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THE GOAL OF HAPPINESS FOR MAN
Plato wrote happiness is the highest aim of human conduct and all the struggles of man are to develop the skills needed to obtain it.
A recent survey conducted by AARP found 40% of US adults 45 and older report feeling lonely highlighting a growing concern about social isolation in middle-aged and older adults.
What can we do to bring happiness to these 40%, and beyond, feeling loneliness. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
CHAPTER ONE
THE MATERIAL PILLAR
It has been written, “Material Well-Being is like the soil for human flourishing. It’s the ground from which other forms of well-being, like emotional or social health, can sprout and grow.”
It has been said the Physical Pillar of Man provides for the foundational physical needs necessary for survival, stability and human endeavor. This Pillar in and of itself is not the purpose of human existence. Rather it is the road to happiness for difficult it is to be intellectually, emotionally and spiritually strong with a weak or failing Physical Pillar. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
CHAPTER TWO
SLEEP IS NO MORE, DREAMS ARE NO MORE,
“Rivers do not drink their own water, trees do not eat their own fruit, the Sun does not shine on itself, flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other, no matter how difficult it is…Life is good when you are happy but much better when others are happy because of you.” Pope Francis.
For many, success is difficult to measure in a constant struggle chasing material goals. People who are cherished receive less love. Life becomes a game where the goal is not to lose. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
ACHIEVEMENT OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
Ethan and Patricia, our young couple living in Baltimore, among America’s best, have as their focus contributing to the betterment of their country. As American citizens they honor duty to virtue with an intention never to lose this virtue.
They do not reject the American Dream. To the contrary. The dream of their parents lives on in them. They embrace it. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
ETHAN AND PATRICIA STRUGGLE
Ethan and Patricia, between the two of them, with Ethan working 40 hours and Patricia 30 hours each week, have a total household income, before taxes and deductions, of $5,795.00 per month. Their paystubs show deductions for Federal and State taxes, Social Security, Medicare, and Health Insurance.
Ethan and Patricia use their employer’s most popular health insurance plan called the Premier PPO Plan with a deduction of $193.50 to $365.70 payable bi-weekly with no coverage included for dental/vision care.
After payment of these deductions, Ethan and Patricia bring home monthly the sum of $4,685.00 representing 19% of their income going to taxes and health insurance. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON ETHAN AND PATRICIA
HEAVENLY DESTINY SLIPPING AWAY
As children, Ethan and Patricia, on Sunday evenings with their moms, dads, and grandparents frequented the local ice cream store down on the corner for chocolate and strawberry ice cream cones. Each with their fathers took in the Orioles watching their baseball heroes eating cotton candy, hotdogs, and cool lemonade.
On Saturday afternoons Ethan and Patricia walking hand in hand with their moms and dads visited the local movie house. Here they entered the American West,
A TIMES THIS FIRST PICTURE SHOWS WHAT LIFE LOOKS LIKE
POVERTY, AMERICA'S INDUSTRY
THE PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED
The Problem being addressed in this project is simply this. That human life will never achieve true happiness until its intellectual and spiritual faculties are allowed to blossom as the flower blossoms in the Spring reaching its full potential. That human life will never see its potency into actuality because the intellectual and spiritual faculties of man are endlessly beaten down by a system of one group enslaving or controlling all others.
This is the continuing battle, as old as the hills, between the few and the many, the rich and the poor, the bosses and the workers. For thousands of years this battle has gone in favor of the few, the rich, the bosses. Time for this battle to go in favor of the many, the poor, the workers, the true producers of our nation’s wealth.
The United State is a nation of abundant and rich natural resources, but its best resource has been and remains its people, whether they be rich or poor, black or white, workers, laborers, entrepreneurs, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or another faith or belief. It has been the American people who built this country taking a dream and making it real giving us what is known as the American Dream. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT POVERTY, AMERICA'S INDUSTRY
POVERTY, AMERICA’S INDUSTRY
This chapter serves as a description of a project, entitled “Poverty, America’s Industry”, based on the premise that the leading industries in the United States are not limited to the steel industry, the oil industry, the technology industry, the munition industry and the like. The poverty industry is to be included in this group.
As important as these industries are to our nation’s prosperity, the poverty industry is of equal importance to the steel industry, the oil industry, the technology industry, the munition industry and the like, explaining government’s protection and perpetuation, federal and state, of the poverty industry. CLICK HERE TO POVERTY, AMERICA'S INDUSTRY
THOUGHTS
INTRODUCTION TO ACHIEVING HAPPINESS
We all want to be happy, but sometimes trying to find happiness can be difficult. Often, we search for it in all the wrong places or ways when the answer is much simpler.
Being happy was the central aim and highest good for most ancient Greek philosophers. They saw happiness as a lifelong pursuit. Aristotle considered happiness as the ultimate goal of human life. CLICK HERE TO HAPPINESS
CHAPTER ONE
It has been written, “Material Well-Being is like the soil for human flourishing. It’s the ground from which other forms of well-being, like emotional or social health, can sprout and grow”.
A roof providing shelter, food chasing hunger away, these are needed to achieve a good life, a happy life. The Physical Pillar, a pillar necessary for survival and human endeavor, must be met to move onto higher pursuits. This pillar sets the groundwork from which one can reach and connect with that larger than oneself, the way through life.
The prime needs of life are water, bread, clothing, and a house providing shelter and decent privacy. A life, absent these items, is painful and miserable going from day to day in search of these prime needs.
Of the Four Pillars of Man (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Spiritual), the Physical Pillar is discussed here acknowledging the failure of this pillar makes the other three pillars difficult to achieve and it is my belief the achievement of these Four Pillars leads to happiness.
These four pillars are designed to be worked on simultaneously. With the failure of one, man’s life is unstable.
Necessary to the achievement of the Physical Pillar is possession of an adequate and meaningful job. How and where Americans work and live address the issues of housing, physical and mental health, and sense of community. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE CHAPTER ONE