RE: Let's talk about the 'tyranny of happiness'
January 27, 2017 at 12:56 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2017 at 1:14 pm by SteelCurtain.)
I think the efficacy of "Think Positive" has always been over-reported or over-hyped. It works sometimes, but only in very specific situations which most often lack gravity.
I do understand what you are saying Vic, you are making sense.
Genuinely, what do you see as a solution? I always struggle with trying to boost people when they are down, and I've always had the internal struggle of knowing that the best way to deal with emotions is to sit with them and feeling shitty is perfectly normal and part of human experience. I also have the cognitive portion of it, which is that being happy is preferable to being sad, and if I (personally) can do anything to change things once I have processed the emotion, I should.
I don't know.
I do understand what you are saying Vic, you are making sense.
Genuinely, what do you see as a solution? I always struggle with trying to boost people when they are down, and I've always had the internal struggle of knowing that the best way to deal with emotions is to sit with them and feeling shitty is perfectly normal and part of human experience. I also have the cognitive portion of it, which is that being happy is preferable to being sad, and if I (personally) can do anything to change things once I have processed the emotion, I should.
I don't know.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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