• From: maui
  • Registered: 2005-04-25
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Topic: dogs, humans and happiness

Inspired by the comments of this post http://mauisurfreport.blogspot.com/2007 … -time.html on my blog, I thought about opening this "philosophy" thread about happiness.

Here's what I replied to a question of an anonymous reader.

Anon,
thanks for the sentence "Where can I study, learn, and practice, to be more like you?"... it makes me feel very Dalai Lama...

Anyway, my tip is: question everything.
Question the messages that this society gives you. Question the "values" that the people around you have. Even question what your parents tell you!
We live in an world where the perception of what is good for us has been incredibly distorted by more than 2000 years of what we call "civilization".

Dogs are not civilized. Dogs don't worry about tomorrow. Dogs don't commit suicide. Dogs are waaaay happier than humans.
Why? 'Cause when they feel like barking at the moon, you know what they do? The bark at the moon.

Just act like a dog and do what you feel like doing...

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  • From: Philly, PA
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Re: dogs, humans and happiness

cammar wrote:

Just act like a dog and do what you feel like doing...

Soooo... this is OK to pee on my neighbor’s car? I really feel like that!

Andrew
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4865 miles East of Maui

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  • From: North Shore Maui
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My kiteboarding friend Roger decided your advice was good, but he got killed the other day. Was it an accident on the water? No! He was laying in the street licking his balls when a truck ran over him.

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MysteryBob: big_smile He must be a very suple guy being anle to do that

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Or extremely desperate to get a hike. Too bad the car didn't pick him up...

Last edited by Niclas (2007-08-31 13:34:30)

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  • From: maui
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can't talk about anything seriously with you guys...
thank god!!!

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  • From: North Shore Maui
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cammar wrote:

can't talk about anything seriously with you guys...
thank god!!!

From the L.A. Times

40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.

95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.

75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.

Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.

The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.

Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.

In L.A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish (there are 10.2 million people in L.A. County).

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare.

Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.

29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.

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  • From: Yuba City, California
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Me hablas, preguntas,
si nos podemos ver después
razones me sobran
pero aunque quiera no lo sé
siempre hay algo más,
que a simple vista no se ve
será que hay algo más,
que a simple vista no…

Te asusta la idea
de lo que pueda suceder,
decirte quisiera
algo que te haga sentir bien,
pero es que hay algo más,
que a simple vista no se ve
será que hay algo más,
que a simple vista no se ve.

Pero siento que hay en mí
algo que esta cambiando
no se ve…
Pero siento que hay en mí
algo que esta cambiando

No pienses que olvido,
lo que me ha dado tu querer
lo llevo conmigo,
así me puedo sentir bien
pero es que hay algo más,
que a simple vista no se ve
será que hay algo más,
que a simple vista no se ve.

Pero siento que hay en mí
algo que esta cambiando
no se ve…
Pero siento que hay en mí
algo que esta cambiando

Que más quisiera yo,
que ser feliz y darte amor, amor
que más quisiera yo,
vivir feliz y darte amor, amor

Siempre hay algo más,
que a simple vista no se ve
pero siento que hay en mí
algo que esta cambiando
no se ve…
Pero siento que hay en mí
algo que esta cambiando


Senior John Lennon

Imagin that!

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  • From: maui
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Re: dogs, humans and happiness

Nice, what song is that?

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  • From: Philly, PA
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cammar wrote:

Nice, what song is that?

Probably spanish version ...

Imagine

John Lennon


Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religon too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
In a brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say i'm a dreamer
But i'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Andrew
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4865 miles East of Maui

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  • From: maui
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Oh my god!
If that's the spanish version of Imagine, the translator was drunk!

Absolutely nothing is that spanish song recalls the wonderful message of piece that John Lennon wanted to give in his masterpiece!
If that's the spanish version of Imagine, the translator should be in jail!!

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jBQQ_HaVaI

Parabuteooooo!!!! Da hell is that? I can't sleep until I know!!! Sacrilege!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Registered: 2007-07-19
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But the „spanish version” offers an answer to the situation MB is talking about: The guy in the song, think it’s more kind of poem, is getting aware that his view about a simple life is about to change. He used to be happy in a simple live, giving love to a girl. Western World image is suggesting that that alone can’t make him happy anymore.
Just like the immigrants, who do not even realize that all that western world crap made them change, giving away their happiness their forefathers had in a simple life.
Well, if you think about the economy and corrupted systems in some south American countries, nobody is getting happy by only eating potatoes and loving a girl. But 100 years ago the situation was different, let’s say more dog style, people were happy as farmers. As the joke of American way of life was massively spreaded, these people started to believe that a house and a car was the least to own to be happy. They immigrated to the US and realized that these things weren’t falling from heaven and the combination of the dog eat dog world there and their disappointed dreams caused the rather shocking reality MB reported about. Self-made problems I would say.
Would like to recommend T.C. Boyles great novel “the tortilla curtain” regarding that topic.

Cherio,

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  • From: Yuba City, California
  • Registered: 2007-06-13
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MadRussian - Found a useful (maybe too conservative?) site that claims to check out popular/current news stories. This url deals with the L.A. Times quote earlier on this blog.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/i/ … aliens.htm

Cammar - Parabuteo (like a hawk) is the Latin scientific name for the Harris Hawk. When I stopped windsurfing about 1995, I took up falconry. For my Brittany Spaniel "Tule", happiness is hunting rabbits and birds together with my tercel Harris Hawk "Groucho" and me. Bird is NOT vegetarian.

Hope ya didn't loose too much sleep.

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I can see clearly now the rain is gone    "Desmond Decker"

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