tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post965747530262699425..comments2024-03-11T00:26:35.303-07:00Comments on The Many Banes of My Existence by Alexis: Slamming Mormonism or Otherwise: a New Creative Venture for MeAlexisARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-3245178131355513972015-05-05T20:47:20.399-07:002015-05-05T20:47:20.399-07:00Writing fiction helped keep me sane in grad school...Writing fiction helped keep me sane in grad school. It also led me to Bill. He used to read my stories. ;)knottyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10127277724751832329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-42628625009189605882015-05-05T20:13:14.957-07:002015-05-05T20:13:14.957-07:00I have some advice! Shakespeare says, "This a...I have some advice! Shakespeare says, "This above all else, to thine own self be true." Your father's advice is practical. The worst doctor can make a lot of money while great writers can be broke.<br /><br />Here is where Ben Franklin agrees with your father, "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." He also says, "God heals, and the doctor takes the fees." Also he says, "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."<br /><br />Do whatever you feel will make you the happiest. If you make a mistake, you will learn from it. Yesterday I was talking to an eleven year old girl that is a neighbor. She wants to be a singer and wants to get a scholarship to go to Joulliard's School of Performing Arts. They get over 2,000 applications a year and accept less than 200 people.<br /><br />I was wondering what your father did to make him unpopular with Mormons. In my articles I have quotes from Christiane Northrup M.D. She has best-selling books on women's health like The Proctologist's Way to Better sex! That title is just a joke<br /><br />As far as my advice on being happy, here is more on that. Sigmund Freud said, "The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and perhaps does not admit of one.... We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and intention of their lives. What do they demand of life and wish to achieve in it? The answer to this can hardly be in doubt. They strive after happiness; they want to become happy and to remain so."<br /><br />Aristotle says, "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."<br /><br />"It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise."<br />Bertrand Russell (Wikipedia says "Russell was an influential philosopher and mathematician." His books "have had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics and analytic philosophy.") <br /><br />"All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves."<br />Blaise Pascal (He was a brilliant French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher.) Chuck Bluesteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01291807414895185920noreply@blogger.com