A community about happy living. Thoughts and praxis about long-term wellbeing, contentment, and personal fulfillment.
A place to post profound, preferably long-form thoughts and discussions about such concepts which might not easily fit in other communities.
Probably will remain just a community for the admin to post stuff they found interesting, but feel free to post some stuff you find that matches or start discussions.
Rules
- No memes
- No toxic "wholesome" content.
- No smug, "dunking" or "better than thou" posts about others. (Community is meant to focus on personal improvement and fulfillment, not negativity and how we're doing it better.)
- No woo-woo, spiritualism and religion. (Community is not about spiritualism and new age mumbo-jumbo and things like "The Secret". It's a purely materialistic and secular space.)
Related
- Epicureanism
- Anarchism
- [Simple Living](h
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com barsoap @lemm.ee Assent and Suspension of Assent to Kataleptic Impressions
Long story short, found a paper. Abstract:
It is often thought that, for the Stoics, assent and the suspension of assent to kataleptic impressions is voluntary in the sense that one can deliberate about assenting or suspending assent. Against this view, I examine the relevant sources closely and argue that they point in a different direction: assent and suspension of assent to kataleptic impressions is not a matter of deliberation. Instead, kataleptic impressions force our assent in the absence of obstacles that make it difficult to discern kataleptic from non-kataleptic impressions. Surprisingly, neither is the act of withholding assent to kataleptic impressions a matter of deliberation; instead, the presence of obstacles that make it difficult to discern kataleptic from non-kataleptic impressions triggers the activation of a disposition to withhold assent. However, we can acquire this disposition through training in dialectic. This means that deliberation can be involved in the ac
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com Post truth society and "cabin in the woods syndrome"
(art by taracod, there will also be some homework assigned for further reading at the end :), i suggest you check that out)
Hello, long time no significant post, i have a heavy hitter this time. It's time to get comfy for this one, I've been locked in since the last few months, and i have a prognosis to make. This one is going to be a bit briefer than the last few, for good reason.
First things first, post truth society. We are definitionally living in a form of society where truth is unimportant, i know it, you know, I've done it, you've done it, we've all done it, truth holds almost no value to our collective society at the moment. There's no nice way to put this, and there's no easy solution here. Frankly, this is a topic for another time, but it has an important tangential relevance so i don't want to leave it completely behind here.
Secondly, what i like to refer to as "cabin in the woods syndrome" is that feeling you get where you simply want to leave society, move to a cabin
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com Thoughts on the role that wonder plays in adulthood (and some philosophy)
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engagement baitrelated reasons (we'll get to it later, i promise)hi hello, I'm back, little bit of a break between postings i suppose. What is life buy a series of inevitable delays. Anyhow, I've been thinking a lot more about philosophy and our physical world lately and have some thoughts i would like to share.
wonder is an interesting concept, it's a mix between an emotional experience, and the rationalization that we humans engage in every day. There's an intersection between your rational and logical understanding of the world, and your emotional experience of it that combine into this sometimes overwhelming, but inspiring feeling of wonder.
I've heard from numerous people that they no longer get the same sense of wonder as they once did in childhood, and especially how that sense of wonder is what seems to romanticize certain ideas to us. A common one is people going back and playing games they once played in their childhood, only to discover they no lo
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com db0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3132208
it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.
Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.
It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.
Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.
Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.
Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion, and it might help. (KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)
Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com Thoughts on understanding your body in order to improve your life
hi hello, rather ironic title, considering i spent the last day and a half on my feet continuously (i'm a chronic chair sitter, as of the last year or so) and so my physical body is kinda fucking through the wringer right now. Plus i'm feeling kinda shitty right now for one reason or another. And also i've got an operation tomorrow, which will rock my world for a bit, i'll be fine though. No worries about me.
also some context here, anytime i say "body" i'm referring to the whole physiological construction of yourself, body and mind included, though not explicitly mutual. There are instances where it wouldn't be.
Anyway, i wanted to talk about something i don't really see anybody talking about, or at least i feel like people should consider more frequently. This would be utilizing a better understanding of your body and how it works, as a method to improve your life (hence coping in the title)
As someone who probably has ADHD and/or autism, as well as some other unimportant dist
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com Thoughts on interpersonal relationships, and being compassionate.
