Are You Truly Happy (page 5)

tikmo, at least your up a notch.

Poppers, I have eleven grandchildren the oldest being twenty-two. It brings me great happiness when I hug and kiss them likewise with my wife.

The dictionary defines happy as "having a feeling of or showing pleasure and joy; pleased; contented:..."

My father-in-law (not a witness) was a happy-go-lucky man. He always looked on the bright side of things. I was lucky to have such a father-in-law.

Happiness comes from doing things be it for yourself or others. I have a wood burning stove, I'm happy to have wood, I'm happy to split the wood. Its' a chore I do, but its' a happy and a healthy chore.

I think we're on the same wave length just expressing it in different ways.

Golf

JamesThomas

Poppers, you seem to be a young person

Funny, when I read his wisdom, I'd swear he was a thousand years old.

My sense is that Poppers is not pointing to happiness in the common way we would see it as an adjective: as something added and connected to some circumstance, situation or act. But rather a happiness or contentment which we truly are. In other words, we are not a person who is happy. We are Happiness....or rather the living-reality that the word points to. For Poppers to express the way he so beautifully does would require that he has discovered this first hand as his own true being; and on discovery clearly sees this happiness -- which is really an indescribable purity and peace -- is unconditional, unending and all-embracing. Which allows him -- with authority -- to point to it within everyone else as well.

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gumby

Benji.....did ya find one a them there 'I hate Jesus' sites you copy and pasted from? Like I said....IF Jesus was real, he was justified in his actions.

Gumby

Benjamin Belial

Benji.....did ya find one a them there 'I hate Jesus' sites you copy and pasted from?

I've had that comic for a while now.

Like I said....IF Jesus was real, he was justified in his actions.

I disagree.

Smiles_Smiles

JT - Kudos to you for that translation. I find in my everyday life translating uses so much energy for me at times that I don't do it very often thereby cutting down my depth of communication with most. It was nice to read your brief and concise way of putting it.

Smiles

Golden Girl

I was happy until my mate died and my axe broke!

What next?

Snoozy...

Golf

GG,sorry to hear about your mate. I too would lose plenty of happiness if something seriously happens to my mate. We've been married for forty three years and we've known each other well over fifty years. I married outside the faith and looking back, I did the right thing. Being a witness didn't stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

I hear you GG. Take care and thanks.

Golf

poppers

JamesThomas said,
"My sense is that Poppers is not pointing to happiness in the common way we would see it as an adjective: as something added and connected to some circumstance, situation or act. But rather a happiness or contentment which we truly are. In other words, we are not a person who is happy. We are Happiness....or rather the living-reality that the word points to."

JamesThomas, your sense of what my post was about is right on the mark. Thanks for bringing out my meaning so clearly.

poppers

JH

I'M always happy

Are You Truly Happy

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