While reading a book, i stumbled upon this term. Negative happiness and what it means. Its while being in pain or suffering feeling happy in moments of reliefs. Its not a real happiness, not by a long shot.
Like when you have an extreme toothache and when its extracted you feel happy because the pain has passed. This doesnt mean youre happy, it would be best if your tooth didnt ache in the first place, now you would have all of your teeth. But retards would say "good for you, youre not in pain anymore" while people with perfect healthy teeth dont walk around thinking "im so lucky and happy to have all my teeth healthy."
If negative happiness exists, then the opposite must be true, the positive suffering. People who have most of their biological and emotional needs fulfilled they are happy most of the time, but at moments shits happen and they can feel extreme pain or suffering. Thats the real life meant for a human and immeasurable times better than the negative happiness life. These people have no idea how lucky they are.
Guy who wrote that book, recalls his life during the WW2 while he was in concentration camp. At one point he remembered his wife. Not once he said "Oh man i wish i never had a wife because now she could be dead or worse" No, he recalled everything about her and moments with her and he remembered what is happiness and for what is worth living.
So Redditors and other fuckers who say bullshits like "at least you are not crippled" or "poor people are so lucky because they find happiness in small things" are totally wrong.
Good example of people using negative happiness as a cope are the hermits and the monks, both Buddhists and from Christianity. They deprive themselves of everything so they could fulfill their need for peace. They feel somewhat happy for not being under stress and thats it, still rich people who experience many goods and pleasures and some stress and loss, are miles more happier.
Conclusion. Fulfilling both physical and emotional needs and pleasures are extremely important, unnecessary, all tied up as a need not a want, for both motivation for survival and for having a decent happy life.
Imo a man needs to fulfill his biological, emotional and spiritual needs to be satisfied.
Food, sex, shelter for biological.
For emotional family of your own, wife and kids. To love and care for them and to be loved and cared in return. Living for someone external from you. Because if you live only for your own wellbeing and desire, if you die those desires die with you. So theres no imperative to fight to stay alive.
Spiritual, sense of purpose of your existence expanding beyond this lifetime. Life ends no matter what you do and to not suffer of existential crisis and lose motivation of being alive you need a meaning to your life greater than this life and greater than yourself. It could be religion, trying to improve humanity or leave something useful for the generations to come.
Like when you have an extreme toothache and when its extracted you feel happy because the pain has passed. This doesnt mean youre happy, it would be best if your tooth didnt ache in the first place, now you would have all of your teeth. But retards would say "good for you, youre not in pain anymore" while people with perfect healthy teeth dont walk around thinking "im so lucky and happy to have all my teeth healthy."
If negative happiness exists, then the opposite must be true, the positive suffering. People who have most of their biological and emotional needs fulfilled they are happy most of the time, but at moments shits happen and they can feel extreme pain or suffering. Thats the real life meant for a human and immeasurable times better than the negative happiness life. These people have no idea how lucky they are.
Guy who wrote that book, recalls his life during the WW2 while he was in concentration camp. At one point he remembered his wife. Not once he said "Oh man i wish i never had a wife because now she could be dead or worse" No, he recalled everything about her and moments with her and he remembered what is happiness and for what is worth living.
So Redditors and other fuckers who say bullshits like "at least you are not crippled" or "poor people are so lucky because they find happiness in small things" are totally wrong.
Good example of people using negative happiness as a cope are the hermits and the monks, both Buddhists and from Christianity. They deprive themselves of everything so they could fulfill their need for peace. They feel somewhat happy for not being under stress and thats it, still rich people who experience many goods and pleasures and some stress and loss, are miles more happier.
Conclusion. Fulfilling both physical and emotional needs and pleasures are extremely important, unnecessary, all tied up as a need not a want, for both motivation for survival and for having a decent happy life.
Imo a man needs to fulfill his biological, emotional and spiritual needs to be satisfied.
Food, sex, shelter for biological.
For emotional family of your own, wife and kids. To love and care for them and to be loved and cared in return. Living for someone external from you. Because if you live only for your own wellbeing and desire, if you die those desires die with you. So theres no imperative to fight to stay alive.
Spiritual, sense of purpose of your existence expanding beyond this lifetime. Life ends no matter what you do and to not suffer of existential crisis and lose motivation of being alive you need a meaning to your life greater than this life and greater than yourself. It could be religion, trying to improve humanity or leave something useful for the generations to come.
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