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| #3 (permalink) Thu Nov 24, 2011 17:34 pm The happiness |
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If you mean it as in 'permanent happiness' then yes, I think it would eventually get boring. Without the downs, we wouldn't truly be able to appreciate the ups, right?
If you are asking about eternal happiness as in the state of eternal happiness we are allegedly supposed to experience in heaven, then I don't know -- I would have to pay these guys a visit first. Most likely my answer would not change though! ;-)
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Nov 24, 2011 19:49 pm The happiness |
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Only the insane are eternally happy. As soon as eternal happiness gets boring, happiness ends . . . which means that it wasn't eternal in the first place.
I can get bored whether I'm happy or unhappy, but I always get unhappy when I'm bored. That's usually when I go and find someone I can get on the nerves for a while, so he or she will be unhappy, too. After all: shared happiness is double the happiness and shared unhappiness is half the unhappiness. Or something like that. And I like having my unhappiness cut in half.
There are people who are only happy when they are unhappy. Sounds strange, but it's true. Perhaps that's because they'd get bored if they were happy?
Being bored is a sad thing.
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Nov 24, 2011 21:09 pm The happiness |
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| My dears! this topic came to my mind when Kyaw said that after death ,good people achieve ever lasting happines. I thought that I wouldn'd want such a life of eternal happiness. Alicja1 |
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| #6 (permalink) Thu Nov 24, 2011 21:23 pm The happiness |
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Neither would I, but I wouldn't really know for certain since I've never been dead before.
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| #7 (permalink) Thu Nov 24, 2011 22:32 pm Re: The happiness |
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| What is your opinion in the subject: whether the eternal happiness can be bored? |
Do you mean 'bored' or 'bought'?
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| #8 (permalink) Thu Nov 24, 2011 23:42 pm The happiness |
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Dear Torsten! thank you that you have your say, because, lately I couldn't find you on this site. I was afraid that maybe you are ill. I know that I'm still doing many mistakes. There should be ' boring' instead of 'bored'. If I wrote, what you suggested, it could be another quite good topic to discusion. Anyway, may partners coped very well with it, despite my mistake, because they are wise and immaginative people. I think, that from, even the most stupid proposal, we could drag sth. to talk about. Please, correct this my scribbling so that other people understand sth. of this.
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| #9 (permalink) Fri Nov 25, 2011 11:11 am The happiness |
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Hallo!
The topic about hapiness very interesting for me. If you don't mind, I want to take part in the conversation. I desagree with previous remark, that permanent hapiness - it's only for insane.... |
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| #10 (permalink) Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:13 pm The happiness |
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Eat popcorns and icecream. :)
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| #11 (permalink) Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:37 pm The happiness |
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| Maria Sachok wrote: |
Hallo!
The topic about hapiness very interesting for me. If you don't mind, I want to take part in the conversation. I desagree with previous remark, that permanent hapiness - it's only for insane.... |
Hi Maria,
you are disagreeing with my remark. Unfortunately you don't tell us why. Please participate in this conversation and elaborate on your opinion.
I'd like to explain why I made this remark. For a living being, it is not normal to be constantly of the same state of mind. This might sound a bit cliched, but there is no light without darkness. Our (and that includes warm-blooded animals) psyche is too complex to allow only one kind of feeling. In life, we are confronted with many different kinds of situations, and it is impossible to be happy about all of them. You are not going to be happy when a loved one dies, for example. If you are, you didn't love him. If we were permanently or eternally happy, there would be no progress. You'd become completely detached. Why change anything if you're just happy with the way everything is? The world (not Earth) would come to a halt. This might be OK if you are an ethereal being, but here in our physical world, it would be disastrous. We'd get thrown out of our equilibrium.
There is a difference between eternal happiness and inner peace. You can have inner peace and become unhappy. But it will not throw you off-balance.
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| #12 (permalink) Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:41 pm The happiness |
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| Yeah, you are right, Katty2010, - everything is temporary. That's why it's so important to find out hapiness in simple things!!!! |
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| #13 (permalink) Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:56 pm The happiness |
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| Katty2010 wrote: |
| Eat popcorns and icecream. :) |
I think 'popcorn' is a mass noun that doesn't have a plural form.
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| #14 (permalink) Fri Nov 25, 2011 13:04 pm The happiness |
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I see, hapiness - very complicated topic. And, Claudia, I don't talk about permanent joy and gladness. These are - emotions. Right? but I speak about the Gift - our life. Yes, somedody, very loved of you, can go...But You - still alive.
And I don't think, that the position of life like ''be just happy with the way everything is'' is great. Quite the contrary - You should seek something new and better in your life. |
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| #15 (permalink) Fri Nov 25, 2011 13:57 pm The happiness |
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| Maria Sachok wrote: |
| Yeah, you are right, Katty2010, - everything is temporary. That's why it's so important to find out hapiness in simple things!!!! |
This is true. Everything is temporary, which is the opposite of eternal. We need to find our happiness in simple things. So our state of mind varies, it is not constant.
| Maria Sachok wrote: |
| I see, hapiness - very complicated topic. And, Claudia, I don't talk about permanent joy and gladness. These are - emotions. Right? but I speak about the Gift - our life. |
Yes, joy and gladness are states of happiness.
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| Yes, somedody, very loved of you, can go...But You - still alive. |
I'm alive, but I'm grieving, which is a state of unhappiness. I'm not going to think, 'Wow, I'm so glad that he's dead and I'm not.'
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| And I don't think, that the position of life like ''be just happy with the way everything is'' is great. Quite the contrary - You should seek something new and better in your life. |
Exactly! But if you are permanently or eternally happy, you have not reason to improve on anything. There are always ups and downs in life. And if you get unhappy with something, you seek to change your situation for the better. That results in growth and progression.
We are not inert. Everything in life is temporary and that is good.
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