Trying my hardest to be civil in this uncivilised world.

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  • Pleasure/ease is not happiness, as I have been a directionless, purposeless NEET with no responsibilities but enough disposable income to finance my hedonism, and a full-time worker, part-time student married man, and the former made me suicidal after a while. If you’re lucky enough that you can just basically live like a pig, rolling in your own filth and just chilling until death, then good for you (not you, OP, just the “global” you 😅) but I can’t.

    I’d say “the feeling/mental state resulting from realising you’re living according to your values (which involves identity and self esteem), with defined objectives, balancing duty and pleasure/ease and in the momentary absence of great emotional pain/distress”. Or something like that. 👍





  • I stopped drinking cause what was the point by then? I only drank when I went out with my mates and we only went out for horny reasons (I don’t like sports, I’m a semi shut-in geek 🤓). Personally, I don’t think the effects are fun enough to counteract all the physical discomfort that comes with it, starting with the taste even, and let’s not even talk about the social consequences of drinking excessively. But I think (as potentially blasphemous as it may be) that there’s room for a cheeky drink here and there, that it’s not necessarily problematic or immoral in these particular scenarios… but how easy do people in cultures who socialize around alcohol almost exclusively keep to it without falling into addiction and dependency? 🤔


  • I drank for most of my life but once I met my now wife I didn’t see the point of it, since it was entirely related to my horniness and trying to get in a skirt chasing “wolf mode”. I also converted to Islam so that definitely pushed me more in that direction, lol, and I haven’t drank in almost a decade. I’m not shy and/or self-conscious so it doesn’t benefit me in that way (a couple of drinks is more than enough for these kind of folks, or at least should be) and I’m too reckless and easily triggered into aggression (way more so the past but still) so nah, not for me… my substance has always been cannabis anyway. 🫣😅




  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldMe_irl
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    I mean, you can be proud of your accomplishments as they’re, at least in part, the result of your hard work and dedication, something you could’ve easily not done but you did despite the fact it was not pleasurable. But I understand the general feeling of the post, as many people will just base their entire self worth on whether they’re better for employers or not, lol.








  • How would you explain it? Is it the afterlife you’re communicating with or with the disembodied souls of those roaming the earth? What are they doing here, if it’s the latter? And what are you basing this on if it’s the former? Western European mythology, meaning either Elysium/Valhalla or idk whatever forest fairy kingdom Germanics believed in? Or are you going full Semitic monotheism, Heaven and Hell stuff? Cause idk if Jewish or Muslim tradition allows for seances. 🤔

    Anyway I’m just being too serious for no reason, lol, most people wouldn’t drop a book simply because their cosmology is nonsensical. I would, though. 😅