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Is life futile?

All of these things are simple to understand and clearly necessary:

-sex
-food
-health
-education
-transport
-security
-freedom
-privacy
-friends
-entertainment
-leisure

Most people don't have all these items in a satisfactory level but fail to realize that this is what is making them unhappy. They underestimate the role of these things in someone's happiness.

I say that life is futile because things that make life as good as it gets are all obvious and simple.

I've put sex in first because people tend to state that love has profound aspects. But they say that to anything they don't understand. Once you understand they become as trivial as everything else. Evolutionary biology and psychiatry have the answers for that.

Plus, money gives you most of them to some extent and makes the rest easier to get.

>> No.4625905

Some people read fiction in order to explore the question of whether life is futile.

>> No.4625945

Ha, you'd be dead in a lower income bracket.

>> No.4625950

>>4625873
>sex
list is already fucked up, boy-o

>> No.4625956

>>4625873
It depends - do you want it to be futile, or not?

>> No.4626155

>>4625950
unless you're asexual

captcha: rtainsu EUNUCH

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>>4625873
Life is a challenge. Gauntlet thrown down, what're you gonna do?

>I've put sex in first because people tend to state that love has profound aspects
Sex and love are separable. I'm not getting any sex (beyond masturbation) but I'm full of love anyway. It's a big part of what contents me. It will never be trivial. I get poetic with myself and say love and other ephemerals will go on after we're all gone. Man's favourite child, to fill the dark void once we've perished

>> No.4626633

>>4625873
it's not futile because they are obvious and simple, it is not futile at all. These things are possible for most anyone to gain access to, some have problems permanent or able to be fixed that prevent it currently but are overwhelmed by the want of them and have trouble finding a way; others are born unable, which is tragic. The solution to happiness is equity. While it may not be the extravagant, indulgent, rich-man fantasy some dream of, it is the ethical option.

>> No.4626645

>>4625873


the problem is that most people get unhappy over the fact that theyre unhappy, such is the wages of hedonism as modern social tradition.

>> No.4626653

>>4625873
>transport

What the fuck are you talking about? Legs?

>> No.4626660

sex isn't love

>> No.4626680

>>4625873
>Most people don't have all these items in a satisfactory level but fail to realize that this is what is making them unhappy
Most no longer believe that happiness comes from the outside world

>> No.4626695

Life is, it's not pointless.

>> No.4626941

>>4626660
love is sex+friendship

>> No.4626943

>>4626941
Not even.

>> No.4626955

>>4626941
Do you love your family, motherfucker?

>> No.4626962

>>4626955
thats a different kind of love. Thats friendship.
People call sex, friendship and sex+friendship "love"

>> No.4626966

>>4626609
>Sex and love are separable.
Only because sex is natural. Anything that is natural has love in it.

>> No.4626965

>>4626962
What about compassion for a stranger? Love for humanity, I mean.

>> No.4626969

>>4626941
>>4626962
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love
arguing over semantics

>> No.4626977

>>4626966
Define "has love in it."

I went into a natural cave once and all I saw in there was mud and bat shit.

>> No.4626980

>>4625873
>Evolutionary biology
no fuck you stop using words you don't understand

>> No.4626984

>>4625873 Transport? Explain?

>> No.4626985

>>4626943
all the girls i've been in love with were like that

>> No.4626989

>>4625873
I humbly request that you do one of the following:

1. Read the Stoics and stop being a wuss.
or
2. Just stop being a wuss.

>> No.4626994

from what planet do you people who think romantic relationships are anything like friendships come from

>> No.4626996

>>4626977
That stuff loves in their own way.

Everything in the circle of life loves.

>> No.4627001

>>4626996
The word "love" is used to describe either the action of placing the needs of another at or above the level of one's own needs, or to refer to an emotional feeling of affection.

In what way does guano do either?

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>>4626985
Say that love is sex+friendship? They're math is off. Love+sex+friendship=working relationship.
Three does not equal eight.

>>4626966
Love is a natural emotion, sex a natural physical feeling. When having sex, you're pretty much masturbating up against each other. Same kind of thing with love. Love for each other never actually connects/commingles, like the ingredients of food
>>4626996
Bat shit has no capacity to love. YOU GO TOO FAR ANON!

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>>4627063
>They're
Mmmnnnnooooooooooooooooo!!!!

>> No.4627081

why be happy when you can be interesting?

>> No.4627088

>>4626941
friendship is love

"love" is something else

>> No.4627116

>>4626941
Unless it's courtly love.

>> No.4627148

>>4627063
>>>They're math is off
>>They're
>...-_-...

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>>4627063
>they're

>> No.4627212

>>4627148
>>4627179
I know I know >>4627065