It is supremely uncomfortable inside some people's heads.
More generally, it is supremely uncomfortable inside some people's bodies. I don't just mean someone with physical pain. Anxiety, depression and other disorders are a whole-body experience.
Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (2014)
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Re: Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (2014)
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This is basically why I prefer living in a location with seasons. Yes, CaliFlorida weather is nice. But I appreciate what all of the seasons have to offer so much more for the variation. I could do with a 25% shorter winter and summer, though ;)
> I could do with a 25% shorter winter and summer, though ;) I also love spring and fall, spring the most. On the other hand, after reading a piece about how euphoric is spring for nature and it's actually very tiresome for living things, I learned to appreciate other seasons. I'm a cool weather guy and more resistant to cold than hot weather, I don't dislike winter too.
Same here. Give me cloudy and cool over sunny and hot every day of the year.
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Preaching posts like yours are more dangerous than whatever excess porn consumption may do to people's brains.
True. While I think that the porn industry has inherent problems and some people get addicted to it. For me its preachers like GP that are doing our society a great disservice by moralizing and putting perfectly normal humam behaviors down as "perversion".
Exactly. People shouldn't be free to do things rusty cans don't approve because our society is at stake here!
There's only one solution to each problem and it's what this wise, moral person is selling because if it works for them, then it's the only possible truth.
Re: Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (2014)
#124"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." - Blaise Pascal https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/blaise_pascal_133380
is that even a real quote? couldn't find a source in a google, except for quoting sites without sources.
doesn't sound like the pascal I've read on the Pensées at all, but maybe I'm wrong
I know for sure Shakespeare and Einstein have a lot of fake quotes atributed to them, and also Chaplin
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#126I'm 27 years old and I don't have much purpose in life. am I'm kind of becoming desperate, to be honest. I have always thought about becoming a programmer but I don't know where to start. What programming language do you learn first? What languages and skills do you need to learn to become hire-able by a company?
Do you need an income? If you do then you should probably think about what you can do that would generate an income rather than going for programming. While programmers can earn good money it isn't necessarily that easy. Another comment recommended Lua, I would say that the language you should learn is the one that fits the problems you want to solve. In other words, the language is a tool, programming itself is a to…
Thank you
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Preaching posts like yours are more dangerous than whatever excess porn consumption may do to people's brains.
It’s acceptable to have a position or opinion, civilly stated. Any of the common “vices” like gambling, porn, Skinner box games, some drugs are difficult for people to manage. That dopamine hit burns behavioral pathways into the brain and is tough to undo.
Apparently everyone is exactly the same and the only people whose lives haven't been ruined buy these vices, as you call them, are the ones who haven't tried them. I am done here
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
>substituting titillations for profound organic satisfactions, cleverness for wisdom, and jagged surprises for beauty... ...And porn for relationships and intimacy. If there's any modern ill that has exacerbated our inability to be comfortable with boredom (which is essentially inner loneliness) it's porn. It's an escape for loneliness and a terrible salve that leaves the intrinsic desires for intimacy and connection…
While many functioning porn users will dismiss your comment as nonsense, I believe it really is a massive problem in society. Porn in its current iteration, is similar to social media in that it literally programs your brain. We program computers but are ignorant to the fact that computers can program our behaviour if we are not careful. Yes, it is a poor substitute for intimacy but it also creates dangerous thought…
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Re: Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (2014)
#129Ever since reading Bertrand Russell's "The Conquest of Happiness", I've thought a lot about the importance of being able to sit inside my own head. One quote that I wrote down: > A life too full of excitement is an exhausting life, in which continually stronger stimuli are needed to give the thrill that has come to be thought an essential part of pleasure. A person accustomed to too much excitement is like a person w…
This is a profound realisation that is usually preceded by experiencing the sickness and suffering that comes with unrestrained desire. How it takes over one's discriminating faculties until one becomes blind to everyday beauty. I cannot recommend meditation enough to train the mind to stay calm when desires want to run rampant. No mantras or music, just sit in silence and boredom. Thoughts will come and go and event…
The subject of meditation is what cropped up first in my mind too.
That dimension of exploration addresses this quite directly.
Re: Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (2014)
#130If you have a habit and you cease that constant, habitual action. It looks a bit like doing and and it also looks a bit like not-doing.
And habits are often completely invisible.
So that's something to consider.