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Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance
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Distinction and responsibility
Pleasure from outward success
Pleasure at the animal level is a full belly, good health, freedom and the passing on of DNA. Pleasure also equates to success yet pleasure is transient, it cannot be held on to and only exists in the moment of experience although there may be an afterglow of success.
Although animals compete fiercely for sexual rights, they give few outward signs of pleasure, but when their lives are in balance they are obviously content.
To know about our distant past as this human form evolved from the primitive animal, we need only look at the animals of today to see that they experience rudimentary pleasure.
A secondary
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Reward for service or escapism
Sometimes we wish life could be more heavenly. but what is heaven and where do we find it? Across the Middle East during a time of growing desertification, Heaven was most often described as an idyllic paradise with lush gardens, an abundance of food and no responsibility, all one’s needs are taken care of.
If we look at the temple Art from north-west India across North Africa, it depicts this idyllic heaven as something akin to the mythical hanging Gardens of Babylon. So perhaps we can say that this was in response to harsh living conditions and indeed those with means either created their own miniature paradise or spread and conquered other lands.
The carrot
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A temporary release from suffering
Sharing pleasure
When we consider the nature of our lives, a great many of us are trapped in some kind of suffering as a result of external politics and conditions as well as problems we create for ourselves. Pleasure involves our senses of perception be it physical, mental or emotional with spiritual pleasure or ecstasy the highest emotion.
Suffering and unhappiness is not what we are designed for, it’s simply a consequence of a whole lot of stuff either real or unreal. The baseline for human well-being is peace from which happiness, joy, bliss and ecstasy can flower.
However when people are suffering, pleasure offers a temporary respite and yet it has also
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A look at addiction
Addiction is a compulsive condition that reduces a persons ability to function as a ‘normal person’ within their society. In other words, when a person become addicted to a drug or an activity, they are unable to fully control their behaviour.
The reason that people become addicted is that they are not fully in control of their lives and that they are experiencing aspects of the lives as being unpleasant. When they find a drug or activity that is so pleasurable that they temporarily forget the unpleasant things in their lives, pleasurable things begin to take precedent in their life. The actual process of addiction is subtle and most people don’t realise that they are
Continue reading The Down Side of Pleasure
Beauty; an interaction that pleases the senses
Bob Marley
Beauty is a trick of the mind
Our minds and lives continually seek balance and beauty is seen when there are balanced proportions. We look for it in everyone’s face and body, and we feel pleasure at the sight of balance as balance equals beauty and beauty is related to the golden number.
Not everyone remembers Bob Marley, the charismatic and popular musician. If you did not know him and passed him in the street, he may pass unnoticed. Like all people, there is beauty in the face but in Bob’s case, the beauty in his music; the sound, the meaning and the delivery. The beauty in the person
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Finding the work life balance
by Sam Vaknin
The official working week has been reduced to 35 hours a week in France. In most countries in the world, it is limited to 45 hours a week. The trend during the last century seems to be unequivocal: less work, more play.
Yet, what may be true for blue collar workers or state employees – is not necessarily so for white collar members of the liberal professions. It is not rare for these people – lawyers, accountants, consultants, managers, academics – to put in 80 hour weeks.
The phenomenon is so widespread and its social consequences so damaging that it has acquired the unflattering nickname workaholism, a combination of the words “work”
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Or What kind of a Woman Actually Pays For a Sensual Massage?
Delightful pleasure
Self care is associated with valuing one’s self; body mind and spirit. Typically self care is about creating a lifestyle where the needs of body and mind are met, but this modern life is abstracted which creates an exceedingly stressful life.
These abstractions are to do with the politics and morality of living that have nothing to do with reality but more with appeasing the minds of others. The constraints of modern living drive many people mad or cause other stress-related diseases. Ideally all this unnecessary stuff of life is handled through a healthy lifestyle, but in this world a healthy lifestyle is a
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Temporary relief from suffering
Pleasure is temporary, happiness and joy can be eternal
You may remember as a child the uninhibited pleasure of running and playing without a care in the world. If you’ve forgotten, go and hang out with some under three-year-old’s for a while and you will remember. So what’s gone wrong?
After 15 to 20 years in the education system, our creativity and sense of life is usually severely blunted and we end up toiling with the idea of happiness coming with the next paycheck and even retirement. But even when the paycheck arrives there are bills to pay and in today’s world where the only financial trickle is the trickle from the Port of
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A country under pressure
Greece – Bikini World Blog
Since this post was written, Greece has been flooded with refugees which means you have to take extra security precautions, but on the other hand because of its financial difficulties, you may get a very good deal.
by Nick Nikolis
When you think of travelling to Greece, you’d probably would think of doing it on your leisure time and many people visit Greece on their honeymoon, anniversary, or for a family vacation. There is so much to see in Greece; so much rich history. Who wouldn’t love the opportunity to see the Acropolis of Athens, or the historical site of Olympia. Maybe you have visited Greece
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Ideas for Creating a Stable Civilisation – Part One
Manu is a somewhat ambiguous figure because there is no evidence pointing to one particular character in one particular period of our history yet it’s thought that he or more likely a continuity of thinkers existing over the past three or four thousand years gave thought to how we could organise ourselves in relation to what is fair and just.
It seems most probable that as humanity began to develop permanent communities thanks to the advent of agriculture and improved technologies, thought was given to the organisation of social structures and the concept of the rights of individuals and the rights of societies.
We have seen all manner of societies come
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Where is the truth in your life?
“Reason divorced from facts can be used to prove any nonsense whatsoever” C.K Raju
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