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> I think chasing happiness will always leave you disappointed. I mean, eventually you die, right? > What God offers is peace, which is what I know a lot of pe

> I think chasing happiness will always leave you disappointed. I mean, eventually you die, right? > What God offers is peace, which is what I know a lot of people are looking for Not only do I think you are wrong on the former count, I don't think this is the appropriate forum for the latter - but I'll let the mods decide about that. On the former, there's nothing to say but "you're wrong". Sure we die, but then we don't care. Happiness is it's own reward. Existing, living, breathing, loving, creating, thinking - these all cohabitate uniquely in humans. To say other things don't matter is to say life itself isn't worth living. If the peace only comes in death, then why not end it now? > Then what was it all for, if you spent time trying to be happy? "What was it all for, if you spent all that time waiting for peace in the afterlife?"

gagege 9y ago
> I don't think this is the appropriate forum for the latter - but I'll let the mods decide about that. I would hope they decide in my favor since there seem to be other people offering their own brand of semi-spiritual advice. > Happiness is it's own reward. I don't deny that at all! I love happiness. I try to do things that make me happy every day. What I said is that simply searching for happiness will always leave you disappointed. > "What was it all for, if you spent all that time waiting for peace in the afterlife?" As I said before, that wasn't my point. So many people have terrible things in their lives, as the OP said. It's nearly impossible for some people to find happiness, and if they do, it'll end someday, when they die or when they hit hard times again. I would suspect that most people, if they've thought about it long enough, have realized that true lasting peace, if it exists, must exist outside of this life. I'm just trying to point out that that's true.

gagege 9y ago

> I don't think this is the appropriate forum for the latter - but I'll let the mods decide about that. I would hope they decide in my favor since there seem to be other people offering their own brand of semi-spiritual advice. > Happiness is it's own reward. I don't deny that at all! I love happiness. I try to do things that make me happy every day. What I said is that simply searching for happiness will always leave you disappointed. > "What was it all for, if you spent all that time waiting for peace in the afterlife?" As I said before, that wasn't my point. So many people have terrible things in their lives, as the OP said. It's nearly impossible for some people to find happiness, and if they do, it'll end someday, when they die or when they hit hard times again. I would suspect that most people, if they've thought about it long enough, have realized that true lasting peace, if it exists, must exist outside of this life. I'm just trying to point out that that's true.