What's the secret of life?

I have some unfortunate memories and experience with pleasure so would prefer joy.

Whatever the meaning of life is I would like to drink cold beer after a work day or drink a delicious coffee.

desperate788 wrote:I have some unfortunate memories and experience with pleasure so would prefer joy.

Whats the difference?

Drinking beer is joy sex is pleasure. It's more intense.

desperate788 wrote:Whatever the meaning of life is I would like to drink cold beer after a work day or drink a delicious coffee.

There are different explanations about whats virtuous or pleasurable. But you only have pleasure and virtue. One can't entierly live on virtue, one needs his portion of pleasure.

desperate788 wrote:Drinking beer is joy sex is pleasure. It's more intense.

I don't understand. But we can hear the others ^_^

Armstrong wrote:

desperate788 wrote:Whatever the meaning of life is I would like to drink cold beer after a work day or drink a delicious coffee.

There are different explanations about whats virtuous or pleasurable. But you only have pleasure and virtue. One can't entierly live on virtue, one needs his portion of pleasure.

You talk about balance finding a equilibrium but other philosophers probably think different. Some religions ban pleasure in the name of God. Virtue is good but what is it really? In a universe of trillion planets an organisms understanding of virtue. Is that the meaning of life?

Armstrong wrote:

desperate788 wrote:Drinking beer is joy sex is pleasure. It's more intense.

I don't understand. But we can hear the others ^_^

Joy is gentle

If you know Aristoteles, Socrates and Platon you know much philosophy said my teacher. The middlepath is one perspective. You won't find an answer unless you search and seek, there is no one who wants evil except the Devils, otherwise we would implode and collapse as humanity. Religions don't forbid good and pleasure. There is just Ignorance. The problem is ignorance.

Theres something known as the three poisons in Buddhism which is universal, they are ignorance, hate/anger and desire.

Everyone is ignorant to a degree..desire? Like pleausure?

I hope you aren't annoyed by my posts im indeed an ignorant person regard to philosophy and other sciences.

I'm not annoyed ^_^ Go and google everytime you want to know something and you don't have other possibilities.

I lose my interest easily..

desperate788 wrote:I lose my interest easily..

Me too. But i've done it so long its now a habit. All this time i didn't want to, but i forced myself. Otherwise i would remain unaware.

I'm so bored with any text. I read some philosophy at college those texts were boring I'm not a philosophy fan indeed just wondering about meaning of life.