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An infinite progress
RE: An infinite progress
Ahriman Wrote:But I know I have a good life. Not saying your post is BS, I'm just saying, I have a good life.

Well, you seem to spend all your time on this forum, so how good can it be?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: An infinite progress
(September 13, 2021 at 1:28 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:
Ahriman Wrote:But I know I have a good life. Not saying your post is BS, I'm just saying, I have a good life.

Well, you seem to spend all your time on this forum, so how good can it be?

*spits out coffee*
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RE: An infinite progress
(September 13, 2021 at 1:20 pm)Ahriman Wrote:
(September 13, 2021 at 1:17 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Positive about what?
Life in general, my future, etc.

Are you familiar with the hedonic treadmill?

Quote:The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed 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. Philip Brickman and Donald T. Campbell coined the term in their essay "Hedonic Relativism and Planning the Good Society" (1971). The hedonic treadmill viewpoint suggests that wealth does not increase the level of happiness. Subjective well-being might be largely determined by genetics; that is, happiness may be a heritable trait.

Wikipedia || Hedonic Treadmill

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RE: An infinite progress
Quote: Are you familiar with the hedonic treadmill?
I am now. But what's your point?
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RE: An infinite progress
(September 13, 2021 at 1:38 pm)Ahriman Wrote:
Quote: Are you familiar with the hedonic treadmill?
I am now. But what's your point?

No point, really, it was a kind of intelligence test. Coffee
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RE: An infinite progress
(September 13, 2021 at 1:04 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(September 13, 2021 at 1:00 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Well that's interesting. But I know I have a good life. Not saying your post is BS, I'm just saying, I have a good life.

Do you also know that you are posting on a forum where several people think you are a blithering idiot?  If not, you haven't been paying attention.

The thing is that it doesn't really register enough with him to care. His magical fantasy world is all that really counts for him. And that is unlikely to change no matter what is said. Negative real life consequences might change the fantasy for awhile, but once the consequence has passed he'll revert and the cycle will repeat.
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