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01 Jul 08 - 11:37 AM (#2378302) Subject: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: Goose Gander No, not Disneyland, this place. |
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01 Jul 08 - 11:49 AM (#2378312) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: Amos Excerpt: "Despite the anxieties of these times, happiness has been on the rise around the world in recent years, a new survey finds. The upbeat outlook is attributed to economic growth in previously poor countries, democratization of others, and rising social tolerance for women and minority groups. "It's a surprising finding," said University of Michigan political scientist Ronald Inglehart, who headed up the survey. "It's widely believed that it's almost impossible to raise an entire country's happiness level." Denmark is the happiest nation and Zimbabwe the the most glum, he found. (Zimbabwe's longtime ruler Robert Mugabe was sworn in as president for a sixth term Sunday after a widely discredited runoff in which he was the only candidate. Observers said the runoff was marred by violence and intimidation.) The United States ranks 16th. The results of the survey, going back an average of 17 years in 52 countries and involving 350,000 people, will be published in the July 2008 issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. Researchers have asked the same two questions over the years: "Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy, not at all happy?" And, "All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?" ..." |
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01 Jul 08 - 11:58 AM (#2378319) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: gnu Bored, A? |
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01 Jul 08 - 12:47 PM (#2378362) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: Rapparee I am happy right now, here in this room. Nurses take care of me and give me pills. And I don't have to go to bed because the floor and walls are all mattress-covered. |
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01 Jul 08 - 01:33 PM (#2378402) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: Amos Ahhh--it's strange isn't it, the varied circumstances under which the truth will finally out? A |
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01 Jul 08 - 05:07 PM (#2378576) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: Donuel The USA is a sweet 16 on the happiness chart. Hey it beats being #32 in things like health care. |
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01 Jul 08 - 06:26 PM (#2378636) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: GUEST,Big Brother Don I'll tell ya one thing. It ain't Shanes' jail cell. - Don McBride |
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01 Jul 08 - 06:29 PM (#2378642) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: Amos And Denmark, with its universal cradle-tograve health care, child care, social security, and >50% income taxes, is rated #1. Looks like a sweet but slippery slope to me. A |
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01 Jul 08 - 06:31 PM (#2378645) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: Richard Bridge Denmark. Possibly the country in the world that is most tolerant of sexual behaviour including types considered deviant elsewhere, and of soft drugs. Oh, and mildly socialist in general too. Hmm, food for thought. |
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01 Jul 08 - 06:47 PM (#2378655) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: Goose Gander "I've never known a Dane who wasn't bone simple." Bill Burroughs |
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01 Jul 08 - 07:19 PM (#2378673) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: Bee "I've never known a Dane who wasn't bone simple." Bill Burroughs Translation: honest and straightforward. At least, that's been my experience of Danes I met... and Icelanders, too. I met a man who sang the praises of Norway this past Sunday. I took a shuttle van home from Cape Breton. It was packed full of a typical selection of us CBers: the chatty, friendly and slightly slutty lookin' woman in her late thirties; the sixty-ish balding red-headed man who knows everybody on the island; the delightful and shy Acadian woman on her way to pick up a relative from hospital; the young man returning to the Oil Patch after two weeks of debauchery with old buddies (my lord, was he sweatin' out the stench of stale alcohol!); and next to me, way in the back, a tall thin very dark older fellow who appeared to be Indian or Pakistani. But no, he was a citizen of Norway, visiting his daughter here, and yearning for the hills and green valleys of his homeland. He was lyrical in describing its beauty and the virtues of its people. An interesting encounter. |
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02 Jul 08 - 05:36 PM (#2379503) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: GUEST,lox well that good news has cheered me up a bit ... |
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02 Jul 08 - 08:01 PM (#2379598) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: GUEST,Van It's home. |
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03 Jul 08 - 07:28 PM (#2380560) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: Stringsinger "Denmark. Possibly the country in the world that is most tolerant of sexual behaviour including types considered deviant elsewhere" Perhaps but the country in the world where deviant sexual behavior is most practiced particularly by those of the religious right is here in the U.S. |
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04 Jul 08 - 03:47 PM (#2381181) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: McGrath of Harlow Places aren't happy or not. People are happy or not. |
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04 Jul 08 - 05:56 PM (#2381242) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: Richard Bridge What, Stringsinger - you mean...ABSTINENCE! |
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04 Jul 08 - 07:27 PM (#2381289) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: GUEST |
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04 Jul 08 - 07:30 PM (#2381291) Subject: RE: BS: Happiest Place on Earth From: GUEST,Barry D I think the happiest place on earth is wherever a person is happiest. Denmark would rank very high on my list, as would Toronto and Asheville, NC. Two things: 1) try reading NPR correspondent Eric Weiner's "Geography of Bliss, and; 2) take the test here to determine your own "happy place": http://www.bestplaces.net/fybp/quiz.aspx |