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6373849 No.6373849 [Reply] [Original]

/jp/, don't you think life would be much better if you came into a practically inexhaustible supply of money? Like, via the unforeseen inheritance of a distant relative. You could forever be a NEET without a care. Think of all the figures and hardware you could buy. Money must be able to buy happiness.

>> No.6373853

>gym errday, weed errday, totally optimated life errday, sleep/eat/shit/workout/lurk errday

i play the lottery every week

>> No.6373852

I won't get any inheritence from any of my relatives when they die. Nobody in this family has anything.

>> No.6373855

Money CAN buy happiness. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional.

>> No.6373854

Poor people spout bullshit like "money can't buy you happiness!" to feel better about themselves.

>> No.6373859

>>6373849
Life without worry.

>> No.6373864

Yes.

>> No.6373865

Even if you had all the money in the world, you'd never be the little girl

>> No.6373863

>don't you think life would be much better if you came into a practically inexhaustible supply of money?

its called disability and yes

>> No.6373869

Nope.

OP pretty much nailed it with the background, but reality can be a bitch.

And no, I haven't bought myself any whores yet.

>> No.6373872

>>6373849
Forget figures and games. If I gained a lot of money quickly and with no effort(it would have to be through the lottery, the distant relative inheritance thing only happens in horror and mystery stories) I would buy a large house in an isolated place, possibly on a private island, and hire maids to dress up as different characters while they do work for me.

>> No.6373873

All living beings are here to experience suffering. It's woven into our destiny.
Money wouldn't change that. Nor will all the toys, books, figurines, computers, drugs, or servants, or anything else that you could possibly have an infinite supply of. You would be foolish to think otherwise.

>> No.6373875

>>6373869
Spend it all on cosmetic surgery and become the trap-whore yourself

>> No.6373879

>>6373873
Living beings aren't here "for" anything; your life was a meaningless chance occurance, do with it what you will.

>> No.6373881

>>6373875

>Contract AIDS
>Die in agony

Oho.

Trying to kill him subtly?

>> No.6373882

I would go to Japan, get some new clothes and lurk arcades. Also indulge myself in some hookers.

>> No.6373886

>>6373879

>Living beings aren't here "for" anything

They are here to live, or they would not exist. The sun is here to shine, the Earth is here to spin around the sun, and you were born to sit here and discuss this with me on the Internet. We are already fulfilling destiny.

>> No.6373892

>>6373886
Go easy on the drugs.

>> No.6373894

My life style wouldn't change much, really the biggest factor would be the removal of the constant nagging feeling of eventually needing money to survive.

>> No.6373897

>>6373886
Dude are you fucking blasted right now?

>> No.6373899

>>6373886
There is no such thing as destiny, or rather it is irrelevant whether or not destiny exists.

>> No.6373901

>>6373892
>>6373897

Genuinely dry. I am picking up some sacks of bud tomorrownight, though. Stay tuned!

>> No.6373902

>>6373901
I hope you get arrested and raped in prison. :)

>> No.6373907

>>6373899

>There is no such thing as destiny, or rather it is irrelevant whether or not destiny exists.

Existence is irrelevant to destiny. It is part of the void. All things are doomed by fate. Even the Sun will soon blink out, the Universe will expand into nothingness, and all will be emptiness and cold, for eternity.

>> No.6373910

>>6373901
So you believe every creature's destiny is to suffer?

That doesn't really seem the case of the world's richest and most powerful persons.

>> No.6373913

Fulfilling my destiny by posting on /jp/

>> No.6373918

>>6373907
That's assuming time is a linear thing. And that new universes cannot be born from the end of the previous one.

I know non-scientific literature is your forte, but you should consider reading (extensively) about physics.

>> No.6373920

>>6373910
Even if you are perfectly provided for materially, you can't avoid growing old, growing sick, and finally dying.

>> No.6373923

>>6373918
What you're speaking about is really metaphysics, not physics. (The boundary is blurred when dealing with cosmology, of course.)

>> No.6373941

>>6373920
So? Eternal life is more of a curse.

>> No.6373947

>>6373910

He is babby's first Buddhist lecture.

>> No.6373946

Gee OP. I never thought about it!

Who would thought that money is good?!

>> No.6373949

>>6373941
That depends on the person.

I would love if me and all my dear internet friends/family lived forever. In before get out of /jp/ for having friends.

>> No.6373954

>>6373923
How is it blurred. One is armchair bullshit for philosophy majors, one is for people who aren't flipping burgers.

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6373964

Since you guys are SO D33P and all judging from your discussion, I was wondering if you could help me out with this dilemma.

