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[quote quote=767]Control. I am not being flippant but Several studies now shows that people who control their lives, or perceive that they control their lives are happier than their peers. My life is one big egg hunt for above mentioned control feeling. Editorial note. I never doubted Spike’s redemption for beneath the rough exterior always existed a solid, god fearing, family loving man.[/quote]
I completely believe that control is an important element of happiness, so don’t take you flippantly at all, but I can’t believe it’s everything. I know or have known plenty of people who have enough money to have autonomy and who are miserable.
Now, my definition of control above is about financial control, which is certainly only part of the puzzle, but not all, and I understand that.
Is there something to happiness that is about understanding that what you control is actually under control, and that which you can’t control just matters a little bit less? I have seen people (and suspect one or two of our denizens here) who are absolutely miserable with the “direction of the country,” when in reality that direction is going to happen whether they like it or not.
Is there something about control over the things you can rationally control?
IDK.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Thanks for this. It reminded me of the notion of “being” happy vs. pursuing happiness.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I can agree with coffee in the morning. Outside. Like I’m doing right now.
family, for me, has been a double edged sword. I have the most amazing family life at home with my wife and kids, and my extended family is an all american shit show of epic proportions. Talking to some of my relatives brings that little bit of bile up while you wait for the next bit of gossip and backbiting.
I think I’m at a point where it’s family and work, still. I am happy doing things and helping people. Have been working on a couple of old cars lately with my son. That makes me happy.
I’m a full believer that there is never enough money for it to make you happy alone. There is probably never enough sex or parties or food or cars and boats or swimming pools to do it. That’s all hollow and it’s unfortunately what is most often equated with “happy.”
A long walk on a quiet trail is surprisingly happiness inducing.
if you had asked me what I thought of this question I could have easily hit you with the platitude that happiness is “something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to” and I still think that’s 80 percent of it. But there’s possibly a better framing and I’m still looking for words for it.
It’s a question I ask cautiously because the older I get the more I realize that people who are truly happy are rare, and people who walk around in a lot of pain are common.
wonder how others think about it?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Read their website. They are a Marxist organization under the shield of anti-racism. Their collection of causes do not fit in the mainstream.
“Comrades” is a dead giveaway.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=729]Is this anything but absolute proof that those of us who have been transfixed over this coup attempt for years have always been correct? Again, I reiterate that if Trump loses the election, these criminally treasonous conspirators will get away with the greatest political crimes in our US history. No secret that my legal chops are zero but isn`t this prosecutable proof of illegality including conspiracy to sabotage a Presidency?[/quote]
The longer this goes, the clearer it is that nobody of significance will actually be prosecuted and convicted of anything. It’s all a game and the inflammation you feel, Rocky, is the objective. The goal is to keep the electorate in a state of agitation to the point where nobody is ever willing to join with the other side to vote the bastards out.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Choppers endorse democrats. Go figure.
comrades
https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-chop-chaz-protesters-go-home-support-biden-democrats
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Holy link post Batman.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=711]Presumably the family shoveled out the big bucks for the new Bing Music theater off campus drive close to Arrillaga Alumni center and Frost amphitheater… a great modernistic in-the-round venue with outstanding acoustics[/quote]
I guess he was important to even some people on this board. Money does that.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“It is difficult to imagine our student-athletes playing in front of a mostly or entirely empty stadium,”
Clearly a man who has no understanding of Stanford.
We will see more executive action on getting unpaid black (and white) athletes back on the field this fall than we will to act on real race relation reforms or prosecution of vandals and looters. Ask Willie Sutton why.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)This is right up there with exercise ropes hanging in trees and a rope handle on a garage door being characterized as a noose.
we are at the point where if the most offended person possible can see something as an offense, then we are collectively responsible for the offense and must change our behavior.
The politics of pseudo-shame.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=697]“AFTER A FALL”? WHAT A COWARDLY HEADLINE. [/quote]
Who you callin’ cowardly kemo sabe?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=694]Well, it seems everyone associated with the Clintons eventually suffers a mysterious death. Even the fundraisers. It`s a fairly long list going back over 30 years.[/quote]
You would deserve scorn for being a conspiracy theorist if the darn Clinton friend suicides weren’t so darned common.
I mean, seriously, how many people have that many folks in their inner circles commit suicide?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Great quote BD. There’s a reason that the term “lawlessness” has a negative connotation, and the CHOP-ers appear to be learning it.
I wonder how bad it has to get to overcome the individual’s commitment to “anything goes” principles.
i also hope there is a documentary film crew all over filming the aftermath of this utopia.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Kind of interesting. Wonder if the mayor now has liability for allowing the police to be obstructed and allowing a murder to happen?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=662]how is this really any different than Chicago?[/quote]
And that is a good thing?
One shooting death isn’t notable. The obstruction of well-meaning police, however, is.
Chicago is on a whole-‘nother level. Two young kids killed over this weekend. One was a 3-year-old toddler.
Imagine what the most violent areas of Chicago would look like without policing.
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