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POPSYou Must Pray to Zeus! The clip refers to an argument frequently put forth by theists. But like many such arguments, it is not very well thought out.
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POPSWhy People Need To Be In Love A woman is like a pack of cards ... ... You need a heart to love her ... A diamond to marry her ... A club to smash her head in ... And a spade to bury the bitch Ok, that was a little rude, I admit, but FUNNY :lol:
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POPSBrits Value Sex And In-Laws Okaaay... if the Brits are not uptight and there's a market for it, then why no plans for a service for homosexuals? Especially if they're looking for new market opportunities? Hmm. Naaah, Brits are uptight. Study or not. *LOL* ;)
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POPSThe bliss of ignorance I for one, cannot see why one would prefer to remain ignorant. Happiness, besides being overrated, is no excuse for voting ignorance.
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POPSChristian Apologist Defends Xmas Don't look now but the Holiday season is almost upon us. Strap on your crosses and march off to K-Mart to lasso the latest Christian gifts with your Rosaries.
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POPSWhy is pleasure so suspicious? "The best sort of life, says Epicurus, is one that is free from pain in the body and from disturbance in the mind. That sounds a rather negative credo for a 21st-century devotee of the good life. Were he writing self-help books today, Epicurus would probably acknowledge that you can aim a little higher than that. He might point out in his own defence that health and peace are essential preconditions of happiness, and are easy to belittle if you are lucky enough to have them. But perhaps his most useful observation for the discerning hedonists of today, when such an intoxicating variety of gratifications are dangled before them, is a reminder of caveat emptor: "No pleasure is in itself evil, but the things which produce certain pleasures entail annoyances many times greater than the pleasures themselves."
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POPSTHE PRINCIPLES OF NEWSPEAK,1984 Take for example the well-known passage from the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government... It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping to the sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink. A full translation could only be an ideological translation, whereby Jefferson's words would be changed into a panegyric on absolute government.
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POPSHappy? "Economic gains that bring more food, clothing, shelter, medical care and longer life can result in a substantial increase in subjective well-being for poor societies, he says. But once a society reaches a certain threshold, further economic growth brings only minimal gains. Among the richest societies, increases in income are only weakly linked with higher levels of subjective well-being. While economic growth helps promote happiness for some, democratization and rising social tolerance contribute even more. Democracy provides more choice, which promotes happiness. Support for gender equality and tolerance of people who are different from oneself are also strongly linked, not just because tolerant people are happier, but because living in a tolerant society enhances everyone's freedom, Inglehart says."
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POPSUncaging my joy I decided last week that I would like to live more generously. I find that I clutch things (my money, my time, my love) too closely to my breast, and this is from fear. My fear cripples my joy. I am going to uncage my joy.
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POPSTime is money :) Next time when a close partner asks for some quality time... do know what it means.... ;-)
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POPSWho Cares about Size of Government? How about Competent Government? Don't be so scared of government that you serve it, instead of it serving you. Revolutions of the past did not protest how much governments were doing for their well-being. Fundamentally, if taxes had ever been used to actually deliver services to the people instead of funding monarchs and their wars, there might be less fear of taxes. Overcome your fears. Make your government serve you. Like the French providing household assistance services for free to all new moms a few hours a week until the mother feels ready to handle everything.
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POPSSmell Your Way to Happiness "This incense chemical may be the key to a new class of antidepressants and shed light on the molecular workings of the brain and emotion."
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