Was it Balph Eubank that said a human's natural state was suffering?

Posted by $ splumb 1 year ago to Philosophy
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In a preview of the dystopian nightmare that's coming, somebody at CNN is making the case for happiness being overrated.


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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 1 year ago in reply to this comment.
    +10 if I could. That's exactly my
    experience. Only made worse if they are in your own family or in politics.
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  • Posted by $ 1 year ago in reply to this comment.
    The schools and colleges are training them to be mindless.
    When I read the article, I thought of something Winston Churchill said:

    "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
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  • Posted by $ 1 year ago in reply to this comment.
    I doubt it.
    I've learned in my lifetime that there are people who are miserable human beings, and unable to make themselves happy, they prefer to make others equally as miserable as themselves.
    Instead of pulling themselves up, they pull others down.
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 1 year ago
    Word salads divorced from reality seem to be the
    Marxists favorite pastime.

    I wonder if she ever had a happy day in her life.
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  • Posted by $ sekeres 1 year ago
    Bingo! from Pt. I, Chapter VI "The Non-Commercial":
    "What is the real essence of life, Mr. Eubank?"
    "Suffering," said Balph Eubank. "Defeat and suffering."

    But, of course, he's wrong. Quoting Galt, Pt. 3, Chapter VIII, "The Egoist":
    "Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. . . . Don't struggle not to be happy."
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  • Posted by $ BobCat 1 year ago
    But, but, but.... we were told to "eat bugs and be happy..." now they say happiness is overated?? Does that also mean that eating bugs is overated too? Geeze, this leftist wokeness is so confusing, one has to become a complete mindless moron to understand it.
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