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| Kett | Jul 5 2006, 07:58 PM Post #16 |
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Planning World Domination
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Well the actual apple has a lot more in it than the candy, but which chemisty today the apple flavor can be derived and may actually last longer, because there are no unwanted flavors. Well, if it's artificially flavored. If it's naturally flavored, it's gonna taste like crap, because it's much harder to remove things that to just create the chemical. It's a lot easier to combine some chemicals that happen to produce the same chemicals that make the taste of an apple than it is to try and find and extract those chemicals from a real apple. |
| 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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| miller | Jul 5 2006, 08:04 PM Post #17 |
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Planning World Domination
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I think I can help a little on this. I am currently taking anti-depressents/anxiety, been on them for a few months now. I can honestly say that the happiness that the medicine provides is not as "good" as natural hapiness, even if the same things are happening in my brain. It is almost as if the medicine is blocking out the other feelings, replacing it with a fake happiness. I am aware of unhappy thoughts, but I do not "feel" them, it's almost as if I am numb to them. I will feel happy, but I don't get the same joy as true happiness. Now this can be different for anyone taking these types of medications, I thought I would just try and help you guys out. Now if you're talking about the other drugs, the "fun" drugs, sometimes they can provide better happiness than true happiness.
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| Kett | Jul 5 2006, 08:07 PM Post #18 |
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Planning World Domination
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Most people that are great artists find they can no longer draw after being ont he meds for a significant period of time. Try to "draw your feelings" and see if you can. Most can before taking the drugs, but not after. Well, that's why I learned in Psychology. |
| 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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| Krispy | Jul 5 2006, 08:08 PM Post #19 |
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Disgraced Dictator
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So one might say that you are now happy ;). I'm pretty sure I outlined the requirements for happiness in another post, but I got them all from Nozick's book "The Examined Life" where he also defines love. I couldn't find cliff notes after a quick scan, I'll look again later and upadte this post. |
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| miller | Jul 5 2006, 08:15 PM Post #20 |
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Planning World Domination
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At times I do feel emotionless, but I am still able to draw my feelings if needed, just not as easily. Sometimes it can take a significantly powerful event to get me going, or one too many beers. |
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| Necronomicon | Jul 6 2006, 01:35 AM Post #21 |
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omar comin' yo
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Miller, you aren't using the right chemicals. Mr. Canadian in China, is the only notable difference between chemically-induced and situationally-induced happiness the one that comes afterwards? (edit: it appears those Chinese characters don't translate so well using my simple copy and paste) |
| omar yo. omar comin | |
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| 严加华 | Jul 6 2006, 07:30 AM Post #22 |
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Magister Ludicrous
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As far as I'm concerned, yes. "Happiness", among a lot of other emotions, is merely a complex of electrochemical reactions caused by the coincidence of a whole bunch of other electrochemical reactions. The difference between "artificial" happiness and "real" happiness is just that the artificial stuff doesn't quite have the subtle spread of "flavours" (for want of a better word) to give the full impact. It feels hollow, like listening to just the main theme of a symphony with the rest of the orchestra silent. |
LC Sez:
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| Crux | Aug 27 2006, 09:33 AM Post #23 |
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Crazy Doctor's Apprentice
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That's it, I am adopting you as my official mother on these forums. A mother with benefits.
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| pie is delicious | Oct 7 2006, 09:14 PM Post #24 |
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Earth Ending Impacter
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This is off topic, but has anyone been looking at the freaky advritisments on the bottom of the screen? |
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| Zer0 | Oct 7 2006, 11:14 PM Post #25 |
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LOEV 2 KONSOLE
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I lol'd AND agree completely. |
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| Flamingo | Oct 8 2006, 12:54 AM Post #26 |
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Penis goes in here
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Yep, i chose to ignore them.
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| Katastrof | Jan 5 2007, 03:32 AM Post #27 |
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One Of The Four Horseman
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Now pie, what's your view on blah blah? Is it a metaphor for happpiness? Or just a similie that compare sit to life? Do explain. Uhhh on second thought I find happiness is the direct opposite of suffering. Without suffering we wouldn't know happiness and without happiness we wouldn't know suffering. (Or we wouldn't know the extent of both emotions...) (Is it just me or did a post just disappear?) |
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| NeoAegis | Jan 5 2007, 04:09 AM Post #28 |
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Israel thug life
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Deleted, good sir. |
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| agafaba | Jan 5 2007, 04:28 AM Post #29 |
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douchebagga
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to make up for my blatant disregard for forum etiquette i will discuss further. Now i think that happiness could be considered suffering more then most think. You can use my vague metaphor to demonstrate. Someone could be performing an act of juggling swords, he starts with one and people are all "meh", so he goes to 2, then at 3 people began to notice, seeing this he strives for 4, then 5, and so forth. But it is inevitable that he will mess up and drop the swords. the more swords the more pain resulting after, and he will be left with the sorrow knowing he lost his chance. If he only got to 2 or 3 then its no big deal just try again (most likely wouldn't even hurt him), but if he gets to 5 or 6 then he will be embarrassed and most likely sore and bleeding. If he made it to 9 or 10 then he will always be remembered as the one who almost did, it will linger with him forever, and he will be very hurt/dead. more happiness means that when you do suffer it will be worse of mentally fatal. haha i just wanted to use swords but i stick with my decision |
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