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RE: STUDY: Want ‘sustained happiness’? Get religion.
August 16, 2015 at 3:32 pm
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I decided to full embrace the FSM and his tentacles of goodness. I've been walking around for a few hours covered in pasta sauce and chanting. I've got sustainable happiness from magical carbohydrates.
I even converted some of the people in my basement. I don't think they really understood what I was talking about, but the FSM forgives all.
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RE: STUDY: Want ‘sustained happiness’? Get religion.
August 16, 2015 at 3:38 pm
(August 16, 2015 at 3:32 pm)robvalue Wrote: I decided to full embrace the FSM and his tentacles of goodness. I've been walking around for a few hours covered in pasta sauce and chanting. I've got sustainable happiness from magical carbohydrates.
I even converted some of the people in my basement. I don't think they really understood what I was talking about, but the FSM forgives all.
I just made a movie in my head for the scene you just set, Rob. It was surprisingly easy! 
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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RE: STUDY: Want ‘sustained happiness’? Get religion.
August 16, 2015 at 3:38 pm
Isn't it curious, that theists are not as quick as usual to call atheism a religion on this particular thread?
I'll bet if I participated in a well funded atheistic/skeptical organization, devoted to wiping superstition off the planet - I'd be pretty damn happy.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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RE: STUDY: Want ‘sustained happiness’? Get religion.
August 16, 2015 at 3:42 pm
Lol Becca I would love to see what you cooked up!
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RE: STUDY: Want ‘sustained happiness’? Get religion.
August 16, 2015 at 4:25 pm
(August 16, 2015 at 3:32 pm)robvalue Wrote: I decided to full embrace the FSM and his tentacles of goodness. I've been walking around for a few hours covered in pasta sauce and chanting. I've got sustainable happiness from magical carbohydrates.
I even converted some of the people in my basement. I don't think they really understood what I was talking about, but the FSM forgives all.
I believe that wearing the sauce is unnecessary. Just the colander on the head is sufficient:
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: STUDY: Want ‘sustained happiness’? Get religion.
August 16, 2015 at 4:50 pm
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This is what a real priest looks like in Germany:
That is Bruder Spaghettus. Maybe that is really the real identity of AlexK.
With a sign up in town telling people about proper worship:
If it isn't AlexK in the picture above, he can follow the link to find a proper place of worship and take holy communion.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
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RE: STUDY: Want ‘sustained happiness’? Get religion.
August 16, 2015 at 4:59 pm
MAY I repeat - pun intended - my post #2 in this thread?
Quote:Participation in religious organizations may offer mental health benefits beyond those offered by other forms of social participation.
And add a dictionary explanation of that little word MAY.
Quote: 1.
(used to express possibility):
It may rain.
2.
(used to express opportunity or permission):
You may enter.
3.
(used to express contingency, especially in clauses indicating condition, concession, purpose, result, etc.):
I may be wrong but I think you would be wise to go. Times may change but human nature stays the same.
4.
(used to express wish or prayer):
May you live to an old age.
5.
Archaic. (used to express ability or power.)
Might make it easier for you, since you obviously have some problems explaining that little word. In lights of your own assertivness that is. Keep shitting out of your mouth in all directions, Randy. But I won't let go of the word may in the report until you finally deign to answer the question. Everything else in your OP isn't worthy of any discussion.
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RE: STUDY: Want ‘sustained happiness’? Get religion.
August 16, 2015 at 5:07 pm
(August 16, 2015 at 2:29 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: (August 16, 2015 at 1:47 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Randy not only are you citing wikipedia, but your citing a wikipedia article that cant even get his gender right.
Jimi ingested nine of Monika's sleeping tablets...they were prescribed by her doctor, not his.
Well then that article is very poorly written
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: STUDY: Want ‘sustained happiness’? Get religion.
August 16, 2015 at 5:29 pm
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I'm about half his age, so I have to disappoint. Also, I live in the westernmost city of the country, not the easternmost 
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: STUDY: Want ‘sustained happiness’? Get religion.
August 16, 2015 at 6:08 pm
Whether people are happier with religion (which these studies fail to show) or not is absolutely irrelevant to the existence of gawd.
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