Are You Happy?

[Spiked Blood]

Does anybody watch the TV show "house"?

 

I have a similar philosophy to the main character. Happiness is an illusion. If a person was truly happy, they would just sit in their own filth, drooling at the mouth, having no motivation to do anything. Attaining happiness seems to be the primary goal of any human being, you can be content in a moment, but it doesn't last. You are just chasing the next moment, and the one after that. You're just a slave to the happy drug.

[Boerseun]

Does anybody watch the TV show "house"?

 

I have a similar philosophy to the main character. Happiness is an illusion. If a person was truly happy, they would just sit in their own filth, drooling at the mouth, having no motivation to do anything. Attaining happiness seems to be the primary goal of any human being, you can be content in a moment, but it doesn't last. You are just chasing the next moment, and the one after that. You're just a slave to the happy drug.

Quite interesting, actually.

 

This would conform to the ideal of "Nirvana", where the perfect state of not wanting for anything is reached. And if you follow the argument to its logical conclusion, then anybody who have reached nirvana will be a drooling, unmotivated filthy dude. 'Cause if you're dirty, so what? You don't want to be clean. You won't speak, 'cause you're happy as is. Matter of fact, you won't even think, 'cause their simply won't be any motivation to do so. This last example would be particularly difficult to attain, making me wonder if 'nirvana' as such is possible, at all.

 

But nonetheless, a good case can be made in this argument that human happiness is eternally bound to our generally miserable condition, and we simply define happiness as those occasional spikes in our humdrum routine - those spikes are what motivates us in living, and all we are really doing is simply stumble blindly from the one spike to the next.

 

Sad, really. But interesting. Talking about interesting stuff makes me happy. I'm happy now. Untill I whack the Enter key... then it's off cruising around unhappilly, searching for another spike...