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AllAmericanMan · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 3606

As I write this, I have no clue how my life will turn out. I am just a young man with most of my life ahead of me to be experienced. However I can tell you in all certainty I will die a happy man. I will not die happy because of some goal I know I will achieve, or any success I may have. I will die happily because I know what I already have.

I already know I have been born in the best time yet to be alive. I live in an age of hot showers and high speed Internet. I already know I am spoiled more than humans have ever been throughout history. I am eternally thankful for every day I am blessed with. I already know I am blessed with a great family to support me in my journey through this world. I am blessed to be born in the greatest country on the planet. I am blessed to have my material possessions.

Most of all I am blessed to live in a relatively peaceful environment. I can go on about my life free of worry. I live life day to day, living the moment. Making sure that having fun is my number 1 priority. I am thankful for not having to eat moss out of a cave to survive. I am thankful for not being born into slavery, or the wrong end of genocide and war. I will die a happy man because I will have gone through life creating happiness from within, not trying to manufacture it out of nothing.

I will not spend life worrying about death. When I die and there is nothing, I will not be there to suffer. When I die and there is heaven, I will be there to enjoy that too. I will not spend life arguing over the minutia with those around me. You only live once, and living any other way is one big waste.

PricklySponge · Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 9406

This type of general feeling about my life is simply 'un-doable' for me. I am a person who always wants more, more, and more. Yes, I am greatfull as you are for the spoiled life I have lived, but being greatfull just dosnt cut it. I need more. More money, more happiness, more fun. And I know that when I reach these goals, I will still want more. This is what makes my life worth living. Attaining and reaching for goals I dont even meen to set for myself, but are always there, in the back of my mind. The goal of more can never be fully reached.

This is what keeps me happy, because I always know that I have a chance to make my life better.

I know that I will only die happy if I feel that I have grabbed every opportunity given to me and have bettered my life to the greatest possible extent.

The Grandmaster · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:51 am Post subject:

I think things are pretty good, I'd just like to have more money and women. Then I'd be good to go.

Brother Dysk · Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 10

I wish I had it that easy.

I'm not ambitious, yet I'm never happy with what I have. I consistently put others before myself, and as such, am constantly unhappy and unsatisfied. I always feel out of control, cannot accept others being in control of my life, cannot accept the responsibility of being in control myself... I cannot manage on my own, yet cannot ask for help. I turn down any help I am offered, hoping to get it anyway, and I do not know why. Yes, I do suffer from depression.

But seriously, good for you. Go and be happy - it's a hell of lot less wasteful than what I'm doing with my life, which is pretty much just wallowing in my own misery.

The Grandmaster · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:52 am Post subject:

Brother Dysk wrote: But seriously, good for you. Go and be happy - it's a hell of lot less wasteful than what I'm doing with my life, which is pretty much just wallowing in my own misery.

Hey I've been there. Hell, I still wallow in my own misery from time to time, fairly often in fact. It has to do with my inner demons.

Protostar · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:18 am Post subject:

TheGrandmaster1 wrote: I think things are pretty good, I'd just like to have more money and women. Then I'd be good to go.

I'd prefer more money. More money equates to more women.

The Grandmaster · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:06 am Post subject:

Protostar wrote: TheGrandmaster1 wrote: I think things are pretty good, I'd just like to have more money and women. Then I'd be good to go.

I'd prefer more money. More money equates to more women.

Yes Indeed. Though I want both, if I were forced to choose, I would choose the money, because with enough money, I could simply hire an entire staff...with lots of game with the ladies, to go get me women, and so have both.

Johannes · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 834

Wouldn't you feel all alone TGM1. Everyone would want you for your money. Wouldn't you feel lonely and alone and empty. Money isn't happiness. You can't buy happiness. It may be pleasurable, but it isn't happiness. Money just makes you empty and alone.

Protostar · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:30 am Post subject:

Johannes wrote: Wouldn't you feel all alone TGM1. Everyone would want you for your money. Wouldn't you feel lonely and alone and empty. Money isn't happiness. You can't buy happiness. It may be pleasurable, but it isn't happiness. Money just makes you empty and alone.

Lies. Money is happiness. That's just fearmongoring from the socialists so they can make you feel better about stealing your money for social programs. People always have alterior motives, if it is not money then it is something else. Money can't stab you in the back, but people can.

Johannes · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 834

That was for TGM1's benifit. I was being sarcastic. Those are the arguments being used to stifle TGM1, and you for that matter, on many other threads.

The Grandmaster · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:36 am Post subject:

Johannes wrote: That was for TGM1's benifit. I was being sarcastic. Those are the arguments being used to stifle TGM1, and you for that matter, on man
y other threads.

:lol:

And that's what they sound like too, broken records. But they haven't stifiled me, for I have crushed all of those arguments on the other threads.

Proto, you should check out my battle with Cassandra and Cato in the Gluttony thread, I think you will be pleased at how I have handled them.

Johannes · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 834

Even if I had enough time to write as much as TGM1, I still think he'd destroy their arguments much more efficiently than I could. He's proved it so far.

The Grandmaster · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:58 am Post subject:

Johannes wrote: Even if I had enough time to write as much as TGM1, I still think he'd destroy their arguments much more efficiently than I could. He's proved it so far.

Why thank you Johannes. :)

AllAmericanMan · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 3606

I believe no reward, material possession, or success can ever make a person truely happy. Happiness can only come from within your own mind. Just look at the story of every rock star that ever was. Theyre usually not happy till they hit rock bottom and have some spiritual awakening. In the case of a spiritual awakening, happiness comes from within in thinking there is some purpose to life. In any case, it must come from within.

Johannes · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 834

AllAmericanMan wrote: I believe no reward, material possession, or success can ever make a person truely happy.
That isn't true. I'd be very unhappy without an possessions, even with a purpose. If I didn't have possessions, I'd probably die.

AllAmericanMan wrote: Happiness can only come from within your own mind.
Well, I guess endorphins (natural of course) qualify from being within your mind.

AllAmericanMan wrote: In the case of a spiritual awakening, happiness comes from within in thinking there is some purpose to life. In any case, it must come from within.
Sure, it must come from within. God has told a very special few of their specific purpose, I don't suppose that you, or anyone else on this forum, is one of those. Therefore, your purpose is always derived from some external circumstance, but is formulated and accepted within your mind and soul.

Johannes · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 834

AllAmericanMan wrote: I will not spend life worrying about death. When I die and there is nothing, I will not be there to suffer. When I die and there is heaven, I will be there to enjoy that too. I will not spend life arguing over the minutia with those around me. You only live once, and living any other way is one big waste.
I recognize that you believe there is heaven, so do I. However, has anyone ever come back from there and said it exists (excluding the Bible as a source)? If you don't consider other options, don't question your faith, then you are blind (not meant as an insult, rather as a general statement).

The Grandmaster · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject:

AllAmericanMan wrote: I believe no reward, material possession, or success can ever make a person truely happy.

Why?

Especially considering we can see people for whom these things do make happy.

AllAmericanMan wrote: Happiness can only come from within your own mind.

Proof?

AllAmericanMan wrote: Just look at the story of every rock star that ever was. Theyre usually not happy till they hit rock bottom and have some spiritual awakening.

Proof?

Have you spoken to "every rock star?"

AllAmericanMan wrote: In the case of a spiritual awakening, happiness comes from within in thinking there is some purpose to life. In any case, it must come from within.

You're right. Many times, within one's pocketbook.