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<DIV>In a message dated 8/28/2004 11:53:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, BMC273 writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT size=2>Mike Levine had a great show on Suitcase Nuclear bombs last Monday, did you catch it? I think he said OBL had purchased 40 of these from Russia.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>hb: aha. so you missed my art bell show appearance saturday night discussing islam's nuclear threats for three hours. i'd have liked your opinion of it.</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT size=2><BR><BR>As for the issue about who suffers more...men or women, my friend had a good point - she said its true we all suffer as humans but dont the POOR suffer more than the RICH? So there are differences...(I still think she is right that women do suffer more then men in general). What do you think?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>hb: in his Progress Paradox, Glenn Eastbrook sums up the literature on happiness and comes to the conclusion that no matter how rich you get, you still manage to fill some internally driven quota of discontent and misery. I believe that Timothy Wilson in his book on the adaptive subconscious also shows a lot of evidence that we have an internal set-point for misery that manufactures miseries when we're in clover and manufactures blessings when we are truly laid low.</DIV>
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<DIV>You dream of winning the lottery and are miserable because you are not wealthy as a prince. Then you win the lottery and are miserable because you have no more goals to pursue and your former friends no longer come to you to chat or watch the ball game on tv. All they want from you is money. </DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">You come down with a dire disease.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You fight it like hell.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You feel it strengthens you and gives you new insight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And things that others take for granted become delights to you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">This isn’t poetry, it’s the result of research.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The happiest people tend to be the disabled and the chronically ill.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=Arial size=3>In technical terms, we have a homeostatic mechanism that makes sure that we each have our tiny share of joys and our far larger parcel of griefs.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">----------<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century<BR>Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<BR>Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic of Evolution Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project; founder: The Big Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Society for Human Ethology; advisory board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New Paradigm book series.<BR>For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see: www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from <BR>The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, see www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see www.howardbloom.net<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>