I decided a while ago that the only purpose in my life was to make myself happy, after years and years of thinking about what other people think of me. The problem I've found is that I need other people to be happy. I've tried the isolation thing; it's easy for me because I'm naturally a loner, but I always find myself bored, desperate and miserable. So I'm trying to meet people and do things at my university, but I'm socially awkward from years of being a fuck-up in that department and I don't even like most of the people I meet. So what the hell should I do? Is there a medication I can take for this or something?

>> No.6373966

My trust fund was dissolved just over a year ago... It's too much money for me to know what to do with it but too little for me to live any kind of "life without worries"...

>> No.6373969

>>6373964
>I need other people to be happy
>I'm naturally a loner

Not a natural loner if you aren't fine being alone.

>> No.6373970

>>6373947

> The problem I've found is that I need other people to be happy.

You are a functional human being, this is to be expected.

>So I'm trying to meet people and do things at my university, but I'm socially awkward from years of being a fuck-up in that department and I don't even like most of the people I meet.

It's going to be hard before it gets better. Don't wimp out here.

>> No.6373975

>>6373964
Try therapy, and maybe medications if nothing works (although I hate psychiatrists because they basically want to transform you in a normal/moralfag).

Anyway, people are going to call you a normalfag for your post, so just enjoy the few serious replies you may get.

I would personally look for friends online, people in college are all too different from us. If you're lucky, you may find a good one in your city.

>> No.6373979

>>6373975

>I would personally look for friends online,

this is a terrible idea, not as if you needed me to highlight that.

>> No.6373984

>>6373969
Let's be honest here. If you were fine with being alone you wouldn't be on /jp/ posting in this thread, let alone any other site that can act as the social life you don't have in real life.

>> No.6373986

>>6373979
I don't mean shit like Facebook, Myspace, of course.

I've found some of my best friends by participating in forums related to my tastes. So that's why I said that. I'm not sure if I was clear enough because English is not my native language.

>> No.6373990

If people get close to me they'll realize how awful I am

>> No.6373995

Thanks for the responses. I'm trying to make things work without therapy or medication or any of that shit, but it's not easy. I'll do my best!

>> No.6373998

>>6373986

>I've found some of my best friends by participating in forums related to my tastes.

/jp/ is related to my tastes, but I'm sure everyone here would rather suck a shotgun off than spend any amount of time in the same space as myself, and believe me, the feeling is definitely mutual. I make it a point to avoid /jp/ related areas, such as Gensokyo.

How do you reckon that? Of course there's the fact that 4chan is a shitty place for shitty people and should be classed alongside Facebook in your list of places NOT to meet people from, so yeah.

>> No.6374005

>>6373990
I know that feel, but if you don't relate to people, you will just get bitter and bitter as time passes. Your personality will become even worse.

And I'm not saying "go ahead and be a normalfag", all I'm saying is to try and find some good friends with similar tastes and views. That's the hard part, but it's worth it.

>> No.6374052

>>6373995

I was completely socially fucked and left school at 14. I didn't have any "friends" or a social life til I was 21 and I'm 23 now. Basically had to relearn social interaction etc. It was hard but I have a relatively healthy social life now. Problem is it isn't fulfilling because most of the people I know are idiots. Seriously, people think /jp/ is manchild central, these idiots are grown men who bitch and moan about 3D whores who screw them over on facebook. On the other hand, they are all good people most of the time. And I have met some really wonderful and sensitive people too.

Its nice having a bit of a social life because there is the stupid hope of finding an interesting person to talk to.

>>6373990
>If people get close to me they'll realize how awful I am

We tell ourselves this because it is scary to let someone inside (to cum or otherwise) ;_;

Yeah, yeah normalfag etc.

>> No.6374065

Everyone on this board needs to smoke weed.

>> No.6374066

Sunday afternoon sure is filled with normalfags. I think I'll be off doing something.

Oh yeah. Money can buy happiness:
Money can give you a wife/a girlfriend.
Money can give you 'friends'.
Money can earn the respect of the relatives., etc.

I've never tried playing the lottery though.

>> No.6374069

>>6373849
I have a grandma in Romania who loves me very much and if she dies I get half the village she lives in, plus house and huge garden.

>> No.6374074

>>6374066

>Money can give you 'friends'.

Gee, I sure love being stabbed in the back. That must be why I frequent /jp/.

>> No.6374081

>>6374065

This is the opposite of what people on /jp/ "need." If they need anything.

>> No.6374090

>>6373854
This is true. I am poor myself, but unlike most poor people, I've chosen to accept reality. I'd be 100x happier if I didn't have to constantly worry about bills, rent, etc. I also wouldn't have to worry about working my ass off.

