Saturday, March 2, 2013

A Higher Power


Photo: A well-known study conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, demonstrated the impact of smiling on life satisfaction. Researchers analyzed the yearbook pictures of 111 smiling women at age 21, fifty of which displayed authentic smiles. 

Participants expressing genuine positive emotions in their yearbook picture were more likely to be married and have higher well-being than their non-smiling classmates. This study was replicated in Australia in 2006 and demonstrated similar results.

Smiling deliberately also induces the feeling of pleasure, positive emotions, and even an increased sense of enjoyment for things like events, stories, and movies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11195884

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1440-1665.2002.00423.x/abstract

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9641245

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2319446

Spirit Science
Spirit Science and MetaphysicsSo I got into a large and long conversation about religion with a girl and got quite interested in Christian Science. I personally am an Agnostic but if I had to pick a religion I'd prefer to be Buddhist. Two reasons for this, 1: Unless you're the sect that's in Tibet you don't believe in a god, and 2: It's all about spiritualism and the path to enlightenment. There's Christian Science which is practically the same thing except with a god, or so she said. The only reason I'm an Agnostic is because I don't like the idea that there's supposed to be some high overseeing power that supposedly loves me and yet will allow disease to exist. That's the one thing in common with most Monotheistic religions. Now when you get to the ones that have more than one god I prefer them more. They show that even though they're gods they aren't perfect. It basically creates a government that you can't view or change. In monotheism they normally state "God" to be perfect and us made in their image. Well then God's a hypocrite because we get punished for things that theoretically he/she did him/herself. Then they say that disease and things that aren't accepted by the religion are forms of punishment. Well then haven't we been punished enough in life that we don't need to go to hell too? Like fuck, that, shit. If "God" supposedly loved us he would still have given us free will but not given us a chance to do wrong. He would've gotten rid of the temptation. But why does he punish those that he gave free will to? He should punish himself because at the root it's his own fault. (Yea I'm going to refer to "God" as a he) Now before I turn this into a full blown rant I'll end with Agnosticism. Basically it means you don't accept the existence of a god but don't say there is no higher power. It says live life and if you did it right you did it right, you did it wrong you did it wrong, but it's you're own decisions. It's cause of this stuff that I want to one day go around the world and spend months with religious societies. Hopefully I'll have made enough money to do so. The top two on my list are at a Buddhist monastery and with an Amish society. Amish people interest me to no end because of the belief that you have to work for everything and can't just be given it. That and I like Shepard's Pie. But to build my own house would be interesting. It's inspired by my belief in spirituality and spirit science. If you have time look them up on Youtube. Now enjoy the pictures and a video on spirituality. The video is more of on your heart though.

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