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@fmf saidI ask the question bearing in mind the fact that we are a community which sports a diverse jumble of believers and non-believers and in the hope that those on either side of the aisle do not use their answers in order to preach to their own choir.
What practical advice do believers have for non-believers seeking to maximize their happiness?
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@fmf saidForgive and forget, don’t hold grudges. Let it go, life is too short. And what Dive said. Some pearls of wisdom there.
What practical advice - stemming from their own walk-the-walk faith-lives - do believers have for non-believers seeking to maximize their happiness ~ with the assumption being that seeking happiness through adopting the believers' religious faith is a non-starter?
-Removed-This one has got a recognizable whiff of your religion about it. Can you give any pragmatic examples of "generosity, charity, helping others" that would be likely to occur in a walk-the-walk faith-life that might not do so in a non-believer's life without advice from a believer?
-Removed-Are there things you think know ~ BECAUSE you are a believer [Christian in your case] ~ about maximizing happiness in one's life that you have reason to think non-believers might not know or understand - and benefit from. That might be a slightly more pointed question than the OP communicated to you.
-Removed-Do you think all things that maximize happiness have to be pointful and fruitful?
Also, if arguing just for its own sake, [which is more or less what this forum is designed to facilitate] generates happiness to some degree, which is more likely to do so more successfully, arguing with strangers or arguing with people you know?