Philosophic Discussion about Happiness

[MODAT7]

It's why it ticks me off when they put politics in something for no reason whatsoever.

It's a captive audience that they created by trashing government. They can't resist putting their warped sense of morals into it.

 

[PaulaJedi]

I am still not convinced that good events outnumber bad ones.

 

[Einstein]

I am still not convinced that good events outnumber bad ones.

I find it difficult to believe that most people choose more negative over positive. Your statement actually states that you don't choose. Why not?

 

[PaulaJedi]

I find it difficult to believe that most people choose more negative over positive. Your statement actually states that you don't choose. Why not?

Nothing good is happening? All I see is disaster around the world.

 

[Einstein]

Nothing good is happening? All I see is disaster around the world.

Just use logic and reason. I see fake news everyday. Without credibility or even accountability, the people that bring us this fake news continue to do this to what end? Hoping that maybe some gullible sole will believe them? Hopefully that is not you.

Just take charge of what you allow to input into your head. A visit to your local library might open your mind to subject matter that possibly you didn't even know about.

 

[alpha centauri]

Sadness lasts longer. Sad events happen more frequently. Why? Do animals go through this?
Well, I know alligators don't. (Que Timeflipper). I read somewhere that it is a survival technique. But then, that makes the purpose of life survival. Is surviving and reproducing our only purpose?

Why is sadness > happiness in humanity?

I find it difficult to believe that most people choose more negative over positive.

Interesting question. I read it also somewhere that this is the case and googled a bit and found this:

There is ample empirical evidence for an asymmetry in the way that adults use positive versus negative information to make sense of their world; specifically, across an array of psychological situations and tasks, adults display a negativity bias, or the propensity to attend to, learn from, and use negative information far more than positive information.

If you want to read the whole scientific paper:

Not all emotions are created equal: The negativity bias in social-emotional development

There is ample empirical evidence for an asymmetry in the way that adults use positive versus negative information to make sense of their world; specifically, across an array of psychological situations and tasks, adults display a negativity bias, or ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov