Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?

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This universe made of matter was never meant to satisfy us.

True.

We are spiritual beings that is why the matter can not satisfy us.

False.

We are biological beings.  The universe made of matter was never meant to satisfy us.

We have evolved to struggle.  It's what keeps the species alive.

Spiritual satisfaction is a sham.

The hedonic treadmill, also known as hedonic adaptation, is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes. According to this theory, as a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem, which results in no permanent gain in happiness. Brickman and Campbell coined the term in their essay "Hedonic Relativism and Planning the Good Society" (1971). During the late 1990s, the concept was modified by Michael Eysenck, a British psychologist, to become the current "hedonic treadmill theory" which compares the pursuit of happiness to a person on a treadmill, who has to keep walking just to stay in the same place. The concept dates back millennia, to such writers as St. Augustine, cited in Robert Burton's 1621 Anatomy of Melancholy: "A true saying it is, Desire hath no rest, is infinite in itself, endless, and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill