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Has religion ever brought you happeniness?

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Has religion ever brought you happeniness?
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RE: Has religion ever brought you happeniness?
August 5, 2015 at 2:56 am
(August 5, 2015 at 2:50 am)Kitan Wrote:
(August 5, 2015 at 2:48 am)ComradeMeow Wrote: Happiness is relative to the person and what they find qualifies as a moment worth being happy. Religion makes many people happy and many miserable. I don't see what is so complex about this.

I was just wondering if you viewed happiness to the same degree that I do; that it's mostly perception that we create through delusion.  In reality, happiness is about as certain as winning the lottery.  What happiness represents is one's willingness to ignore reality.

You are reminding my of myself and my pessimism. Siddhartha Gautama concluded that all of life is suffering from birth to death. I believe this is the case and can understand why delusion is necessary although I wouldn't go as far to say that all of happiness is found in delusion.
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RE: Has religion ever brought you happeniness? - by Athene - August 4, 2015 at 10:22 pm
RE: Has religion ever brought you happeniness? - by Cephus - August 4, 2015 at 10:28 pm
RE: Has religion ever brought you happeniness? - by ComradeMeow - August 5, 2015 at 2:56 am
RE: Has religion ever brought you happeniness? - by Silver - August 4, 2015 at 11:20 pm
RE: Has religion ever brought you happeniness? - by Pyrrho - August 5, 2015 at 12:40 pm
RE: Has religion ever brought you happeniness? - by Lek - August 5, 2015 at 4:42 pm
RE: Has religion ever brought you happeniness? - by vixene - August 7, 2015 at 11:35 pm
RE: Has religion ever brought you happeniness? - by brewer - January 1, 2017 at 8:50 am
Has religion ever brought you happeniness? - by KUSA - January 1, 2017 at 9:25 pm

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