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Yes, I am happy.
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Yes, I am happy.
I met Enoch Olinga back in the 70s. My older friend came to my apartment and said, "Let's go! Enoch Olinga is in Baton Rouge." We were near Houston, TX, at the time. Road trip!!
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Oh this perverse fascination we have with the fleeting condition of happiness! That which comes not from within but from the outside -- given to us by external circumstance just as easily as it is shattered and taken away by external circumstance. Things "make" us happy or "make" us sad. "Things" outside of us become the puppet-master of our emotions.
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Oh this perverse fascination we have with the fleeting condition of happiness! That which comes not from within but from the outside -- given to us by external circumstance just as easily as it is shattered and taken away by external circumstance. Things "make" us happy or "make" us sad. "Things" outside of us become the puppet-master of our emotions.
Or just as perverse is insisting over and over and over that one is happy to acheive a state of enforced bliss -- being 'blissed out'.
Joy is the thing you crave. It is a decision and is intimately tied to being at absolute peace with God. Only then can one see clearly to extend that absolute peace with the world.
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yes indeed I am, and I can see how that might work
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yes indeed I am, and I can see how that might work
- though if you read that with a Joe Pesci voice from Goodfellas it has an altogether different effect...
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I do agree w/ wolfson, at least in that negative emotions have value too. Without sadness, happiness would have no meaning
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