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I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. —Robert G. Ingersoll

The Key to Happiness March 16, 2007

Posted by Rastaban in : Atheist Culture,Naturalism , 2 comments

The key to happiness is discovering — and reconciling with — the fact that we are not minds. If you grow up in a Christian culture this is the most important mental health lesson you must learn.

We grow up instilled with a lie. Nearly everything in Judeo-Christian culture implicitly or explicitly teaches us that we are a mind with a body to do our bidding. Well, what’s wrong with that, you might ask? It makes sense, doesn’t it? (more…)