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17202446 No.17202446 [Reply] [Original]

Any books on what to do in order to feel happy?
Please don't hit me with the usual "just express yourself authentically bro". The postmodernists were right, and the self is a fickle construct that can change through a change in environment, with nothing sacred about it.
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>> No.17202480
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>>17202446
just drink bro

>> No.17202517

>>17202480
Right along the faggot alley of "consciousness is a mistake in evolution and we should try to numb it". Do you have any solution that's not for cowards?

>> No.17202518

There are truly unfixable problems that BTFO "just improve urself bro" morons.

I live in a society where people are overworked, only care about their digital life, or both. I am a social being that wants friends that disconnect and are down-to-earth. These are incompatible

>> No.17202548

>>17202517
no I don't. There is no other choice. Everything else is just distractions or cope

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>>17202518
>>17202518
After extensive reading, the best way I have found to answer my own question has actually been "just improve yourself". The best way I have found to generate impulses of contentment is to use neurophysiological pathways rooted in our evolution (exercise - normal sleep schedule - good food - desirability to the opposite sex). While I'm certain that even these pathways can be broken down to non-functionality by a severely persistent loser, they're mostly there and tend to fire reliably.
Postmodernist frames of thinking allow you to overcome even unfixable problems such as disfigurement, health issues, etc. They do create their own slew of new problems though and likely bring you closer to a dissociative state 24/7.
As for your complaint that you cannot find a "social being with friends that disconnect and are down to earth", presumably in your area, I urge you to move or stop being such a pussy, get out of your shell, and talk to more people.

>>17202548
If your solution is numbing your senses to partial/complete unconsciousness, why not take a gun and get it over with permanently?

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ONE SHOULD STRIVE TO EXCEL IN VIRTUE; IT IS FROM EXCELLENCE THAT DERIVES A STATVS OF THRIVING; HAPPINESS IS AN ILLUSORY IMPOSSIBILITY, AND THE HOPEFUELED MOTOR OF THE MISERY OF THE WORLD.

>> No.17202760

>>17202642
"Virtue" is a trash concept debunked before airplanes were invented. Stop living in the 1700s and join us in the modern world of relativism.

>> No.17202790

>>17202642
based stoic

>> No.17202809

>>17202446
But it was self-defence.

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>>17202760
>>17202614
>>17202446

>> No.17205639

>>17202446
The Bible

>> No.17206265

>>17202446
>Any books on what to do in order to feel happy?
The Ethics