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Tweet How could a functional item, namely a drinking tumbler, cup, or mug, transform not simply into a woman’s fashion item, but into a fad? And so much so that many women have camped out at Target and other stores where the tumblers are sold, waiting for the store to...
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TweetThe Corona Virus is a respiratory malady. The danger is that it could lead to pneumonia. Corona does not attack the digestive system, and so doesn’t cause diarrhea. There isn’t, therefore, any practical reason to hoard toilet paper. And yet, the shelves of most...
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The Mystery of Anxiety
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who
loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?