Talk:Happiness

U.S. just hit its lowest ranking ever on a global happiness list

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Once again, everything but the facts. RobS^{Zelensky Must Go!} 13:36, March 22, 2025 (EDT)

Happiness is essential to living a good life, and being fulfilled or complete?

I thought being filled with the Spirit of God is essential to living a good life, and being fulfilled or complete.

Being drunk, high on drugs, and all sorts of other things too many people beleive is "essential to living a good life, and being fulfilled or complete." RobS^{Zelensky Must Go!} 19:37, March 31, 2025 (EDT)

This article, as written by User:Conservative, denies the power of the Holy Spirit and says Happiness can be found without God. Sure, go tell that in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. RobS^{Zelensky Must Go!} 11:30, April 1, 2025 (EDT)

Aristotle was a theist and not secularist.

Traditional Buddhist allowed to pray to the gods of communism, Mao and XI

Aristotle was a theist and not secularist. I included the material about how Aristotle viewed happiness, but I reworded the sentence. Conservative (talk) 02:58, April 1, 2025 (EDT)

I'm afraid I am confused now. A believer in false gods and not the one true God is a "theist", not an atheist? People who believe Satan is God, and deny the one true God, are not atheists? RobS^{Zelensky Must Go!} 11:25, April 1, 2025 (EDT)

The Webster-Merriam dictionary defines a theist thusly: "a believer in theism : a person who believes in the existence of a god or gods", source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theist Cambridge dictionary does likewise: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/theist If memory serves, and I believe it does, the term theist applies to both monotheists and polytheists. And I believe you are mistaken as far as the definition of atheist as well. Conservative (talk) 11:42, April 1, 2025 (EDT)

I don't care what Merriam's says. You say that a person can find Happiness in Satanism in this article. RobS^{Zelensky Must Go!} 11:53, April 1, 2025 (EDT)

Just go back to cleaning up your years of trolling spam and leave this discussion for another time. RobS^{Zelensky Must Go!} 11:58, April 1, 2025 (EDT)

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be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel

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"Those who are attentive to a matter will prosper, and happy are those who trust in the Lord." - Proverbs 16:20 (NRSV)

"Happy are those who find wisdom and those who get understanding, for her income is better than silver and her revenue better than gold." Proverbs 3:13-14 (NRSV)

"Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions of them to those for whom nothing is prepared, for this day is holy to our Lord, and do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” - Nehemiah 8:10 (NRSV)

"a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance" - Ecclesiastes 3:4 (NRSV) Conservative (talk) 10:34, February 7, 2026 (EST)

User:Conservative proven wrong, Again

User:Conservative criticizes academic theoretician and advisor to governments Prof. Jeffrey Sachs as a "liberal", yet spams Prof. Sachs "Happiness Index" to promote User:Conservative's own racist & Russophobic views over many pages throughout Conservapedia. Gilbert Doctorow reports: [2]

For the second year in a row, I am utterly stunned to read that per the findings of some expert jury, the Finns are said to be the happiest people on planet Earth. I believe this determination is made by the same sort of experts who list the 10 best restaurants in the world and make other pronouncements that are utterly silly but generate lines of type in major print media.... Now let us turn to the question I pose in the title of this essay: are the Russians happy? If you read the travel literature going back to the 17th century, Russians in the countryside loved to dance and sing, which suggests a predisposition to happiness. During Soviet times, of course, no one said “cheese” to produce smiles for the photographer. Grim times, grim facial expressions. From my recent writings, you would have justification to consider that these are once again grim times in Russia, what with the war and little towns emptied out except for widows. If there are truly 350,000 Russian soldiers killed, then there can hardly be a town in this country where someone has not died in the Special Military Operation. However, here in St Petersburg or in Moscow, you don’t really feel the war except for the curtailment of internet services that I have described at length, and in the occasional sight of amputees hobbling around on prosthetics and crutches. The people I chat up wherever I go are getting on with their lives and try not to think too much about how the war is going and other matters that are totally outside their control. All they want is for it to end soon, with a Russian victory, of course. Except for my nearest Verny economy class supermarket, where the food assortment has slightly deteriorated, the middle middle class Pyarorochka and Magnit stores, and especially the upper middle class Perekryostok supermarket near me are very well stocked not just with staples but with luxury foodstuffs from within Russia and from around the world. Friends from Moscow with whom we met complained that social services are slipping from the heights they had reached some years ago. The snow was not well cleared away this past winter. Here in Petersburg, the courtyards are not being kept as clean as in years past and the floral plantings in the Catherine Palace park are less abundant and impressive – there can be no doubt that budgets were cut. But otherwise there is a lot to enjoy. Restaurants catering to the wealthier classes are doing well from my observation. The High Culture entertainments are in profusion. Free entrance to some major museums in Petersburg seems to have been reinstated. And pensioners can get half price tickets to the most fashionable and sought after opera and ballet performances. To be sure, when half price for a ticket is 40 euros and your monthly pension is 350 euros, you have to love culture very dearly to go to the ballet in a leading venue. Happy in the heel clicking sense is not what I see around me. But there is quiet contentment in people that is evident and the knowledge that things could be a lot worse.