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 OrgoneConclusion
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 Theory of Reality 
#15793218 - 02/11/12 02:25 PM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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People want what they can't have.
And once they get it they don't want it any more (after a brief honeymoon).
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Slipknot420
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I disagree. I've had my macbook for almost 2 years and i still want it 
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"Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns - it calls me on and on across the universe" ~ John Lennon
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OrgoneConclusion
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You are not people. 
OK then, I will send the free MacBook Pro to another needy soul.
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Slipknot420
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it's a function of the human tendency to focus on what we do not have, while ignoring what we do. It's why sayings like "count your blessings" and "you never know what you have til it's gone" have been so enduring. This could be said to be a major cause of depression in a lot of people, and it perpetuates by the tendency to focus on something new once achieving said goal/item/etc. It could also be said to be a driving force of humanity at times because if we were perfectly content with what we had at all times, we would not be living our lives very actively, some say that goals only exist to keep one moving on the journey. Either way it's an interesting idea and daily i try to focus on how much I actually have in my life.
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*Divine Moments of Truth*
"Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns - it calls me on and on across the universe" ~ John Lennon
"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right" ~The Grateful Dead
"Religionists, with their guaranteed eventual paradise, of which they know nothing, taking it all on 'faith,' can't be expected to understand or sympathize with those with a yen to storm the Gate of Heaven and see for themselves what all the praying's about!" ~Robert Hunter
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 Erasmo
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If people want what they "can't" have, than how do they obtain it so that they can then dislike it? maybe i'm missing something.
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OrgoneConclusion
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 Re: Theory of Reality [Re: Erasmo]
#15793541 - 02/11/12 03:43 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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I was wondering if some keen observer would pick up on that. 
However, it means 'can't' as in this present moment, but may be able to later. If you are making $20K a year, you cannot afford a new Ferrari, but could if you were making $140K per year. Or, you want to bang that chick so badly, but she is going home with someone else. And so on...
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blingbling
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i think it's perfectly reasonable that someone would want more for themselves and their family. it's the people who claim they don't want anything and are completely content that give me the heebee geebee's.
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Zanthius
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said:
People want what they can't have.
And once they get it they don't want it any more (after a brief honeymoon).
I think there actually has been done research on these things. Apparently people that win the lottery only get happy for a brief period of time, and then their emotional state goes back to how it was before they won the lottery. The same is apparently true for people that lose limbs in car accidents. They get unhappy for a brief period of time, and their emotional state goes back to how it was before the car accident.
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blackdogs
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Re: Theory of Reality [Re: Zanthius]
#15798450 - 02/12/12 02:53 PM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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"
People want what they can't have.
And once they get it they don't want it any more (after a brief honeymoon). "
growing out of this is a symptom of maturity.
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