[Buddha-l] Re: Republicans are Happier?

[Timothy Smith]

You just ended up mining a different vein, Jim.  Hemmingway's parents  
were probably Republican, if I recall, and probably influenced his  
view of happiness, which is to say, a consummation devoutly to be  
wish'd.

Like him, I seem to be happiest when at sea.  It is a place I often  
find myself, even while on solid ground.  But unlike Republicans, who  
are like pigs in shit, I am like a pig in paradise, merely ignorant  
of my surroundings.
Timothy Smith
Wheelwright Associates

www.wheelwrightassoc.com



On Feb 25, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Jim Peavler wrote:

> I'm sorry, but I rather like Earnest Hemingway. He and Gary Cooper  
> once congratulated me on my performance in a ski race when I was  
> just a boy. Many years later I learned that he was a famous writer  
> and I read "The Old Man and the Sea". That (and a few hundred other  
> books that loved enough to reread at least twice) influenced my  
> becoming an English/history major and doomed me to a life of  
> poverty -- but saving me from becoming a geology/  major, which  
> would have doomed me to a life of poverty.
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> He was a master of English prose, and not the first writer who was  
> captured by the word view resulting from service as a war  
> journalist. He was, in spite of all his failings, a humanist writer  
> of great power (at least over some of us).
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> That he was intelligent is, I guess, proven by the fact that he was  
> unhappy.
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> He was not, so far as I know, a Buddhist. Then he could have been  
> as happy as the average Buddhist I know, I bet.
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> On Feb 25, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Richard Hayes wrote:
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>> On Sunday 24 February 2008 11:49, Curt Steinmetz wrote:
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>>> "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
>>> Ernest Hemingway ("The Garden of Eden", chapter 11)
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>> Why quote the words of a man who was neither?
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>> -- 
>> Richard P. Hayes
>> Department of Philosophy
>> University of New Mexico
>> http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes
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