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Would you opt for a life of nothing but pleasure?

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Interesting TED video. What do you think? Would you opt for the life of nothing but pleasure, and why or why not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNP1x11Z2Ig
 
Sure, why not. The best food in the world (I'm pretentious), the best sex in the world with as many beautiful women as I want (at the same time!), the best amenities (accommodations, massages, clothes, cars, like that), and maybe most importantly, only pleasurable times with my wife and kids. No fighting or tantrums! My kid will listen to everything I say and eagerly learn every time I try to teach her. Oh yeah, and did I mention the sex with beautiful women?!
 
Of course, many ways to feel pleasure. It’s not all selfish.
 
Without hardship how can you really enjoy something pleasurable?

btw logGrad I initially thought this was the worst come on in history.
 
Rubashov said:
Without hardship how can you really enjoy something pleasurable?

btw logGrad I initially thought this was the worst come on in history.
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I didn't watch the video but if I begin this pleasure-filled life from here, I've experienced enough hardship thus far in my life to ensure that pleasure never gets old.
 
LogGrad98 said:
50 shades of cy
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yeah pain pleasere difference is better!


if you are in a nuetral mode and fele pleausre thie ris a delta

but if you are in pain and get to pleasure the delta difference is greater.

which tricks you into thinking that that pleasure is greater.


a small example let's say 1 is turrible unbearable pain! 10 is extremly godlike pleasure 5 being nuetral


so lets say you are in nuetral mode, and you get from 5-8 that is 3 point delta, be in like about a 3 in pain and you go to 7 the delta would be 4. i think the mind tricks you that going from 3 to 7 was more pleasurable then from 5-8.

or i might just be a crazy ******* as people on here call me
 
Siro said:
NO PAIN NO GAIN! **** YEAH!

But no really, a life of purpose is much more in tune with the human condition than a life of "pleasure".
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people who have no purpose search for purpose, sometimes they search for a good purpose sometimes for a toxic purpose. ofcourse their are exceptions to the rule. maybe your purpose becomes the quest for non stop pleasure, and achieving non stop pleasure
 
Rubashov said:
Without hardship how can you really enjoy something pleasurable?

btw logGrad I initially thought this was the worst come on in history.
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Because it is pleasurable? I mean, I don't need any hardship to understand what pleasure is. I can decide between slightly pleasurable and immensely pleasurable which is prolly coke.
 
No, I've got a puritanical streak and I'm sure I'd feel guilty before much time had passed. Sometimes I think we're here to suffer, and I'm doing my part.
 
I picked up a friend who was in jail last Friday. I haven't seen anyone more happy and that full of life in a long time. And she only did 10 days.
 
Pain will come.
At the very least, as a result of age or infirmity.
If the means of enjoying life to the fullest are there, especially for someone like me that is not convinced about an after-life, the decision is a no brainer.
You can always look back with fond memories. You can't always have the time to build them and enjoy the time you've got.
 
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