Sam Harris: The Happiness Experiment

Bestselling author Sam Harris describes an experiment many have run on themselves to get at a truer version of happiness.

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[derrida114]

@finishstrongdoc I did not say there *can't* be a supernatural force, just that we have no good evidence that there is. Sam Harris is not concluding that we must be hopeless; he's trying to grapple with the evidence as it stands - which is that we're on our own, existentially speaking. If you want to assume an invisible wizard is helping you, fine. That's your call, dude.

[derrida114]

@finishstrongdoc What the hell are you talking about? My bonobo example had nothing to do with "the law of necessity." I was merely trying to show that your assumptions about humanity's inherent greatness (and spiritual significance) were misplaced.

[andthereisntone]

@TreyGre7 Thanks.

[TreyGre7]

@andthereisntone AAI 2007

[s0348953]

how do i get started with vipassana?

[EsenHanIm]

@baxtar1463

much easier said than done. much much easier to read and nod for sure. there is a reason he emphasizes the work involved.

[tyroy57]

He is a man of wisdom and very accurately describes the human condition both psychologically and philosophically and resonates truth about the nature of existence.

[Braxtonmccoy]

@Braxtonmccoy What I am saying is that it seems very common to say that pain is the opposite of pleasure.

I am willing to bet that if you did a google search for 'What is the opposite of pain' one of the first links would say pleasure.

[Braxtonmccoy]

@TheOtherView I am not in total disagreement but, you think that it is completely wrong to say that pain is opposite of pleasure, whether physical or emotional?

[TheOtherView]

@Braxtonmccoy

But I think he confuses "pleasure" and "pain." The opposite of pleasure is NOT pain. He needs to be more clear about these terms.

[TheTekkerz]

Makes me think I need to go back and re-read my Nietzsche

[baxtar1963]

Read "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle he says the same things about our mind and Ego taking us over and making us unhappy. Release the worry about past present and future and just exist moment to moment which is all there really is anyway and you will find inner peace. What ever will be will be and accept it as if it suppose to be that way. Don't fight what is happening in your life, embrace it. You change the way you feel about things which you cannot control.