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I was watching a talk named The Necessity of Virtue by prof Jordan B. Peterson where he made the proposition that lack of virtue makes people ill. If they are locked in a network of people lacking in virtue you are probably depressed or tortured because we need meaning.

Thats the basic outline if I understood it correctly. But then the question comes, what is virtue and how does one engage in virtue in the everyday life?

(The talk if anyone is interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwUJHNPMUyU )

>> No.3693123

i can vouch for this from anecdotal experience. i know lots of people who have the potential to be better people and desire to be so, but are prevented from doing so because everyone else in their immediate social groups do not share the same desire and are satisfied with material progression. but eventually that desire gets snuffed out and they forgot they ever wanted such things.

i guess here virtue would include things like desire for self-improvement which benefits others and connects with things other than material accumulation.

>> No.3693137

>>3693123
>i can vouch for this from anecdotal experience. i know lots of people who have the potential to be better people and desire to be so, but are prevented from doing so because everyone else in their immediate social groups do not share the same desire and are satisfied with material progression. but eventually that desire gets snuffed out and they forgot they ever wanted such things.

Oh wow, thats like my life in a nutshell at the moment. Fucking bloodsuckers alway bringing one down.

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>>3693137

find a few good friends who aren't like this, who aren't scared of being abnormal or "random", who share some desire to do something the others don't. sounds dumb but "getting" tim and eric seems to be a good filter for some reason.

>> No.3693249

>>3693123
>>3693158
I appreciate your replies. It feels good knowing someone can relate. Do you perhaps engage in virtue your self? How do you keep your spirit up and refuse to let them bring you down?

Finding like minded people is deficiently something to strive for.

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>>3693158

That's funny, the people I've met who really enjoy Tim & Eric (except the guys who're like 'yeah, it's so random, it's totally funny if you're stoned) tend to be great.

>> No.3693393

>>3693253
>>3693158
tim and eric is superior viewing material for superior humans
tim and eric is love

>> No.3693502

this is what neets fail to grasp

>> No.3693530

>>3693502

B-but we have 4chan...surely that counts for something?

>> No.3693540

>>3693502
just read what NEET is, oh god what a horrible existence that must be. If thats you, maybe you should watch the talk in the op

>> No.3693564

>>3693393
>>3693253
Everything you people have said makes me happy to be on /lit/ (It's been two years since I've been on 4chan at all)

>>3693158
Especially this, I've been trying to articulate this for such a long time and it doesn't sound dumb to me at all. IT MAKES SENSE FOR ONCE.