Was it Balph Eubank that said a human's natural state was suffering?

Posted by splumb 1 year, 6 months ago to Philosophy

In a preview of the dystopian nightmare that's coming, somebody at CNN is making the case for happiness being overrated.

SOURCE URL: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/opinions/sense-of-wonder-instead-of-pursuit-of-happiness-parker/index.html

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Posted by j_IR1776wg 1 year, 6 months ago

Word salads divorced from reality seem to be the
Marxists favorite pastime.

I wonder if she ever had a happy day in her life.

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  Posted by splumb 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  I doubt it.
  I've learned in my lifetime that there are people who are miserable human beings, and unable to make themselves happy, they prefer to make others equally as miserable as themselves.
  Instead of pulling themselves up, they pull others down.
  
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    Posted by j_IR1776wg 1 year, 6 months ago
    
    +10 if I could. That's exactly my
    experience. Only made worse if they are in your own family or in politics.
    
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      Posted by splumb 1 year, 6 months ago
      
      In my case, it was family. So I learned that particular lesson young.
      
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        Posted by j_IR1776wg 1 year, 6 months ago
        
        Ditto
        
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        Posted by splumb 1 year, 6 months ago
        
        Sorry to hear it. Narcissists suck.
        
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        Posted by j_IR1776wg 1 year, 6 months ago
        
        Yup
        
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Posted by sekeres 1 year, 6 months ago

Bingo! from Pt. I, Chapter VI "The Non-Commercial":
"What is the real essence of life, Mr. Eubank?"
"Suffering," said Balph Eubank. "Defeat and suffering."

But, of course, he's wrong. Quoting Galt, Pt. 3, Chapter VIII, "The Egoist":
"Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. . . . Don't struggle not to be happy."

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Posted by BobCat 1 year, 6 months ago

But, but, but.... we were told to "eat bugs and be happy..." now they say happiness is overated?? Does that also mean that eating bugs is overated too? Geeze, this leftist wokeness is so confusing, one has to become a complete mindless moron to understand it.

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  Posted by splumb 1 year, 6 months ago
  
  The schools and colleges are training them to be mindless.
  When I read the article, I thought of something Winston Churchill said:
  
  "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
  
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Posted by 25n56il4 1 year, 6 months ago

He reminds me of some of today's idiots.

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Posted by VetteGuy 1 year, 5 months ago

Yeah, but he got it from Buddha.

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