quote:

Originally posted by Aesthetic Love how the experts here pretend they know what happens when someone dies. LOL.. everybody's looking for the next Stephen Hawking but he's right here on TA coming down from all the drugs he took on the weekend

Dave. I'm going to annihilate your FUCKEN SOLE.

___________________
Signature Suspended as it was deemed offensive

Like, the one on my foot?

quote:

Originally posted by nefardec no, the truth is that it only fucking sucks if you convince yourself that it's horrible.

True that I guess it's a two-way road. But IMO convincing yourself it's great when it's not great is only an escape for your mind, but not necessarily an escape for the problem itself. Emotion focused coping mechanisms only go so far. Moreover venting is a good way to expel stress.

___________________
www.facebook.com/DigitalSixable
www.soundcloud.com/DigitalSixable

quote:

Originally posted by Aesthetic Like, the one on my foot?

___________________
Like Progressive and Deep House? Grab my latest mix below
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...s=#.UAv1rbRo3h4

quote:

Originally posted by Jake Benson True that I guess it's a two-way road. But IMO convincing yourself it's great when it's not great is only an escape for your mind, but not necessarily an escape for the problem itself. Emotion focused coping mechanisms only go so far. Moreover venting is a good way to expel stress.

Well that's the problem - things are NEVER ACTUALLY bad, they are only bad as seen through temporary human judgment. What is one's personal injury to the universe? What is the loss of a job? Can you really say that the destruction of the earth would even be 'bad' in the context of a universe with potentially billions of inhabitable planets? Is life itself even a virtue, or a simple property of matter that causes it to be able to look back at itself?

Things only ever happen - never for better, and never for worse.

I never said to convince yourself that things are great, but just to realize they aren't horrible. It's classic 'detachment'.

quote:

Originally posted by nefardec Well that's the problem - things are NEVER ACTUALLY bad, they are only bad as seen through temporary human judgment. What is one's personal injury to the universe? What is the loss of a job? Can you really say that the destruction of the earth would even be 'bad' in the context of a universe with potentially billions of inhabitable planets? Is life itself even a virtue, or a simple property of matter that causes it to be able to look back at itself? Things only ever happen - never for better, and never for worse. I never said to convince yourself that things are great, but just to realize they aren't horrible. It's classic 'detachment'.

If you decide that death to humans you love isn't horrible and detach yourself, then you're on your way to becoming a psychopath, ...or maybe just a mortician.

Yes good vs bad is a human construction. But assigning "good" to human survival encourages humans to keep each other alive in order to keep the species alive in general. In nature everything is created and eventually destroyed. Our goal is to stay in existence as long as we can.

___________________
www.facebook.com/DigitalSixable
www.soundcloud.com/DigitalSixable

It goes straight to hell man. Straight to hell. Shackles and chains in the train with Kurt Cobain on the PA.

___________________
Everything is beautiful. Let the music carry you. Baby I will follow you forever. Nowhere else I'd rather be when you're lying next to me. Let the music carry us together.
anti-JennyPie Alliance
SuspicionVandit: Are you God?
Paul Van Dyk 09-24-2009: No, but I can sign your sleeve under that name if you let me!

quote:

Originally posted by Jake Benson If you decide that death to humans you love isn't horrible and detach yourself, then you're on your way to becoming a psychopath.

i don't follow your logic there.