There are only two activities in life.
Your only task is to not screw up the order in which you do them.
That’s it. That’s all life is. There is nothing “more” to it, no secrets, no great mystery. Everything else is quite easily solvable.
Smiling and laughing - you forgot smiling and laughing.
There is much more to life than those two things, especially if you are a hedonist… then everything takes priority 
I must say that you are one remarkable person…how do you manage to do IT while posting on ILP? I have quite an imagination but it’s not coming to me. Can you paint us a picture? Perhaps you will merge the two on your deathbed. Wasn’t there an actor who died while in the throes of sex.
How vey profound.
Hedonism is rooted in fucking, so, you’re self admittedly wrong about that.
BTW, I’ve seen your pic Magsj. You’re kinda sexy.
I feel dead after I have sex; it feels like my life force is sucked right out of my body after I do the deed.
It’s unfortunate that humans don’t mate like praying mantises. They are upfront about life, no lies or confusion. After the male is finished with sex then he is finished for life.
Humans have developed the unusual delusion that men are useful outside of sex.
I suppose somebody needs to do the “hard work” in life, like opening pickle jars or peanut butter jars.
Indeed.
The real mystery is in how we lose sight of the basics, to me. Humans really are a self deluded specie.
‘Imagination’ continually clouds up clear skies. There is no “great mystery” to the universe or life. It’s all in the fucking and dying.
Hedonism is about pleasure… not pleasure just through sex, although the driver for that would stem from the sex drive… like all drivers do - those who acquire hedonism/who it is not innate in, take it to mean… fucking 
So I’ve been told D, so I’ve been told 
I would pay you back an apt compliment, but I cannot, because I know not what you look like, otherwise I would, if I could. but judging by your comment on women wanting your hot body, I am sure that my compliment would be a positive one 
In higher humans the survival/nurturing of one’s offspring is paramount, so both male and female parent play a vital role in giving their input/nurturing both their inherantness into those offspring - and anyway, kids need to be able to go to one parent and say that the other said they could, right 
and one cannot do that if mom ate pops after copulation. 
That’s because you’ve ‘jogged’ the equivalent of 25 miles, depending on how long the romp in the jungle is; which ‘jogging’ would you prefer? 
Sex, like jogging, wonderfully boosts your immune system and it definitely relieves stress. If you feel no life force, you feel no stress. So there!!!
If you choose the right partner, you may not have to worry about that. But sex with the ‘wrong’ partner, can very easily lead to confusion and lies…and yes, at times, even death.
serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1801
Very interesting. It would seem that men and women might actually learn something from observing the courting and mating of the praying mantises.
Quite altruistic of the male, don’t you think? So stop your griping about your puny little life force being sucked out of you. Eat wheaties. But I would change the first sentence to 'benefits the praying mantis species…i don’t think the male sees much benefit after being chewed up and consumed, even if he is to be feast for the little guys/gals. 
Nature is truly remarkable though, isn’t it? I’m not kidding here.
Anyway, we both know that we humans are not so different than the cannibalistic praying mantis…both males and females, except for the fact that we ought to have reason/logic/spirit/heart to go along with and curb our predatory instincts. But do we? 
Ah, but men ARE useful outside of sex. And even when they are not USEFUL as you put it, they can be quite glorious…we so compliment one another…but again, the right partner. By the way, i open my own jars…it just takes a little patience and hot water. I thought you were a male and now i am not so sure. 
This thread is really deep. I’ve never thought about things this way. Pretty eye opening stuff here. Thanks for the little chunk of enlightenment.
Do I detect a little bit of under-handed male competition here, Smears? Your problem is that you wish it could have been you who initiated the thread. But you may start your own profound one, you know. 
Wow you totally nailed that one.
Many a truth is said in jest or facetiousness. Feed that poor thing already!
Smears,
Just take any human attribute - or any life attribute - and reduce it to it’s most simple actions and then say that’s all there is. Then you too, can be profound. Or profound till someone figures out that you haven’t said anything. :-"
I see heat here but where is the light. Maybe someone can help me. So sexual intercourse is a biggie. And death doesn’t sound so good. DUH
All pleasure is rooted in the sex drive, so again, and again, you’re wrong, Magsj. Try again.
Hedonism = Sex, why do you think druggies “get high”? It mimics the pleasure stimulation in the brain; sex is the epitome of pleasure.
All other instinctual drives are derivatives of the sex drive (Will to Power).
I just disagree w/ the whole thread mainly because there are not two things. I’m a hardcore monist and all, so like, you know, there can’t be two things only one.
Maybe fucking is dying. OOOhhhhh…deep huh? That’s like some eastern shit right there.
Fucking and dying can become unified through the Œdipus Principle.
I divide the two because it is easier for average people to understand (them as separate).
I already stipulated that all drives are born of the sex drive, but the kind of person we are dictates what we do with our bodies/how we use what we got
Hedonism is the seeking of pleasure, be it sex or otherwise, but it doesn’t only pertain to sex - pleasure can be gained from many many things: drugs, exercise, certain foods, extreme sports/adrenaline-seeking highs, flirting, but the end result of what we do with that high is down to the individual, no? be it sex or otherwise…
Which I already stipulated, but you seem to be ignoring that fact - how ‘high’ we get is an individual thing, depending on the biological capacity of the individual both physically and mentally, which would then dictate their need for sexual gratification.