"Humans, never satisfied, vindictive, always putting the pleasure of the moment above the needs of the future.'
'You still like us, though, don't you?' said Rose.
'Love ya,' said the Doctor, giving her a grin. 'But you do make a mess of things sometimes. Most of the time, in fact."
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"Kilo al, mutlu ol!"
Individuals with AN have long been noted to be anhedonic and ascetic, able to sustain self-denial of food as well as most comforts and pleasures in life (Frank et al., 2005). They also tend to be highly harm avoidant and overconcerned about consequences. This temperament persists, in a more modest form, after recovery (Klump et al., 2004; Wagner, Barbarich, et al., 2006). Reward is one characteristic that differentiates AN and BN, since BN tend to be more impulsive, pleasure and stimuli seeking and less paralyzed by concerns with future consequences (Cassin & von Ranson, 2005). Positive reinforcers or rewards promote selected behaviors, induce subjective feelings of pleasure and other positive emotions, and maintain stimulus-response associations (Thut et al., 1997).
Our obsession with birth, by shifting us to a point before our past, robs us of our pleasure in the future, in the present, and even in the past.
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Our obsession with birth, by shifting us to a point before our past, robs us of our pleasure in the future, in the present, and even in the past.
"Fear is the belief that something future is evil and so to be avoided; desire the belief that something future is good and to be pursued; pleasure the belief that something present is good and to be cherished; and pain the belief that something present is bad and a source of distress. Other species of passion are all subordinate to these four."
Christopher Shields
Publicity is never a celebration of a pleasure-in-itself. Publicity is always about the future buyer.
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Top 20 movies of 2020
20. apples
Christopher nikou's first feature appeared as one of the surprise films that seasoned the 2020 cinema year. Director nikou, who also worked as an assistant director in the movie dogtooth (2009) with yorgos lanthimos, follows the tradition of Greek New Wave Cinema (greek weird wave) and also makes a very
Top 20 movies of 2020
20. apples
Christopher nikou's first feature appeared as one of the surprise films that seasoned the 2020 cinema year. Director nikou, who also worked as an assistant director in the movie dogtooth (2009) with yorgos lanthimos, follows the tradition of Greek New Wave Cinema (greek weird wave) and also makes a very
“Nothing existential gave me any great pleasure. And progressively, as my ideas developed, I had more and more a sense of loneliness. I felt a driving ambition, and in that sense it was pleasant, but I was enormously unhappy with my position at home; I did not like being a child, I did not like being attached to a family. I resented enormously the implication that anything to do with the family was binding on me—or anything to do with anybody—I had no obligation to unchosen values. Boredom was a cardinal emotion in rela- tion to the events available to me. I didn’t care about any of the immediate reality, there was nothing in it for me. My world was the future. Today, I would know that the difference between me and others was my romantic sense of life, my more heroic sense of life. My whole development was desiring and looking for things which are interesting, versus the boredom of the routine or the conventional, looking for the unusual or purposeful. The heroic concept of man: that’s what interested me.”
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Once an individual's search for a meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering. And what happens if one's groping for a meaning has been in vain? This may well result in a fatal condition. Let us recall, for instance, what sometimes happened in extreme situations such as
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"But in this case his past and future presence would be drawing all ordinary comfort out of the situation and replacing it with a pleasure that was tight and nerve-racking rather than expansive."
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Hartmann
There are three fundamental illusions about the value of life. The first illusion is that “Happiness is attainable in the present stage of development of the world” (573). This is an illusion, Hartmann argues, because, for all the reasons just given, happiness in a positive sense is unattainable, and because pain and suffering far outweigh
