tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785787.post113951215530471605..comments2023-05-20T13:33:55.999+01:00Comments on punctured neighbour: soap box 2: happinessUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785787.post-1139698256855688872006-02-11T22:50:00.000+00:002006-02-11T22:50:00.000+00:00you hate fern cotton that much? ..but surely she i...you hate fern cotton <I>that</I> much? ..but surely she is just the new lauren lavern?<BR/><BR/>er, maybe not.<BR/><BR/>the word verication just made me put the word "cunt" in (which is almost true)laurencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02669140073787997802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785787.post-1139579554888812552006-02-10T13:52:00.000+00:002006-02-10T13:52:00.000+00:00So are you going to move to London then? You shoul...So are you going to move to London then? You should wait a few months and come down for the start of Spring, when London starts being a nice place to live again.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13967685446519371383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785787.post-1139571547044959562006-02-10T11:39:00.000+00:002006-02-10T11:39:00.000+00:00that's what i was getting at though - if you can't...that's what i was getting at though - if you can't be happy because other people are happy, you're a sick person and you need treatment.<BR/><BR/>maybe i was just trying to condense "i'm ok - you're ok".<BR/><BR/>but i feel what i was heading towards that i didn't express was the difference between actually getting off on someone's misery, and the implicit version where you're happiness depends on people's unhappiness, but it's not the unhappiness that's make you unhappy, more of a byproduct of it, like unfairly traded coffee. is there a difference? ultimately, no.Grillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515348237413248036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6785787.post-1139555824211823942006-02-10T07:17:00.000+00:002006-02-10T07:17:00.000+00:00"happiness is not mutually exclusive. me being hap..."happiness is not mutually exclusive. me being happy doesn't stop you being happy."<BR/><BR/>I disagree. You being happy, and me being the bitter cunt that I am, really pisses me off and makes me miserable. This is why I got into welfare: nothing boosts your mood more than dabbing the tears of an emotional wreck who is worse off than you.<BR/><BR/>"and true happiness is that which makes other people happy too, not at their expense. we can all agree on that, can't we?"<BR/><BR/>Again, I disagree with this. Happiness is something that happens in your brain that could be related to anything, not necessarily other people or babies or marriage or whatever. It's possible to feel happy without anyone else around, with no one else being there to reflect your joy. Is this happiness any less true than the happiness you talk about above? In fact, the only influence of other people's situation on my level of happiness, is when they're really positive, and it makes me want to strangle them.<BR/><BR/>Also, you seem to classify happiness as something that is more than a transitory emotion, almost as though it is a lifestyle that only a few lucky people achieve. I think of it more as a fleeting moment of natural elation. The rest of the good stuff is just satisfaction, contentment or other, less intoxicating feelings.<BR/><BR/>But it was an interesting post, and istracted from the fact that probably REAL happiness would be stupid Ferne Cotton, hog-tied in my bedroom while I bandied around a bog brush "with intent", as they say in legal circles. <BR/><BR/>Now that would be fucking A.unimbuedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06311259017443046117noreply@blogger.com