I think the reason behind the "money can't buy happiness" mentality is people trying to cover up their jealousy.

>> No.6374102

>>6374090
That's not true, i think having little money is better, I think it's more fun to deal with problems than doing nothing all day, I can't imagine a life without dealing everyday with rent and bills. I'm happy that way.

But then again, I'm a Machoist.

>> No.6374116

So here's what psychologists studies have found.

Most people's happiness experiences a diminishing return after basic needs like food, shelter, and medical care are met. Generally, millionaires not more happy than people living 3-4 thousand dollars above the poverty line. They are consistently a little more happy, but do not rate themselves much more than 2-3 points happier on a scale of 1-30 than people who live just a little bit above the poverty level. This however, does not hold true for people who live at or below the poverty level, who are generally less happy and rate their quality of life as "bad."

>> No.6374121

>>6374116
It's probably that you really can't be THAT happy without something being wrong with you. Money can bring you to the peak of reasonable happiness.

>> No.6374124

>>6374116
So, take away the rich people's money and put them on the same level as those just above the poverty line, then let them rate their happiness again. Or the other way around for the poor people. It's all subjective.

>> No.6374125

>>6374116
I wish I could find the graph of this. But income vs happiness, it basically looks logarithmic.

>> No.6374128

>>6374124
The poor people would be so goddamn happy.

>> No.6374127

>>6374102
No poor person truly wants to continue living in shit. Unless you're not actually poor, but rather middle class or so. As for me, I not only live in a shit country, but am also poor by ITS standards. I'm lucky internet is at least cheap here.

>> No.6374132

>>6374128
They would, but it wouldn't last long.

>> No.6374133

I don't need money, which I have in decent amounts, but rather a life partner, which is much more difficult to find.

>> No.6374134

I wonder how much money the middle class person has, but I rent a pretty shit house filled with bugs and generally eat shit. It's not like I'm in third world conditions though.

>> No.6374136

>>6374132
I don't know about that. If they lived for decades being poor and suddenly became rich they might be drunk on it for a good long time.

>> No.6374142

>>6374124
That's the thing though. They've studied this too. People greatly overestimate the impact of so called "life altering" events. The people who win the lottery after living lower-middle class, the effect usually lasts about six months to a year, then they get used to it. The people who lose all their money in the stock market and go from being wealthy almost-retried to having just their cash reserves, actually tend to fare pretty well happiness-wise after a year or two goes by.

>> No.6374146

>>6374136
It's a shame when the poor get a large sum of money, most of the time they completely blow it in a few weeks. Poor management and the feeling of ecstasy are to blame.

>> No.6374153

>>6374136
>>6374128
>>6374127
It's not "poor people" though. It's "lower middle class" people that experience the diminishing return. I.E. You have enough money to pay rent on a modest abode, buy decent food, get health-care, and spend ~$70/month on luxuries

>> No.6374162

>>6374153
>buy decent food, get health-care

If only... if only... ;_;

>> No.6374187

Its about balance. Have something to work towards that will make you happy. If you have everything whenever you want, you will appreciate it less. But everyone is different, some people might be happy fulfilling every desire that pops in their head.

>> No.6374292

I pretty much do I guess. Worked my ass off for it when I was 17-23 though. I barely spent a dime (I had no major bills to pay), and I just saved and saved and then invested what I saved. It worked.

It does bring happiness, but IMO only because you get slightly more freedom in life. I didn't like being a NEET (which is basically retiring early) though. I went back to school at age 23-24 because I wanted to experience it, and I still got one of the (easy) part-time jobs I enjoyed from when I first started working.

I don't live lavishly though; I'm just not that kind of guy. And I believe with that >>6374116 mentioned. What brings true happiness is something that varies from person to person once those basic human needs are met.

>> No.6377268

>>6373863
Where do you live and what "disability" do you have where your income is practically inexhaustible?

>> No.6377276

Yes, it would. I would buy a private island and build a NEET colony there. Everyone from /jp/ would be invited and we could all pretend to be little girls together.

>> No.6377344

>>6373849
I would spend it or on trying to fix my life so I could have "normal" life of Touhou fangril, and later teleport to Gensokyo. Now I have still long way to fix my life so I have to wait with Gensokyo ;_;

>> No.6377463

I'm already doing what I want, which is nothing of importance while keeping myself busy with trivial interests and amusements.

Having enough money to do this till the day I die without worry is my dream.

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>arc being pseudo intellectual

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1. quit studies.

2. new cool stuff everywhere.

3. play every fucking game, do every fucking activity, do everything that I wasn't able to do because I had no money.

4. complete the list of things I must do before death.

5. ride a car off a plane while listening Deep Purple, land without parachute.

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