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Happiness is a mindset which is often times not measurable in currency.
This is definitely true. But at the same time I must admit I earn quite a bit more than a few years ago and it has definitely made a lot of things easier. I can imagine you're not happy if you have to worry about not having enough money to buy your children new clothes.

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I'm glad you enjoy it. Having that dynamic aspect surely helps with that I would imagine. But as you said, how long can you be willing to put up with the stress? That has to take it's toll eventually as well.

I think stress is not necessarily bad, but the older you get the more you need to spread stressful moments out.

The thing with my profession is mostly the adrenaline rushes, especially because I'm a litigator. You go to court all hyped up and afterwards you need a few hours to wind down. I think it's awesome, but I'm not sure if this is healthy.

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Work and the like numb the pain of regret and lack of purpose. "Why am i here?" Ought to be one of the first question an adult needs to answer, but most of us are rushed to the grind and it just becomes a second nature. But the lack of answer for that question does catch up with us.
You're touching a core issue there.

Lots of people identify through their jobs and feel like this is their raison d'être (please say it in decent French, even if it's just in your head). But this is usually not a very good idea. Life and humanity are about so much more than work. And then there's the fact you can get fired or lose your clients every day. Hell, maybe you get in a car crash, can't work for a few months and by the time you get back your firm is gone. There's so much that can happen. If you look to your job to provide you a sense of purpose in your life, you're fucked.

But it is good for giving you an every day purpose, in the sense of being active and productive.
 
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This is definitely true. But at the same time I must admit I earn quite a bit more than a few years ago and it has definitely made a lot of things easier. I can imagine you're not happy if you have to worry about not having enough money to buy your children new clothes.

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I think stress is not necessarily bad, but the older you get the more you need to spread stressful moments out.

The thing with my profession is mostly the adrenaline rushes, especially because I'm a litigator. You go to court all hyped up and afterwards you need a few hours to wind down. I think it's awesome, but I'm not sure if this is healthy.

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You're touching a core issue there.

Lots of people identify through their jobs and feel like this is their raison d'être (please say it in decent French, even if it's just in your head). But this is usually not a very good idea. Life and humanity are about so much more than work. And then there's the fact you can get fired or lose your clients every day. Hell, maybe you get in a car crash, can't work for a few months and by the time you get back your firm is gone. There's so much that can happen. If you look to your job to provide you a sense of purpose in your life, you're fucked.

But it is good for giving you an every day purpose, in the sense of being active and productive.
I think the purpose of life is "giving", and the real champions are those who plant seeds that keep giving across generations.
 
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    I think the purpose of life is "giving", and the real champions are those who plant seeds that keep giving across generations.
    Like J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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    This is definitely true. But at the same time I must admit I earn quite a bit more than a few years ago and it has definitely made a lot of things easier. I can imagine you're not happy if you have to worry about not having enough money to buy your children new clothes.
    Then why did you have children when it wasn't a very good economic decision, Mr. and Mrs. Dumbass?
     
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    We had children when I was already making more lol.

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    I didn't mean YOU, I meant the person you're speculating about in your hypothetical situation.

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    How many sex trophies do you have, now, Re-Gobert Song?
     
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    I think stress is not necessarily bad, but the older you get the more you need to spread stressful moments out.

    The thing with my profession is mostly the adrenaline rushes, especially because I'm a litigator. You go to court all hyped up and afterwards you need a few hours to wind down. I think it's awesome, but I'm not sure if this is healthy.
    The way I see it is life is full of stress, especially as you get older. Then you have to deal more commonly with physical decline, health issues, deaths or sickness of loves ones, etc. Is it worth it to have job stress added onto that?

    I guess it depends on the severity of it. Firefighters for example are at a higher risk of heart attacks from the stress of going from rest to immediately rushing out on a call, let alone the job itself.
    raison d'être (please say it in decent French, even if it's just in your head).
    "Raisin dee-tree," got it :agree:
     
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    Having more than 2 genders is hilarious.
    I mean, I don't give a hell about what you think you are, but if you want to go with "space gender" or "fluid gender" where you think you're some sort of apple juice for the day, rock on, I don't care at all. I'll even call you "Terrin Xanthium" or whatever your space gender name is.

    Where I get all bent out of shape is when we confuse genetics and gender, and gender and sex.

    There are only four genetic sexes, and two of them are deformations. XX, XY, XXY, XYY. That's it. Period.
     

    Seven

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    I mean, I don't give a hell about what you think you are, but if you want to go with "space gender" or "fluid gender" where you think you're some sort of apple juice for the day, rock on, I don't care at all. I'll even call you "Terrin Xanthium" or whatever your space gender name is.

    Where I get all bent out of shape is when we confuse genetics and gender, and gender and sex.

    There are only four genetic sexes, and two of them are deformations. XX, XY, XXY, XYY. That's it. Period.

    Your view on biological sex is a bit simplistic, but I get what you're saying.

    I don't care what people think they are or what they want to be either. But that's the whole point. If you need to be addressed as a non-binary person, you're putting labels on yourself. If the idea is that labels shouldn't matter, why the fuck did they create 50 new ones? All this is doing is putting more emphasis on gender, not less.
     
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    Your view on biological sex is a bit simplistic, but I get what you're saying.

    I don't care what people think they are or what they want to be either. But that's the whole point. If you need to be addressed as a non-binary person, you're putting labels on yourself. If the idea is that labels shouldn't matter, why the fuck did they create 50 new ones? All this is doing is putting more emphasis on gender, not less.
    But it is simplistic, it's not complicated.
     

    Seven

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    But it is simplistic, it's not complicated.
    It is simple, but you're equating all of biological sex to the presence of chromosomes. You could have XX chromosomes with malfunctioning genes and develop testes. There's a whole array of sex disorders people can have and I can imagine it becomes a bit more complex at that point.

    But none of this debate is really about true genetic/biological sex anyway I guess.
     
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    My dad retired maybe 6 years ago and he has since become a right wing conspiracy nut. Also tries to wash or do maintenance on my car every time I come over. He buys firearms and high end motorcycles then cleans them everyday and doesn't use them I think he's bored, kind of without purpose, and he does seem like a different person.
    Well, seems his profession and purpose now is doing his own research. :juventus:

    I too loved being unemployed but some of these boomers have been working so long they don't know what to do with themselves
    It's one thing to say you are what you do, which is kind of sad. It's particularly sad when you are how you make money.

    Americans seem more hung up with answering "What do you do?" in terms of career where Ur-O-Peons tend to get more into hobbies and interests for the answer. But the best place to be is where you can work for money, but you don't have to. Which gives you the liberty to even do some "work-like" things if that interests you, but without the paycheck you have the liberty to tell everybody to fook off at any time. Now that's freedom.

    Happiness is a mindset which is often times not measurable in currency.
    Though perverted orgs like the UN General Assembly and the WEF try to do exactly that with Happiness Indexes and other national dick-measuring contests.

    Not to mention the implicit lie of happiness causality based on your postal code...

    Like J. Robert Oppenheimer.
    I was thinking more Jared "Watch Me Pound a Little Kid" Fogel.

    Isn't that how pretty much all children's dolls are manufactured though?
     

    Seven

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    Isn't that how pretty much all children's dolls are manufactured though?
    No.

    I thought so too, but the other day my girlfriend was talking about how she wanted a baby boy doll that would wet himself when she was a child. Apparently it existed already way back then and it was an anatomically correct doll. I think there's a bit of debate going on about making all of them anatomically correct btw.
     

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