Monday, March 26th, 2007
- Question: What comes to your mind when you hear the word happiness?
- 80% say “the most important thing that my parents want for me, is to be happy”
- People today do not know what happiness means, and because they’ve misdefined it, they are going about getting it the wrong way, and their lives are being ruined.
- Western Culture (see, proverbs)
- “we have the right to happiness” - now means something it hasn’t meant before
- happiness is a sense of pleasurable satisfaction.
- We use ‘happy’ to refer to a certain feeling we have, a sense of satisfaction inside
- New ‘happiness’ is vastly overrated
- How are people doing in regards to obtaining ‘new happiness’?
- Rate of depression increased 10 times in one generation
- People have lost the hunger to live for something bigger than they are
- #1 preoccupation is wether they feel happy
- Men losing interest in their wives
- 3 hours of tv = 300 gorgeous women
- Yesteryear - no cars, tv, internet, less beautiful women
- Guys reason: “I can do better”
- Focus on yourself, “how will it make me feel happy”
- New Testament - classic happiness
- Happiness is defined as eternal life
- The essence of eternal life is a new quality of life
- A person learns to live like Jesus Christ
- What does it mean to take up your cross?
- You’re no longer concerned about your own desires
- To deny yourself, you don’t make your desires the absolute
- Seek to live for JC
- Practiced daily
- Are you happy in the classic sense?
- Deny yourself, focus on others
- Learn how to be a good friend
- You’ve got a dot called your life, if you focus on becoming a certain kind of person, you’ll grow in virtue and livelyhood
- Paradox of Hedonism
- If you want to feel happiness, don’t seek it
- If you want to feel satisfaction, forget what satisfaction feels like
- If you gain your life, you lose it. IF you lose your life for Christ, you’ll gain it.
- Atheism and Monopoly
- If the whole game doesn’t have a purpose, the moves within the game are meaningless.
- If there is no God, what does it matter what you choose to do.
- Why are people so unhappy?
- Happiness is a feeling of satisfaction.
- In order to gain happiness, I have to focus on me.
- The path to happiness is not self-absorption, it is the path of self denial.
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