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Re:Steps Towards Happiness (2015) by heresie-dabord on Monday November 15, 2021 @07:43AM (#29226661)
States of satisfaction and euphoria are normal. Being good and doing good are fine objectives in of themselves. To be in a constant state of satisfaction and euphoria is unrealistic, unless it's an illusion achieved by a soma pill [1] or a hallucinatory sociological construct.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

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Re:Steps Towards Happiness (2015) by DerekBickerton on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:00AM (#29226806)
> To be in a constant state of satisfaction and euphoria is unrealistic

I've read the accounts of near death experiences in The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying, and I recall many people being exceedingly euphoric, as if they have been freed of the grasping and attachments of life, like a river joining back to the sea if you will.

Temporarily we wear this meat-suit and then rejoin the spirit world / etheric world, and many people call this 'heaven' or other words. Imagine being permanently on MDMA or something.

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