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Well, whatever. Thanks for telling me that you love me. I don't think it's true though, but it still feels good to hear. Whatever. Yes, not everything are thoughts. Perceptions aren't. But whatever. You guys can keep thinking that thoughts are nothing and that they don't have any effect on your lives etc.

No. What you are saying are thoughts (and beliefs).

1. Getting oranges for Christmas= fact. 2. Liking or disliking oranges= emotions. 3. And then comes all the thoughts.

That just confirms what I'm saying. Everything is thoughts, our lives are thoughts. No one can write a reply in this thread without thoughts. I think the emotion is leading. But there's something prior to emotion too: fact is prior to emotion. For example if you get thrown into a fire. Burning in a fire= fact. Horror= emotion. "This is awful, I don't want to die like this." etc.= thought. -------------------- Or 1. being completely alone and unlikable= fact. 2. Sadness and crying inside= emotion. 3. "This is hell, I don't want to live anymore."= thought.

What you said is a thought. When that happy stuff is going on you're having happy thoughts.

That's just empty words, because no one can live a life without thoughts. Your life is ruled by thoughts. Let's be real and honest.

Thoughts freak me out. I don't want to think about it.. They have no substance, they come and go from nowhere. And we don't have control over them. Yet they are so powerful and rule our lives. They are like magic.. They should freak out everyone.

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I forgot this quote. I love this quote too: "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent." - R.D. Laing

Exactly. Or dismiss them as having a "victim mindset". That's the favorite hobby which succesful people have. They walk around everyday and all day long tell everyone who aren't as fortunate as them that they have a victim mindset.

No it's not the case for 95% of humans. But let's agree to disagree.

If that's the case for you, great, but it's not the case for everyone.

But don't you think it's problematic when your happiness creates suffering for someone else? If you don't think it's problematic: then you think rape is fine?

I think that's why people get children. And then those children will be unhappy as adults, so they too have to make children in an attempt to get happy. And those children too will be unhappy as adults, so they too have to make children in an attempt to get happy. Repeat forever. In my opinion it's selfish. But again, that's just my stupid little opinion.

I think it's better to not bring more living beings to existence. Yes, logically, people should, but maybe not all people. That's my personal little opinion. Feel free to disagree. I hope I'm allowed to say this opinion. It's very politically incorrect to say it but.. it is what it is.. sorry. There are probably a few people who have a pleasant life which is worth living. The problem is that we are equipped with a integrated strong survival instinct. Which wins over pretty much anything, rationality, etc. So because of that you can get trapped in life, even if you don't want to live. It's like a prison. -------------------- "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer." - Albert Camus -------------------- "If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason." "Nothing is better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations." "I long to be free—desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free." "Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember." "Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on." "Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy." - Emil M. Cioran I think in most cases there is more suffering and struggle than joy.

Exactly.

Well, no one can be completely selfless. But the concept is cool. And he seems like a good guy.

I don't care about SD nonsense. But dude, yes he is making money, but he is also giving away money. What's wrong with that? There's many who only make money, without giving anything.

Maybe you are supposed to forget some things. Maybe ignorance is bliss sometimes.

Yeah I'm not surprised.

@electroBeam This is what happened: You are happy, there are reasons for your happiness. Which you apparently fail to see at this point. And then you built a whole mental construction around the theme happiness. Your entire post is filtered through the lenses of your happiness, you built a story (narrative) around it. I think it's called self bias. It's not the Truth. In short: you're drunk on your own success. I'm getting tired of these cases.

Sorry, but I think you are super wrong about everything you said. I especially disagree with:

Wtf? I strongly disagree.... Mr. Beast seems like a nice guy.

It's very simple. Smash your face with a frying pan, and then ask yourself if the relative world exists.

Ok yeah it seems to be true, I don't know either if it's 90%. Child porn on Pornhub? I always assumed that's not possible. And I've never seen a single such video.