The Meaning of Life is Not Happiness
Todd Hayen
I can’t tell you the number of times every day I hear from clients in my practice, “All I want is to be happy.” And they don’t know why they are not happy, they claim to be healthy, to have a good family, a good job that pays them lots of money, and a good marriage.
Other than the usual ins and outs of life they really have nothing to complain about—but they are not happy.
I then ask them if they think there is meaning in their life or purpose, invariably they say “No.” Sometimes they ask, “What is that? Isn’t the meaning and purpose in life to be happy?”
No, it is not.
Happiness is only one of the many states of being we encounter in a whole and complete life, and if we become unhappy simply because we think we are not happy as often as we believe we should be, we have missed the point.
We have been on this “happiness” kick for quite some time, and once again I have to say I think it is part of the agenda—maybe originally an unconscious part of a movement in society to focus on acquiring “things.” But that has always been a central part of the formula in the agenda’s effort to control.
Again, maybe it was an organic result of our natural tendency to focus on the flesh—the physical attributes of living through the senses, and an innate desire to “instantly gratify” those senses at any opportunity offered. Check out Huxley’s Brave New World for a view of a dystopian culture in the future that focuses entirely on the satisfaction of primal urges through the senses. Huxley had it figured out almost 100 years ago.
There have been scads of books written on happiness. Most of them conclude that the pursuit of happiness through the acquisition of physical objects (consumerism) is a dead-end pursuit, and, like a shot of heroin, will send you on a high for a moment that quickly wears off. Most people have some idea of this and understand that obsessive consumerism is typically a road to oblivion.
But again, a lot of people have not figured this out yet (need I say “young people?”), considering our entire society is based on consumerism. Try getting away from it for even 10 minutes. If you don’t go out into the woods or barren desert with no cell phone, you won’t be able to. That is about the only way to detach yourself from the world that is trying to entice you to consume.
So, even if we could remove the curse of consumerism and instant gratification from our lives, wouldn’t our central pursuit still be the state of happiness?—continual happiness? Yes, typically it would be. Even deep spiritual interventions have the goal of happiness—if you are one with God, or Jesus, or Mohammed, you will be happy. Shouldn’t the word “happy” be replaced with “content” or even “peace?” It certainly should be, because that is what I believe most of the religious traditions mean by the word “happiness.” “Contentment” and “peace” have very different meanings to “happy.”
If we are fully enlightened, are we even allowed to be happy? Of course, we are. Being happy is one of the most precious gifts of being a living creature. Should we expect to be happy all of the time? No, of course not. That would be a curse. Should we expect to be content or at peace all of the time? Yes, I believe that is indeed possible and should be a goal we all strive to attain.
I spent a large part of my life studying the works of Ernest Holmes and The Science of Mind. I studied Phineas Quimby, Emma Curtis Hopkins, Joel Goldsmith and others as well. The surface level of what I gleaned from this study was to “think positively”—to avoid focusing on darkness in the world and see only God’s love and beauty as reality.
What is found in the depth of these philosophies is quite a different matter. I will not go into this in this article as it would take a book to even begin to explain what I mean. Suffice it to say that the true message behind all of this is that the material world is a manifestation of our thought and consciousness—and is not the only reality.
However, my view is that as long as we are in the material form, living in a material creation, we have to encounter the manifestation of evil, darkness, and suffering—not ignore it. Part of our purpose and meaning in this world is to deal with everything we encounter, not turn away from any of it. Therefore, for a large portion of our lives, we may not be happy.
Dealing with darkness is not typically a happy endeavour, however, it doesn’t mean we cannot be at peace and be content when we are dealing with it. Darkness, suffering, and pain are but an “appearance”—an illusion—in the material realm. Through this illusion, we may even find meaning, and purpose, as we deal with the darker sides of life and existence.
Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor offered a profound critique of the view that happiness is the ultimate meaning of life. In his seminal work, Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl argued that life’s true meaning is found not in the pursuit of happiness but in the pursuit of meaning. Having survived the horrors of concentration camps, Frankl observed that those who endured suffering and still found a reason to live, did so by finding a sense of purpose, not by chasing happiness. He developed the concept of “logotherapy,” a therapeutic approach that emphasizes the human desire to find meaning in life, even in the most challenging circumstances.
Frankl believed that humans are not driven primarily by the search for pleasure or happiness, but by the need to find meaning in their experiences. He argued that people can endure tremendous suffering if they have a sense of purpose to guide them.
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how,” Frankl wrote, quoting Nietzsche. According to Frankl, meaning can be found in work, love, suffering, and even in facing death. Happiness, in his view, is not something to be pursued directly; rather, it ensues when individuals live in alignment with their values and pursue meaning.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer and dissident who chronicled the horrors of the Soviet Gulag, similarly questioned the notion that happiness is life’s primary objective. In his works, such as The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn explored themes of suffering, totalitarian oppression, and the human capacity for endurance. Like Frankl, Solzhenitsyn saw meaning in suffering and responsibility rather than in the pursuit of happiness.
