Out, out, damned memes! Stop them from employing you to spread them to me!
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> >> What makes you think I am not past OK?
> >
> >Hey, I never said that! I'm responding to what I hear as a request for
> >learning.
>
> You said "yet you're not happy". I thought you mean what you say
> (or maybe you didn't mean it when you said that :-).
You said Christians were deliriously happy. I took that to mean that you're
not. Perhaps you have a certain comfort zone around how happy you think you
deserve to be.
> I think there is a category of beliefs
> where what you believe will not affect the truth of the belief in any
> way, and in those cases you are better off not deluding yourself,
> even at the cost of some happiness.
But what if there is yet another point of view that gives you more
happiness but no more delusion?
Richard Brodie RBrodie@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
Author, VIRUS OF THE MIND: The New Science of the Meme
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