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    Image of O Me! O Life! and being thankful for what you have
    O Me! O Life! and being thankful for what you have
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Monty Python famously sang "life's a piece of shit when you look at it." There's also the adage that, if everyone threw all their problems on the table, most would reach back down and pick up their...

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    Image of Synthesizing happiness
    Synthesizing happiness
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Through Hamlet, Shakespeare said "there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." You'd never believe it if someone told you the secret to happiness in life is to accrue wealth, power...

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    Image of Perfectionism - doing better than your best
    Perfectionism - doing better than your best
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    In the movie The Rock, Sean Connery says to Nicholas Cage "Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen." There are those who think that perfection can be...

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    Image of Hedonistic self-gratification
    Hedonistic self-gratification
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Morality is about determining which choices and actions are good or bad, which always leads to the question - what is the good? There are some who consider the good as those choices and actions which...

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    Image of Utilitarianism and justice
    Utilitarianism and justice
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    How do we know the right thing to do in our lives? In other words, what moral principles are at the foundation of our actions? Utilitarianism is the philosophy that the moral worth of an action is de...

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    Image of The pursuit of happiness
    The pursuit of happiness
    editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave
    Ayn Rand said in Atlas Shrugged: "Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values....

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    How we end up marrying the wrong people
    thephilosophersmail.com link posted by c_prompt in relationships
    tl/dr: Given that marrying the wrong person is about the single easiest and also costliest mistake any of us can make (and one which places an enormous burden on the state, employers and the nex...

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    What is love's purpose?
    editorial posted by Clarisse88 in relationships Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License
    Being young, I don't have as much experience with love as others, yet the ideas around it keep me up at night. Often, I've thought it might be productive to write some of them down. Roma...

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