Solzhenitsyn argued that life is about more than personal joy or comfort. In his famous Harvard Commencement Address in 1978, he critiqued the West’s focus on materialism and individual happiness, warning that such pursuits could lead to moral and spiritual decay.
Solzhenitsyn believed that humanity’s purpose lay in the moral and spiritual development of the soul, not in the pursuit of happiness or worldly success. According to him, suffering could serve as a catalyst for this growth, offering individuals the opportunity to transcend their immediate desires and connect with deeper values such as truth, justice, and personal responsibility.
Solzhenitsyn’s view is particularly striking in his emphasis on responsibility. He believed that in the face of evil and injustice, individuals must take responsibility for their actions and decisions. A life well-lived, in his view, involves moral courage and a willingness to confront suffering and injustice rather than seeking comfort or happiness at all costs.
Wonder where I am going with this? I don’t think you have to wonder very long. I have heard again and again from those whom I love that I spend too much time “looking for bad things” that I am too interested in the wars, in suffering, in the deaths from the vaccines, in starving children. They claim that I need to give up on all of this and just enjoy what I have, the good life, the sunshine, the company of those whom I love—to be happy.
First of all, I cannot imagine turning my back on the world like that. Secondly, I am happy. In a strange way, my work which does focus on a lot of “bad” things brings me peace and contentment. My belief in God and in the beauty of physical existence—nature, art, music and love, to name a few of the things that God brings to this world through our consciousness, are always forefront of my mind.
The evil and ugliness are illusions nestled in those other realities.
Yes, they limit our expressive creation, so they must be faced and dealt with. Every choice we make to see love in the world despite the hate we first face, is an act of Christ Consciousness—turning the hate that we see into the love we know sits behind it, is a truly meaningful pursuit. What could make a person happier?
Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here
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Dear Todd, I’m sure you know of Katherine Watts. She was doing an interview and said this about her research in revealing the evil in this world and how she deals with it:”..and if I had not been able to, if God had not like drawn me, looking at this level of evil in the level of detail that I have done, it would not have been possible because it’s too hard. It’s too hard to do it. But knowing that it is not as strong as the goodness of the God that is allowing it to happen. Because if it were as strong or stronger than that, God, then we wouldn’t be here at all. It would have been all over 1000s of years ago, but it’s not stronger than God. It’s
it’s just something that he allows because it’s part of his bigger strength.”
If no one died we’d have big problems. Does that make death evil? Bit crowded it would be. The soul cannot die and physical sickness and death are not evil.
“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”
Our nature is love. Happiness is “unconditional love” or you could also say “unconditional acceptance.” Unconditional means not dependent on external circumstances. To do this you must be good at setting boundaries and saying no. Unconditional acceptance doesn’t mean you are a walkover. You can say no, you can even scream and shout if necessary but you always are ok with whatever happens including sickness and death since the soul cannot be harmed.
To those who say there is no God. How did existence derive from nonexistence? “There was a quantum fluctuation and…”
No, in nonexistence there is no quantum fluctuation. There is nothing. Understand the meaning of nonexistence. You can’t say there was nonexistence and it produced xyz. Nonexistence did not produce a quantum fluctuation. It didn’t produce anything. It doesn’t even exist.
Agree. But you can only find this peace by being religious and openly trust in Christ, and if we trust in Christ there is not other way than disgust of the part of the world that is not of Christ.
How many of our surroundings have that courage and gut? Few!
“Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must and can be saved.”Ps 118:22
“Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.
But whoever disowns me before men, I will also disown him before my Father in heaven.”
Matthew 10:32-33 (NIV)
Solzhenitsyn had it right. Life is a school where the lessons are delivered as experiences. If one regards life as gifts and lessons, accepting adversity becomes easier. What lesson is that adverse experience trying to teach me? Ultimately I’ve understood that our deportment and conduct on the journey is way more important than where we get to in a materialistic or power-position sense. That knowledge changes our approach to life. The virtues, righteousness – in the sense of always aiming to do the next right thing even if it’s the difficult thing – better becomes our compass. I now understand the purpose behind rituals such as saying grace at mealtimes. Getting into the habit of appreciating and expressing thanks and gratitude even for life’s seemingly small gifts is one of the cornerstones of contentment. As a society we used to attend church in large numbers and regularly. Whether one believes in God or not, the impact was that individually and collectively we focused, if only for an hour a week, on the spiritual and moral aspects of life. How often does society do that now? Now there seems to be a predominance of virtue signalling and misplaced tolerance masquerading as compassion for those who have lost their way and live lives that are far from virtuous. That society is much more tolerant of aberrant behaviour than it was, even when that behaviour damages society and the individual, is a mistake. Compassion is important but right conduct is no less so.
Moderation is key.
