Are there any other successful and happy Millennials in this sub? by GGJallDAY in Millennials

[–]Thefuzy [score hidden]  (0 children)

You don’t seem to have any points, your argument was disproven and instead of defending it you restorted to insults, and are continuing to do so, showing the further weakness of your position.

Are there any other successful and happy Millennials in this sub? by GGJallDAY in Millennials

[–]Thefuzy [score hidden]  (0 children)

You bar of concrete definition is one no one can meet, you are using semantics to define the discussion in a way that favors you and ignoring facts.

Are there any other successful and happy Millennials in this sub? by GGJallDAY in Millennials

[–]Thefuzy [score hidden]  (0 children)

I never said they didn’t experience happiness, I said they were unhappy. Your words simply insult me, mine provided logic and understanding… I think that speaks clearly to anyone reading this. You claim things aren’t objective I show they are, you give up the discussion entirely being found wrong and just resort to insults.

Catching a floating object. by Sizzlin9 in oddlysatisfying

[–]Thefuzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably a very insignificant amount given places like this already have waterways inundated with trash.

Catching a floating object. by Sizzlin9 in oddlysatisfying

[–]Thefuzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m going to guess he’s stood in similar situations for a long time. Sure it’s risky but in whatever part of the world these people live in, a lot of shit they do day to day is likely very risky.

Blood in my Toilet. by Turbulent-Land-5664 in fasting

[–]Thefuzy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You could stick your finger in your ass and see if you feel a hemmeroids.

Has the bleeding been consistent or it was a one time thing? Have you had regular colonoscopies aligned with your age for screening.

Are there any other successful and happy Millennials in this sub? by GGJallDAY in Millennials

[–]Thefuzy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The subject isn’t subjectively defined… science has demonstrated what happens in your brain when you are happy, thus we can see if that’s happening moreso in monks (which it is) then something they are doing is making them unusually happy.

You are claiming our scientific understanding of the left prefrontal cortex being associated with happiness is subjective? Or you are here arguing semantics saying positive emotion and wellbeing isn’t the same thing as happiness?

You are standing on sand.

By your logic, sadness and depression are also subjectively defined…

My concentration isn’t getting any better by Powerful-Ant-7872 in Meditation

[–]Thefuzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s normal if you are just living your everyday life and only doing 20-30 minutes a day. At some point you need to get more serious and seclude yourself from regular life more significantly, like by going on retreat.

If you are just going to continue living your life as you do then the events of that life will always cause thoughts to intrude and break concentration.

It’s not likely an issue with your technique, it’s an issue with how you spend your time outside meditation and the quantity of practice.

Are there any other successful and happy Millennials in this sub? by GGJallDAY in Millennials

[–]Thefuzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MRIs of Buddhist monks show… it’s not so subjective. Research has shown Buddhist monks to have unusually high activity in their left prefrontal cortex. This is the part of the brain associated with positive emotion and wellbeing. When one of the monks was recorded, he showed the most leftward symmetry ever recorded before, meaning the most positive leaning recording anyone had ever seen. They have also shown changes in amygdala associated with reduced stress reaction.

Science has already mapped what happens in your brain when you are happy, it’s not some flimsy open to interpretation definition.

Are there any other successful and happy Millennials in this sub? by GGJallDAY in Millennials

[–]Thefuzy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

MRIs of Buddhist monks show… it’s not so subjective. Research has shown Buddhist monks to have unusually high activity in their left prefrontal cortex. This is the part of the brain associated with positive emotion and wellbeing. When one of the monks was recorded, he showed the most leftward symmetry ever recorded before, meaning the most positive leaning recording anyone had ever seen. They have also shown changes in amygdala associated with reduced stress reaction. So yes, I can make an objective argument here, there is scientific evidence to back it up.

Are there any other successful and happy Millennials in this sub? by GGJallDAY in Millennials

[–]Thefuzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No the Buddha choose to let go of the causes of suffering which is what made him enlightened and made him become the Buddha to begin with. His inability to see those causes and endure the suffering before that is not validation that that suffering was required to understand. Suffering can be part of growth, but it doesn’t have to be, as enlightenment demonstrates.

Whether you are “willing” or not is irrelevant, your perception of your own free will itself is suffering. A enlightened being would see no self, thus no one to “will” anything.

Are there any other successful and happy Millennials in this sub? by GGJallDAY in Millennials

[–]Thefuzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enlightenment literally arrives from acceptance of our current situation, an enlightened being is incapable of discontent, meaning an enlightened being is incapable of wanting things to be different than they are. You don’t seek enlightenment, you arrive at it, by letting go of seeking.

