The purpose delusion
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@tonyfalca Well, I'll discuss it with if you want, but to be polite I'll only communicate through PMs from now on. The no deprivation-deprivation inequality is still on the table. So far what you've tried to do, from my perspective, is reference coping mechanisms in an attempt to try to frame pain as non-real, which is exactly what I stated one of the negative aspects of the "positive psychology subculture" was a few comments back.
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@FreeLongPig I was just explaining my response to the argument you provided, which you supposedly misunderstood. I thought we could discuss it, but I guess it's not up for debate, huh?
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@tonyfalca You just wanted to give a motivational speech, huh? Am I right?
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@FreeLongPig "I feel as if that's possible and impossible yet never definite." What I mean by this is that, anything and absolutely everything is a potential. Stop limiting the possibilities by permanently fixing your perspective forever, keep adjusting, never stop adjusting. Sorry for the spam once again, but I hope this allows you to understand just what I'm getting at.
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What I understand as your argument to be, is that any dislike is better than no dislike. I would totally agree with that. In the most ideal situation, however, you do have the choice to stop disliking whatever it may be that you dislike in the first place. If you cannot stop disliking something, CHANGE the WAY you SEE it, change your point of view, change your understanding... I hope that makes sense?
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You misunderstood my mesage. It has nothing at all to do with the "positive psychology culture" (or optimism for short that,) which you've mentioned. What I'm trying to say is that, WHAT YOU CAN AFFECT is your personal perspective, which ultimately determines what is good and what is bad. If you assume and employ the belief that you cannot have any affect over your own perspective whatsoever, then you're right, you'd become helpless, or a victim to circumstances... dz that mk sense?
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@tonyfalca "I feel as if that's possible and impossible yet never definite."
That statement made my mind go "bleeeegh".
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@tonyfalca "What are your thoughts on my interpretations?"
I think your overestimating people's ability to control what is good and bad. One of the negative aspects of the pervasive "positive psychology" culture is that it declares that people essentially choose to be unhappy and that pain isn't real.
I also think you may be confused or that you simply typed something wrong. You just wrote that you understand how something could be worse and then contradicted yourself.
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@tonyfalca Personally, I feel as if we, each and everyone of us, can indeed affect the stimulu, our point of view and or what that point of view is viewing.
Sorry for the spam, but I just wanted to clarify what I intended to write: (1) so a dislike to a stimulus and exposure to that **stimulus** is worse than no dislike and no stimulus.
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(2) I struggle to understand your second rational; I struggle to understand how exposure to a stimulus is worse than no stimulus in the first place. I feel as if that's possible and impossible yet never definite. It can be true while in other instances false. Again, everything is accord to our points of view, so we may have to agree to disagree. What are your thoughts on my interpretations?
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The only way to obliterate the negative is too never create the means by which the negative could exist.
stagedive40 5 months ago 16
@AEVautomatic People can manufacture or "delude" themselves into whatever purpose they want for their own existence. The challenge is not for people to justify their continued existence, but rather for parents to provide valid justifications for bringing children into existence. People seem to like to confuse the two.
FreeLongPig 5 months ago 3