Pleasure is far superior to mere intelligence

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Your user name inspired me.....

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I wish to feel superior to reality by embracing fantasy and feeling empowered by fantasy as well as through the delusion that there is a God and an afterlife. But my intelligence (atheism) has prevented me from being this person I want to be. Which is why I hate such intelligence and view fantasy and feelings of pleasure as superior. All that matters in life to me is embracing feelings of pleasure from god-like fantasy which would make me a mystical god-like being who is superior to reality (so to speak, not literally speaking). So all that matters to me is being a superior god-like being in a sense and ending all things inferior in my life. To me, struggles in life, depression, and the fact that there is no God or afterlife are all inferior things to me and must die. So by believing in a God and an afterlife, I would have "killed" this inferior concept of there being no God and afterlife in a sense (including any feelings of depression as well). Feeling empowered and that I'm all great is the only thing that matters to me in life (not in comparison to other people, but in comparison to myself and reality itself).

[Angrboda]

The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the supposed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes. According to this theory, as a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem, which results in no permanent gain in happiness. Brickman and Campbell coined the term in their essay "Hedonic Relativism and Planning the Good Society" (1971). During the late 1990s, the concept was modified by Michael Eysenck, a British psychologist, to become the current "hedonic treadmill theory" which compares the pursuit of happiness to a person on a treadmill, who has to keep working just to stay in the same place.

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Without intelligence, would you be smart enough to find pleasurable things to do?

The bugs seem to have it down.

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I wish to feel superior to reality by embracing fantasy and feeling empowered by fantasy as well as through the delusion that there is a God and an afterlife.

DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU STILL HAVE CHOICE IN THE MATTER!

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How could I protect you from the allure of the nonreal reality, when I myself am unable to resist?

But my intelligence (atheism) has prevented me from being this person I want to be.

Stop wishing to be a fool... you're ahead of yourself already.

Which is why I hate such intelligence and view fantasy and feelings of pleasure as superior.

Not unlike a dangerous drug... it lures you in with the first time... and it will become an exercise in misery eventually.

It is superior only for hurting yourself. Intelligence *cannot* save you from your own mind's intelligence.

All that matters in life to me is embracing feelings of pleasure from god-like fantasy which would make me a mystical god-like being who is superior to reality (so to speak, not literally speaking).

You're not. Leave that fantasy at the door, and leave your life better for it.

So all that matters to me is being a superior god-like being in a sense and ending all things inferior in my life. To me, struggles in life, depression, and the fact that there is no God or afterlife are all inferior things to me and must die.

So... a troll. Oh well. You should still take my advice.

So by believing in a God and an afterlife, I would have "killed" this inferior concept of there being no God and afterlife in a sense (including any feelings of depression as well). Feeling empowered and that I'm all great is the only thing that matters to me in life (not in comparison to other people, but in comparison to myself and reality itself).

It's an incomparably foolish notion, but you knew that

[Zen Badger]

The man has a point, its hard to concentrate on quantum mechanics when you're having a orgasm.

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The man has a point, its hard to concentrate on quantum mechanics when you're having a orgasm.

You know what? You're right: it's likewise difficult to achieve orgasm when you're concentrating on quantum mechanics.