For one, I had no idea you were so well-expressed with your thoughts. Secondly, happiness, I feel is different with everyone. A person who has felt pain their entire lives would feel happiness in the absense of pain. One who has had a happy life will find happiness in security. As for the concept of ideal happiness, you can't define it. Noone will ever reach it because there will always be negative influence to destroy or change how you feel about the concept of happiness, so maybe happiness is not a set concept but more of a changing concept that adapts to each situation? I mean isn't the goal of everything we do to be happy with it?
i would have to respond to the "universal" part of the question with, of course, a rhetorical question...what about animals? other creatures? those that wag their tales when they are "happy." are they really "happy" or is it just a reaction to something that would make "us" "happy." And who is this "us" and why are they the ones who determine "happy?" But that may also lead to my philosophy on words in general and their determined definition. Who's to say that your red is my red? That a dogs ball is my ball? This can be supported with the idea of other countries speaking different, yet similar, languages. "llama" and "llama" what is it to you? And animal? Or the spanish word for name? And it can work the opposite way. For example soda and pop...same concept, different word. Basically i divulge that we must accept that fact that we all speak a different, but usually similar, language. "Coupon" and "coupon," "tomato" and "tomato." As we grow in life, we decide what something means to us...love, friends, education, ect. This includes
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hahaha john, i didn'T know it was you.
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-hodge
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yesss.
god damn it's a smalll world.
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-hodge
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