[Buddha-l] Republicans are happier ?

Bill Kish wdkish81 at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 13 04:50:35 MST 2008


Speaking of happiness, I'm curious if anyone else has seen this
study:

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet

(Apologies in advance if this particular study has been discussed
previously.  The means for searching archives was more convenient
with the listserv software.)

Regards,

---------
Bill Kish
 
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 09:46 +0800, Piya Tan wrote:
> 
> > That is why no one is really happy on this
> > website, but they keep coming back because they could not find
> > it anywhere else anyway.

Richard Hayes:
> As I understand it, prapanca is, among other things, narratives
> we impose on our experiences to try to make sense of them. These
> narratives are rarely well founded and contain speculations that
> conform more to our prejudices than to fact. A good example of
> such a speculation is the claim that no one is really happy on
> this website. It's a wild guess, unsupported by any kind 
> of evidence, made in conformity with a dogmatic adherence to
> doctrinal Buddhism.
 
> I am really happy to say I have seen very little prapanca on
> buddha-l.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico



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