I will NEVER understand how anyone so intelligent and so apparently with such a grasp of life and the world can continue to believe either that god exists or is worth worshipping.
Its because these things belong together: Intelligence, grasp of life, grasp of the world, and belief in God!
But we who are believers, we do fully understand why you cant understand it, and we feel sadness when we see and feel our disability toward our fellowmen, our obligation to transfer God’s second commandment: “Thou shall love your neighbour as yourself”
You should read this short story by Tolstoy, which encapsulates perfectly what Todd is trying to say here:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/tolstoy/1885/where-love-is-god-is.html
Of all links, of all writers, of all books, a little pearl of truth was found.
I visited this place 8 years ago https://estanciacristina.com/
My wife asked how anyone could possibly have lived there … it is so remote… she thought it would be so boring
I thought about it — and suggested that perhaps they were so busy raising sheep and surviving – that they were challenged every single day .. and had no time to be bored…
Ridiculous. Paying 800 USD/day for staying out in nowhere.
This explains why quite often people living in dire poverty in the 3rd world do not commit suicide in droves… they have found something meaningful in their lives … could be a sense of community… family ties and obligations… quite often it’s religion.
Non-military mass murder is new. Until now, they needed serfs for work. Now, they fantasise that they don’t.
Serfs are boring, narrow minded, greedy, stupids and difficult to control. Robots and AI can solve all these problems, and the best thing is:
You can get the serfs to make their own suicide solution and jump out from the cliff afterwards, by giving them a reward in the form of E-money on their Smartphone…………………………….LOL. 😅 😅 😅
Thank you.
The meaning of life is happiness; the happiness of creation.
Happiness will however show itself in many ways, as it should, and for each individual life.
When people think they can achieve happiness through the measures of society (success, status, children, career etc), many of them will consequently become unhappy because it is simply not right for them.
CHEERs! 🙂
Indeed, athiests and Jesus freaks alike should examine what Christ Consciousness really means. Where is materialism taking us? The 2000 year old Death Cult isn’t interested in spirituality. The Christspiracy documentary is now streaming for free:
https://christspiracy.com/
Jesus was a vegetarian? People can imagine whatever into a character of a book.
That is not, however, the point of these books.
The real Jesus never was. The real Jesus always is. The real Jesus is Pure Spirit.
It’s not about diet.
You’re right. Christ consciousness is not about diet. It’s about kindness, love and compassion. It’s about rejecting unnecessary violent abuse and exploitation of others. Did you watch the movie? Because it sounds like you didn’t.
Many people obtain comfort in delusions… including various cults… all religions are essentially cults…
They are popular because they have an excellent marketing message – an afterlife…
If this life sucks… no worries… when you die it’s all milk honey and virgins… someone needs to update this .. and offer Porsches LV Bags and Champagne…
Hang on … why am I giving my ideas away!!!
Dogma and related allegiance may be innate to intelligence, at least of the kind that talks and writes. An irreducible void at the core that experience, information, analysis etc. cannot resolve. Analogous to Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem, itself a rehash of Whiitehead and Russel. If AI (AGI) is what it is cracked up to be, we may find out before too long.
I dont need to see a film or an article before I can criticise it. Already from the trailer I can smell it’s bs.
Liberal bs. Environmental, vegetarian, leftist, self-important, self-righteous, self-hating Dooish Pharisee bs from the top to the bottom.
idk!
Off topic but I reckon this is a microcosm of what’s going on:
I have a disabled son called Shaun who has cerebral palsy (wheelchair bound) and autism. And although he’s 25, he has a mental age of probably around 6. Every weekend I take him out shopping. One of our favourite haunts is Tesco’s which has a canteen where we have lunch.
This canteen was being refurbished and we couldn’t access it for a month. Yesterday I was delighted to see it had opened again.
What a shock! The first thing you see is four computer screens for ordering food. Behind them, the formerly wide open space of the canteen seemed to have been carved up into separate sections with big glass windows between – like a resurrection of the old lockdown scenario that had barriers everywhere.
Anyway, I’d seen these wretched computer screen set-ups before in McDonald’s and found that I coud still be served if I just went straight up to the counter. I tried that here only to be told I HAD to use the computer screens.
So I went back and started to jab away with difficulty trying to figure out all the separate categories. Then a staff member came up and said that the computer system had crashed and it would take a few minutes to fix. So I sat with Shaun, feeling ill at ease. He has a certain tantrum threshold if things don’t go his way. So I started to work on him – introducing the notion of going somewhere else.
After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing – and with no indication of the computer glitch being fixed – I eventually managed (via a vast dollop of bribery!) to get Shaun out the door.
And then the craziness of it all hit me! You had hungry customers with money, you had food waiting to be served, you had staff waiting to serve … and all of it was held up by a stupid computer interface that had stalled! And everyone knew that the only reason this wretched computer system had been introduced was to cut back on staff and save costs.
