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Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th... by abusoufiyan on Monday January 29, 2018 @02:38AM (#16255988)
>Humans cannot be truly happy unless we keep ourselves seriously deluded or constantly distracted; with biosocial emotions, religion, duty, hope, ambition, goals, pleasure or whatever.

Typical internet denizen idea of humanity.

Religious people are not all deluding themselves into happiness. Quite a lot of them find religion to be a framework with comes with its own sources of existential dread.

Emotions are a delusion to keep us happy? Hope is also a delusion to keep us happy? ...what?

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Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th... by Razengan on Monday January 29, 2018 @09:01AM (#16257489)
Almost all of the things that drive us and govern our lives are based entirely on the approval of other humans or our biological needs; the approval of our parents, peer pressure, love, sex, academic grades, job, income, social/political/professional standing, or religion and the idea of deities, and even the worth/value of our contribution to society..

Would any of these matter at all to a different intelligent species? Say, a hypothetical species without any gender. Poof. More than half of human values and aspirations become meaningless.

"Happiness" that is to last for more than a fleeting moment depends entirely on what we choose to believe. That is some pretty flimsy grounds.

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Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, th... by eli_gottlieb on Monday January 29, 2018 @02:01PM (#16259775)
>Would any of these matter at all to a different intelligent species?

That's not how mattering works.

On the other hand, I just noticed your username, and you know, it totally fits. How did I not notice that the guy proclaiming the pointlessness of life is calling himself, "Rasengan"? Come on, please tell me this is all some jocular TTGL reference.

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