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Americans can get happier by changing how we pursue happiness - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times ^ | July 5, 2024 | Stephanie Harrison

Posted on 07/05/2024 9:53:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: Jonty30

The beatings will continue until morale improves.


21 posted on 07/05/2024 10:06:10 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

B....S....! since the dawn of time all of mankind has sought meaning to life to ascertain what would make them happy and then individually pursued what makes one happy. for some it’s as simple as a full belly. for others, sleeping off a bender on a friends couch because they got kicked out for going on a bender. in the modern era some prefer to make themselves happy touching young children and enticing them to become doctors, lawyers, teachers, firepersons or “special friends”. for others happiness lies in making enough money to control the entire world and everyone in it. my personal happiness goal is to avoid people who’s happiness is based on taking my peace of mind away. I know...it’s a simple thing but I want it anyway.


22 posted on 07/05/2024 10:07:30 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Try not to roll your eyes when you read this garbage. Another liberal pleading for wealth distribution. I guarantee this writer is probably a pretty well off white lefty from the San Fernando Valley north of LA or maybe the beach communities (South Bay) to the west. Lots of very wealthy white liberals living in those areas who will not and won’t “share” their wealth with anyone else.


23 posted on 07/05/2024 10:08:36 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pursue the Lord.

In his presence is fullness of joy and at his right hand are pleasures for evermore.


24 posted on 07/05/2024 10:08:39 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: DarrellZero; Jonty30; 444Flyer; metmom; null and void; Travis McGee; Diogenesis; Nervous Tick; ...
[You will own nothing and like it.]

Wouldn't surprise me if the Liberals at The Los Angeles Times are onboard with Klaus Schwab's 2030 agenda - and he even mentioned Los Angeles specifically

By 2030 There Will Be No More Private Cars, Highways Will Become Parks: Klaus Schwab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AFOoS2WnqU




25 posted on 07/05/2024 10:09:41 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: cornfedcowboy

[The beatings will continue until morale improves.]

Said that exact thing to myself not 4 days ago.....


26 posted on 07/05/2024 10:11:40 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It takes a village(of Marxist elites)...to create (a village of brain-dead) idiots

Sounds like something Mika might say about DJT...

...he's trying to tell people what should make them happy!

...THAT'S OUR (leftist MSM/leftist academia) JOB!

27 posted on 07/05/2024 10:11:50 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have found that making liberals cries is the true path to happiness.


28 posted on 07/05/2024 10:12:12 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The bimbo that wrote this tripe... Doesn't she just ooze altruism?


29 posted on 07/05/2024 10:13:54 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Los Angeles Times is a Potemkin news source. It looks like a legitimate news organization, but isn't. Article presented for entertainment purposes only.

Yet you posted this article in the "News/Activism" forum. :-)

30 posted on 07/05/2024 10:14:16 AM PDT by willieroe
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To: willieroe

Good point.


31 posted on 07/05/2024 10:15:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Happiness isn’t something that you experience, it’s something you remember.

We remember the pre-pandemic Trump years.


32 posted on 07/05/2024 10:17:40 AM PDT by Colinsky
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“We have the highest number of billionaires and millionaires of any country, who collectively could use their power and resources to permanently end the struggles of millions of Americans. “

Must be the pre-election talking point - seeing this in a lot of places all at once.

“Permanently end the struggles of millions...” The only way to do that is to round them up into camps and exterminate them. Life is struggle.

These people are sick and evil.


33 posted on 07/05/2024 10:19:32 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Happiness is a byproduct of one’s purpose or contentment in the processes of every day living.


34 posted on 07/05/2024 10:22:11 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Jonty30; NWFree; Mount Athos; MtnClimber; monkeyshine; BenLurkin; ...
I actually went to that putrid site and read the article written by that imbecile.

This is the attitude among the elites on the Left (and the same on the Right elites, but for different reasons)

They write this BS, always assuming they won't have to be part of the "little people", that they will have the "freedom" to pursue what THEY think is important. Things like like multimillion dollar beachfront homes, vacations to great places, cars that are comfortable good shoes, expensive meals, the top electronic devices, and you could go on and on and on. These jackasses are the ones who deliberately destroyed family, religion, and community of any kind in their quest to reform our society into people cut off from each other, isolated, and lonely. THEY are the ones primarily responsible for this.

It is telling that this ignorant jackass of an author said these things:

"Modern Americans have been conditioned to believe that happiness is something that we get for ourselves, by ourselves, through achieving material wealth, personal success and individual gratification. I call this belief Old Happy. It is powered by systems of individualism, capitalism and domination that have fueled our culture for generations. Growing up in this individualistic culture, we are taught to see ourselves as separate from other people. We’re taught that happiness comes from focusing more and more on ourselves and that we can perfect and grow this happiness through personal achievement. This does not work.

"If we contribute our knowledge, talents and humanity to our collective happiness rather than the pursuit of personal wealth, power and fame, personal happiness would likely also be achieved."

This thought process, shared by all Leftists, is entirely contradictory to what the founders of this country, INCLUDING JEFFERSON, thought. They recognized fully the concept of collectivization as inherently and unfixable EVIL.

And the Founders also believed and understood that Personal Freedom and Economic Freedom are inextricably intertwined.

You CANNOT have Personal Freedom without Economic Freedom, and you cannot have Economic Freedom without Personal Freedom.

35 posted on 07/05/2024 10:24:23 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Eat bugs, be happy? I’m not going to read the article. I’m already happy.


36 posted on 07/05/2024 10:26:04 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The author needs crayons, a coloring book, milk and cookies, then a warm blanket and a 2pm nap.

At least we don’t live on less than $2 a day


37 posted on 07/05/2024 10:26:44 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: rlmorel

As feral liberals have taken over every public space, normal people have had to retreat to their own homes and backyards for any sense of safety.

This is why nearly anyone with enough money has transformed their backyards into parks, and their homes into theaters.


38 posted on 07/05/2024 10:28:01 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: rlmorel

Yeah, they write a lot of nonsense for “others to live by” - not themselves - they’re special!

Just like Al Gore

Just like John Kerry


39 posted on 07/05/2024 10:28:03 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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40 posted on 07/05/2024 10:30:10 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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