02-22-2018 04:53 PM
#301
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02-22-2018 05:50 PM
#302
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02-22-2018 07:48 PM
#303
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03-11-2018 06:56 PM
#304
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03-12-2018 02:14 AM
#305
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It's also pretty silly to only have one president. | |
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03-12-2018 08:45 AM
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03-12-2018 10:47 AM
#307
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Well certainly things'd be better if no one had a monopoly over that. | |
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03-12-2018 11:17 AM
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Does cocco really think that government would be more efficient if there were multiple leaders? Is that what I'm to believe? | |
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03-12-2018 11:28 AM
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I think Ong might be right. You're trolling. At least I hope that's the case. |
03-12-2018 12:22 PM
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The point is that there's about as much proof that a violence monopoly is a bad thing as there is regarding a presidency monopoly, as an example. | |
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03-12-2018 12:30 PM
#311
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03-16-2018 04:33 AM
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-43414145?SThisFB | |
Last edited by CoccoBill; 03-16-2018 at 04:36 AM.
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03-16-2018 06:45 AM
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03-16-2018 06:47 AM
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Because the suicide rate is so high. Depressed people don't hang around long enough to skew the figures. | |
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03-16-2018 07:24 AM
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^You may be on to something there. If that had been a poll I'd assume it was made in the summer. During winter there's just a bunch of miserable depressed gits here, with everything being wet, dark and cold all the time. On the other hand, that makes people appreciate the summer more, when its +25C and sunny for a whole week with 20 hours sunlight a day, that feels special. | |
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03-16-2018 08:28 AM
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It was a super patronising question. | |
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03-16-2018 08:30 AM
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It's the same for all Nordic contries, and it's every year. It's the Viking gene. | |
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03-16-2018 08:31 AM
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03-16-2018 08:33 AM
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Finland can't be much different to Iceland, and I remember reading an artcile about them. Yeah the weather is horrible in winter, but this is the 2000s... no longer are people huddled round fires fighting to stay alive through winter, they have geothermal heating and electricity. Even in winter, Icelanders are much happier than their ancestors, they just have it so much easier. | |
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03-16-2018 08:37 AM
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03-16-2018 08:51 AM
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The underlying assumption of the "ladder" question is that everyone has the same perception of the ladder. |
03-16-2018 08:55 AM
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I'm not sure where the term "happiest" even came from. This study asks "how successful do you think you are in relation to the rest of your society?". And for some reason, whoever authored the study made the seemingly arbitrary decision to call that "happiness" |
03-16-2018 08:57 AM
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03-16-2018 08:59 AM
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Basically banana is arguing "Finns are happier because they're less ambitious than we are". | |
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03-16-2018 09:01 AM
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03-16-2018 09:10 AM
#326
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It says to rank yourself between "best possible life" and "worst possible life" |
03-16-2018 09:14 AM
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03-16-2018 09:15 AM
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Perhaps that's because I measure success in happiness, not the other way around. | |
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03-16-2018 09:23 AM
#329
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Any wording of the question is going to be open to criticism - that's just the nature of trying to quantify something abstract like happiness. | |
03-16-2018 09:26 AM
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You don't cease to amaze me. I posted a link, a quote from that link and one item pertaining to the study referred to in the link. | |
Last edited by CoccoBill; 03-16-2018 at 09:30 AM.
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03-16-2018 09:27 AM
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"worst possible life" | |
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03-16-2018 09:29 AM
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03-16-2018 09:30 AM
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I believe the word you're thinking of is "cease", not "sieze". You'd know that if you lived in a country where quality of academics mattered as much or more than access. |
03-16-2018 09:35 AM
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What if that perception is heavily colored by leftist propaganda?? Is that better? |
03-16-2018 09:37 AM
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I edited it before your post, just not before you started writing it. Terribly sorry if my poor english offends you. I'm assuming you only speak english since other languages are irrelevant? | |
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03-16-2018 09:42 AM
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03-16-2018 09:43 AM
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03-16-2018 09:45 AM
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03-16-2018 09:49 AM
#339
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Well the study was about people, not producers. | |
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03-16-2018 09:50 AM
#340
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The irony of an American, and specifically banana, displaying this much ignorance of the fact that Finland is on another level at the top of academic achievement in its students is so delicious I think I just came in my pants. | |
03-16-2018 09:55 AM
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It can't be that successful |
03-16-2018 10:00 AM
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Having a top university is easy - hire the best people and pay them lots of money, then charge students lots of money to go there. Hence that is why educators don't have conferences about 'how do we be more like Harvard?' | |
03-16-2018 10:01 AM
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This encapsulates everything that's wrong with liberalism and the desire for equality of outcome. |
03-16-2018 10:03 AM
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03-16-2018 10:06 AM
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03-16-2018 10:09 AM
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03-16-2018 10:15 AM
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03-16-2018 10:23 AM
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You certainly have a right to have your opinion, please just realize many people don't subscribe to it. Your argument in essence is that happiness can only be achieved through working and being successful. How I see it, is that those are absolutely not the end game, they're means to an end. I work in order to get money to do things I actually love doing, and the less I have to work to achieve that the better. | |
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03-16-2018 10:30 AM
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I am not expressing an opinion. What I'm expressing is the determination of tens of thousands of years of human history. What I'm expressing has been expressed in every archetypal story in every culture in all of recorded history. |
03-16-2018 10:35 AM
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Three little pigs would be much better if the first time the wolf turns up to blow the house down, one of the pigs grabs his shotgun. | |
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03-16-2018 10:48 AM
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There is a reason that almost every story of accomplishment, achievement, or conquering evil all have the same ingredients. |
03-16-2018 10:54 AM
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No you're not, you're talking out of your ass. | |
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03-16-2018 11:07 AM
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No, I'm really not. |
03-16-2018 11:14 AM
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03-16-2018 11:17 AM
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03-16-2018 11:19 AM
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03-16-2018 11:19 AM
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Young man gets motor neurone disease, given two years to live. | |
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03-16-2018 11:23 AM
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03-16-2018 11:25 AM
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03-16-2018 11:26 AM
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03-16-2018 11:29 AM
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Right. The trains ran on time, credit Hitler for order. Fair enough. |
03-16-2018 11:58 AM
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03-16-2018 12:06 PM
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03-16-2018 12:06 PM
#364
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[deleted stupid shit] | |
Last edited by MadMojoMonkey; 03-16-2018 at 12:08 PM. | |
03-16-2018 12:29 PM
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You are missing the point by miles man. The fisherman's problem isn't a lack of wanting things....it's a lack of wanting meaning |
Last edited by BananaStand; 03-16-2018 at 12:49 PM. | |
03-16-2018 12:30 PM
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I've described happiness as meaning. Meaning comes at the intersection of order and chaos. |
Last edited by BananaStand; 03-16-2018 at 12:49 PM. | |
03-16-2018 12:48 PM
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03-16-2018 12:52 PM
#368
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Wrong. He's over-appreciating his own idea of meaning. |
Last edited by BananaStand; 03-16-2018 at 12:56 PM. | |
03-16-2018 12:57 PM
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There's so many things wrong here, so I'll just point out the obvious ones: | |
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03-16-2018 01:29 PM
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Pretty sure that's not how depression is diagnosed. I'm pretty sure the person saying they're happy pretty much rules out that diagnosis. | |
03-16-2018 01:32 PM
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03-16-2018 02:07 PM
#372
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Yeah, irl a depression diagnosis probably more closely resembles a drug-deal. |
03-16-2018 02:09 PM
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03-16-2018 02:11 PM
#374
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yea tl;dr | |
03-16-2018 02:16 PM
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