Does /r9k/ know about the Hedonic Treadmill? We can get used to anything and everything. The human brain is constantly moving the goalposts when it comes to happiness.
You really think pussy will make you happy? Get real. I've lost count of how many women I've had, and yet I'm still as miserable as you.
All life is suffering.
Why do I never get used to the loneliness?
>>25042902
It actually kind of sucks how many factors go into how good or bad we're feeling at a particular time. Being a thing kind of sucks, but then it doesn't, and then it does again.
Most of this board is at a 10th grade reading level. This thread was always destined to 404
>>25043132
Abandon thread.
"The scenes of our life resemble pictures in rough mosaic; they are ineffective from close up, and have to be viewed from a distance if they are to run beautiful. That is why to attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and why, though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men...are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely that in expectation of which they lived.
Life presents itself first and foremost as a task: the task of maintaining itself... If this task is accomplished, what has been gained is a burden, and there then appears a second task: that of doing something with it so as to ward off boredom, which hovers over every secure life like a bird of prey. Thus the first task is to gain something and the second to become unconscious of what has been gained, which is otherwise a burden.
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom; and that boredom is a direct proof that existence is in itself valueless, for boredom is nothing other than the sensation of the emptiness of existence."
>>25043838
>anecdotal evidence
When I achieve my goals I'm happy, science also backs me. Dopamine is released in the brain after accomplishing goals.
>>25042902
Actually that is only true for people with "normal" brain function. It is standard for ones baseline mood to fluctuate, depressed people for example have a much lower baseline mood than a healthy person and therefor have alot to gain from making an effort to fix shit. The treadmill only really activates when all needs are met.
>>25044058
Go google what anecdote means. The ARGUMENT and reasoning is crystal clear.
