Your initial argument does not address the first phenomenon. "Relationships are not stuff" and "stuff does not make you happy" does not mean that being in a relationship can make you happy. And yes, there were four negatives in that sentence. Go me.
You could frame that first phenomenon as "I attribute part of the happiness I am currently feeling to the fact that I have a dynamic personal bond with an individual which is intimate, romantic and/or sexual." This sidesteps the notion of entitlement yet provides to much detail. For the sake of conciseness in a conversation, one might utter "I am happy to be in a relationship" yet not perceive it as a 'stuff'.
Everything you say is inherently incorrect on some level. No matter how much you specify, there will always be some deeper level of meaning whihc contradicts what you ave said. The word 'I' is incorrect as how does one define what 'I' means? Delving into quantum physics, the theory of interconnectivity and Buddhist teachings challenge pre-conceived concepts of 'I'.
Ultimately, sometimes we have to think in terms of broad statements because if we didn't it would be too difficult to function. This is not to say that your arguments are not valid; on the contrary, they are quite interesting and provide deeper understanding for commonly churned-out phrases whihc appear not to make sense.
I think I probably worded the whole post loosely- ergo losing the meaning or making it quite ambiguous.
so I agree with the disagreement - if you take the original post to mean that it is the linguistics that are the problems. However I disagree with it in that I meant more that a lot of people seem to actually think of (and not just talk about) relationships or jobs as yet another thing in the checklist and that if you tick the boxes in the list you "should" be happy - whereas it seems that there are a lot of people in the world with situations that could be improved who are happier than some people who "have everything". Linguistically you can draw an analogy between "being" and "having" as ways of perceiving relationships/parts of your life/whatevs.
It's not a perfectly worded post, so I agree I should have worded it better to make my point clearer!!
You could frame that first phenomenon as "I attribute part of the happiness I am currently feeling to the fact that I have a dynamic personal bond with an individual which is intimate, romantic and/or sexual." This sidesteps the notion of entitlement yet provides to much detail. For the sake of conciseness in a conversation, one might utter "I am happy to be in a relationship" yet not perceive it as a 'stuff'.
Everything you say is inherently incorrect on some level. No matter how much you specify, there will always be some deeper level of meaning whihc contradicts what you ave said. The word 'I' is incorrect as how does one define what 'I' means? Delving into quantum physics, the theory of interconnectivity and Buddhist teachings challenge pre-conceived concepts of 'I'.
Ultimately, sometimes we have to think in terms of broad statements because if we didn't it would be too difficult to function. This is not to say that your arguments are not valid; on the contrary, they are quite interesting and provide deeper understanding for commonly churned-out phrases whihc appear not to make sense.
So, um, yeah. Who likes stuff?
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I think I probably worded the whole post loosely- ergo losing the meaning or making it quite ambiguous.
so I agree with the disagreement - if you take the original post to mean that it is the linguistics that are the problems. However I disagree with it in that I meant more that a lot of people seem to actually think of (and not just talk about) relationships or jobs as yet another thing in the checklist and that if you tick the boxes in the list you "should" be happy - whereas it seems that there are a lot of people in the world with situations that could be improved who are happier than some people who "have everything". Linguistically you can draw an analogy between "being" and "having" as ways of perceiving relationships/parts of your life/whatevs.
It's not a perfectly worded post, so I agree I should have worded it better to make my point clearer!!
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