So too comes discontent. Go figure.
The control is hardwired, which is to control the hardwired.
It’s cause on cause.
Also thanks for replies everyone.
In order to understand that which we designate as “hard-wired” we have to give the feelings therefrom a name. Happiness may be a name for homeostasis well done, when complaints of the body, attended to, affect the mind with a sense of well-being.
When we can journey in to the child within, and without, or simply with, even if all our promises have been extinguished, (for some a disappointment can turn their drives, hard to defeatism)-and keep on playing.
That is the only thing that keeps my little grandson and me at play, even if I am allowed only an hour per month to see him.
That comes from the inside , where god lives , the inside that goes out and then back .
Our brains/minds are hardwired to seek happiness from without.
Without what?
I think it’s a bit of both… looking from within, then without… and keep repeating, ad infinitum.
Again removed and revised, and again reading into it to such a monumental degree that it is laughable.
No acceptable criteria can explain inner bursts of hapinness, except by occasional bursts , stemming from inside, that is really, simultaneously outside.
But now proven,( at least to me) a source of unbelievable, mind boggling origin!
Out of or beyond the head/mind?
Yes, happiness comes from out of the mind , or without mindfullness, but, who in the world can do that? Maybe only children and God?
But what gives me pause is the duplitious meaning of ‘out of the mind’
It appears that only God can put his mind to thinking as children would.(in addition to all the different cognitive aspects that He possesses.
Besides, if that is not enough, phonetic similarity leads one to the inconclusive idea that out of mind can simultaneously mean
1 out of mind as in coming from out-there
2 out of mind meaning
enamating from mind
3 out of mind meaning. a transformating process: like out of mind come enlightenment
4 out of mind meaning insane to being out of sorts.
This poses a major challenge to the idea of intrinsic happiness because of the peculiar position that a categorical disposition of 'out of the mind may induce.
The cynic might say that the proposition entails contradictory meanings.
It seems that a man will blame the outside world for his problems.
but he blames himself for his success.
What ever idea is more convenient to serve the ego.
This is why the truth is only of secondary importance.
Because fun and a freedom from pain takes center stage.
There are certainly people who do this. There are people who do the opposite. There are people who are very complicated mixtures blaming/thanking others/the world and blaming taking pride in themselves.
Or the opposite in serving guilt or shame or self-hatred.
Sitting in blame rather than trying to solve the problem…anyway. That’s terrible. But noticing and responding to what is being done to one, both positively and negatively, is simply mammalian realism.
Sadness also comes from within.
You supply a good example.
Mammalian realism?
Most people defend themselves by claiming that they serve the truth / real situations.
Realism is a funny word.
Reallytruthyism should be a word, too.
In the world of ideas, truth is power.
In the world of action, power is truth.
So, think before you act, for all practical purposes, right?
But how about those that seem impracticle but useful, such as living in an autonomous , spontaneous reality?
Could that be considered an inversion?
Dan said,
“In the world of ideas, truth is power.
In the world of action, power is truth.”
In the world of power, truth may compel action, that may beget new possible ideas.
When push comes to shove.
Some things are developed almost entirely inside the human mind.
Those things are definitely think before you act type things.
Impracticle but useful things, those are of-course worthy of consideration.
And then that leads into the problem of how useful, and how considerable, and how to consider.
That may drive back into the mammalian-reptile of indecision until proven otherwise, by a higher agency.
Back to an authotarian decision maker, who is more than happy to derive truth to advantage His and only His advantage.
And who knows what is practical as opposed to what may become objectively so, until it has been interned into an unfailing authority?
And most hypothetical consist of this kind of consideration, and initially appear impractical. Some are only considered objectively far down the line.
So think before You act do not yet contain their up ended, inverted significance. Is this a stretch? Maybe, but, initially what comes up, as some conflated uncertain thoughts which need to be validated by some higher order decision maker.
So this kind of happiness can only tune in to the happiness which assumes that higher order.
If this would or, could turn practical, why the church’s failing to disprove Marx? Why do the support the capital of intrinsic primary hypothetical?
