RE: Addiction
January 23, 2022 at 9:50 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2022 at 9:51 pm by Disagreeable.)
(January 19, 2022 at 12:05 pm)Ahriman Wrote: What experience do you have with addiction? Either being addicted to something yourself, or watching someone else be addicted to something?
My experience is that I get addicted to any interests that aren't humans.
I wouldn't say I was particularly addicted to any pleasure in particular. I cycle through them all. But people are too irritating to be addictive but also too interesting to avoid completely. And being addicted to people has got to be the most dangerous addiction of all. So I guess I'm extremely lucky that I am one of the very few people who never gets lonely. Bored? Always intermittently. Lonely? Never.
It's important to always be comfortable by oneself. Everybody else is either bonus points or an obstacle to be avoided. Playing humanity is like playing a game of Asteroids.
Schopenhauer Wrote:The intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.
Epicurus Wrote:The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
Epicurus Wrote:Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get,
What is terrible is easy to endure
