Tomorrow a book by Derren Brown is going to come out. Brown is a mentalist and illusionist, he loves to play with people's minds. The book is called Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine.
Here is a very interesting summary. The summary reminds me of the LDS church and it's promise of happiness bulls..!
What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it? Across the millennia, philosophers have thought long and hard about happiness. They have defined it in many different ways and come up with myriad strategies for living the good life. Drawing on this vast body of work, in Happy Derren Brown explores changing concepts of happiness - from the surprisingly modern wisdom of the Stoics and Epicureans in classical times right up until today, when the self-help industry has attempted to claim happiness as its own. He shows how many of self-help’s suggested routes to happiness and success – such as positive thinking, self-belief and setting goals – can be disastrous to follow and, indeed, actually cause anxiety. This brilliant, candid and deeply entertaining book exposes the flaws in these ways of thinking, and in return poses challenging but stimulating questions about how we choose to live and the way we think about death.
More good stuff
Revelation by reading the scriptures and patriarchal blessings is worth nothing! Derren Brown shares a letter to a group of people, but everyone thinks it is a special letter that describes their personal lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEFndH5KOD0
Dude. The video is 47 minutes long. C'mon, man. What's the relevant timestamp because ain't nobody got time to watch 47 minutes of a mentalist doing mentalist things (except for LDSFATs).
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Dude. The video is 47 minutes long. C'mon, man. What's the relevant timestamp because ain't nobody got time to watch 47 minutes of a mentalist doing mentalist things (except for LDSFATs).
- Doc
You are right, not even me, I watched that video last year.
Sounds LDSfats is obsessed with youtube.
Here is a summary
In the finale of two-part event Fear and Faith, Derren looks at the psychology of religious belief, performs a Satanic rite and attempts to give an atheist a religious conversion