Does Money Buy Happiness?

money would buy me a school bus

 

money has my daughter in activities that she loves. totally makes her easier to deal with.

 

it cannot be denied that an assured capacity of spending power brings a certain amount of confidence and the calmness that comes with it. it is not this to be denied, or at least i don't disaggree with with having felt it.

rather it is the concept of happiness that is not so widely understood as it is immagined to be. nor for that matter that economic reality does not begin and end with its symbols.

until you realize and understand these two things it is easy to say it doesn't? wtf?

but reality doesn't require anything to exist (even ourselves), anything to not exist(seen or unseen), and it certainly doesn't require anything to resemble what anyone thinks they know about it.

but does trying to impress anyone make you truely happy? does the pseudo-sophestry of excitement addiction?

i guess that may be up to how you choose to define happiness. there are lots of things it buys you can hold in your hand. and there are lots of momentary pleasures that are readily offered for a price.

all of which cost effort, and symbolic value is a convenient way to transport that effort and trade it to others. which may be all well and good. all of which has what to do with HAPPINESS? any kind of happiness that stays with you while you're doing/generating/'making' that effort? well believing one particular way or another won't 'buy' that for everyone either.

but there IS something that will. and that something is simply knowing, or even doing without knowing, what it is that you enjoy doing, with or without what it would take exteranious effort to purchase, and being actualy in the proccess of DOING it.

even if it's 'just' dreaming, because that's all you can afford.

and there's nothing 'wrong' with exerting effort either, but there is something to consider, and that is what kind of world that effort is contributing to creating for all of us to have to live in.

there IS no greater good then the avoidance of causing harm

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oh as of lynsey writing this....

*hugs*


no she has some issues in her life. She went to school for wahat I do now as a job, dropped out and now works at mc donalds because she has a felony on her record and cannot work anywhere else nor does she have the brains to get passed junior college.
nothing wrong with that but to harp on me and hate me because I',m succesfull is wrong and like to buy clothes ect is wrong. I work a million jobs and hard as fuck (like you do) so I don't need anyone talking poorly about my chracter because I have a very good one and I know it and those who love me know it. I will do anything and am so thoughtful to those who treat me right.
No Problem...

I Bet this Person Secretly Likes you Really...And is Just Trying to Grab Your Attention...

I Could be Wrong...

But It's Happened to me in Past...

Then Again...There's Alot of People From the Forums Who I Talk to Now...Who Actualy Confessed that They Once Hated me...And Would Often Attempt to Critize me...Or Cause Arguments...

I Would Either Ignore Them...Or Go Private...As in pm Them...Which is What I Usualy Do Now if I Find Someones Post Slightly Offending...And Personal..."

I dont even work at mcdonalds anymore... i worked there as a manager for three months while looking for another job.

I dropped out of school? that's funny i thought i was a senior at a major university and have paid my own way thru school but then again maybe im wrong?

what a nut case

 

so yes, lynsey, i have the brains to get past junior college... im on my fourth year and my gpa is 3.90. i had to stop going to school for a while because i pay for my school...not my parents.

i hate spoiled little rich bitches.

anyways i could only read what you wrote in the third place because of quality's thread "the way this place should look"

for some reason i could read your idiotic posts through there.

 

If There was a Delete Option Button For this Thread...I Would Most Deffinatly be Pressing it...

Now I Remember Why I Gave up on Message Boards...

 

me too. and to everyone but lynsey here, im sorry for my little outburst... hate coming into a thread that has nothing to do with me and i havent even posted in.... to see some psycho bitch talking shit about me. how pathetic.

 

and yeah, im much happier when i only come on here to answer my pm's. will have to go back to that.

 

oh and lynsey... i never went to school for what you do as a job. i wouldnt be caught dead being a social worker and living with my parents.

dont bring me up again.... as all of your "facts" about me are wrong and i see you as too pathetic to reply to again.

(note- and yes, i would much rather work at mcdonalds then work where you work... the fact is, i worked there for three months as a temporary job, you have made a CAREER that no one would want. i have my associattes in psychology and will have in less then a year my BA in psychology- not social work.... as i will be going on to do research....and basically... i cannot even explain to you why the work i do now is better (to me) then the work you do.

spoiled rotten, superficial, phoney liars from southern california would never understand anyways. its just so funny that you bring me up in a thread im in involved in and lie about what i go to school for, whether i go to school (you said i dropped out, i did not), and where i work.

dont talk if you cant get your facts straight.

