[ExI] good news for libertarians

[William Flynn Wallace]

Happy people do not write profoundly insightful truths.  spike

Dare I repeat a fact?  Studies show that depressives have the most
realistic view of the world  bill w

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 10:41 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >… *On Behalf Of *Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] good news for libertarians
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> On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 10:01 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> “Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it;
> marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. …  Soren Kierkegaard
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> >…Dude might have been happier with some mood meds ... but then would the
> world have the benefit of Kierkegaard's other work?  Mike
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> Great beauty comes out of suffering.  Consider a couple of modern
> examples.  Fleetwood Mac did their best work ever (the stunning Rumors
> album) while both couples were going thru a divorce and terrible
> heartbreak.  During that time, no two members of the band liked each other,
> yet they somehow wrote and produced Rumors.  ABBA wrote their best songs
> during their marital breakups.  Steinbeck’s best work (East of Eden) was
> written mostly during his worst years, after his first marriage broke up
> and second one hadn’t started.
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> Happy people do not write profoundly insightful truths.  Happy people
> write fluffy silliness, such as the kind of posts I regularly… eh… like…
> ummm…  such as Hallmark movies!  Like Hallmark movies, which are written by
> happy people, yep, just like that, those things.  Traditional westerns with
> the two fellers in a gunfight, the winner gets the buxom lass, saves her
> ranch, that sorta thing.  And Harlequin romances, all written by happy
> people, makes ya just wanna barf.
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