Happiness is an emotional state that depends on brain chemistry. Ie: if such and such dopamine and serotonin, and other chemicals that influence emotion are in a certain formation happiness is produced.
So happiness is cheap and easy. Just popped your drugs and life’s made.
D, I’m about to give you a real sound advise now: check out all the past monster threads before posting, I’m sure some of them are about this ancient topic of happiness.
Thanks dude, and good point greenguy
Nice grammar dude.
Well, a good start would be define happiness first. And realize that, in general, many have varied ideas of what happiness really means. So, with that in mind, we narrow it down to some primary or basic ideas.
The other part of this, of course, is perception. If a person, percieves themself as happy, are they.
Is a rose by any other name, still a rose?
ANd if happiness is somehow this unshakeable foundation that is there whether or not we recognize it’s reality, then are many who feel they are happy, maybe not happy after all?
Is it just a feeling? We are we so woofully unable to communicate our own feelings adquately, these words hardly give the depth these feelings deserve. If you say your sad, do I really know how your feeling, or am I just relating to something I’m familar with?
Happiness is very important. As a previous poster pointed out, is it easy to get, or do we have jump hurdles to get real happiness?
Good Luck, and be careful. I don’t think any of us knows anything for sure but we pretend sometimes…
…if you don’t mind my saying that you’re making somewhat of an off putting first impression in that: a) people have names and need not be referred to by their avitars and b) I think the comment about Pureasonist was an unnecessary jab. Generally speaking these errors arise when he’s moving quickly, which means he didn’t feel like spending time or putting much effort forth to respond other than to point out, which I have noticed as well, that you aren’t reading what’s already here. There is a value in being a listener and I’m not a very good example, however, I have made an effort to read and pay attention. I think about what I type before I type it.
I don’t mean any harm and perhaps what I say here is more so just a personal opinion. I guess I’m trying to be helpful in a way.
The nice grammar dude thing was a jab at the other guy. I was just in a stupid mood. I’m sorry.
Ok, well the same could have been said for both- my bad. Pureasonist is my confidant here so I have to defend him, my feathers got ruffled…
That’s cool- we all have those days!
Hi D,
Just giving my input on this.
Happiness is the opposite of sadness, and both of this pair of opposite words are stored in our brains as neurochemicals IN us and AS us.
What activates either emotion is what is also stored in us and as us: the master emotion and word Love.
When I love me as glad and as sad, I am automatically happy in Love when I am winning and automatically sad in Love when I am hurting.
When I love me as you and so lvoe yo as me, I am also automatically happy in Love when you are successful and auto sad in Love when you are sick.
So Love automatically produces the right emotions at the right times, and so shows all emotions to be natural and normal, and gives us a valid reason for feeling them.
Hatred is the only invalid emotion to feel for any word, including itself.
So if I love being happy and HATE being sad,
happiness becomes my sole pursuit and I want to be happy all the time to get my Love all the time and so I get over happy and over hi when I am happy, and I can’t get happy enough, and am addicted to happiness,
and I can see NO reason for sadness, and whenever sad I am sad in hate of myself as sad, which hate tends to get me both sad and mad, more mad than sad, at the same time,
and so I am unbalanced and can;t figure out
why I cry when my friend is sick: ‘he shd NOT be sick, nor shd I be sad!’: and
why I tend to be sad when my competition gets a raise and why I am glad when they get dumped,
and why others are happy when i get sick and sad when i am ok,
and etc.
But when Love of myself is the pursuit, all emotions and their opposites get played like a piano in the key of Love:the right key at the right time with the right tone.
'Any one can become angry — that is easy.
But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way – this is not easy [when done in hate of myself as being angry, but is most easy when done in Love of myself as angry].
For example,
one will be afraid or bold, feel desire or anger or pity, and experience pleasure and pain in general either too much or too little, and in both cases wrongly [due to hatred of self as one or the other of the above words];
whereas,
to feel these feelings at the right time, on the right occasion, towards the right people, for the right purpose and in the right manner is to feel the best amount of them, which is the “mean†amount —
and the best amount is, of course, the mark of [the] virtue [of Love].’
Aristotle [and Me], The Nicomachean Ethics
loveandrespect,
iloveu
D writes:
The question for me is then what chess, love, and music have in common to produce such brain chemsitry?
A hot woman and a cold beer. 
You like wimmen, Phaedrus?
Doesn’t everyone? 
giggles
I though THAT was funny to ask. 
BTW, so anyone who says a question cannot be answered by another question is mistaken. Look, you just answered my question with a question.
I just wish more women dug me! 
Oh, Phaedrus—quick! Consult GCT on 411 about wimmen. On the outside, it’s hard to tell what’s bugging you.
I am no expert. Once chicks get past my superficial charm, the best I can ever seem to muster is getting cursed out and yelled at.
Happiness is a pile of poo on the carpet, as long as it’s produced by my baby son. 
Women love me- until they get to know me. I’m initially fascinating, but after a while you realize I’m just as sarcastic and annoying as I come across here. 