Couple quick notes, this one is expanding off of my first two posts, though primarily my first one here. As well as some thoughts i've been ruminating on for a while. And as per usual, tends to be a little winding, but that's how we roll here :)
One thing i've noticed throughout my life is that we have a very rigidly structured system of your level of intimate knowledge on another person. It ranges from mutual friends, to people that have been married for 30 years. It's interesting to me to see that this structure has sort of "naturally" developed around the human experience. But what's more interesting to me is the fact that people seem to uphold it by default. There is a value in it as a system. For example it's a great system for introducing two people who know each other as a mutual friend.
Personally i hate classifications, I think any system where you intentionally create an explicit point across a spectrum, is like schrodingers binary answer. You can try and classify something
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com Thoughts on opinions, beliefs, and how you should hold and treat them.
preambly bit, idk, i like these
I alluded to this in my last post, i didn't want to include it there mostly because i knew i would be typing a lot here, so here we are. If you don't have the time to read this, skip to the outro bit, i mashed my thoughts into a handful of sentences for you :)
intro
I've spent a lot of time recently, trying to narrow down my principled belief system, in order to really set a good foundation for me to build on. And i've learned some some interesting things that i think could be useful to other people.
I'm not a huge fan of opinions, i've never really liked them, anybody can hold whatever opinion they want, through things like satire they can used as a tool, so from the understanding of a belief structure, I.E. the thing that determines your ideological framework, and it's related friends. They're no good. I like to liken an opinion to a stubbed toe, a transient annoying event that ultimately in the grand scheme of things, is of little importance
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com db0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com 
dbzer0.com How Epicurism leads me to Anarcho-CommunismI am first an Epicurean and then a Socialist but the later flows naturally from the former due to moral reasoning.
I wrote this a long time ago. It might be insightful to some of you.
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com Thoughts on engaging with the world in a productive manner
I'm back again, after a few weeks, have had some time to mull over my thoughts and i've been bothered by something recently so figured, i'd dump it here since this place is pretty slick.
I see a lot of people engaging with certain things e.g. politics (this isn't about politics dw) on a very surface level manner, and i have a few problems with it, i'm not getting into the meta problems here since it's not about politics. But i will get into the more social problems i have with it.
The biggest problem that i have with it is that it promotes an unhealthy level of interaction with topics and concepts, it promotes focusing on the optics more so than the underlying mechanics which can lead to you having incredibly shallow beliefs (another topic i'll probably come back to in a later post) which can undermine your belief structure. As well as leading to you feeling or believing that you are accomplishing something, when in reality all you're doing is yelling at someone on the in
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com db0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com 
www.cracked.com 5 Scientific Reasons Your Idea of Happiness Is WrongOur two favorite subjects at Cracked are the elusive concept of human happiness and Batman. This article is about the first one.
A classic from Cracked. I even blogged about it back in the day
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com db0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com Forever
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15004731
Found here, where the image also has the text as an ALT image description. https://chaos.social/@saxnot/112349120606446433
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com db0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com On a technicality
eev.ee On a technicalityApropos of nothing, I’d like to tell you a story. I’ve touched on this before, but this is t
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com hi hello some thoughts and personal beliefs.
i regret to inform you that you have probably created one of the more interesting communities to me, and i will almost certainly be back. I have a lot of thoughts in regards to living life to a productively healthy state. anyway, for the first post, since it's late and i have things to be doing, I'll be keeping this short.
I believe that in order to mutually benefit other people in a positive manner, I.E. positively impact others lives. That you must be happy and fulfilled yourself, much like maslows hierarchy of needs. You must first be content and happy with your life, before you can extend it to other people.
Tonight's message is that indulging in selfish behaviors can be productive, you just need to know when to apply them.
Too much of society is focused on how you can benefit others, or be collectively productive for society, rather than allowing you to grow as an individual. Which often times benefits society greatly.
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Eudaimonia @lemmy.dbzer0.com db0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com You are not special, but don’t let the man get you down
docseuss.medium.com (impostor syndrome part 2) you are not special, but don’t let the man get you downOne of the most consistent recruitment methods by various right wing factions (religious, n*zi, etc) is preying on people who are desperate…
