What advice would you give someone about being happy in this world?

the great thing about this sight is that everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion. i do happen to be a Christian and a happy person to boot. i do not however ';push'; myself on other people. i view that the bible is to be interpreted, not taken literally. (otherwise Jesus would not have spoken in parables. he would have just preached exactly what he wanted to say.) we are not to put stumbling blocks in front of others. just state the facts and you have done your job. it is up to each and every person to decide how they want to interpret or if they even want to. the problem with these ';unhappy'; places is that they believe their religion is above everyone, and they do everything they can to have everyone believe as they do, no matter the cost, and often go against what they are teaching. (and there we go with that word again...religion. (politics?) for me believing in Jesus made a big difference. God is my refuge.





but also i am content with simple things. often in this world we are caught up in the busy and not much with the slower-paced relaxation of the past. it's the little things that count. waking up to your children playing down the hall. your child calling green olives eyeballs in the grocery store and seeing the smiles on the faces of the strangers that fill that aisle. being satisfied with the things that you have when others do not. i am not saying to not dream. as they say, when you dream, dream big.





i came out of a VERY abusive marriage of 9 1/2 years, 10 by the time the divorce finalized. he was a person that lived because of what had happened to him by his father when he was younger and carried that hatred with him. i had decided that i was going to be a person that lived in spite of what had happened to me, not because of.





a general caring of others, forgiveness(not necessarily forgetting-after all i'm only human), and finding amusement in even the simple things has made me a generally happy person. it doesn't mean that i don't ever have bad days. we are complex beings with a varied palate of emotions, sometimes several at once.(ask a woman at that ';time';) i wish you all the happiness that you deserve and that you also can find the happiness in the things and people around you.What advice would you give someone about being happy in this world?
Take care of your health and believe in God.What advice would you give someone about being happy in this world?
Read the Bible and get to know Jesus, believe it or not people who get to know Him have changed lives.


They become much happier not to mention the reward they will have coming to them when Jesus comes for them





God Bless and hope your New Year will be the best ever.
A person who finds happiness in this world has a good heart and an open mind.
Don't take any crap from anyone, EVER. And don't trust anyone.
Know Jesus and you will be happy!
First of all, it is clear where the saying ‘misery loves company’ comes from – religious fundamentalists. I’m sure a small percentage of people find true happiness from religion, but most religious people are unhappy and confused, or they would not need religion.





If reading holy books and believing in god made people happy, then the US, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria would the happiest nations with the happiest citizens on earth. They would also, one would think, be the most peaceful and least violent, and have the least crime and the fewest percent of their populations in prisons.





In fact, the evidence suggests just the opposite. Countries are violent, warmongering, and miserable in proportion to the strength of their religious conviction.





In America, this has always been the case with conservative Christians. America’s Founding Fathers were so afraid of religion destroying America that they made certain to exclude it founding the nation. There is not a single reference to God, Jesus, Christianity, or religion at all anywhere in the US Constitution.





Further, the 1797 US Congress, in only the 3rd unanimous vote in US history (the 4th unanimous vote was that honoring George Washington), passed (and John Adams signed into law) the following:





“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion”





http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplom…





Claiming that America was founded as a Christian nation is just another of the outrageous lies and an example of the hypocrisy of the religious right.





Let’s allow John Adams (Founding Father and 2nd US President) speak for himself and those who created America:





1.) As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?


-- John Adams, letter to FA Van der Kamp, December 27, 1816





2.) Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents.


-- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, December 3, 1813, quoted from James A Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief





3.) I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!


-- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, from George Seldes, The Great Quotations, also from James A Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief








4.) The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests.


-- John Adams, Diary and Autobiography





5.) God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.


-- John Adams, ';this awful blashpemy'; that he refers to is the myth of the Incarnation of Christ, from Ira D Cardiff, What Great Men Think of Religion, quoted from James A Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief





6.) All these opinions they were enabled to spread and rivet among the people by reducing their minds to a state of sordid ignorance and staring timidity, and by infusing into them a religious horror of letters and knowledge. Thus was human nature chained fast for ages in a cruel, shameful, and deplorable servitude....


Of all the nonsense and delusion which had ever passed through the mind of man, none had ever been more extravagant than the notions of absolutions, indelible characters, uninterrupted successions, and the rest of those fantastical ideas, derived from the canon law, which had thrown such a glare of mystery, sanctity, reverence, and right reverend eminence and holiness around the idea of a priest as no mortal could deserve ... the ridiculous fancies of sanctified effluvia from episcopal fingers.


-- John Adams, ';A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,'; printed in the Boston Gazette, August 1765





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A new poll ranks countries in terms of the happiness of its citizens. Here is the top 20:





The 20 happiest nations in the World are:


1 - Denmark


2 - Switzerland


3 - Austria


4 - Iceland


5 - The Bahamas


6 - Finland


7 - Sweden


8 - Bhutan


9 - Brunei


10 - Canada


11 - Ireland


12 - Luxembourg


13 - Costa Rica


14 - Malta


15 - The Netherlands


16 - Antigua and Barbuda


17 - Malaysia


18 - New Zealand


19 - Norway


20 - The Seychelles





Source: University of Leicester





Oh yeah, I forgot, the United States did not make it into the top 20.





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The truth is that only you can know for yourself what happiness is and what it takes for you to be happy.





My only suggestion would be to find something that you have a natural aptitude for and love to do – and then do it. Do it without letting other people tell you what they think you need to do and without being influenced by society, or religion, or any organized group that thinks they know more than you and thinks that it knows right from wrong better than you – because THEY DON’T KNOW JACK about anything (except trying to run other people’s lives).