Can money buy Happiness?

Draaxx · Post by **Draaxx** » January 31, 2003, 2:28 pm

Canelek wrote:I changed my mind. I am in love with gourmet food, and that stuff is expensive!!! So yes, money can indeed buy me happiness, and bus fare.

Mmmm, foooooooood.

I would have to say yes, money can buy you happiness but like everyone has said it depends on the type of person you are.

emmer · Post by **emmer** » January 31, 2003, 2:29 pm

IT'S A TRICK QUESTION

HAPPINESS = NOT TANGIBLE = CANNOT BE SOLD

ANSWER = NO

MONEY ONLY BUYS THINGS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY

LITERAL SENSE = MONEY CAN'T "BUY" (<---W@W L@@K KEY WORD HERE) HAPPINESS

MONEY CREATES HAPPINESS INDIRECTLY

END OF THREAD.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 31, 2003, 2:37 pm

Money can buy happiness. It can't always buy happiness. The question is not in the form of an absolute yes or no. It still comes down to the individual. You can't buy someone elses happiness because you can't totally control what they feel.

If happiness means being with a specific individual and they hate you, all the money in the world possibly might not buy you happiness. If you're the elephant man and want brittney spears to be your love slave, say goodbye to your happiness.

IF you understand the limitations of what money can buy and you have the intelligence to know how to use the money, then you can certainly buy yourself happiness. It's not guarantee as there are several other factors involved, most importantly being relationships.

A bottle of booze, the beach, and food scraps out of a trashcan might also make someone happy.

emmer · Post by **emmer** » January 31, 2003, 2:45 pm

Consider this...

Can money buy good health? Of course not. Are you more likely to be healthy if you have the money to pay the doctor to remove that malignant growth on your testicles? Yup.

Once more, for the slower minds in the audience.

Can money but good health? No.

Does having a lot of money have an indirect but significant relationship with your health? Yes.

Same applies with happiness. Money CAN'T BUY IT, but it shares an indirect proportional relationship with it. Honestly, I'm not sure I can spell it out much simpler than this.

Masekle · Post by **Masekle** » January 31, 2003, 2:56 pm

I got an Idea... All those who think money cant buy happiness. Give me your money, I will spend it and let you know if it makes me happy, or not=)

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » January 31, 2003, 3:02 pm

I think Emmer just redid my stones analogy with alarming brevity. Boo.

Ah well it's 6pm Friday a.k.a. Beer o'clock.
Tata!

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » January 31, 2003, 3:05 pm

I just got this little tid-bit from my email-forwarding-spamming Uncle, interestingly enough on the topic of Money buying Happiness:

MONEY

> > It can buy a House...............But not a Home

> > It can buy a Bed..................But not Sleep

> > It can buy a Clock................But not Time

> > It can buy you a Book..........But not knowledge

> > It can buy you a Position......But not Respect

> > It can buy you Medicine.......But not Health

> > It can buy you Blood............But not Life

> > It can buy you Sex..............But not Love

rhyae · Post by **rhyae** » January 31, 2003, 3:13 pm

The poll results show YES > NO cos everyone basically wants money, and lots of it. We sure aint gonna turn it down.
Even if its just to make sure your health care costs are covered, your mortgage is paid, and your family has a nice safe place to live.
These days when rent is sky high, car payments and insurance will break you, and the average salary wont keep up with inflation lots of money would sure decrease the amount of stress of just trying to keep your head above water and make you comfortable.

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » January 31, 2003, 3:16 pm

Money can buy you influence. Influence can get you a world class surgeon. A world class surgeon can give back your health and life.

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » January 31, 2003, 3:18 pm

Chidoro wrote:Money can buy you influence. Influence can get you a world class surgeon. A world class surgeon can give back your health and life.

Not always.

Though it certainly can improve your chances.

emmer · Post by **emmer** » January 31, 2003, 3:19 pm

omg stop posting all of you

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 31, 2003, 3:23 pm

emmer wrote:omg stop posting all of you

Your point isn't that convincing as to stop debate.

Masekle · Post by **Masekle** » January 31, 2003, 3:23 pm

Your money may buy me happiness

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » January 31, 2003, 3:28 pm

emmer wrote:omg stop posting all of you

Thats like telling a coop of chickens to stop making noise.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » January 31, 2003, 3:35 pm

cock a doodle doo

emmer · Post by **emmer** » January 31, 2003, 3:37 pm

Winnow wrote:
emmer wrote:omg stop posting all of you
Your point isn't that convincing as to stop debate.

You don't think so?

My post contains the answer to the proposed question. What more is there left to debate? Tell me what part you're struggling with and I will do my best to metaphorically beat you over the head with the same irrefutable facts I've been giving you since post #1 on this thread.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 31, 2003, 3:50 pm

I make money. I bought things that made me happy. Debate over. The question was can money buy happiness, not can it buy happiness for you.

