What is your ideal paradise?

[grunterdb1951]

A little bit of everything I suppose.

A city with nearly blinding lights and skyscrapers aplenty, fading into calm suburbs before breaking off into agricultural land. There we go into forestry, which sooner or later degrades into vast amounts of dead trees which dwindle as you continue through before you reach lands of sand filled with dangerously hot days and freezing nights and so on and so on.

Y'know, everything that life has to offer.

[Ad Bot]

[BluetoothBoy]

Y'know, everything that life has to offer.

>crime

[grunterdb1951]

>crime

The bad things in life are what make the good things good.

[Clone v.117]

My ideal paradise would be like In Time but nobody ever ages over 12.

[Abstath]

Australia, with less 40°C, less spiders, more snow, better internet, and dragons.

[BluetoothBoy]

The bad things in life are what make the good things good.

No. By that logic, I wouldn't enjoy drawing or looking at art if there was nobody who was bad at making art.

[Jubel]

Wherever the people I care about are.

[Plastiware]

My ideal paradise would be like In Time but nobody ever ages over 12.

[Placid]

My boyfriend's arms

No. By that logic, I wouldn't enjoy drawing or looking at art if there was nobody who was bad at making art.

no, by that logic you wouldn't appreciate the greatness of a truly great art piece if there were no bad art pieces (which makes some sense, a matter of perspective).. it's not a matter of liking drawing or looking at it, it's appreciating quality

not necessarily agreeing with him, but your logic is flawed.

[Planr]

My ideal paradise is the one described in the Bible: So perfect that humans literally cannot comprehend it.

[BluetoothBoy]

no, by that logic you wouldn't appreciate the greatness of a truly great art piece if there were no bad art pieces (which makes some sense, a matter of perspective).. it's not a matter of liking drawing or looking at it, it's appreciating quality

not necessarily agreeing with him, but your logic is flawed.

I'm not talking about about varying levels of greatness though. I'm simply talking about enjoyment versus the lack of enjoyment. In these terms, it isn't a matter of good or bad; I enjoy what I enjoy. The more of it that's good instead of bad, the better.

[SWAT One]

No. By that logic, I wouldn't enjoy drawing or looking at art if there was nobody who was bad at making art.

Life is fluctuations of emotion and stimulagion.  Why are drugs, alcohol and love so appealing?  There is an up and a down phase for each.  The down phase is what makes the up phase all the more satisfying.  It's like if you take a breath and hold it for 30 seconds.  Sure, breathing again is rewarding, but if you hold it for a minute, that next breath will be sweeter than the last time you deprived yourself.  However, the wait will be more bitter.

I'm not talking about about varying levels of greatness though. I'm simply talking about enjoyment versus the lack of enjoyment. In these terms, it isn't a matter of good or bad; I enjoy what I enjoy. The more of it that's good instead of bad, the better.

The most accomplished in the world face depression a lot.  Why?  Their fortunes and success have an emotional elastic effect along with my aforementioned principle.

[Placid]

I'm not talking about about varying levels of greatness though. I'm simply talking about enjoyment versus the lack of enjoyment. In these terms, it isn't a matter of good or bad; I enjoy what I enjoy. The more of it that's good instead of bad, the better.

you're comparing an experience with an object. if you were to spend every day doing something you like don't you think that you'd start appreciating it less and only when you have a bad time will you really understand how great that experience was? (works the same with an object)

don't know what you've got till it's gone is the same logic.

[grunterdb1951]

Was going to reply to you blue, but then Placid and SWAT One seemed to have beat me to it.

[BluetoothBoy]

Life is fluctuations of emotion and stimulagion.  Why are drugs, alcohol and love so appealing?  There is an up and a down phase for each.  The down phase is what makes the up phase all the more satisfying.  It's like if you take a breath and hold it for 30 seconds.  Sure, breathing again is rewarding, but if you hold it for a minute, that next breath will be sweeter than the last time you deprived yourself.  However, the wait will be more bitter.

Well maybe that's how it works for some people, but that's not really how it works for me. I've not grown tired of music, but I only listen to music I enjoy. I still love Mexican food, but I don't eat bad Mexican food to compensate. There are some things that make sense in this context, of course; I obviously can't just eat as much chocolate as I want without bad things happening. But for all intensive purposes, it's variety that makes things interesting, not bad things counterbalancing good things. Are you seriously saying that if you had a seemingly endless supply of good things to do in life that you'd wish for bad things to happen to you? No, you move onto something else that you like.