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Are you Happy?

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ArowxGames
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How to be Happy

Post by ArowxGames »

Found this New Scientist article on how to be happy and though you might like it...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... -much.html

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emordnilap
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Post by emordnilap »

A bottle can be half full and half empty at the same time.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
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Ludwig
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Re: How to be Happy

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ArowxGames wrote:Found this New Scientist article on how to be happy and though you might like it...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... -much.html

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What a bunch of cobblers - a mixture of the bleeding obvious and the plain wrong. So the people in Russia in the 1990s were no unhappier than us in the West?
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Post by Catweazle »

emordnilap wrote:A bottle can be half full and half empty at the same time.
I'm usually pretty happy by then.
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emordnilap
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Post by emordnilap »

Catweazle wrote:
emordnilap wrote:A bottle can be half full and half empty at the same time.
I'm usually pretty happy by then.
+1
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
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Kentucky Fried Panda
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Post by Kentucky Fried Panda »

Happiness is extremely over rated. I'm happy to say :lol:
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Andy Hunt
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Post by Andy Hunt »

I'm as happy as can be expected under the circumstances :D
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Baldybloke
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Post by Baldybloke »

emordnilap wrote:A bottle can be half full and half empty at the same time.
I'm usually more concerned where the next one is coming from!
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