What if everyone in the world was constantly rolling?

[AylaV]

If everyone had all he happiness and love in the world it would turn into a state of normal, if everything was positive, the positive would lose contrast with the negative turning it in something in between which would create a new set of positives and negatives.

If you were to be in complete bliss compared to the state you are in now, it would be pure bliss. If you would stay in this state for too long you would lose the novelty/magic, as for human nature you would naturally try to find a higher up, and eventually be confronted with a newer down.

People will always adapt to a better situation and when that happens the high turns into a base line, and i think the contrast between high and low is what keeps us going IMHO

This is something I already covered, actually =) Happiness and sadness are emotions controlled by different areas of the brain. Happiness would not become normal if that was the only thing we could feel. If you've done MDMA I'd like to think, surely, you could understand that. Happiness is defined genetically by the hedonic setpoint. If you were happy all the time it would be normal, yes, but it would still be just as happy as anyone on x would feel. It would just be all you know. You wouldn't understand sadness or depression -- only happiness. This would be normal and you couldn't comprehend anything different. There would be a super euphoric high and your low would still be happiness -- you couldn't comprehend the depression at all.

What you're referring to is loss of novelty caused by repeated association. Novelty applies to experiences and objects -- not to emotion. No matter how many times you feel pain, you don't adapt to being in pain do you? No matter how many times you're angry, you don't get used to be angry, right? It's absurd to assume emotions can lose novelty.

yep, lets not get delusional here
if everyone was on any sort of droog all at once, the world would go ot shit/collapse and all that.

If you read the topic, LMA, you'd realise this was talking about being in that state of mind -- not literally being on the drug itself 24/7.

 

[PsychedelicPeptide]

sobriety would be awesome.

 

[billy_m100]

frustration is generally accompanies by anger, fear, being upset. Can't say i'd be disappointed, though. It depends on the situation i'd say. I can also understand being upset while being angry, but not vice versa.

Back to the topic, though, if I had one wish, I'd wish that everyone could love and be happy and friends with each other. I don't care if there were other negative emotions as long as people could just love each other and not be so judgmental -- myself included. I try my hardest not to judge or make assumptions, but I'm only human, and I catch myself still making mistakes.

I love how smart you are! I have been thinking. I've been researching this as well, and I've also tried finding animals who get cuddly and happy (cats for example) and seeing what their serotonin and dopamine levels in contrast. Unfortunately I've hit dead ends every time i get close to finding the answer.

 

[billy_m100]

contrast to other animals*

 

[googlah]

Would have been a awesome society, really.

 

[dansydney]

I understand the idea that evolution as a species requires us to use technology and I definitely do not like the word 'natural' as it is a generally undefined word. The problem I feel with happiness all the time is that it can cut away at otherwise very human emotions and make them useless. Say for instance a close partner passed away. In my case I know I would be in an odd state of probably extremely upset mixed with anger at the same time. If I were to be genetically changed to feel happiness and the same incident occurred would I feel happiness and not sad? I know that I would not know what sad felt like anymore but the death of someone so close to me would become meaningless. I think having negative emotions 'at times', obviously not all the time but when they are required, are as essential as being happy and emotions are closely linked with the way we perceive the world. The good thing about rolling for me is that it is a change from normal and personally I would not want to be so happy all the time. I am a very positive minded person without the drugs but the best thing about taking drugs is the difference it is from everyday. I feel a chemically or genetically induced permanent happiness would change humans into something very less human and in a much different way than current technology does.

 

[AndroidsDreamofBTC]

I feel a chemically or genetically induced permanent happiness would change humans into something very less human and in a much different way than current technology does.

While I also feel that that happiness is more of ying/yang kind of thing, I still think it's possible to feel a bittersweet happiness when you're loved up. For instance, I'll often think about my old buddies from HS with whom I haven't chilled with in a long time when I do MDMA . I feel kind of sad that I haven't had the opportunity to kick it with them, but I also feel happy that I knew them and we experienced a certain period of our life together.

Does anyone else see what I mean?

 

[junkie skumbag]

there would be alot less hate and soooooooooooooo much more love.

 

[chitown rollin]

this thread should be removed. if we rolled everyday, everyone knows we would be completely depleted of serotonin and be either depressed as shiiiiit, or possibly die... we just don't know yet. PLLLLuUUuuuUrRrRRr people

 

[greengun]

Here's the cool part, though.

What if we were to alter our brain chemistry in such a way that we found being productive and learning pleasurable and loving and caring to be pleasurable and far desirable to hostility and "basic evolutionary defense mechanisms"? I have a great article just about this. Check it out if you have an hour or so or over some spare time!!

http://www.superhappiness.com/index.html

An entire dissertation by abolitionists (an ethical group interested in genetically altering humanity to experience reality in gradients of bliss and euphoria rather than outdated natural selection instincts that no longer apply to us) about making the whole world a world of loved up people. These are the same guys that own mdma.net, so check it out!!

think about this all the time, and yeah all the negative effects would be there obviously but like you said what if you ould find a way to live normal and still feel that great so to speak, im gunna check your article out when i get enough time, looks real interesting

 

[trakstar]

if tha world was rollin than everyone would love each other

 

[Homegrownuk]

would get a lot more shags!

 

[Eyes On the Roll]

if everyone was in a constant roll, like if a rolling was natural sober state of mind, i think the world would be a better place.

people would conect with each other better, violence would be rare, but if someone really did cross the line then they could get smashed quickly, thats what happenes when i roll