What is happiness?????

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Reply 20

Davott

Happiness is what you make of it.

Though Sex, Drugs and Money certainly go some way to make you VERY happy.

Reply 21

somethingbeautiful

You know, these threads used to be a bit of fun but now I'm taking a Philosophy degree they just irritate the hell out of me with some of the responses.
Meh, I guess it's like anything that you study - it takes the fun out of it in real life.

family/bf/pets

thats a good question to me it can really suck but when im riding i feel happy

Reply 24

Jemmmy

Awww the baby in the first pic! (:

Reply 25

Nick1254367

Hi! By asking "what is happiness" you ask a very good question. Recently I had my own shot at defining happiness, which aims to be more “scientific” and “objective” (as much as this is possible for a subjective feeling such as happiness):

“A person can be considered to have experienced a “happy” moment if the person chooses to re-live it as an end in itself if offered at no cost.”

For the detailed derivation of this conclusion please have a look at
http://www.spreadinghappiness.org/2009/08/what-is-happiness/

What do you think about this definition?

Thank you,

Nick
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