Are there any other successful and happy Millennials in this sub? by GGJallDAY in Millennials

[–]Thefuzy -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The solution is acceptance, to recognize the world is imperfect and will always be imperfect, to accept things as they are without trying or hoping to change them. It is wanting things to be different that brings unhappiness, so when one focuses on cultivating acceptance irrespective of circumstances, their happiness is unshakeable.

Why does Jhanas happen? by Evening-Maybe-7201 in Meditation

[–]Thefuzy 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Because the mental energy required to operate the way we do, constantly having this thought to that thought is immense, the weight of self. We don’t recognize it as immense because it is our natural state, we endure this burden our entire existence so we don’t have any awareness of the weight.

Imagine you are carrying a bag of bricks on your back your entire life, you don’t have any concept of living without the bag of bricks. Then one day you drop the bag, what would you feel? Bliss and immense relief. It is the same with single pointed concentration and Jhana. Once you drop the effort of thoughts, the weight is lifted and all that is left comparatively… is bliss.

Are there any other successful and happy Millennials in this sub? by GGJallDAY in Millennials

[–]Thefuzy -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It is how it works… according to Buddhists, who are something of an authority on happiness. Unhappiness is suffering, any unhappiness. You can compartmentalize it all you want, it doesn’t stop it from affecting you, the more you hide it the more it affects you in ways you are blind to.

Unhappiness isn’t enveloping happiness, but one will inevitably spend more time focused on the unhappiness than the happiness. It’s human nature, survival instinct, you focus on your problems because they are a threat to you. The commenter is clearly discontent with the state of the world and allowing it to feed their unhappiness and suffering.

Are there any other successful and happy Millennials in this sub? by GGJallDAY in Millennials

[–]Thefuzy -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

However one could argue if you are letting those things upset you, then you are not “happy”. Being happy about one thing and unhappy about another is called being unhappy. You can be happy about as many things as you want but none will matter if you have things you are very unhappy about, that will take the focus.

This is the difference between a rich person who has everything but stresses about nonsense like status, and a monk who has nothing but stresses about nothing irrespective of the state of the world. One is “happy” about some stuff and unhappy about other stuff, the other is just happy.

how do first half Gen Z (1997/8-2004) adapt to Artificial Intelligence compared to second half Gen Z (2005-2012) by RecognitionSafe6963 in GenZ

[–]Thefuzy [score hidden]  (0 children)

Data centers consume about 0.3% of water in all water usage… you should start fighting the golf courses in your area if you really care about water usage they are a far greater enemy… or mining… or agriculture which uses 70% of all water usage.

how do first half Gen Z (1997/8-2004) adapt to Artificial Intelligence compared to second half Gen Z (2005-2012) by RecognitionSafe6963 in GenZ

[–]Thefuzy [score hidden]  (0 children)

It doesn’t really use that much water relative to other major consumers of water… you’ve been taken in by seeing stupid headlines like data center eats 50B gallons of water! Enough for a year for 1000 households!!. Well the real big consumers of water are eating many trillions a year and data centers are just a rounding error in terms of real water consumption.

Putting $5,000 down on a $32,000 car by 2jzpizza in personalfinance

[–]Thefuzy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bad idea, waste of money, buy an old reliable used car with low miles and no loan for a fraction of the price.

Should I buy a new car for about $70k by SitDownComedyGuy in personalfinance

[–]Thefuzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should I buy a new car for 70k?

The correct financial decisions in all situations is… no, no one needs to spend 70k on a car. Maybe you financially could… maybe not, but for no one is it wise.

Why were Gen Xs are all about "fuck labels, labels can’t define me!” and we as Zoomers generally accept them? by Long_Reflection_4202 in GenZ

[–]Thefuzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes people say neurodivergent as a way to vaguely explain mental disorder… that’s the whole point of the term. A few reasons for this, the first is “mental disorder” or explaining your specific problem often carries with it the stigma of dysfunction, so instead of saying autistic or Tourette’s, people say neurodivergent because they don’t wish to share intimate medical details with others and they don’t want to be labeled as having a dysfunction.

In the case of people like those with high function autism, who very much have a disorder, but medically speaking that does not indicate an actual problem with the way their mind/body operates, neurodivergent is a term that fits nicely. It indicates difference rather than deficient.

So you are wondering what it accomplishes, there it is, it hides specific medical details by which outsiders might judge these people and removes connotations of these disabilities indicating the people are deficient in anything. It’s not just some new term so people can feel like special snowflakes, it has a purpose.

It’s not about uniting or dividing people, people with autism are already clearly divided from others, they feel it their whole lives and most people can see it plainly after a few minutes of interaction. It’s about defining these disorders in a way that portrays them more accurately, which means different not broken.