I feel like if you actually seriously asked this question in good faith and went looking for answers they wouldn't be at all hard to find https://twitter.com/VerePassum/status/1322506546492829698 …
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Replying to @VerePassum
The hedonic treadmill is ancient knowledge, and if you're as devoted to the Christian Scriptures as ask that you've already read all about it in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, so I don't know what exactly you need to be explained
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Replying to @VerePassum
*shrug* It's in the Bible, it's in Buddhism and in Greek philosophy, it's hardly an unusual point of view, it's just one people find easy to put out of their minds when their bellies are empty and need filling
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It's also not like I haven't heard any of this before Saying that I'm a product of late capitalist American decadence - well, maybe I am, what of it Are there hordes of poorer people with more authentic suffering than mine to whom my worldview would be alien? Good for them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VerePassum
It's like you're trying to yell at me to finish my dinner because there are starving children in Sudan who'd love to have what's on my plate right now Well, is my eating it going to cause it to teleport into their stomach? No? Then what's the point of bringing it up
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No, I'm saying that I don't want to eat because it tastes like shit and it makes me sick
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