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2018-01-30 at 12:56 PM UTC
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2018-01-30 at 1:03 PM UTC
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2018-01-30 at 1:10 PM UTC
Originally posted by Open Your Mind The secret to life is to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.
how the fuck are you supposed to live in the moment if you're in horrendous pain
this is what i hate about that fucking philosophy
nobody wants to be in the moment when they're getting fucking burned alive -
2018-01-30 at 1:41 PM UTC
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2018-01-30 at 1:46 PM UTC
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2018-01-30 at 1:49 PM UTC
Originally posted by Enter what if you were though? same goes for any horrific pain. or does pain not exist in your faggy, liberal bubble world?
If you are being burned alive you wouldn't stay alive very long to worry about it.
I have experienced horrific pain in the past (kidney stones) and it doesn't affect how I live in the present. The possibility of experiencing horrific pain in the future doesn't affect how I live in this moment.
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2018-01-30 at 1:51 PM UTC
Originally posted by Open Your Mind If you are being burned alive you wouldn't stay alive very long to worry about it.
I have experienced horrific pain in the past (kidney stones) and it doesn't affect how I live in the present. The possibility of experiencing horrific pain in the future doesn't affect how I live in this moment.
Dumbass.
YOU DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT IM SAYING FAG
i'm assuming you didn't actually live in the present when having those kidney stones, since your philosophies are so fickle, but let's assume you have one today. will you "live in the present" while trying to pass it? -
2018-01-30 at 1:53 PM UTC
Originally posted by Enter YOU DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT IM SAYING FAG
i'm assuming you didn't actually live in the present when having those kidney stones, since your philosophies are so fickle, but let's assume you have one today. will you "live in the present" while trying to pass it?
Duh. There's no other moment to be living in, stupid. -
2018-01-30 at 2:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by Open Your Mind Duh. There's no other moment to be living in, stupid.
so why the fuck wouldn't you try to escape the present by thinking about something else, to get your mind off the pain, retard? your philosophy doesn't do any good for you in circumstances such as those. and then where's the line? -
2018-01-30 at 2:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by HTS Being too stupid is a big "can't" - I can achieve the status of burger flipper, maybe. I have nothing to offer the world. I just try to be a good waifu for scron.
Being stupid is a big "won't". Did you finish high school? Getting an undergrad is fucking stupid easy. Just show up to your classes, do your homework diligently (it's usually easy af) and you will get through with flying colours. I literally studied one singular time throughout college (aside from doing my homework) and graduated with like a 3.96 GPA or something like that, and that was a computer science degree. If you do a BA or something, it's probably a cakewalk.
You could even start with community college. And then the world is your oyster: most jobs are similarly stupid easy to actually DO, they're just hard to GET. Even you can pick up on them really easy. -
2018-01-30 at 2:04 PM UTC
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2018-01-30 at 2:04 PM UTC
Originally posted by Enter so why the fuck wouldn't you try to escape the present by thinking about something else, to get your mind off the pain, retard? your philosophy doesn't do any good for you in circumstances such as those. and then where's the line?
Obbe does not have any philosophy or valuable thoughts on anything. -
2018-01-30 at 4:27 PM UTC
Originally posted by Enter so why the fuck wouldn't you try to escape the present by thinking about something else, to get your mind off the pain, retard? your philosophy doesn't do any good for you in circumstances such as those. and then where's the line?
You can't be happy all the time. "Happiness" wouldn't make any sense if there was nothing to contrast it. -
2018-01-30 at 4:28 PM UTC
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2018-01-30 at 4:29 PM UTChah penis
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2018-01-30 at 4:33 PM UTC
Originally posted by Captain Falcon Being stupid is a big "won't". Did you finish high school? Getting an undergrad is fucking stupid easy. Just show up to your classes, do your homework diligently (it's usually easy af) and you will get through with flying colours. I literally studied one singular time throughout college (aside from doing my homework) and graduated with like a 3.96 GPA or something like that, and that was a computer science degree. If you do a BA or something, it's probably a cakewalk.
You could even start with community college. And then the world is your oyster: most jobs are similarly stupid easy to actually DO, they're just hard to GET. Even you can pick up on them really easy.
"Work will set you free" -
2018-01-30 at 4:50 PM UTCPeacefulness is the closest thing in my life I think I'm going to come to happiness. There's that first line of high grade techphetamine after two plus weeks sober but even that incredible dopamine rocket blast off is fleeting after the first one and it's totally chemically induced as well.
