My happiness hypothesis

[Jam Stunna]

Japan is a pretty collectivist nation, and they have suicide fads. It's pretty nuts.

 

[1048576]

43 out of 104 is better than half. Also, look at Netherlands and England, two very socialist countries. I'm not lying. We're both stretching the truth. Also, I don't feel like looking up income deviation and making a correlation. It seemed obvious to me. Also Russia has some exceedingly rich people and many in abject poverty.

Japan is different because suicide isn't always the result of unhappiness in Japan.

 

[Xanthyr]

So we went to nitpicking split hair semantics from discussing your theory on happiness.

It matters not if you recall your previous statements on suicide, or even try to get others agree that people commit suicide in the U.S. more or less than others due to infinite factors. These are non-relevant facts that you associated with a theory that didn't make sense. Is there any more to this discussion other than that?

 

[Jam Stunna]

Question for you, 1048576: Have you ever done anything that made you proud of yourself?

 

[Matt]

You can't teach a Sneetch.

"Oh, nice reference, Matt! This pretty much covers the topic at hand accurately and succinctly."

SRSLY GUYZ, didn't anyone read Dr. Seuss??

I quit the Proom forever.

 

[Blooqkazoo]

It seems like as a society, people are no happier than they were thousands of years ago. Our lives are obviously more comfortable, but this isn't reflected in our dispositions. Because of this, I feel like the only reasonable cause of happiness is being better off than your neighbour. If you and your neighbor are on equal footing, then you are content. If you are worse off than the people around you, then you are miserable. I feel like I would be happier if everyone was a slave to another world than if we were all set free and everyone else was given $10. Does anyone else share this view?

If this is true, it would explain the high suicide rates in the US. Capitalism makes people miserable, except for a select few.

Huh? I'm sure as hell I'm happy. And there's lotsa things not right with what's going on like moving and love and stuff. My theory is that if you think you're living a good life, then you are living a good life.
Don't know much about my neighbors. One's an old lady and other's busy.

 

[marthanoob]

1048576: You're shooting free throws blindfolded.

Evidence shows that happiness is subjective. A given person can choose to make himself happy. Understand this. (Maybe saying it 50 more times will help.)
There are certain activities or materials that make a person considerably more likely to become happy or unhappy, but this cannot be stated definitively.

People with more talent have more talent because they got lucky. For example, in the last month, I've taken 3000 free throws. My percentage went from exactly 50% to exactly 50%. Someone who shots free throws better than me probably doesn't do it from motivation or drive, but from natural ability. Having a low IQ is not a choice, can we at least agree there for now?

The only reason I enjoy things I suck at is because I look at the prospect of improving.

So what? He's better than you. You are worse than him. You may become better than him. You are unhappy until you do become better than him, then you will be happy.
Someone else may look at the person decide that he has natural talent and instead of trying to get better than him, decide to make him a star player on a decent team, happily be his manager, and make a ton of money.

Essentially, your "theory of unhappiness" refers to you and some individuals of a certain personality type who uncontrollably compare themselves to the environment establishing a detailed, unnecessarily long subconscious mental list of what is desirable (good, perfect, right) and what is undesirable (bad, flawed, wrong), acting upon this list, and attempting to be rational in the process while only succeeding in being narrow-minded.
If you want to get better at basketball, then get better according to yourself. It doesn't have to be better than him, or her, or that guy over there. Try the introspective approach. Learn to live with yourself.

 

[Livvers]

"Oh, nice reference, Matt! This pretty much covers the topic at hand accurately and succinctly."

SRSLY GUYZ, didn't anyone read Dr. Seuss??

I quit the Proom forever.

We don't need your obscure, hipster references in here >=[

 

[Crimson King]

Well, now you are just ignoring facts to make your point, which makes you nothing but a troll and an idiot.

I proved Statistically we are not anywhere near the highest. You say 43 is still high? We have a 17 in 100,000 suicide rate.

I am almost tempted to revive the Matt rule just because this is clearly a case of blatant trolling for the sake of attention. Should I give him the ole' one-two?