Pepe wrote:
A very nice intellectual construct...
Errm...Is this philosophy from the "Orange People"?
I could Google, but hey...
I'm not 100% sure. Jiddu Krishnamurti was a speaker/writer/philosopher that was adopted by the head of a Theosophical society, and he had been groomed early on to be a "World Teacher" (whatever that meant) but he rejected it once he got old enough, and went on to more or less think out loud to anyone interested in listening.
It's possible there are some origins, similarities, or derivations there. I think it was around the 1950s that he became known enough here that he started offering public talks in the open air in Ojai, California.
Pepe wrote:
Personally, I find it odd how overwhelmingly people, garden variety or otherwise, have this great urgency to hunt down happiness/pleasure, kill it, stuff it and mount it on their chronological lifeline wall...
And then rinse and repeat...
People are very odd indeed...
P.S.
Life actually is meaningless...
It is up to each individual to define their own personalised existential meaning...
ciao...
I think that people who fanatically seek it out are both addicted to it, the process or end result or even both, and also they likely feel it's the only thing that gives their lives meaning. Or perhaps they're afraid that if there isn't pleasure, they have it's opposite and don't know what to do with it, or that it means their life is one that is somehow lacking in quality.
They very much are.
Life is everything and nothing, all at once.
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