True Happiness

Your views please!

Is true happiness possible? Or are humans negative by nature? Sure, we all may have a sense of humour, but i am talking TRUE happiness. Not euphoria induced by drugs either

any thoughts?

but it lies within and not in the material we may someday possess...
yet a love for all things greatly allows one to achieve the state necessary to view ourselves and peer within...
to achieve happiness...

do we all not consume some form of unnatural chemicals...
be it not my place to judge the actions of another...
men are perfect in knowing that we are imperfect...

i agree that material goods do not gaurantee happiness

but i also think that the persons enviroment and past have an influence

Ever notice how the bad things in your life tend to stick out in your memory and the good things seem to fade away? Its not to say that humans are negative by nature, but I think that the human brain, like other animals, remembers bad moments more clearly as an attempt to learn and avoid those situations later in life.

I do tend to agree with Dennis Leary regarding happiness. "Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette, or a chocolate chip cookie, or a five second orgasm. That's it, ok! You cum, you eat the cookie, you smoke the butt, you go to sleep, you get up in the morning and go to #ing work, okay? That is it! End of #ing list!"

[Edited on 7-10-2003 by heelstone]

that sounds about right heelstone....

Happiness is when you get out of here period!

WELP>>> i'm three days behind---> but thats normal for me...

then not being one to start a new thread when a topic exists...it's just so time consuming to 'scout' the landscape...

while on another quest (for the Adversity Principle) i got linked to this here:::--->>>

www.eur.nl...
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i've found that, sometimes, clear cut reasoning, can cut thru the rhetoric....idyllic rhapsodies...

(but theres nothing wrong with enthobotanics, either)
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