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Whoa now. This community was abandoned and now in the past week there's been a sudden proliferation of comments. So, yeah, where'd you guys come from? ...I'm all interested in gratuitous philosophy again....

(By the way... none of us have lj codes. I mean I'd really honestly give you one if we weren't totally picked over. Sorry.)
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I meant to do this a long time ago, but...

Let's all join TiPkids and I'll delete this community so there isn't a schism... cool? Molly and Sam? Well, I'm sorry. It wasn't very interesting anyway. :)

-Lessa
molly

marriage & divorce

- Over 80% of women agree it is more important to them to have a husband who can communicate about his deepest feelings than to have a husband who makes a good living.
- A high percentage of young adults (86%) agree that marriage is hard work and a full-time job.
- Close to nine out of ten (88%) agree that the divorce rate is too high and that the nation would be better off if we could have fewer divorces, with 47% agreeing that the laws should be changed so that divorces are more difficult to get.
from here @ The National Marriage Project

If you want to read something really interesting, check out http://www.no-one-is-married.com .
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molly

"To be loved, be lovable," advised Ovid.

...Touching is a crucial aspect of all human relationships. As the main avenue by which the need for intimacy is satisfied, skin contact is biologically essential to an infant. For this reason, perhaps, the nerve fibers that connect the skin to the central nervous system are the most highly developed organs in the newborn baby's body. (Nor is this phenomenon limited to human babies. In a series of famous experiments psychologist Dr. Harry Harlow some years ago separated monkey babies from their mothers and substituted "dummy" mothers. One was built out of a bare wire frame, and another of sponge rubber covered with terry cloth. Both had wooden heads and artificial breasts. In half of each set of "mothers" a contraption enabled milk to be suckled through the breasts. Though it had always been assumed that the satisfaction of suckling was the prime cause of emotional attachment between infants and mothers, Harlow's monkey babies all became attached to the terry-cloth dummies, whether or not they were equipped to give milk. The infant monkeys spent hours clinging to the terry-cloth frames for the pleasure of physical contact alone.)
- Styles of Loving, Marcia Lasswell and Norman M. Lobsenz
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What is happiness? How does it relate to contentment? Is happiness a good thing? Can you control whether you are happy or not? Do outside forces affect it?

Wouldn't it be weird if the government decided to try to enforce happiness? How would they go about it? What would the society be like?


Is happiness more important than truth?