But then another thing struck me: the new canteen – with its utterly inhuman white box feeling and its barriers – had far less room for people. Is this yet another continuation of that “downsizing” since 2020 where the old consumer culture is being sunk via immiseration and depopulation?
I even started to wonder if this computer “glitch” was deliberate!
One of the agenda’s primary goals is to destroy the middle class and exploit the only class remaining (other than themselves). Herd them all into little cubicles, smart cities, no travel abroad, no eating at decent establishments (only fast food with no staff…soon to not have a single human on site).
You are seeing the clear “beginnings” of this. Anything “better” will be unaffordable to all of us serfs. This “culling” is taking place now…restaurant prices (the restaurants with real waiters) are soaring, only a certain wealthy clientele can afford it…and that will continue to escalate until even the middle class can’t afford it.
This situation will eventually collapse the economy https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/financial-system-supply-chain-cross
What economy? The computer e-money economy? The fiat dollar money economy? The derivative paper economy? The pump and dump stock market economy or what??
The only economy fiction left today is the Elite economy protected by the military, F-16 or Kalibr missiles.
Are you sure the only driver was to cut down costs ?
Human interface is a dangerous thing in their brave new world.
Costs (inflation) will continue to rage…
The reason being is that we exploit the high concentration easy to extract resources FIRST.
Whether it be copper or oil the cheapest to produce gets used up first.
That leaves the costly resources … and of course those costs get passed along in inflation … and we have used up most of the easy stuff after nearly 2 centuries of industrial civilization
Ask yourself … Why Don’t Lions Chase Mice
There is a book about this if you don’t know the answer https://www.amazon.com/Why-Dont-Lions-Chase-Mice/dp/B08FP7LFFP
I have written a better book: “Why humans dont boil and eat 1 rice corn after the other. Excuse me Fast Eddy.
George, thank you for telling about this & especially what it felt like. It may sound trivial, but I think it’s important to speak to perfect strangers; it feels to me like a way to fight back against the divisions “they” are so set upon creating.
Please give this a try:
https://off-guardian.org/2024/11/09/the-meaning-of-life-is-not-happiness/
This is just a link to THIS page. Did you intend to post that?
I love all this Navel Gazing, dont you ?
I fully agree with all that – but I’m an atheist, how do you reconcile that?
As one buddhist monk said, many people in Buddhist nations are happy but don’t believe in a god, Which contradicts religious view that one needs to believe in god to be good or happy.
Why would one need to believe in god to be happy… makes no sense.
Because you get a spiritual overhead that explains why you are here and where you are going.
An Atheist life is an animals life. Constantly seeking after food and staying close to a soda pop drinking tap. Fokking, playing, fooling around.
No it does not contradict religious view.
A Buddhist, Allah, Hindu, Confucius, Kierkegaard, m.m. are substitutions for (a) God. Why?
Because you get many universal truths learned and studied for civilisations during ancient times.
In religion you have true believers and false believers and interpreters (pharisees).
But in philosophy man is giving the intelligence to seek out (not all) but many divine truth.
Thus Buddha and Konfutse can give you direction and connection in life.
Seek God and be born again baptized and filled with the holy spirit.
From an ex atheist..
Yes but I am burdened with a logical mind… I just can’t go there
Atheism is no more logical than theism. They’re both beliefs based on faith about a subject we can literally know nothing about.
Excellent point. I think one of the things that has always bothered me about “religion” is the insistence that we worship a being that is essentially treated as just an omnipotent human. Treating a supreme being as something we can understand and actually grasp the motivations of has always seemed contradictory to me. If there really is a God I firmly believe we cannot truly ever understand that being in the manner we think we understand humanity.
“Man was made in the image of God”.
In my opinion we all have it inside us. But it has to be developed.
Think about the most fantastic things humans are able to train us up to do, learn and carry out.
Maybe we cant fully be God, but we can strive to get as close as possible.
This is our real purpose and satisfaction in our short life here.
If we know the strongest force in our universe is love. Think about how a feeling it would be to be completely filled with love.
Most people only get it in small doses but its there. It is there to be taken up and lived, and not survived.
Logic has it’s limitations. Maybe read The Children That Time Forgot to start you down the rabbit hole.
Dont seek God in churches. Churches are only helpful to lead you to the track.
God is up in the sky but also in everything. You must imagine you sit up in heaven and create this world. You set the sun, moon, earth and the regulating planets.
You set division between night and day.
Example: Churches will lead you on track but also mislead you.
They say God’s name is Our Lord, Jehovah, Yahweh, Allah, Zeus, but the Bible says clearly God’s name is “I am”.
All these names dont make logical sense do they? But I AM makes logical sense yes? I am the night and the day, I am the sun and the earth, I am the universe and the Creator of you and all life on earth. I AM.
Thus you can see the difference between the things which makes no logic sense in all these churches, but you can see they nonetheless lead you on the track to find I AM.
