A recent comment from LittleNipper has caused me to reissue a question of mine.
What is joy? What is happiness?
What is the difference? How can your religion get me that difference?
I want definitions and results!
Joy is different than happiness! Really?
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Joy is different than happiness! Really?
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Re: Joy is different than happiness! Really?
just me wrote:A recent comment from LittleNipper has caused me to reissue a question of mine.
What is joy? What is happiness?
What is the difference? How can your religion get me that difference?
I want definitions and results!
Happiness is holing a twenty foot putt, Joy is holing every twenty foot putt...
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
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Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!"
Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
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Re: Joy is different than happiness! Really?
just me wrote:A recent comment from LittleNipper has caused me to reissue a question of mine.
What is joy? What is happiness?
What is the difference? How can your religion get me that difference?
I want definitions and results!
I think of "joy" as the background contentment that a person potentially experiences without consciously thinking about it.
"Happiness" is that conscious sense of WoW **** is really swell for me now. Like, when the wife drops the nightie and states, "well, are we going to get it on or what"!
Ahh...happiness