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Do people just naturally want conflict

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Do people just naturally want conflict
Gawdzilla Sama Offline
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RE: Do people just naturally want conflict
September 25, 2023 at 8:50 am
(September 25, 2023 at 8:38 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Examples:

Religious ceremonies
Voluntary work
Artistic creation
Parenting events (like birth of child)
Scientific discovery/learning
Numinous experiences of nature
Music events

And so on.

Creating a new life. (For you parents out there. Naughty )
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RE: Do people just naturally want conflict
September 25, 2023 at 8:55 am (This post was last modified: September 25, 2023 at 8:56 am by Ahriman.)
(September 25, 2023 at 8:50 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(September 25, 2023 at 8:38 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Examples:

Religious ceremonies
Voluntary work
Artistic creation
Parenting events (like birth of child)
Scientific discovery/learning
Numinous experiences of nature
Music events

And so on.

Creating a new life. (For you parents out there.  Naughty )

Sex is not meaningful at all. It's literally just two people using each other's bodies to get themselves off. All pleasure, no meaning.
"Imagination, life is your creation"
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RE: Do people just naturally want conflict
September 25, 2023 at 8:58 am
(September 25, 2023 at 8:55 am)Ahriman Wrote:
(September 25, 2023 at 8:50 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Creating a new life. (For you parents out there.  Naughty )

Sex is not meaningful at all. It's literally just two people using each other's bodies to get themselves off. All pleasure, no meaning.

UNLESS you're trying to get pregnant.
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RE: Do people just naturally want conflict
September 25, 2023 at 9:07 am
(September 25, 2023 at 8:58 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(September 25, 2023 at 8:55 am)Ahriman Wrote: Sex is not meaningful at all. It's literally just two people using each other's bodies to get themselves off. All pleasure, no meaning.

UNLESS you're trying to get pregnant.

Well yeah but what if you're not trying to do that? Then it's just two monkeys fucking. Arguably the least meaningful thing you could ever do.
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RE: Do people just naturally want conflict
September 25, 2023 at 9:08 am
(September 25, 2023 at 8:55 am)Ahriman Wrote: Sex is not meaningful at all. It's literally just two people using each other's bodies to get themselves off. All pleasure, no meaning.

Sounds like your heavenly afterlife. 

Enjoy your eternity Ahriman

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RE: Do people just naturally want conflict
September 25, 2023 at 9:11 am
(September 25, 2023 at 9:07 am)Ahriman Wrote:
(September 25, 2023 at 8:58 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: UNLESS you're trying to get pregnant.

Well yeah but what if you're not trying to do that? Then it's just two monkeys fucking. Arguably the least meaningful thing you could ever do.
I stated a specific case.
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RE: Do people just naturally want conflict
September 25, 2023 at 9:26 am (This post was last modified: September 25, 2023 at 9:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 25, 2023 at 7:56 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Meaningful pleasurable experiences are the ideal, but I suspect that many will unconsciously drift towards or create meaningful negative/mixed experiences rather than have a total absence of meaning in their lives.  Somewhat akin to how many prefer pain to boredom, and drama to peace.

The mixed experience of acknowledging the suck so that you can make fun of it.  For example, we imagine our superiors are making us do stupid shit because they're assholes, rather than directly face the fact that they're 24 year old kids trying to make changes on a static board to please their superiors and we're all in an impossible situation.

"Go stop those guys from killing those other guys but don't kill any guys doing it and definitely don't die." Oh sure, you betcha, gonna get right on that and I love it. Great plan.
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RE: Do people just naturally want conflict
September 25, 2023 at 9:40 am
(September 25, 2023 at 8:55 am)Ahriman Wrote:
(September 25, 2023 at 8:50 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Creating a new life. (For you parents out there.  Naughty )

Sex is not meaningful at all. It's literally just two people using each other's bodies to get themselves off. All pleasure, no meaning.

Are you a sex repulsed asexual, by any chance?
Regardless, it only matters what is meaningful to them, not anyone else.
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RE: Do people just naturally want conflict
September 25, 2023 at 10:02 am
(September 25, 2023 at 8:55 am)Ahriman Wrote:
(September 25, 2023 at 8:50 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Creating a new life. (For you parents out there.  Naughty )

Sex is not meaningful at all. It's literally just two people using each other's bodies to get themselves off. All pleasure, no meaning.

That is, if you're so shallow you're only doing it for your own pleasure.

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RE: Do people just naturally want conflict
September 25, 2023 at 10:07 am
(September 25, 2023 at 10:02 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(September 25, 2023 at 8:55 am)Ahriman Wrote: Sex is not meaningful at all. It's literally just two people using each other's bodies to get themselves off. All pleasure, no meaning.

That is, if you're so shallow you're only doing it for your own pleasure.

No one would have sex if they, themselves, weren't getting something out of it. It's an inherently selfish act.
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