Go out on a deserted beach and look UP in the sky. Up there is God seeing everything. Close your eyes. Hear the sea, hear the wind, feel the heat of the sun, feel the connection to heaven.
You are now connected to Cosmos and everything.
After finding I AM, you are also dis-connected from IoT, Data centers, Robots, microwaves and AI masts and towers, and similar bs.
Why should you choose a narrow debilitating IoT world when you have a 100 times more interesting and giving world in the physical and mental connection with Cosmos?
When this is finished mentally, you can use all religions and world philosophers as helpful sinful organisations that nonetheless can give useful wisdoms for your consumption from time to time.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
6d saved and 6d overspent
6d – That’s the cost of Built-in Expectations
(aka – dis-appointment s)…
By the way, i dont think it’s “happiness”, i think it’s more of a relief,
as in, “we kept our heads above water !”
We are, indeed, fortunate to live in an age where credit cards are freely available.
(Sarc. on just to avoid any confusion)
Charles Dickens
Annual income twenty pounds? Sounds like the WEF’s manifesto for universal basic income.
To a great extent true… however I was communicating with an old friend (he’s a Vaxxer so we generally don’t communicate much anymore)… he had a very successful business and sold it in his early 40’s…
His new meaning in life became trading crypto — he says he makes more than he did running his business (and I’d estimate he was making over 2M USD per year doing business).
I am busy bucket listing and I was chatting with him from a hut on Yakushima island in Japan .. he sent me a shot of 4 computer screens with crypto currency charts… and was lamenting that he was making a lot of $$$ but that his life was essentially meaningless… as he put it … I can do better … but does not know what to do…
He has all this cash but he doesn’t do much with it other than sit on this throne like King Midas and admire the piles… he seldom travels… he has a girlfriend… no kids… no real hobbies.. from what I gather he spends most of his days in a room with the 4 screens.
Those 4 screens should be circumscribed.
With great wisdom comes great sorrow.
I get that from family too ‘what re you always looking at the bad stuff?’ But I don’t think people who say that are any ‘happier’. My impression is they suffer more from anxiety.
Potentially relevant explorations of the theme:
Happiness and Unhappiness through Naysign and Nescience
comprehending the essence of sustainability?
https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/musings/nart.php
Embodying the Paradoxes and Contradictions of the Pursuit of Happiness
En-joying the World through En-joying Oneself
https://www.laetusinpraesens.org/musings/cogradiy.php
Russia’s Mr Putin called Donald Trump “A Real Man”.
Mr Putin knows what makes Trump Happy…
Instead of attacking Mr Trump, the corporate propaganda
media (aka – msm) out to follow Mr Putin…
Let the Charm Offensive begin
We’ll all be Happy !!
Perhaps Putin has the same tastes as Trump.
And we all know what they are.
That can’t be. All the US “fast food” chains pulled out of Russia as ordered, Free Market be damned.
I think your find Putin PR team educated Trump PR team on the propaganda to use to gain devotees voters.
Time for the furs: President Gas…again!
Yes, Todd. A longing for a path that expresses one’s sacred honor. When I was a child I wrote Truth with a capital T because it seemed to me the best thing that could ever be. Now I wonder if there is not some further act that is demanded of us to bring into existence some part of the world which that Truth does demand of us.
Did you know that a primary aim of the Skull & Bones secret society was to revolutionize religion? Some of the Skull & Bones graduates went on to teach theology to those who would become ministers. The change was simple: No more should religion focus on doing good in the world or combatting evil. No, instead it would focus primarily on one’s relationship with Christ. According to this view it’s important to God & to Christ only to be worshipped– a narcissistic deity.
Todd, I think you would find this interesting:
https://dailyclout.io/lessons-from-c-s-lewis/
It’s a nice theory to imagine that there is love behind the hate that is spewed by so much of the world. Not necessarily true, and certainly not a necessary component of happiness. If it makes you happy to think so, then so be it, but self delusion can often lead to depression when one sees through the delusion. There are many people in this world who are nearly purely evil, and will never seek to be anything but evil. There are also many people that are very much striving for good. And of course most are on the spectrum between these extremes. Dwelling on such does not take away my happiness, for I realize that God has given me the power to be as happy as I decide to be, and I choose happiness, to be joyful, and to thereby inspire those who care to understand more than their immediate gratification.
Amen.
“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Quite so. Life is about the need to use one’s abilities to a noble purpose:Penelope
Amy Kelly was the project manager behind production of The Pfizer Papers. She organized the 2,000+ medical people who volunteered to read and summarize the Pfizer internal records which were forced into the open by curt order.
