruin my lunch. |
| omar yo. omar comin | |
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| Krispy | Jul 3 2006, 08:59 PM Post #10 |
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Disgraced Dictator
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The drug induced happiness would be nothing more than a distraction, just artificial joy. Nothing artificial is fulfilling. |
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| Necronomicon | Jul 4 2006, 04:57 PM Post #11 |
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omar comin' yo
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Someone smoking opium can feel pretty damn fulfilled. |
| omar yo. omar comin | |
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| Kett | Jul 4 2006, 06:39 PM Post #12 |
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Planning World Domination
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I agree. Drug induced happiness is just a more temporary happiness, but just as real. |
| The vast majority of schooling is spent teaching young minds what is heresy and not worth considering. The rest is spent scoffing at closed-minded individuals refusing to accept the new sciences of their time. | |
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| 严加华 | Jul 5 2006, 12:53 AM Post #13 |
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Magister Ludicrous
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Chemically induced happiness is to "real" happiness as artificial apple-flavoured candy is to a real apple. They're recognisably similar. Some, in fact, lack the discriminatory ability required to distinguish them. One, however, has an unpleasant aftertaste that spoils the overall experience while the other has a rich complex of flavours that lingers on after the initial stimulus is gone. |
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| Dr. Jim | Jul 5 2006, 06:02 PM Post #14 |
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Nihil estis, Omnes sum
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Is it sad that I think the candy is the one with the rich complex of flavors that lingers? |
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...Matt was no exception to this. When he stood in the street and noticed his chest started to really hurt again, he made the decision to look down. He screamed like a grown man would scream when that grown man sees a laser burning his chest, and that is like a little girl... -From Super Naked Moose Man | |
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| Survival Mom | Jul 5 2006, 06:43 PM Post #15 |
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Crazy Doctor's Apprentice
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Happiness is one of those concepts that seems to have as many meanings as there are people attempting to define it; Is happiness the opposite of sadness - neither are bad or good, they just ARE. Does happiness = satisfaction? satisfaction can be fleeting. Does laughing at a good joke result in feelings of happiness? It's just a joke. It's probably the endorphins we feel. I strive for inner peace, rather than "happiness". Believe me - for many of my young years I sought "happiness", only to find how expensive and emotionally draining it was to keep it (my mistake, wrong definition!). Three husbands, three children (and as many step-children) and 23 years later, my backyard garden seems to hold the current meaning of happiness for me. A goldfish pond and a hammock seems to "satisfy", but it's more than the yard, its the entire lifestyle of simplifying and letting go of nonsense that's allowed me this peace.
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"Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die". Epicurean philosophy | |
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