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Oh, and danseen is the guy who started this thread.
Forever_Jung started this thread…is that danseen?
Oh, and danseen is the guy who started this thread.
I would say I'm balanced in that respect.
I don't recall making any definitive autobiographical statement there.
Forever_Jung started this thread…is that danseen?
You said man/nature chooses the pursuit of happiness over the pursuit of wisdom.
better to be happy and delusional
Is this the kind of person we can trust?
Trust to do what? I'm not running for office here.
Well, is it wise to marry someone who is happy and delusional?
Is it wise to have children with someone who is happy and delusional?
Is it wise to employ someone who is happy and delusional?
Well...that depends on what their delusions are and to what extent they are delusional. Most people probably aren't 100% accurate in their assessment of themselves and others anyway.
Is it wise to marry someone who is unhappy?
Is it wise to have children with someone who is unhappy?
Is it wise to employ someone who is unhappy?
The worst case scenario would be to get involved with somebody who is unhappy AND delusional; whose delusions and unhappiness reinforce each other. Optimism, on the other hand, can go a long way; much further than pessimism. Negativity is oppressive. Positivity is progressive. I would rather be with someone who has a generally positive outlook on life than a person who dwells on the negative aspects of everything.
Sometimes reality makes us happy, and sometimes reaiity makes us unhappy.
But whether reality makes us happy or unhappy, reality makes us sane.
Perhaps you are misled by your Declaration of Independence which guarantees the right to puruse happiness.
And what is Mole's declaration?
Are you sane or is your own sanity a delusion?
Well,
We did not rebel against lawful authority and so have no need for a Declaration of Independence.
We have remained loyal to lawful authority in our Parliament and our Judiciary.
And we have had no Civil War.
Today is Australia Day, and the wattle is our national symbol, and as we say, there is no blood on the wattle.
a colony of criminals who had no loyalty to their lawfully appointed authority.
Indeed, you were a colony for 200 years, and a penal colony to boot. But when you had your illegal rebellion in 1776, they couldn't send their convicts to you, so they sent them to us.
Indeed, you were a colony for 200 years, and a penal colony to boot. But when you had your illegal rebellion in 1776, they couldn't send their convicts to you, so they sent them to us.
Actually I think Georgia was the only American colony that truly served as a penal colony for debtors and criminals.
To quote a favorite movie of mine:
"A rebellion is always legal in the first person, such as "our rebellion." It is only in the third person - "their rebellion" - that it becomes illegal."