Come now. We're here for serious discussion. You're just here to crack jokes.

Two authors who couldn't be so far apart yet also so similar in many ways.

The theory that all consequences upon the path of existence were decided at a root point cannot be disproven upon its assumption. Murphy's law’s definiteness is rooted in the fact that we do not know the future. Though we feel we can change the future, we truly cannot. by choosing to do any action however consequential, you do not change the path of reality that was destined at its root. You simply knock it off course, keeping its validity as the one true reality.

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Why is there so much focus on "anhedonia" as a symptom of depression, and nobody mentions the loss or lack of eudaimonia?

Because as a depressed person I'm perfectly capable of feeling hedonia (pleasure), but I struggle to find meaning pretty much everywhere I look.

Life has no meaning just enjoy the fact poor people do shit that makes your life easier and pretend you can be fully empathetic about it while they work themselves to death for the sake of your comfortability.

I’ve started meditating every morning. I just set aside 5 minutes to sit down, close my eyes, breathe, then open my eyes and do 20 pushups, and I have to do it before I look at my phone. It helps me start each day with a sense of accomplishment and an appreciation for my immediate surroundings, and that in turn has allowed me to go into new experiences with a perspective that is more true to my current situation.

>stone

I think you mean rock.

I have anhadonia..

Weed and Watts works for me

So, you smoke some crack, then go on r/philosophy to boast about smoking crack. Living the dream!

Makes sense. Two birds with one stone and all that.

Oh. My purpose in life is wake up and do crack every day so I don’t have that problem

You're not afraid of making mistakes, but I wonder if you're interested in the slightest, in learning from them.

"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn." -Ray Bradbury

That would interfere with the eudaimonia.

Try crack

The ceaseless, dull drone of everyday life. That is why I smoke crack

Pity has two faces, one seen from sympathy, and the other disgust. The former stems from empathy, something I would argue is the cornerstone of "Humanity". The latter stems from a blind narcissism which - IMHO - is the root of all evil.

Okay, lots of it anyways!

Why doesn't "psychological richness" get to have a cool name like eudaimonia and hedonia...?

Looking for more hedonia . . .

Nietzsche loved Emerson because Emerson lived the "overman" when Nietzsche felt forced to only tell the tale, (and tell it explosively well). (Not sure I've read any more "dynamite" philosophy than our man Freddy.)

Emerson "cut to the quick of it" and revealed all for those with eyes to see it. For all the teenagers championing Thoreau's Walden of 222 days, most never discover he was squatting on Emerson's land. Emerson came full circle where HDT was content just to see the other side from the Gap.

Nietzsche admired Emerson because the heights these two were able to rest in, most of our more celebrated minds haven't arrived to witness for moments.

Freud said if Nietzsche, “that he had a more penetrating knowledge of himself than any other man who ever lived or was likely to live.”

Now before you think what we're all thinking: "Sure, but what would Jung have said (to greater effect)?", just consider what his love, admiration and excitement of and for Emerson says. Dude's so good, he's quarantined from high school and undergrad teaching after only an essay called "Self Reliance". You have to be a grad student, genius, or just another incognito poet to even access the vast majority of what Emerson has given us.

Sure Nietzsche is famous for the smear campaign that has the popular consciousness believing he's some arch villain advocating Nihilism. Consider then the grandeur of Emerson that he's almost wholly covered up. None but these few phenoms and pyramid-scheme higher-Ed-heads get him and perhaps so much sweeter is this forbidden fruit for it.

So few finish Philosophy. Most give up on some branch or best-efforted concoction of system. Fewer still who've finished come back to tell us about it. Plato, Nietzsche (even for all his "faults"), Wittgenstein, Emerson. These are heights which have not only been achieved by the Humanity "us", but heights which have had their trails blazed by these paragons for the travel we too may tred.

More of "variety of sex, food, and good TV"

I agree to a degree. Routine is safe, familiar. It’s ritual.

That has meaning.

But it’s also paramount to break out of that from time to time. Go out of your comfort zone, have new experiences, throw a wrench in the machine.

This is pop psychology; not philosophy. It's off-topic to the forum.

Nothing ever stays the same. Of course if you are seeking the good life you should always be trying to improve your situation, seeking new knowledge and experience, but routine provides the bedrock for happiness.