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Re:Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (2017) by Aloha on Saturday April 07, 2018 @01:02AM (#16779447)
> Now I know stuff like that just doesn't matter.

When we're young, we're preoccupied with if something is right, or wrong - but there is a third answer to this question; "it doesn't matter"

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Re:Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (2017) by andromedaworld on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:05AM (#16779875)
Seems like you're preaching nihilism and that kind of emptiness doesn't seem like any way to live life for me.
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Re:Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (2017) by stevedonovan on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:57AM (#16779986)
It matters for the big things, but not for "stupid bullshit" as my dear wife calls it. Obviously there are things where principles and correctness are important; but what are they? It seems that we should prune the set of important things down to the minimum needed, so that we are not paralyzed by unimportance.
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Re:Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (2017) by Aloha on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @06:21AM (#16800288)
This is the key here, and really the point I was trying to make.
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