innerviews_misstree_hyper_hedonist frAnk in your blathe response to yummychuckle's hair_twirling, you describe yourself as a hyper hedonist that needs to be doing something and experiencing something at all times. why? 020318 ... misstree because experience is what makes us alive. input is what tells us You Are Here. In a quiet room with no input can be nice for thought, but I've found some of the most important revelations in the middle of a chaotic environment, being able to watch the patterns dance, to ride the moment. You don't do anything when you're dead, and there are a lot of people who are dead already, who walk through life with grey faces and don't really *feel* anything. That thought scares me more than physical death ever could. So, I jump and prance and laugh and scream and seek out the juicy center of each moment, try to live as loud as I can, and take all that life has to offer, because I can, and because I enjoy it. Aaah, because I enjoy it. I must note that hedonism (like discordianism) is not the path for everybody: if you have an otherwise weak moral structure, this will just give you something to build on that will eventually harm others, and lead your life into a shambles. It could be said, "I don't enjoy work, so I'm not going to go." Well, I enjoy eating, and having a place to live, so I *do* go to work, and I enjoy the place that I work at to boot. "I would enjoy hurting this person, so I will." Well, that person may hurt you back, or you may be incarcerated, both of which are bad, and that's one of the traits of sociopathic behavior, and I strongly recommend that if you're a sociopath you not be a hedonist as well. Least, not in my neighborhood. Hedonism does, to a certain degree, lend morals, though: I enjoy being happy, and I enjoy seeing others be happy because they make me happy, and if I'm nice to others they'll be nice to people and those people will be nice to me, and it all spreads like ripples. 020318 what's it to you? who go blather from