World's Happiest People? You Gotta Be Kidding!

The thing I found most interesting about that report is that consumerism appears to directly correlate to lower happiness. The increasing incomes of Western countries have generally been matched by the increasing material wants (not needs) of their people. Thus, no rise in happiness. It made me stop and think about my priorities for a while.What it didn't do was prompt me to rail against global Muslim conspiracies... I already know that fundamentalism has murderous potential, be it Muslim, Jewish, OR Christian, but this report (contrary to your belief, Buzsaw) is not an apologetic for Islam. It says that poor, oppressed people can find happiness about as well as free, independent, wealthy ones.On the one hand, it's practically self-evident, at least in a theoretical sense. But I think a lot of people give lip service to this idea without taking it seriously. I'm one of them, but I'm trying to change that, at least a little.[This message has been edited by zephyr, 10-03-2003]

One more thing:I find it interesting that you're drawing attention to a refutation of your belief about so-called Christian Western nations and their prosperity. Remember that thread, anyone?Now we have a contradiction in the form of a global survey, and all you can offer in protest is your incredulity that your worldview has been violated, and some admittedly disturbing anecdotes that hardly carry enough weight to countermand a study on this scale.

...and Ariel Sharon must be a Muslim too. How else do we explain his holding office despite a record of well-documented war crimes? Surely the Muslim-controlled U.N. would condemn him unless he were a member of the conspiracy.

All:http://EvC Forum: How old are you? -->EvC Forum: How old are you?Since it's come up in the last few posts, I refer you to a recent catalog of the ages of active posters.