I usually understand it to mean that one is living in peace with respect to other people. Yeah, there we go with "people". — Wallows
No, I am not drunk. I don't drink or use street drugs. But I do drink coffee, and it has the capacity to make me giddy. — god must be atheist
Maybe... maybe I should learn how to wallow. Yep. That's the ticket. — god must be atheist
you can get incredibly upset and smash the toilet seat down angrily if you break a shoe-lace — god must be atheist
Congratulations! You are the first person in the history of Philosophy to connect smashing toilet seats with broken shoe laces. How was this crucial connection overlooked for so long? — Bitter Crank
It seems like everyone is obsessed with the highly ego-centric model of happiness that is "being happy". People go to Barns and Nobles, order books from Amazon, and tire themselves over their perceived lack-of happiness in their lives. Even positive psychology is mired with the concept of happiness as an ultimate goal. A quick search on this forum will show that there's a strong bias to achieve or even maintain happiness. Yet, there is no aspect of being that is totally and wholly independent of one's situation/circumstances/state of affairs, and this is what Western thought gets wrong in my opinion. — Wallows
What's an "egocentric" model versus an alternate model? — Terrapin Station
What's an "egocentric" model versus an alternate model? — Terrapin Station
So, why do people (I can't really speak for others here apart from myself) go to psychologists and psychiatrists? To feel happy, I surmise, or at the very least, to feel less unhappy (although, usually that realization is achieved after some substantial therapy) — Wallows
So, there's an ideological basis for the confusion surrounding happiness that serves a certain system and certain interests and if Confucianism or whatever religious or philosophical basis can be used to self-immunize in that respect, I'd say go for it. — Baden
What's your personal pick here? — Wallows
And what did you mean by the "usual suspects"? — Wallows
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