Do You Think Life Is About Happiness or Experience?

[Gesundheit2]

1 minute ago, Rilles said:

Same thing. Id rather die as a good boy than fail my God.

Explain sin.

[Rilles]

Just now, Gesundheit2 said:

Explain sin.

?!?!?

[Gesundheit2]

@Rilles Why do people still commit sins even when they don't want to fail their God?

[Rilles]

2 minutes ago, Gesundheit2 said:

@Rilles Why do people still commit sins even when they don't want to fail their God?

Feelings vs good boy ego.

Why do you eat cookies even though mommy told you no?

Edited December 6, 2021 by Rilles

[Gesundheit2]

3 minutes ago, Rilles said:

Feelings vs good boy ego.

What drives either/both of these?

[Loba]

I'd say that flow created genuine happiness and this happiness is generated by having enough experience to feel confident in what you are doing.  You need both, it can't be one or the other.

[Rilles]

3 minutes ago, Gesundheit2 said:

What drives either/both of these?

Feel goodness.?

[Gesundheit2]

@Rilles I don't know about everyone else, but for me the driver is always a desire to feel good, not necessarily goodness. Aka, seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, regardless of consequences.

[Rilles]

Just now, Gesundheit2 said:

@Rilles I don't know about everyone else, but for me the driver is always a desire to feel good, not necessarily goodness. Aka, seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, regardless of consequences.

Okay, sort of agree, good=survival. Whats your overall point?

[Carl-Richard]

Physical pleasure and mental happiness cannot be hoarded. Your adaptive mechanisms will balance it out according to your survival needs. However, cultivating resilience and vitality, or the ability to deal with survival effortlessly, leads to a refinement of one's being, physiologically, psychologically and emotionally, which leads to increased physical health and mental clarity – the basis of pleasure and happiness and richness of experience. Maximize internal integrity, minimize external dependency, integrate all faculties.

[Gesundheit2]

9 minutes ago, Rilles said:

Whats your overall point?

Life for humans boils down to maximizing pleasure/happiness and minimizing pain/suffering. The rest is delusion and beating around the bush.

[Rilles]

4 minutes ago, Gesundheit2 said:

Life for humans boils down to maximizing pleasure/happiness and minimizing pain/suffering. The rest is delusion and beating around the bush.

Yes but my point wasnt "Whats is egoic life all about?" My point was "What is life all about?" ?

[Gesundheit2]

58 minutes ago, Rilles said:

Yes but my point wasnt "Whats is egoic life all about?" My point was "What is life all about?" ?

Same answer I would say, as long as you're human.

[Salvijus]

Life is to serve god. Life is to be of service to all life and to be a veichle for god to function and create more love in the world. That's the only real happyness. Selfish life is misery.

Very poetic this one ?

Edited December 6, 2021 by Salvijus

[Someone here]

20 hours ago, Gesundheit2 said:

Explain suicide.

The person who commits suicide thinks death is better than life.. So it's still boil down to what feels better for the oneself.