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Eng essay due in a few hours

How would /lit/ define happiness

>> No.3059600

>>3059585
Happiness is doing your own homework.

Also, I was going to post something about how people that start homework threads should be assraped, but then I decided that it would be unconductive to good netiquette and board quality.

Take care of yourself, OP.

>> No.3059617

>>3059600
Ass hat ive already written half my paper i was asking for opinions personally i believe the majority of people find happiness in buying shit they dont need for people they dont like

but this seems to much like fight club so im looking for a new direction

>> No.3059634

>>3059617
> for a new direction

Your new direction is over -------> here.

Now go get lost.

>> No.3059638

your teacher isn't gonna read it op, and if they do they're not going to think too hard about it. just slap some shit on the page and call it a day

>> No.3059640

The pleasure of being cummed inside.

>> No.3059664

Happiness is enlightenment.

>> No.3059680

Accepting well deserved failure.

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3059696

>>3059585

>> No.3059697

write that happiness is illdefined and subjective (obviously). furthermore, that it is scarcely predicated on truth or reason or fact.

>> No.3059702

Genuine acceptance.

>> No.3059730

>>3059696
that does remind me of the "hap" root in happiness, which is to say that it's just a lucky state of affairs (I think, not entirely up to date on my etymology). Should take his teacher up to task on "pleasure" or something more nuanced, throw in jouissance for dat Frenchification

>> No.3059735

Life's a bitch and then you die; that's why we get high. Cause you never know where you're gonna go.

>> No.3059741

>>3059735
Pretty much this.

>> No.3059746

a warm gun

>> No.3059750

>>3059702
This.

Most people just subject themselves to people who agree with them constantly. Members of this group rarely stray from the "hivemind" of their group for fear of being thrown out.

Genuine acceptance can only really occur when you question things constantly and like the answer you come up with.

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>> No.3059763

Living in a 2D anime world.

>> No.3059766

Accepting that you are a human failure and will never accomplish anything of value, then becoming a NEET

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3059772

What a fucking retarded question. God, I hate you and your English paper, but, like, the dark blue bit on this pyramid, pretty much.

>> No.3059778

Happiness is assuming a benevolent nihilism.

/thread.

>> No.3059783

>>3059778
God, you are stupid. Why do I even come here? I'll tell you why - I bought this energy drink and I want to go to sleep but it would be a waste of this money I spent on this energy drink if I didn't drink it before I went to sleep. So, here I am, languishing in this electrical purgatory.

>> No.3059809

>>3059585

OP, happiness is submitting yourself to the will of Allah.

Also, growing a beard.

Hope that helps.

>> No.3059810

>>3059585
Happiness is living virtuously.

>> No.3059836

>>3059585
Happiness is me banging you're mom

>> No.3059850

>>3059772
>employment more important than friends and family

Nice priorities that fucker has.

>> No.3059855

Happiness is looking into her eyes and knowing she fears you utterly: that she fears your face more than pain or amputation or anything you could do to her: knowing that she fears only your face - your lips - and has become accustomed to the rest of you. That is happiness.

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3059853

>>3059778
This.

>> No.3059860

>>3059850
Actually, the family is on the same level as employment.

>> No.3059879

Happiness is me finding out that there is still time to drop this anthropology class that I hate, getting to write an article about bonobo sex for another and getting to go to English later.

I have a happy.

>> No.3059889

>>3059879
Go to bed, Peter.

>> No.3060071

>>3059855

Please do explain how you achieved this happiness?

>> No.3060072

>>3059640

are you that same girl?

>> No.3060132

To me, there are different forms of happiness:

The 'victorious' happiness -the feeling of resistance being overcome: Creating something or conquering something usually triggers this response.

Safety and self-acceptance: The feeling that everything is as it should be.

Relief: that pressure has been subtracted. This emotion is similar to the one of the victory but not quite: Relief is more of pressure DISSAPPEARING rather than it being overcome.

Simple bodily well-being - the feeling of being healthy and feeling well in ones body.

And a lot of others. Just these few that I could mention.

>> No.3060139

Happiness is anything that causes a high enough dopamine, serotonin and noroepinephrine release for a feeling of pleasure to be created; high enough to counteract a depletion in said neurotransmitters, or any anxiety/displeasure caused by various forms of sensory input.

>> No.3060242

>>3059783
we all come here because we have nowhere better to be.

benevolent nihilism bro, feeling comfortably numb, accepting that everything is shit and doesn't ultimately matter can be extremely calming- even sedating.

DO DRUGS.

>> No.3060261

Being content.

>> No.3060290

Happiness

Hapeee nis

Have Penis. Merely a large, defined package in boxer-briefs is happiness.

>> No.3060300

>>3060242

nihilism being "benevolent" would cease being nihilism.

>> No.3060650

>>3060139
>science is so beautiful guise! definitely not cold and sociopathic that only sociopathic nerds like!

>> No.3060656

>>3060300
It does exist, it's called being a sociopath bro. Acting outwardly benevolent to fit in while inwardly feeling nothing.

>> No.3060699

>>3060139
get your ass back to /sci/ inbred teen atheist

>> No.3060719

>>3060650
>science is so beautiful guise! definitely not cold and sociopathic that only sociopathic nerds like!
Why are you opposed to empirical observation? Understanding photosynthesis, the calvin cycle, and chloroplasts, doesn't detract from the subjective beauty of the flower.

>> No.3060725

>>3060719
>empirical observation
Give one good OBJECTIVE reason for it.

>> No.3060727

>>3060719
You've never been to a rose growing contest.

>> No.3060746

being more than content with my surroundings and life. Hopefully this would be without exploiting others. but it really wouldnt matter.... so long as i dont know

>> No.3060749

>>3060746
Where do you live?

>> No.3060756

being really fucking stupid.

My first grade teacher's comment about me to my parents (something they still joke about today) reigns oh so true:
"If ignorance is bliss than Johnathon is in for a life of undiluted bliss"

>> No.3060767

>>3059585
Dying while dragging your mother to a temple along side your twin brother.

>> No.3060773

I had a diabetic cat who would drink from the faucet when he couldn't get his medicine. So that cat in your pic is probably sick.

>> No.3060777

>>3060767
Nice of the mother to let them do that for her, then wish them dead.

>> No.3060780

>>3060773
What happened to the cat?

>> No.3060781

true happiness is accepting the world around you and finding contentment in it

>> No.3060790

>>3060749
California man.
i used to live in LA but i moved up north for collage