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x27;s Ski Trip On 16 Mar 2014, at 09:13, Chris de Morsella wrote: -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:31 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The

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-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 2:14 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip On 16 Mar 2014, at 09:13, Chris de Mor

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On 16 Mar 2014, at 09:13, Chris de Morsella wrote: -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:31 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The Dalai Lama&#

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-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 12:31 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip On 15 Mar 2014, at 18:48, Chris de Mor

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From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 7:00 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The Dalai Lama's Ski Trip Hence, "we have nothing to fear but fear itself". Franklin

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On 15 Mar 2014, at 18:48, Chris de Morsella wrote: You know I love the french (a bit cynical) poem: 'man had the good, but he sought the best, he found the bad, and kept it, by fear of the worst.' Kind regards, Bruno Nice... I mean bad :) Fear becomes, within the hidden unexamined recess

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Hence, "we have nothing to fear but fear itself". Franklin D Roosevelt got that one right. On 16 March 2014 06:48, Chris de Morsella wrote: > > >> You know I love the french (a bit cynical) poem: > > 'man had the good, > but he sought the best, > he found the bad, > and kept it, > by fear of th

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>> You know I love the french (a bit cynical) poem: 'man had the good, but he sought the best, he found the bad, and kept it, by fear of the worst.' Kind regards, Bruno Nice... I mean bad :) Fear becomes, within the hidden unexamined recesses of mind, a self-driving psychological mechanism, w

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On 13 Mar 2014, at 09:19, Kim Jones wrote: The other thing that occurs to me concerning happiness is that many feel that happiness is something "bigger than" or "more important than" a simple feeling or emotion. To say that smoking cannabis makes you happy will almost certainly cause some

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The other thing that occurs to me concerning happiness is that many feel that happiness is something "bigger than" or "more important than" a simple feeling or emotion. To say that smoking cannabis makes you happy will almost certainly cause some to react that I am trivialising happiness. Nothin

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On 13 Mar 2014, at 7:44 am, John Mikes wrote: > Kim, during my escapades in 1944 anti-nazi underground I met a bum in Nazi > uniform who p[roclaimed: "I was SSOOO happy when I killed those Jews" > I s that really the MEANING OF LIFE? > JM Happiness is an emotion. When all the nonsense and de

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On 3/12/2014 2:14 PM, LizR wrote: On 13 March 2014 09:47, John Mikes mailto:jami...@gmail.com>> wrote: Liz, please! don'[t you think "pursuit of happiness" is indeed "UNHAPPINESS"?? Why would a happy person pursue happiness? I would not vote for 'unhappiness' as the meaning of li

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On 13 March 2014 09:47, John Mikes wrote: > Liz, please! > don'[t you think "pursuit of happiness" is indeed "UNHAPPINESS"?? > Why would a happy person pursue happiness? > I would not vote for 'unhappiness' as the meaning of life, although it > looks like it frequently. > > It's closer to a meani

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Liz, please! don'[t you think "pursuit of happiness" is indeed "UNHAPPINESS"?? Why would a happy person pursue happiness? I would not vote for 'unhappiness' as the meaning of life, although it looks like it frequently. JM On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:40 PM, LizR wrote: > Happiness isn't a meaning.

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Kim, during my escapades in 1944 anti-nazi underground I met a bum in Nazi uniform who p[roclaimed: "I was SSOOO happy when I killed those Jews" I s that really the MEANING OF LIFE? JM On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Kim Jones wrote: > Hang about. The jolly old joyful Dalai Lama is correct. The

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Happiness isn't a meaning. He should have said "the pursuit of happiness" or something to at least be in the ballpark of giving something that could be construed as a meaning. You might as well say few organisms strive for death, so life is the meaning of life (which would probably be more accurate

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Hang about. The jolly old joyful Dalai Lama is correct. The meaning of life is happiness. Is there any point disagreeing with that? I mean, which life forms strive for sadness? Kim Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL Email: kimjo...@ozemail.com.au kmjco...@icloud.com Mobile: 0450 963 719 Pho

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On Sunday, March 2, 2014 2:08:39 AM UTC, Liz R wrote: > > I feel there's a category error here somewhere... > > I wonder what the Dalai Lama would make of "Brave New World" ? > I think he'd make another killing out of it, on the LA lunch circuit . I don't really buy that guy. Don't see a lot in

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I feel there's a category error here somewhere... I wonder what the Dalai Lama would make of "Brave New World" ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email

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>From The Dalai Lama 's Ski Trip: The Slate article is a pretty funny read this is its final passage; which I think brings a certain perspective to everythi