Why do they bother to dispossess, to burn witches , scientists (Bruno) , to preform rites like excommunication, exorcism, to de-objectify progressive thought, as antithetical to dialectical material reasoning?
The only reasonable assumption is, that defying authority, should not be thinkable, it must be based on absolute automatic response.
Is an automatically unthinkable objective respond really necessary to become practical?
That is the most basic self inclusive happiness that could come from that premise.
Can one be happy with such infallibility?
Next to such premise, Faust’s sin was minimal. No wonder, sin leads to overwhelming temptation to defy and send God packing.
It is merely through the mystical rose of unreason, that God can really appear, through a gapless/gap, of absolutely imperceptibly transformed agency.
Criss Angel Gives an Update on 6-Year-Old Son’s Cancer Battle During Coronavirus Pandemic
“We’ve been hunkering down at home and doing the quarantine thing because we don’t want to take any chances with our son,” Criss Angel told
Jen Juneau
June 23, 2020 03:30
Criss Angel and his family are taking the coronavirus pandemic one day at a time.
In a recent interview with Extra, the Las Vegas-based illusionist opened up about how he and partner Shaunyl Benson are focused on practicing social distancing at home with their sons Xristos Yanni, 17 months, and Johnny Crisstopher, 6 — especially given the context of their older child’s ongoing cancer battle.
“Kids that are going through pediatric cancer obviously have the challenge of dealing with that but when you underscore that with the pandemic, it’s really a double threat,” said Angel, 52. “Families that have gone through pediatric cancer have been practicing hand washing, hand sanitizing, sanitizing areas when you go out to eat in a restaurant and social distancing.”
“Because usually your child has immune-system deficiencies, and for Johnny Crisstopher and other children going through what he’s going through, it can be dire — life-threatening,” added the father of two.
“For the most part,” he said, "we’ve been hunkering down at home and doing the quarantine thing because we don’t want to take any chances with our son, except for when he goes to the hospital to do a blood transfusion or to Cure 4 The Kids here in Vegas two to three times a week. "
Criss Angel with sons Xristos Yanni (L) and Johnny Crisstopher Criss Angel/
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“We’ve been really spending a lot of time [together as a] family,” he continued. “We’re trying to make the most of the situation and trying to provide incredible memories for Johnny Crisstopher and our other son, Xristos Yanni, so when they get older they can think about these times that were challenging, but we made something positive come from it: memories.”
To that end, Angel explained that he has been focused on creating a “miniature world” for his sons, which he described as “an illusionary world” consisting in part of “a slot car and a train set.”
In the meantime, the magician has also been working with his Johnny Crisstopher Children’s Charitable Foundation to help benefit employees at Cure 4 The Kids’ “wonderful pediatric clinic” in Las Vegas — many of whom have “lost their job” due to the ongoing global health crisis.
"They had to make decisions no one should ever be faced with: ‘Am I gonna buy a drug to treat my son or daughter or am I gonna put food on the table?’ " Angel told Extra, revealing that the foundation has helped by providing “over 50,000 meals for 150 families for approximately eight weeks” in an effort to “help these families in our community with this very difficult situation that they’re in.”
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Johnny was first diagnosed with leukemia in 2015, and had a brief remission before his dad revealed in early December that his child’s cancer had come back.
Over the past six months, Angel and Benson have shared glimpses at Johnny’s treatment and how they have been coping as a family, from trips together to explaining the condition to their son and keeping a positive outlook.
“We try to talk to him with optimism and hope and support and the big keyword — is everything for us — is love and God. Like faith,” Angel said on The Doctors With Travis Stork podcast in March. “I believe if you have the faith of a mustard seed, you can move a mountain. We just want our son to be healed. And we believe he will be healed, and, so we talk to him in a way that … he can understand, but we keep it optimistic.”
“We keep it with love and hope and I keep things for him incentivized so that he can get through these little hurdles, look forward to something, get through the next one,” he continued.
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Even in the hardest of times there is something within which, like the flower in the crannied wall, rises to surface with hopeful expression. It breaks through the concrete of troubles with affirmation of one’s essential goodness. Without it we would all feel damned or condemned.
This is, of course, true.