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Re: Contentment vs. Happiness
« Reply #45 on: May 29, 2007, 07:29:56 PM »
Quote from: Nomaken on May 29, 2007, 01:09:01 AM
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You fucking old geezer!! Go back to the old-folks home grandpa!!!  ::)
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Re: Contentment vs. Happiness
« Reply #46 on: May 29, 2007, 07:58:35 PM »
Happiness to me is a feeling in time, it could last for an hour or a few days depending on the stimuli.

Contentment is one of those things that to me sounds like it's the preferred outcome, but really it's not for me.  I can think particularly on a few ocassions in my life where I've thought I was so content, but it was only my perception of things at that time.  I think the more you think you are content, the less you strive for happiness...at least that's how it works for me.
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Re: Contentment vs. Happiness
« Reply #47 on: May 29, 2007, 08:01:07 PM »
Quote from: Eclair on May 29, 2007, 07:58:35 PM
Happiness to me is a feeling in time, it could last for an hour or a few days depending on the stimuli.

Contentment is one of those things that to me sounds like it's the preferred outcome, but really it's not for me.  I can think particularly on a few ocassions in my life where I've thought I was so content, but it was only my perception of things at that time. I think the more you think you are content, the less you strive for happiness...at least that's how it works for me.

Exactly. And even though one can be contented
almost all of the time, giving up the occasional
real happiness may be WAY too big a price to
pay.
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Re: Contentment vs. Happiness
« Reply #48 on: May 29, 2007, 08:04:30 PM »
Quote from: calandale on May 29, 2007, 08:01:07 PM
Quote from: Eclair on May 29, 2007, 07:58:35 PM
Happiness to me is a feeling in time, it could last for an hour or a few days depending on the stimuli.

Contentment is one of those things that to me sounds like it's the preferred outcome, but really it's not for me.  I can think particularly on a few ocassions in my life where I've thought I was so content, but it was only my perception of things at that time. I think the more you think you are content, the less you strive for happiness...at least that's how it works for me.

Exactly. And even though one can be contented
almost all of the time, giving up the occasional
real happiness may be WAY too big a price to
pay.
In my case it was, a hundredfold.
It's a happy day.  We agree on something and communicated clearly.   :)
 :plus:

Or should I be worried!
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Re: Contentment vs. Happiness
« Reply #49 on: May 29, 2007, 08:06:36 PM »
Quote from: Eclair on May 29, 2007, 08:04:30 PM
.  We agree on something and communicated clearly.   :)

Or should I be worried!

I'm just too distracted to be subtle.
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Re: Contentment vs. Happiness
« Reply #50 on: May 30, 2007, 06:55:59 AM »
Quote from: Nomaken on May 29, 2007, 01:09:01 AM
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Young whipper-snapper.  When I was your age, we didn't have all them fancy emoticons on Intensity squared.  We just used our words to convey emotion.  None of this newfangled glitz and glamor.  *grumbles and rocks on a porch with a shotgun*
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Re: Contentment vs. Happiness
« Reply #51 on: May 30, 2007, 08:59:09 AM »
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Quote from: Nomaken on May 29, 2007, 01:09:01 AM
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Young whipper-snapper.  When I was your age, we didn't have all them fancy emoticons on Intensity squared.  We just used our words to convey emotion.  None of this newfangled glitz and glamor.  *grumbles and rocks on a porch with a shotgun*

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Re: Contentment vs. Happiness
« Reply #52 on: May 30, 2007, 09:30:02 AM »
I was convinced of my irrelevancy when I was 13.  7 years isn't that small an amount of time.
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Re: Contentment vs. Happiness
« Reply #53 on: May 30, 2007, 11:19:26 AM »
Quote from: Nomaken on May 30, 2007, 09:30:02 AM
I was convinced of my irrelevancy when I was 13.  7 years isn't that small an amount of time.

Lucky bastard.
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