Here’s an interview w Amy.
https://dailyclout.io/the-pfizer-papers-analyzing-the-hidden-data-w-project-director-amy-kelly/
Hard times ahead for those Folks south of The Wall:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/11/cuba-buckle-up-trump-elected-us-president/
What Really Matters, through all it all in your life – sure there will be tragedies – its inevitable its life….is to still be completely In Love with Your Wife
give us a challenge
Go on you stupid NET ZERO morons in Government
Jab Jab Jab
Kill Kill Kill
Bomb Bomb Bomb IRAN
Genocide Ukraine Russia Palestine Israel Kill
THE USA
So how are we going to survive the Winter of Net Zero – if it gets as cold as it was when I was a Child – Everything Froze Solid…The Miners were on Strike and We had never actually been connected to a gas supply – except maybe years before I was born – the old gas pipes, they used for light….
So they spent most of this year digging up our road, laying larger Gas, Electrictity and Water Pipes – and Disconnected Us
Get the Camping Gear out Love
I agreed we needed a new Gas Boiler -and they fitted it. The Engineer was Brilliant
– did it in a day with his Spark mate…I only called them back twice…
He did say, that if you lose the electricity supply (probably from Stoke on Trent) , that the Central Heating will not work – but signed our house off as Gas Safe – but you need more ventilation if you get more double glazing fitted… have you got a carbon monoxide detector – Yes
All of them went into our lean-to for the ladder to get into the top part of the attic…be careful there – no extremely heavy people allowed there…but most were slim and fit
And saw our Water butt in the Garden – yeh I clean them out ever Year – you never know it might not rain…
and the ton of smokeless coal
The daft thing is that we would all Really Love it, if it got really cold and snowy, like when I was a kid
Built an igloo in our Back Garden in Oldham with Ice blocks for windows.
Alright mate, here’s a list of all the miners’ strikes in the UK –
If you’re really 71 or 72 as you claim, you were born in 1952 or 1953. So you were not born yet or a few months old for the strike in 1953, and definitely wouldn’t remember it. But then you’d be 16 or 17 for the one in 1969, 20 or 21 for the one in 1972 – and so on.
You weren’t a “child” old enough to remember anything during any British miners’ strike. You were either not born, a little baby or a teenager! So just more bollocks.
And no you bloody didn’t build a bloody igloo with “ice blocks for windows” in bloody Oldham, because we don’t get winters cold enough for that here. Not even on record cold years like 1963.
All that igloos and skating on frozen lakes and sledging down hills bollocks just proves you have never lived here mate.
Let him believe-it makes him happy.
PS – you never did post that photo I asked you to post of a London road sign with that day’s paper next to it.
You said you liked a challenge but then you didn’t post the picture.
Why not Tony me old mate? Why the hell not? If you live in London, or Surrey (because you can’t make your mind up about that) it would be a piece of piss to go out there with your camera (you keep saying you’re a photographer) or your phone and just snap a pic, upload it somewhere and put the link here.
Do that simple little thing and you make all of us who think you’re lying look like dickheads.
But you don’t do it. Which makes it look like I’m right and you are lying your American arse off.
Sorry, off topic.
Never having admitted that the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan were pointless, they are extremely unlikely to fess up on the experimental toxic vaccines:
https://www.scienceandfreedom.org/articles/dressed-up-sycophancy/
You forgot the USA’s proxy war in Ukraine.
Oops.
Johnny, except that those “experimental” vaccines weren’t really, were they? Surely their results were planned. And of course “vaccines” they weren’t either. MRNA gene “therapy” I think was the original designation.
European happiness = pleasure after pleasure to please the vital/ emotional being plus the limited mind. Never satisfied, always puzzled.
Vedic happiness = permanent union in consciousness with the Divine in this life, and therefore also in all next ones if wanting to be reborn because than there is a choice. Buddha chose to leave Earth behind. Always understanding what’s happening on any spot one identifies with, from the inside, never bored.
Excellent bit off writing and knowledge with the above.
I perplexed how youve fallen for the ismal chrissydoom torha Abrahaic hoax when your discussing Vedic teaching.
The purpose of humanity is to practice humanity, experience the infinite within the finite & share the abundance of inner wealth with fellow sentient beings.✌🧡
Only “with fellow sentient beings” ? – does that include Trump –
and Biden, Hillary, Kamala, all politicians ?
What about Peanut The Squirrel ?
I understand my view doesn’t matter to you, but I think you are spot-on.
Our Front Room – Looks like a Classroom complete with with Greenboard and chalk…Come on Write Your name here…and for the younger ones coloured pans anr and sometimes Paint…
The Backromm is My Playroom…Knock on the door especially from Our Two Year old Grandaughter…Can we play your drums and guitar?
Yes,Now where exactly is my Chinese Drum Even I can play that a bit
“528hz Healing Meditation | 1 hour handpan music | Malte Marten”
https://youtu.be/pm5dOIxX8OE
– Marcus Aurelius.
Meditations: The Philosophy Classic (Capstone Classics), is by Marcus Aurelius of course, but this version has an interesting foreword by Donald Robertson where he points out the similarity between stoicism and cognitive behavioural therapy.
I’m not into therapy, but this observation certainly makes CBT sound more reasonable than I used to think.
