How do you feel about hedonism?

[Drewish]

Hedonism: love it, hate it, or live it?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

When I wasn't married I was pretty much of a hedonist. Marriage tended to be the recuperation period for me.

[Animavore]

Love it.

[Tero]

It's too much work. Give me poverty, a blanket and a nap.

[Svartalf]

Give me what it takes to have the Keith Richards or Hugh Hefner life style, and maybe I'll do it...
but being a hedonist when poor and socially maladjusted is just too much hassle.

[Seth]

Give me what it takes to have the Keith Richards or Hugh Hefner life style, and maybe I'll do it...
but being a hedonist when poor and socially maladjusted is just too much hassle.

It's also highly unlikely and medically dangerous.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Give me what it takes to have the Keith Richards or Hugh Hefner life style, and maybe I'll do it...
but being a hedonist when poor and socially maladjusted is just too much hassle.

Meh, I had a guaranteed income, no bills, and a Harley.

[Svartalf]

then you were neither poor nor socially maladjusted were you?

[John_fi_Skye]

I prefer eudaemonism.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

then you were neither poor nor socially maladjusted were you?

Not poor. Not rich, but I didn't go hungry.

[klr]

I prefer eudaemonism.

That's the first time I've ever heard that term outside of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier% ... a_Centauri

[John_fi_Skye]

I prefer eudaemonism.

That's the first time I've ever heard that term outside of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier% ... a_Centauri

It's a very similar to an expression we used when I was at school: "You dae ma hamework!"

[Elessarina]

Love it.

This.

However I am trying to change my ways.. so far this month I have quit smoking, drinking mainly (had two drinks on Thursday when out) ...... Hell I AM changing my ways.

[apophenia]

As often the case, the devil is in the details. What you mean by hedonism matters, as, like atheism, it has been redefined into the ground by its critics less than exposited by its friends. Epicurus advocated a thoroughgoing hedonism, and his thoughts on the matter have been repeatedly misinterpreted, misrepresented and maligned throughout history. When you take into account that his views have been misrepresented by his critics, their criticisms of Epicurean hedonism become nothing but strawman arguments — the attempt to refute a position the man himself never advocated.

"What is more, urged Epicurus, life is full of sweetness. We might as well enjoy it; we might as well really make an art of appreciating pleasure. Later his doctrine came to be synonymous with sensualist hedonism, which is why the adjective epicurean has that connotation today. But delicate food, drink, and the pleasures of the flesh are not quite what he had in mind. What Epicurus really encouraged was a joyous cultivation of knowledge and friendships. He did write about the delight of food and drink, but he meant learning to experience fully the pleasure of eating even rough bread and water as well as other things; the idea is that you cultivate yourself more than the food."

— Doubt: A History, Jennifer M. Hecht

Declare your borders, sir. I will not enter into a land that has none only to become the property of the sons of Liu Bang.

[nellikin]

Love it.

This.

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