{"id":9199,"date":"2012-11-22T04:49:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T04:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/22\/attitude-gratitude-beatitude-4\/"},"modified":"2012-11-22T04:49:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T04:49:13","slug":"attitude-gratitude-beatitude-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/22\/attitude-gratitude-beatitude-4\/","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> or clinical depression 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

Even the existence of liberals is something to be grateful for.  They mark out paths not to be trodden.  And their foibles provide  plenty of blog fodder.  For example, there is the curious phenomenon of hypocrisy-in-reverse<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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.  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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199","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=9199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}