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2019-11-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The fast track to a life well lived is feeling grateful

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-01 04:12|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Actually, it also requires empathy.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-01 04:55|| 2019-11-01 04:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Humility does not hurt either.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-01 06:18|| 2019-11-01 06:18|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Not nowadays MM, not nowaday.

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2019-11-01 06:36|| 2019-11-01 06:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Doing the little things I have taught you. St David of Wales.

Posted by Uleck Spererong9442 2019-11-01 08:21|| 2019-11-01 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps this is why the left is perennially unhappy. They are grateful for nothing. Ilhan Omar comes to mind. Truly an ungrateful and hate inspired biotch.

Posted by Warthog 2019-11-01 10:23|| 2019-11-01 10:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Dr. Jordan Peterson's three attributes of a happy person:
1. Gratitude
2. Humility
3. Honesty

Is it any wonder our self-obsessed, heritage-hating, Shitshow-worshipping culture is so f---ed up?

Posted by Lex 2019-11-01 10:27|| 2019-11-01 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Begin the day with a song to the Lord, read the Bible, exercise for an hour. Meditate while resting and getting ready. Go kill the world. Followed it for decades, never lost a day. Well, maybe some days... but the life was friggin' lived. In a job that people off themselves doing, why I'm a happy camper ! In the kind of world we inhabit, if I was any happier, I'd be insane !

This whole philosophy to me is another piece of work from the 'love yourself' industry of short-cut psychiatric jump-starts to what I call 'faux-contentedness'. Research on monkeys shows that a monkey sharing his banana is a happy monkey, so share your Pontiac with the schlep next door !

The question of 'How do I become virtuous ?' was answered by no man better than the Christ Himself.

'Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.' But he couldn't for he was a putz.

And there've been few with spine enough since then to even ask. It just goes to show how unrealistic and hard it is to gain virtue in the real world. But God gives peace without your earning it.

A good alternative, says the scientist is the oxytocin high of 'feeling good' about doing good. Which is why today we have these ersatz values of 'give-to-feel-good' and concern for everyone's feelings that have leaked into our systems of legislation, justice and enforcement; crippling us in our war with the beast.

There is no virtue that can save you or make you better than you are, except the blood of Gawd. His sacrifice is enough for that. And there is no bloody way under the sun to improve moral character that's 'easy, rapid and efficient'. One tries to live up to the standard of Jesus, as best one can. The words of God, the sermon on the mount - there's still no better moral education. I think even Jordan will agree with that.

But the modern academic's fascination is about finding an easily systematized method of imparting the same 'happiness formula' to everyone, replacing conservative beliefs. It's success measured by neurons firing and flashes in your supramarginal gyrus on an MRI machine.

That's just what I feel though. I may be wrong.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-01 11:08|| 2019-11-01 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Not just an easy way, Sir, but my easy way.

Posted by Bobby 2019-11-01 11:58|| 2019-11-01 11:58|| Front Page Top

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