(November 10, 2013 at 8:12 am)John V Wrote: No, you're mistaking a desire for a need.
I could have gone to the store and gotten a donut. I didn't. I'm still here and not feeling deprived. Therefore I did not need the donut.
You did not need the donut, but the donut, had it been imbibed, would have fulfilled a need.
In response to the initial question you answered, you seem to be mistaking your needs, with the way your body interprets and conveys those needs to you; when you're hungry, the message you get isn't one about the chemical energy you need to replenish, though that's the need it fulfills. Rather, you begin desiring food, probably even specific kinds of food. In regards to the donut, it would have made you happy to have one, and happiness is a need. You just have other methods of obtaining happiness close by to you, so lacking that donut isn't a terrible blow to you.
Aren't you lucky?
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