I think “happiness” in the way you are using it basically boils down to the “Lust” in Freud’s “Lustprinzip”
and that can be basically whatever floats your boat, hedonism but also sanctimonious righteousness, power and riches but also masochistic self-abnegation, a quiet complacent life or quixotic battle with hosts of foes
beyond the pleasure principle there is, if I understood it right, yes a higher purpose, fulfillment of a role in the service of the species, consistent with our predetermined trajectories from nothingness to nothingness, like the paths of those sparks the force of creation spits out into the darkness of the world, described at the beginning of Hesse’s “Demian”
but that purpose has little to do with good, evil, virtuous habits
it seems to me that exile from the perpetual happiness Adam and Eve knew in the Garden came about as a result of the desire to judge what was good and what was evil, and be constantly dissatisfied because imperfect human judgment always second-guesses the divine plan, criticizes what doesn’t conform to its own imperfect dualistic standards of beauty and morality, and hubristically insists on trying to impose some putatively superior order, more in line with its own imperfect fantasies, on the universe
Since everything in existence is said to have been created through sound (the word of God, cymatics, etc), it would follow that if we are prevented from expressing our soul message we cannot be happy, and we devolve and crumble into dust, psychologically speaking.
I believe that once we stop censoring ourselves (ignoring the ‘bad’ news and fleeing into hedonistic pursuits, the family bubble or into a life of delusional transfiguration) and when, one day, we will again be free to shout out our truths, a measured, gentle happiness will be possible.
Love this ! So true. And also lends itself to why spell craft/slogans and the language they use seems so intentional. Words/language and the frequency it holds are clearly so powerful and keeps humanity giving its power away and won’t change until we start being way more conscious of it. Starting with mastering and using the word “No!”
Thank you for this lovely, thoughtful writing. A big YES!
Thank you!
Your ‘happiness’ emerges from you ‘unhappiness’. They are not opposites, they are complimentary.
Yep
The chain of happiness is only as strong as its weakest link.
‘The Americans invented Happiness.’ *(Dr Sigmund Freud) …
“Solzhenitsyn’s view is particularly striking in his emphasis on responsibility. He believed that in the face of evil and injustice, individuals must take responsibility for their actions and decisions. A life well-lived, in his view, involves moral courage and a willingness to confront suffering and injustice rather than seeking comfort or happiness at all costs.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr50KqdzM6k
If one begins by acknowledging that there cannot possibly be any such thing as meaning in life, then one begins a journey toward wisdom. Each separate act or thought means something very particular and very limited: that’s as close to meaning as it gets. There is no overarching “meaning” as in “You’re alive because (such and such). Now go find that meaning.” That is, simply, a fool’s errand.
Rather than telling someone on his deathbed who says his life has no meaning that “You didn’t look hard enough” or “You looked in all the wrong places” – congratulate him on discovering the ultimate truth. Life is not supposed to have meaning – it’s supposed to be lived. By putting an abstract – something that doesn’t exist – above the real, everything goes haywire.
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” —
Emerson
Whatever makes you happy.
Couldn’t agree more.
My ex-spouse didn’t feel that way!
The “purpose” is a to be useful. But “useful” is defined by the purpose of God. To know what is “useful” we must know why God created the universe.
You know those people with very little materially bit the’re blissfully happy ?
They really piss me off.
But
If there’s something you love to do and you have sufficient to do it, you can be happy. If you have to act in ways you find obnoxious and hateful in order to make money, you probably end up unhappy.
Beware the Jabbercock, my son!
The roars that fright, the laws that hatch!
Beware the Jabjab bird, and shun
The Faucious Scammersnatch!
Blaming Trump for the Covid debacle, about the most disingenuous move a woke mind can re-emit. Kept off-track by the fake “Steele dossier” and hounded by Deep-State, DoDs Fauci bio weapon research in CCP China (!) went south, NOTHING to do with Trump.
Trump is still boasting about developing the shot, perpetuating the myth that it was necessary, and that lockdowns, masks, social distancing etc were justified until a vax arrived.
The vax did not stop transmission, it was “non-sterlising”, they knew this from the start.
The number of serious adverse reactions (one in eight thousand) would have seen any other medication recalled long ago.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1LZ79kWgf9U
It certainly sterilised many people, men and women.
I guess he likes to have his CAKE and eat it too.
Oh good Lord. Trump was the President of the United States. You don’t get to that position without knowing damn well what is expected.
He knew. Yes, he was surrounded by the same malicious expert puppets as he was.
But they ALL knew. Even those that didn’t know knew.
And most of Fauci’s bioweapon research was done right here in the USA at UNC Chapel Hill.
By the way, I think perhaps Mr. Trump knows all about vaccines. Knew about them before 2016.
That’s why he summoned Robert Kennedy, Jr to the White House in 2016 (or 2015). He was interested in appointing Kennedy to a commission to study vaccines.
