why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

so shut up.

so far not been dead on the day of the dead

All Souls' Day really gets to me

i don't have a wednes

http://s9.postimg.org/pmbxugu67/image.jpg

I don't get it.

i do :-(

All Souls' Day really gets to me

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haa

What's a featherweight glassjaw 2 do on boxing day?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/p480x480/10985486_774891615926289_2807738708024325748_n.jpg?oh=08711ecd2c108714966b1427ad36e024&oe=555D3178&__gda__=1435552197_aa858bba8dfc452265529ecf9cf12969

fu {andréa balt}

I always have the urge to re-upload these with: "Chief Advisor To Nicolae Ceaușescu" underneath.

Not a jpeg meme or whatever, but are all you guys seeing this story shared I dunno 3 or 4 times a week for the last month?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html

^ "this one weird trick will solve society's drug addiction problems". entire article peddles a false premise that the cause of addiction must be a single simple thing, rather than a complex of interrelated things.

tbf "lack of human connection" is a complex of interrelated things

tbemf, "unhappiness" is an even larger complex of interrelated things, but that would seem to drive nearer to the truth than just "lack of human connection".

they're the same thing afaict

if that were so, then love would never make us unhappy.

no

article seems ok to me; even if it isn't the most nuanced thing in the world anything that promotes rehabilitation over punishment re drug use is doing good.

you are right. I did not form my statement correctly to make my point. I'll try again.

if unhappiness and a lack of human connection are the same thing, then unhappiness could not exist in the presence of a human connection. Love between humans is a variety of human connection. Incidentally, so is hate between two humans. If unhappiness is possible when you are connected to other humans through love or hate or some other vital emotional connection, then unhappiness is not "the same thing" as lack of human connection.

Less drily, I love my daughter very deeply and we have a strong bond. She was born with a massive range of physical and mental deficits and suffers frequent seizures. In spite of the happiness my connection with my daughter brings to me, there have been many times in my life when that deep bond of love was accompanied by a despair so palpable that I sometimes hoped either she or I would die so there could be an end to my unhappiness. This also was a time I was self-medicating with alcohol in order to relieve some of that unhappiness through numbness and I was closest to falling into addiction.

Because of this experience, I do not equate unhappiness with a lack of deep and meaningful human connection.

that is getting way too complex, throwing love into the mix (what is love etc). i think the point that greater and more dynamic connectedness makes addiction less addictive for people is solid if not rock-solid because ultimately it is a complex maybe unprovable hypothesis that that article wants to present as simple (which is what is annoying fb bait about it imo). but in general i agree with it, at least i find it more convincing than pathologizing addiction and turning it into something completely internal or genetic.

xp i see what you mean.

i kind of agree with you Aimless but you're argument is cheating - to say "unhappiness is lack of human connection" doesn't imply that happiness = human connection, but only, perhaps, that human connection is a necessary tho not sufficient condition for happiness

"you're argument" ?? you get me, anyway

i do think that the possibility/option of human connection is probably necessary for long-term happiness

probably there are ppl for whom happiness is attainable w/out any human connection (some ppl probably preferring a hermit-style life?) but i imagine for the vast majority of humans...

the main thesis here that lack of human connection is a primary factor leading to drug/gambling addiction isn't a bad one

i wonder if it's possible to enjoy hermitage without the context of bustly human society to get away from

though, it discounts the fact that people often enable each other's addictions, alcoholics with other alcoholics, gamblers with other gamblers

xp yeah seems like life would be incredibly boring if it was just wake up, scrounge for food, sleep every day

to say "unhappiness is lack of human connection" doesn't imply that happiness = human connection

I was addressing the idea that unhappiness and a lack of human connection were "the same thing", i.e. identical. Identity requires that one cannot exist without the other. In this case, unhappiness could not exist without a lack of human connection because they are "the same thing". Because identity is an absolute condition, all that is necessary to refute their identity is one instance where unhappiness exists in tandem with strong, positive human connections.

Sorry to get all syllogistic, NV, but when I'm told I'm cheating I'd rather address it than appear to agree through my silence. I'm tetchy that way. It's an internet disease.

lack of human connection = unhappiness a better way to say it then

also not to thread police but can we get back to why scott seward is such a jerk, please

with pleasure!

i prefer syllogisms tbh

A great parent is always there. Firstly, because it is illegal to leave your child by their self. Secondly, if little Jonathan should start getting crabby because his parents have chosen to forsake any personal connection with him in favor of building a rocket ship, someone will need to get that child into a body of water immediately. The Atlantic, preferably 20 miles or so off the coast, seems appropriate for Mr Crabbypants.

Now I know this punishment may seem a little too strict for some parents, what with all the swimming to shore while dodging sharks, but lets not forget, Jonathan is unlovable. Straight up. Even if he does make it of out of the ocean alive I would still chalk this up as a positive experience for a parent afflicted with an unlovable child, refusing to love that child; and in the process learning to love themselves instead.

By the way, Jonathan, building a rocket is literally rocket science. Think about it.

http://planetsark.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/How-to-Love-a-Child-745x1024.jpg

oh shit guys. that is a BLANKET

to build a fort with, presumably.

put them in water

go find elephants and kiss them get trampled

its good to have a blanket to remind you of what not to do

stop yelling is v acceptable advice

go to a movie theater in your pajamas is horrible advice for everyone involved

give up on life pants

"make loving safe"

all my letters to God came back refused

I love those printed throws, I feel like it is only a matter of time before they start selling blanket printers that can make those. Which I will purchase immediately.

looks like Print All Over Me offers throws

http://printallover.me/collections/home-linen-throws

my friend gave her brother a giant nicolas cage printed throw rug for christmas

please mail me one (1) Wicker Man throw