Originally posted by shavixmirthese are just examples i made up to illustrate the distinction.
Which makes you happy?
And that's what you should go for.
back to your list.
number i item is 'sex'. i'm questioning whether sex per se can bring you happiness, or 'merely' pleasure, and as should be clear, i think there is a difference. if sex per se (the physical act itself) does indeed bring you happiness, then sex with an anonymous prostitute should do just as well as sex with someone you like or love. if sex with the prostitute does not make you happy, but unpaid sex does, this suggests that an additional factor is involved. candidates i've mentioned before are intimacy, feeling attractive and the thrill of the chase, although you've discounted the last of these in your particular case.
Originally posted by dfm65Friend.
these are just examples i made up to illustrate the distinction.
back to your list.
number i item is 'sex'. i'm questioning whether sex per se can bring you happiness, or 'merely' pleasure, and as should be clear, i think there is a difference. if sex per se (the physical act itself) does indeed bring you happiness, then sex with an anonymous prost ...[text shortened]... the thrill of the chase, although you've discounted the last of these in your particular case.
That's my list.
Make your own.
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Originally posted by shavixmirDon't need to, I'm already there. What makes me happy is knowing who i am, (EDIT: and accepting that - a point i think you touched upon) and no, the answer isn't Elvis, Napoleon or Jesus Christ.
Friend.
That's my list.
Make your own.
You published your list, and your method of deriving it, so please don't get stroppy when someone debates the issue. Perhaps you don't know yourself as well as you think. You wouldn't be the first.
But i hope you are right, and that the pursuit of the items on your list brings you true happiness.
Originally posted by The PlumberWhat you think and how you act accordingly is the enactment of just such another thread in the everyday world. Don't doubt the power of some simple and shared mythology. We are who we think we want to be.
Well done....
"Be the change that you want to see in the world" ~ Ghandi
Originally posted by shavixmirDo you know how many times you have used the root word happy?
[i]I’ve received a number of PM’s regarding my article “Happiness is a warm gun”, some of them asking for some more information on trying to achieve a state of happiness.
I could quite easily refer to Bertrand Russel’s philosophic study of it: “The conquest of happiness” (from which I’ve obviously taken this title), but I feel a more personal approach wi ...[text shortened]... ill make you happy from this point on?
Not the goals, but the path…
That’s life. Enjoy it.