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Poll: On average, would you consider yourself Happy?
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Yes
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No
17.07%
7 17.07%
It's complicated.
24.39%
10 24.39%
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Are You Happy?
#51
RE: Are You Happy?
(February 21, 2014 at 5:34 pm)Mr. Moncrieff Wrote: Happiness is the presence of pleasure or the absence of pain...

How does this apply to those of us who like BDSM? Tongue
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#52
RE: Are You Happy?
(February 21, 2014 at 5:37 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote:
(February 21, 2014 at 5:34 pm)Mr. Moncrieff Wrote: Happiness is the presence of pleasure or the absence of pain...

How does this apply to those of us who like BDSM? Tongue

Well, my dear, it was proposed in utilitarianism that hedonism was the origin point of human contentment and the massaging of the base pleasures most significant to our progression as a species.

Indeed, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill have spoken on the issue to varying complexities. John Stuart Mill in his book Utilitarianism, stated, "In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality."

So, should oneself like a little slap and tickle, do unto others...

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#53
RE: Are You Happy?
I do get moments of sadness but generally am happy Smile
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#54
RE: Are You Happy?
If I don't get sad every now and then, how-on-this-rock am I going to know when I'm happy?
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#55
RE: Are You Happy?
Truly happy.
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#56
RE: Are You Happy?
No. We still live in the dark ages. I feel like I should have been born in the future.

And I'm going to lose my very best friend, my dog, in a short time and it's hard not to think about death.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.
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#57
RE: Are You Happy?
Currently, rather perturbed.
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#58
RE: Are You Happy?
(February 24, 2014 at 2:24 pm)Quantum Theorist Wrote: No. We still live in the dark ages. I feel like I should have been born in the future.

You're a lot more optimistic about the future than I am.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
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