 

show us your boobs...rawr...


just as long as i have money to pay my bills..then im happy...

 

okay then...why did she bring me up in a thread that i didnt even post in talking about where i work(ed)?

i mean wtf. when i worked there as a mgr., whatever. that was my job. fuck her for even starting s hit about that.

 

i didnt read the thread...just wanted some boob action..

 

haha

well in any case.... i feel all...dirty and stuff for falling into that trap and im done now.

just think what she wrote about me is pretty disgusting and superficial.

yay for boobs.

 

if it makes you feel better if i had a third tit, id name it trish...

 

wowz. that is almost the funniest/sweetest thing ive ever heard.

 

lol...would you autograph it...

 

Trish I make 40k a year with my job and freelancing so I def pay my own way through college and pay my mother rent for living at home. I am done with my BA next month adn starting grad school in June as far as i remember just 2 months ago you said you wer a sophmore...amazing to skip a whole year in two months must have been some intensive classes. and yeas my family is upper middle class but not rich and I get whatever I want not because my family is rich but because I make a very good living for a non-profit worker at 24 years old and can afford it. And I am the family's first grandchild and only have one caousin and am an only child so I got whatever I want and yes I am definitley and grandpas girl and get whatever i want but it that really a reasont o hate me? because you are jealous of what I have? I would be just as happy without these 'things' in fact i am downsizing so I can purchase a house soon.

I am really far along for 24, I am where I need to be. I do live at home but I pay 250 a month and buy all my own food and pay all my personal bills since I got this new contract.
And I find out next week whether I got a job managing social service programs for the Y's in 2-3 counties so I am moving up and you are not and that is why you hate me.
That and because you had a crush on Ryan when he and I were together and he thought you were pretty damn nasty. And you lied to madcrappie about being married, which just sucks and gave Adam an std...that's just nasty. Maybe you should get with Ryan he has a history of having std's and not telling girls about them. yuck I cant stand hoes...by the way bitch i thought you had me on ignore? you took the time to put it in your sig...very odd, just very odd behavior and to stay with a man who hits you is odd too just not normal nor healthy. I don't understand it, it makes men think it's okay to do it. The night Ryan threatened to hit me and shoved me around and on the ground he brought you up and said that it must have been what your husband was feeling when he hit you and that we both deserved it. That's why I don't like you because I am seriously traumatized by that night beyond beleif...I put things off with my very patient boyfriend untill next week when I could have been loving on him last month because I was so afraid of men. I blame you, I blame myself and I certainly blame dhs for that mnight and I hate all three of us right now for letting it dictate my actions.
I just want to get along with you. I'm on a lot of pain meds right now but Trish I do feel TERRIBLE for saying a couple years back that you deserved to be hit by your husband. No matter what happens, how you and I mend things or if we don't I do want you to know how sorry I am. I had no idea how scary it was, especially since I had only been with the person in-person for a a month or two. No one deserves that hun and I'm sorry and am glad your marraige is going smoother.
And I was the first one to supporrt you when you got the job at mc donalds. VIccodin all the way around...god im a mess and in pain and i want my mouth to stop hurting

 

whoa girl. first i never had a crush on ryan while you were with him or at any time.

you are totally making stuff up.

i never gave adam an std.... in fact you are twisting around the facts there- i in fact told you it was the opposite listen....

it doesnt matter. i told ryan i was married BEFORE i met him. i never gave anyone on here an std.... i never had a crush on ryan (dhs).

okay you make 40 grand a year. dan makes 50 grand a year and i make 30 grand a year. so we make 80 grand a year. why would i be jealous of your 40?

i stay with dan because he has been through counseling... as have i.... and we have both changed, love each other and forgive each other for our past mistakes.

 

what a fucking liar

lynsey that is, not you trish

Lynsey, leave me the fuck out of your conversations. I have left you alone

 

i make 28 a year though, i enjoy making my clothes out of latex..it chaffes some though and i think i spelled chaffes wrong though..wheres a damn speak n spell when you need one...


i want some hot fries...mmmm...