{"id":11092,"date":"2010-11-25T05:41:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T05:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/25\/attitude-gratitude-beatitude-5\/"},"modified":"2010-11-25T05:41:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T05:41:06","slug":"attitude-gratitude-beatitude-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/25\/attitude-gratitude-beatitude-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Attitude, Gratitude, Beatitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

The attitude of gratitude conduces to beatitude.  Can it be said in plain Anglo-Saxon?  Grateful thoughts lead one to happiness.  However you say it, it is true.  The miserable make themselves miserable by their bad thinking; the happy happy by their correct mental hygiene.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Broad generalizations, these.  They admit of exceptions, as goes without saying.  He who is afflicted with Weilian malheur<\/em> cannot think his way out of his misery.  Don't get hung up on the exceptions.  Meditate on the broad practical truth.  On Thanksgiving, and every day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberals will complain that I am 'preaching.'  But that only reinforces my point: they complain<\/em> and they think, strangely, that any form of exhortation just has to be hypocritical.  <\/em> Besides not knowing what hypocrisy is, they don't know how to appreciate what actually exists and provably works. Appreciation is conservative.  Scratch a liberal and likely as not you'll find a nihilist,  a denier of the value of what is<\/em>, a hankerer after what is not, and in too many cases, what is impossible.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The attitude of gratitude conduces to beatitude.  Can it be said in plain Anglo-Saxon?  Grateful thoughts lead one to happiness.  However you say it, it is true.  The miserable make themselves miserable by their bad thinking; the happy happy by their correct mental hygiene.  Broad generalizations, these.  They admit of exceptions, as goes without saying.  … Continue reading “Attitude, Gratitude, Beatitude”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,163,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}