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1. 2016-02-02 at 3:57 PM UTC

   #2741
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Jesus fuck, nothing ever works. What braindead admin runs this shithole?
   
   try it now.

   Test.
2. 2016-02-02 at 3:59 PM UTC

   #2742
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   It works but now Thanks show up in Active Topics as "New Thanks Recieved" threads that are blank.
3. 2016-02-02 at 3:59 PM UTC

   #2743
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Same as Visitor Messages did, remember?
4. 2016-02-02 at 4:33 PM UTC

   #2744
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   I was a a hyper-systemizing infovore, and I was so out of touch with my emotions I didn't even realize I was depressed until close to the breaking point, it took me a decade to realize I had been in a cycle of isolation and depression, damage from both, both skewing my worldview. I would have been much happier enjoying life like normal, well adjusted people, do.

   
   This is what Sartre would call "acting in bad faith". The refusal to acknowledge your own unhappiness as a consequence of freely made choices is the root of the problem. So you're going to say something like "muh genetics" but remember the "useful lie" characterization of radical freedom I gave before. It's interesting in that it's an idea that's almost self-proving. If you can give assent to it then you've essentially demonstrated its truth since the metaphysical constraints on radical freedom are considerably lighter than libertarian freedom.
   
   

   Do mathematicians experience the same emotional highs, the same satisfaction, happiness/joy, utility, as others. vivacious lovers of life dancing atop the social hierarchy? There's the question of how you would measure it, and it may be possible to come to a measurement that's close enough by monitoring brain activity, and my bet would be: Not even close.

   
   I'd be interested in findings on the matter but my intuition is just the opposite, that mathematicians in general (let's exclude logicians because the whole insanity thing) are pretty happy people, or at least beat the average. Have you seen that famous interview with Andrew Wilkes? The darkened mansion one? The guy seems pretty emotionally on top of it, I mean he actually end up crying. Here it is: https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Fermat-s-Last-Theorem-Professor-Andrew-Wiles
   
   Like I said before, in a lot of ways I think they are the modern embodiment of sisyphus, just look at the history of mathematics, it's a veritable tug-of-war between nihilating the work of others and standing on shaky foundations, men and women condemned to operating within the most ridged systems we can imagine, and yet people still line up for it, choose it of their own will. The fact that people still participate in this dusty old institution is, I think, a testament the the notion that participation itself is worthwhile. Unlike engineers of various sorts there really is a pretty minimal social desire for more of what mathematicians produce, if they all quit tomorrow we'd suffer for it but no one's TV is going to stop working, we'll still keep on churning out consumer electronics, I'm not sure the world at large would really even notice for a few hundred years.
5. 2016-02-02 at 4:45 PM UTC

   #2745
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   I think it'd be interesting to get every TRTers take on what happiness is.
6. 2016-02-02 at 5:04 PM UTC

   #2746
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   I think it'd be interesting to get every TRTers take on what happiness is.

   
   
   inb4 10 one word posts of either "benzos" or "opiates"
7. 2016-02-02 at 5:11 PM UTC

   #2747
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   I think it'd be interesting to get every TRTers take on what happiness is.

   I've felt happiness before but it is ineffable in my opinion. It is the ultimate goal of existence and the search for it is the driving force behind the human experience.
8. 2016-02-02 at 5:16 PM UTC

   #2748
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   inb4 10 one word posts of either "benzos" or "opiates"

   
   I was actually guna say whiskey and love, but benzos and opiates are pretty damn close to whiskey and love.
9. 2016-02-02 at 5:19 PM UTC

   #2749
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   I've felt happiness before but it is ineffable in my opinion. It is the ultimate goal of existence and the search for it is the driving force behind the human experience.

   
   But why? If so many people are unhappy, maybe they don't know what happiness is. I guess it's just being thankful for your current situation, not envying what others have and appreciating the small things you do have.
10. 2016-02-02 at 8:08 PM UTC

    #2750
    

    Dissociator African Astronaut
    Fun fact of the day: Cannabis causes birth defects
11. 2016-02-02 at 8:09 PM UTC

    #2751
    

    Dissociator African Astronaut
    Depressing fact of the day: My lamical T-PAIN and prozac combo is starting to make me feel good
12. 2016-02-02 at 10:47 PM UTC

    #2752
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    Sherry is surprisingly nice. A bit sweet, but it was the only thing left in the cupboard.
13. 2016-02-02 at 11:29 PM UTC

    #2753
    

    Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    In a 2014 study, 320 children, ages 8–12, in both public and private schools, were given a Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire assessing the correlation between spirituality and happiness. Spirituality – and not religious practices (praying, attending church services) – correlated positively with the child's happiness; the more spiritual the child was, the happier the child was. Spirituality accounted for about 3–26% of the variance in happiness.
14. 2016-02-03 at 5:41 AM UTC

    #2754
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    Sherry is surprisingly nice. A bit sweet, but it was the only thing left in the cupboard.

    
    My mom used to drink sherry from time to time and it was accordingly the first alcohol I ever drank in enough quantity to get drunk. I remember it being pretty nasty and avoid it but I was a kid, wouldn't have know good booze if it hit me in the face, so maybe I should give it another shot.
15. 2016-02-03 at 9:14 AM UTC

    #2755
    Malice Naturally Camouflaged
    Brandy and coke with a bit of lime was my first drink. Tasty.
    
    
    
    Oh, the heavenly sounds a female voice can produce. Thank you NSI-189, I had forgotten. Reversal of anhedonia, the hippocampus and emotion (blunted affect, reduced intensity and range of emotion); even seems to drastically reduce cortisol, which is hyper-secreted in about half of patients with major depressive disorder, IIRC. Other conditions can also lead to chronically elevated levels, chronic stress, producing very harmful effects in the long term.
    
    http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/58442-nsi-189/?view=findpost&p=760587
16. 2016-02-03 at 12:58 PM UTC

    #2756
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    My mom used to drink sherry from time to time and it was accordingly the first alcohol I ever drank in enough quantity to get drunk. I remember it being pretty nasty and avoid it but I was a kid, wouldn't have know good booze if it hit me in the face, so maybe I should give it another shot.

    
    I'd keep avoiding it, it's made me feel sick as fuck, and I very rarely feel sick the morning after from alcohol.
17. 2016-02-03 at 5:07 PM UTC

    #2757
    SpatianHaigency Tuskegee Airman

    In a 2014 study, 320 children, ages 8–12, in both public and private schools, were given a Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire assessing the correlation between spirituality and happiness. Spirituality – and not religious practices (praying, attending church services) – correlated positively with the child's happiness; the more spiritual the child was, the happier the child was. Spirituality accounted for about 3–26% of the variance in happiness.

    what does that mean though
18. 2016-02-03 at 5:24 PM UTC

    #2758
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    I'd like to give this NSI-189 a try but you said I'd have to buy it from some Greece dude on longecity. That's suboptimal. I can't find a European source and German customs don't allow the import from non EU states.
19. 2016-02-03 at 6:22 PM UTC

    #2759
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    what does that mean though

    
    It means Vardy scored a screamer and demolished Liverpool.
20. 2016-02-03 at 6:31 PM UTC

    #2760
    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    What's your team?