How can this be without contradiction? Pleasure is selfishness. I think pleasure a dangerous game to play.

You are right I responded to this persons comments because I actually had the opposite response. I was interested to know what this post was about

Plus, I dunno, it's just cool to have reassurances every now and again pop up in your feed, telling you you're on the right track.

This is probably the type of philosophy that gets produced when philosophy has to justify itself in face of new public management. Clearly, philosophy isn't a means to another means. But philosophy faculties have to justify themselves as a means to something – such as "understanding life" or "analytic skills" – producing all this bullshit literature. It sucks.

There are more things in heaven and Earth, Fellatio, than are dreamt of in your horosophy.

Everyone that reads this thread just got their confirmation bias fix for the day.

I think that philosophy just helps you reinforce and define your belief system in general, to live more true to your core beliefs, for better or worse. It has to be (unfortunately) pretty rare that someone reads about a philosophical concept and completely turns around on a core belief.

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Be good do good, only by knowing what's bad.

Honestly what I thought too.

"This just in! Thinking about life's meaning makes you want to have a meaningful life! More to come after the break!"

No shit. Funadamentally, that is what Philosophy is for

I know someone who studied philosophy who has behavioural issues. Far from living a better and more meaningful life, they've reasoned themselves into killing themselves slowly, disobeying doctor's orders, and blaming everything on the doctors.

Stand on the shoulders of giants

Same can be said for /r/science

More than half of the articles are some shitty poll they call study confirming the most non-sensical claims imagined.

how to start with this?

all i'm saying is that it's boring

A meaningful life and being smart aren’t the same motives or outcomes. You saw it one way, I’m saying it’s the wrong one

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I'm going to go to the perspective subreddit to share an article titled "why you're smart for subbing to the perspective subreddit."

Well said, I'm highly against capital punishment. Take a life for a life(ves) will not bring those killed to life. Speaking of which the criminal "justice" system in the USA is broken. There is no rehabilitation going on, just big business making money on the mistakes of others. Other countries like Canada and Denmark focus properly on true rehab.

Is being into it a prerequisite of knowing what the value of it is? Why generalize in a negative direction when everyones different. Maybe there’s a perspective subreddit that you could actually benefit from

Isn't that always the case?

One thought originally from Mark Manson is that for every "crazy idea" called a consipiracy theory there is some part that could very well be true. E.g.,

• It's now considered a strong possibility that Covid originated in a lab, though we don't know intent.
• There are actual papers questioning 5g health effects. It could be possible. That doesn't mean it 'causes' Covid, but it could theoretically affect the immune system for some people. No strong evidence yet, but also no negative proof.
• It is well known the pharmaceutical industry, being profit focused, is often not as interested in a cure rather than a perpeputal medication.
• Media profits off fear, so there's been a lack of perspective on Covid, which some Governments have used to negative effect such as decreasing liberties.

Those ideas are often under "conspiracy theories". That's why it's more useful to find common ground and ask for foundations of ideas rather than othering and dehumanizing because someone doesn't have perfect thought.

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