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I hope they didn't spend a ton of money trying to figure out that not having purpose makes you a worse person.
Unemployment's effects on you
Nowhere in that article was "purpose" or "sense of purpose" mentioned.
Also,
some people should be unemployed, because they do garbage work.
Also,
[...] 210 were unemployed for one to four years.
The researchers can't say for sure [...]
Though he didn't test the theory, [...]
While the researchers can't say exactly why this happens, [...]
[...] need more data to verify whether that's true [...]
some people should be unemployed, because they do garbage work.
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Nowhere in that article was "purpose" or "sense of purpose" mentioned.
Yeah, that was my point. Or were you pointing out something?
some people should be unemployed, because they do garbage work.
Leave the government out of this.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Okay, now I'm confused. Leisher, was your point something about employment giving life purpose? Because if so I would tend to disagree.Leisher wrote:Yeah, that was my point. Or were you pointing out something?Nowhere in that article was "purpose" or "sense of purpose" mentioned.
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Mine was broader. While employment can give one's life purpose, it certainly is not the only factor.TPRJones wrote:Okay, now I'm confused. Leisher, was your point something about employment giving life purpose? Because if so I would tend to disagree.Leisher wrote:Yeah, that was my point. Or were you pointing out something?Nowhere in that article was "purpose" or "sense of purpose" mentioned.
My sense of purpose point was that without one, it's very likely that someone will be miserable or simply unhappy.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
My sense of purpose point was that without one, it's very likely that someone will be miserable or simply unhappy.
That's all well and good until their sense of purpose makes other people miserable and unhappy.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Leisher wrote:My sense of purpose point was that without one, it's very likely that someone will be miserable or simply unhappy.
You're not wrong, but its presence is probably determined genetically.
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I don't even know what that word means anymore.Alhazad wrote:Is Malcolm happy?TPRJones wrote:Can making snarky comments on the internet count as a purpose?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Can you imagine what would happen if someone were to find evidence of genetic behavioral traits in particular races? Asians/studious, jews/thrifty, blacks/prone to violence? Genetics would be racist and probably deemed bad and wrong, or, "b'd'ong," as I like to say.Alhazad wrote:You're not wrong, but its presence is probably determined genetically.Leisher wrote:My sense of purpose point was that without one, it's very likely that someone will be miserable or simply unhappy.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
You mean like Danes being happier than everyone else?GORDON wrote:Can you imagine what would happen if someone were to find evidence of genetic behavioral traits in particular races? Asians/studious, jews/thrifty, blacks/prone to violence? Genetics would be racist and probably deemed bad and wrong, or, "b'd'ong," as I like to say.
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Alhazad wrote:Leisher wrote:My sense of purpose point was that without one, it's very likely that someone will be miserable or simply unhappy.
You're not wrong, but its presence is probably determined genetically.
However, both stable environmental contributions and emerging genetic influences were indicated.
Genetics + environment.
Effects of shared environment were weak and nonsignificant. Unique environmental effects for all measures were mostly trait specific.
My sister-in-law's entire family is batshit insane. They also seem predisposed to seeking out and marrying other batshit insane people. Except her, she's rather normal. It's not trait specific, either. She is across the board more normal and functional than all her immediate relatives. She even had the same environment for the most part. The brain simply isn't a deterministic mechanism that can be modeled by genes and external stimuli. Some fucking weird dynamic factor's missing.
I believe the obvious question is also missing: who the fuck says being happy is that state all humans need to achieve? If you want eternal happiness, go get a lobotomy.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Malcolm wrote:My sister-in-law's entire family is batshit insane. They also seem predisposed to seeking out and marrying other batshit insane people. Except her, she's rather normal. It's not trait specific, either. She is across the board more normal and functional than all her immediate relatives. She even had the same environment for the most part.
Clinically define "batshit insane" and "relatively normal" and sequence their genomes, or else she just goes in the pile with the rest of the data points.
For both males and females, long-term stability of [subjective well-being] was mainly attributable to stable additive genetic factors, whereas susceptibility to change was mostly related to individual environmental factors. However, both stable environmental contributions and emerging genetic influences were indicated.
The full quote.
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