Following that meeting he was given a sizeable donation from Pfizer.
He also got a call from Bill Gates (Gates is on a video stating this) that the Kennedy idea was not a good one.
I think perhaps Trump knew from first hand experience about possible vaccine injury.
We should think ourselves lucky that, out of 350 million people, they found the only two people capable of running the free world –
And let us choose one of them !
God bless America !
Blessed are the believers, for they will never wake up.
Brilliant.
LOL.
But in all seriousness I’m starting to envy people who live in near natural state in Africa.
I used to love being a city dweller. I now realise how dumb that was.
Ha!!
The question of the meaning of life seems increasingly meaningless unless you make the effort to help others wake up. And even if you do that, often there seems to be no positive effect. You are supposed to just do it selflessly and without expecting a result, and that is hard.
From my point of view, without some kind of meditation practice that works, you are fucked.
I’m not quite sure if spending effort and time looking for meaning is going to pay off. Meaning in life is simply living it. Maybe living it a certain way brings it meaning, like lovingly, devotedly, responsibly, etc. But I am not sure if an evil person’s life has any less “meaning” than a virtuous person’s.
Meditation is not a search for meaning. You can say it IS meaning. A function of meaning. It balances your life, and enables you to see what is important, and what needs to be discarded.
Tell me how much inner calm and balance are WORTH? You won’t know unless you go. You cannot get in touch with/be your inner person without it. The very intent movement to find out is the beginning of the meditation journey but the traditional techniques are the vehicle which will carry you on the journey to your inner and change your outer SELF. Unity/unify yourself or you are going to remain a hollow man/woman. You can experience the LIFE FORCE directly.
Spirituality.
They won’t wake up. Trying to wake them up will only result in unhappiness.
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/there-is-no-cure-for-stupidity
I recommend finding other endeavours that might bring fulfillment
You are right. They will only double up the stupidity. Stupidity x10 is not unusual.
“After retiring from the Green Party leadership: Ricarda Lang faces new challenges.” By the way, lang means “long”, but not broad (breit).
I recommend this steamroller with shit in her head elegant piruettes in the style of African high culture. https://media.gettr.com/group4/getter/2024/11/04/13/9cd58ee8-9f06-0a42-90e0-e5a4da2cb3ea/out.mp4
Even the Indians are so bored that they are now looking for high voltage. Or has their government decided to electrify their surplus population? That would be hopeful news for the West. https://media.gettr.com/group6/getter/2024/11/02/13/3c22a811-28b8-f34a-e129-d838b416e197/out.mp4
“The question has been asked: Will heads roll? And our answer is: yes. They will roll one day, quite constitutionally and legally. The reckoning will be carried out by a completely legal state court.” (Joseph Goebbels 1930)
In England, heads are not only chopped off Muslim Negroes, but also from bus tires: “His death was so horrifying some revellers thought it was a Halloween prank.” https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/edinburgh-bus-accident-police-cowgate-b1192645.html
https://newsvirali.it/de/2024/11/04/bus-uberwaltigt-und-enthauptet-alteren-mann-horrorbilder-in-sozialen-medien/
https://media.gettr.com/group6/getter/2024/11/02/13/3c22a811-28b8-f34a-e129-d838b416e197/out.mp4
That’s one way to deal with an unhappy life!!!!
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
“If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgement now.”
“He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.”
I recommend his book Meditations to everyone.
I don’t mediate… just as I do not take any form of medication … what I do is eliminate the things that make me unhappy … and focus on the things that make me happy.
Not that kind of meditation. His book is more a diary of his observations and reflections on the world.
Just think. Marcus Aurelius was emperor of Rome. The world once had leaders like him. Look at the clowns and thieves we have now.
If that was not ghost-written, then he was an exception. Happiness has more often than not meant getting ahead of others. That means being a psychopath.
Actually … the real leaders… resemble Aurelius… much more than they resemble Harris or Trump…. https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/who-runs-the-world
You’re being anti-scientific. You need the happy pills, just like the jab.
One way to find happiness is through reading… Audible is sheer bliss.. I can listen when I drive.. before going to sleep when it’s dark… when I am walking … and best of all .. if I don’t like the book.. I can exchange it… for free … now that… is the definition of happiness
I’m happy with my new shed. I’m also happy I know the truth, at least relatively speaking, about a lot of things that most people don’t, and that I’m not afraid to learn more truth. I’m also happy I’m not an ignorant little lemming who puts his seatbelt on before starting the car and turns his blinker on when exiting his driveway. But ya, that’s a common refrain from people who don’t really want to hear about it. You can see it when you rant about this or that and you watch their eyes glaze over and then they tell you they don’t really want to “waste” their time on the bad things because they have no control over it and are just trying to be happy. It’s an escape route to not face reality. I guess whatever floats their boats, we all have only one life to live. But suffering is kind of old school, man, I’m not into that if I can avoid it.
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