Is happiness a choice?

Is happiness a choice?

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Of course it is you dumb fuck

no

>Is happiness a joke?
*fixed

Happiness is a state of mind. it is not any sort situation you are living right now but how your mind is perceiving the said situation. you can command your mind to perceive things in a certain way so yes, I think being happy is a choice that you make

So are you a fake it till you make it type of guy?

That's the definition of Stoicism. Perceive the universe, accept that you are part of it, decide how you want to feel. Happiness is the desired emotion for all but mentally ill fools.

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together... Marcus Aurelius

Is happiness really all that important?

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There is nothing of any greater value than human happiness. Therefore, all conduct and behavior should be oriented toward that aim, maximizing its availability while minimizing opposing risks. Though happiness is an accidental product of naturally and culturally evolved attributes of the human animal, it exceeds everything else in human experience in terms of its enjoyability and desirability, and therefore it is self-contradictory to assert that there is anything humans would enjoy or want more than their own happiness. However, there are tangible differences between happiness in this sense (as a form of pleasant contentment that everyone would desire more than anything else) and mere pleasure, as also between physical and intellectual pleasure. There are also complex realities involved in pursuing happiness, most notably those created by the complexities and limitations of natural human psychology and the complexities and limitations of living within (and depending upon) a social system. When all these distinctions and complexities are understood, a system of behavioral or attitudinal principles can be deduced, which is what naturalists define as morality. It is probably a universal conclusion among naturalists that this analysis ultimately produces a commitment to the Golden Rule, with many contemporary naturalists further concluding that by cultivating the personal virtues of compassion and honesty we most effectively realize this Rule and, as a result, most effectively increase our access to happiness (in frequency, degree, duration, and probability).

No because why would anyone choose to be unhappy if it was just a choice? People can't change their emotions like a flick of a switch it's more complicated than that..

What are your alternatives? Would you prefer to be unhappy?

People strive to be happy but avoid the bigger picture when trying to obtain that goal. All I'm saying is that are there things more important than happiness?

>People can't change their emotions like a flick of a switch it's more complicated than that..
Nope, Takes conscience choice and practice. Either you are subject to letting others tell you how you feel, or you learn to choose how you want to feel.

your environment and circumstances affect your happiness, and those things are choices

so happiness isn't, but whether or not you do things to make yourself happy are

>All I'm saying is that are there things more important than happiness?
Situational Ethics? An adult striving to be happy will have different goals than a child, or an adult with children. If having a good credit rating makes you happy, then set about making it so. Want your kids to have food & shelter? Get a job and KEEP it. For fools with no thought of the future their short term happiness may be endangering future contentment. Delayed gratification may seem like suffering, but it's knowing that the big payoff is accomplished by a little suffering right now.

Gay

>your environment and circumstances affect your happiness, and those things are choices
>so happiness isn't, but whether or not you do things to make yourself happy are
Environment and circumstances? Take the Big View. You are where you are because of your choices combined with the history of choices made by others before you. Live in a shithole country or town? Choose to change your circumstances. It's not anyone else's job to make you happy. Once you understand that your happiness is a choice you make, then you can be in the words of Epictetus, "sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy,"

You are? No amount of Log threads, or Trap threads can make me like you if I don't want it.

Not really. More of an idea that capitalists use as a carrot on a stick to exploit labor.

Passion is a real goal. Seek passion in your life, not happiness.

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>Passion is a real goal. Seek passion in your life, not happiness.
That's the Communist/Socialist viewpoint. You are thought of as a "useful idiot" by your Democratic Progressive Overlords.

Pretty much this. Happiness is a passing fancy. You're going to be miserable for the majority of your life. No matter how much you try to be happy, you'll only be happy if the circumstances align. Even then you'll just want more.

Find something you really enjoy in life and you'll fill that missing part in your life. It'll come eventually, but you have to be open to anything. Could be bug collecting. Could be joining the army. Big or small, it's out there.

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Why can't conservatives define happiness?

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>Why can't conservatives define happiness?
I live in a constant state of happiness. Why is it that Liberals feel the need to change things and force their obscene perversions on the rest of society? The state of your pitiful world view doesn't make me unhappy. I may feel pity for you, but that's because I know you can be happy if you'd let your college professors and AOC go. You are seeking something that cannot exist - universal happiness legislated by unhappy politicians and paid for by tax collectors holding guns.