Peacefulness though is something I can attain pretty easily by just not fucking with other people and laying at home watching tv etc..Peacefulness is what people should strive for because it's attainable. -
2018-01-30 at 5:58 PM UTCThat's right goyim. You know all about living the good life. Find something to occupy you. Vest in that thing all the meaning you can muster. Devote yourself to it while continuing to be economically useful. People who don't enjoy being exploited are just trying to put their personal responsibility for their own happiness on "the system". What even is a system? There are no systems, its just an illusion ~~maaaaan~~.
Indeed. Just get a job and get a hobby. That's all anyone needs. -
2018-01-30 at 7:10 PM UTCthat's what you non-users don't get when you look at every negative aspect of heroin use, dictated constantly by the fucking media system, usually coz it reinforces your stuck up need to look down your nose at everyone else to make yourselves feel better about your sad little lives(coz lets face it, nothing else is working). the moment that hit takes over it's pure and utter unadulterated bliss. you couldn't be happier if somebody plonked a million pound in your lap.
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2018-01-30 at 7:15 PM UTC
Originally posted by NARCassist that's what you non-users don't get when you look at every negative aspect of heroin use, dictated constantly by the fucking media system, usually coz it reinforces your stuck up need to look down your nose at everyone else to make yourselves feel better about your sad little lives(coz lets face it, nothing else is working). the moment that hit takes over it's pure and utter unadulterated bliss. you couldn't be happier if somebody plonked a million pound in your lap.
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Rat Park was a study into drug addiction conducted in the late 1970s (and published in 1981) by Canadian psychologist Bruce K. Alexander and his colleagues at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
Alexander's hypothesis was that drugs do not cause addiction, and that the apparent addiction to opiate drugs commonly observed in laboratory rats exposed to them is attributable to their living conditions, and not to any addictive property of the drug itself.[1]
To test his hypothesis, Alexander built Rat Park, a large housing colony, 200 times the floor area of a standard laboratory cage. There were 16–20 rats of both sexes in residence, food, balls and wheels for play, and enough space for mating.[2] The results of the experiment appeared to support his hypothesis.
In Rat Park, the rats could drink a fluid from one of two drop dispensers, which automatically recorded how much each rat drank. One dispenser contained a morphine solution and the other plain tap water.
Alexander designed a number of experiments to test the rats' willingness to consume the morphine. The Seduction Experiment involved four groups of rats. Group CC was isolated in laboratory cages when they were weaned at 22 days of age, and lived there until the experiment ended at 80 days of age; Group PP was housed in Rat Park for the same period; Group CP was moved from laboratory cages to Rat Park at 65 days of age; and Group PC was moved out of Rat Park and into cages at 65 days of age.
The caged rats (Groups CC and PC) took to the morphine instantly, even with relatively little sweetener, with the caged males drinking 19 times more morphine than the Rat Park males in one of the experimental conditions. The rats in Rat Park resisted the morphine water. They would try it occasionally—with the females trying it more often than the males—but they showed a statistically significant preference for the plain water. He writes that the most interesting group was Group CP, the rats who were brought up in cages but moved to Rat Park before the experiment began. These animals rejected the morphine solution when it was stronger, but as it became sweeter and more dilute, they began to drink almost as much as the rats that had lived in cages throughout the experiment. They wanted the sweet water, he concluded, so long as it did not disrupt their normal social behavior.[1] Even more significant, he writes, was that when he added a drug called Naloxone, which negates the effects of opioids, to the morphine-laced water, the Rat Park rats began to drink it.
In another experiment, he forced rats in ordinary lab cages to consume the morphine-laced solution for 57 days without other liquid available to drink. When they moved into Rat Park, they were allowed to choose between the morphine solution and plain water. They drank the plain water. He writes that they did show some signs of dependence. There were "some minor withdrawal signs, twitching, what have you, but there were none of the mythic seizures and sweats you so often hear about ..."[2]
Alexander believes his experiments show that animal self-administration studies provide no empirical support for the theory of drug-induced addiction. "The intense appetite of isolated experimental animals for heroin in self-injection experiments tells us nothing about the responsiveness of normal animals and people to these drugs. Normal people can ignore heroin ... even when it is plentiful in their environment, and they can use these drugs with little likelihood of addiction ... Rats from Rat Park seem to be no less discriminating."[1]
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