Saying you can buy a bed but can't buy sleep, etc is BS. You can buy a bed and you can buy someone to handle anything that is preventing you from sleeping. Again, it all depends...If you like to snort coke and party till dawn then you need to make some decisions on what makes you happier...sleep or partying.

Best answer to this question is "depends"

I think an easier question to answer is "Can you buy real love?" You can buy fake love easy enough. There are plenty of women and men who fake love for the ability to enjoy a better lifestyle with a less than optimal partner.

Post by **Sylvus** » January 31, 2003, 3:58 pm

Sirensa wrote:I just got this little tid-bit from my email-forwarding-spamming Uncle

God, do we all have one of those? I know I do...

Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » January 31, 2003, 4:01 pm

Well I don't believe that shit that was spammed in my email - I am a firm believer of money buying happiness. I just thought it funny that I read this thread, then saw that in my email immediately after. A weird sort of Irony.

emmer · Post by **emmer** » January 31, 2003, 4:02 pm

I bought things that made me happy. Debate over.

Exactly. You bought something that made you happy. You didn't buy happiness. Happiness is a state of mind. You used money to buy something tangible that made you happy.

Still don't understand? Read my post using health as an analogy.

Still don't understand? Read Sirensa's list of tangible vs. intangible things money can and cannot get you.

Still don't understand? Go here.

Still don't understand? Go here.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 31, 2003, 4:10 pm

Dude, you're using my own tactics against me. That's my gig.

If you're going to fag out and keep getting technical then you can debate it till dawn. Money "bought" me happiness.

emmer wrote:
I bought things that made me happy. Debate over.
Exactly. You bought something that made you happy. You didn't buy happiness. Happiness is a state of mind. You used money to buy something tangible that made you happy.

Idiot...nowhere does it say here that money itself makes you happy...the question was essentially, can you buy other things that make you happy. Yes. Once you get your head out of your ass and see that the question wasnt if money itself could make you happy then come back and apologize to me for making me type an extra post.

Kargyle · Post by **Kargyle** » January 31, 2003, 4:10 pm

Well you could also take that further by asking "Can money buy true friends?" I have to say the answer is no. Which then begs, how happy can you really be with no real friends, and/or no real love?

If you are the type of person that relies on possessions to be happy, then more mony can make you happy for awhile. But, I still think if given long enough you'll come to the point that you will have already bought everything that you want, and then what is left? Money can buy you stuff, and that stuff can make you happy for awhile, but eventually the happy wears off and you have to go buy something else. So, I don't think money can buy true happiness, I think that comes from within, and the connections you share with other people.

People that know me will probably think it is funny to hear me say that. Hehe.

emmer · Post by **emmer** » January 31, 2003, 4:27 pm

Money "bought" me happiness.

the question was essentially, can you buy other things that make you happy

You're the one who has to use quotations and reinterpretations of the original question to make a valid point and yet I'm the idiot?

me = owned

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 31, 2003, 4:29 pm

emmer wrote: me = owned

yes

emmer · Post by **emmer** » January 31, 2003, 4:40 pm

does this

emmer wrote:

look like this

millie wrote:

??

you must be lost

now shoo

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 31, 2003, 4:46 pm

Dalmoth · Post by **Dalmoth** » January 31, 2003, 6:23 pm

Money can't be happiness, but the lack of it can make you miserable. There is a distinct difference in those two states. Having enough money to live allows you to pursue happiness, more money doesn't really give you any reasonable chance of reaching it.

I know miserable millionaires, so it can't buy happiness. But, until you've had the oppurtunity to attempt to buy it and been unable to, you won't belive that.

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » January 31, 2003, 6:25 pm

lol

Emmer's avatar makes me happy

edit: specificity

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » January 31, 2003, 6:26 pm

Dalmoth wrote: I know miserable millionaires, so it can't buy happiness.

I know miserable millionaires therefore all millionaires are miserable? It wasn't "Money always buys happiness"

Acies · Post by **Acies** » January 31, 2003, 6:56 pm

Do any of you have a large sum of money?
Have you ever handled a large sum of money?
It is a pain in the ass.
No, money is teh suck. Happiness is within.

Masekle · Post by **Masekle** » February 1, 2003, 3:56 am

I just spent a big wad and it made me happy

I would have been a lot happier if it was your money instead of mine I spent =(

emmer · Post by **emmer** » February 1, 2003, 4:28 am

I'm happy because I heard a catchy song on the radio tonight and after looking it up just now I learned it just so happens to be sung by two hot lesbians from europe.

yoink

what was I talking about again

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » February 1, 2003, 4:52 am

emmer wrote:what was I talking about again

flat eric

emmer · Post by **emmer** » February 1, 2003, 4:56 am

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » February 1, 2003, 5:32 am

.........................

noel · Post by **noel** » February 1, 2003, 7:01 am

HAHHAHA

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » February 1, 2003, 7:15 am

you are just jealous that our avatars are in love

Brittney · Post by **Brittney** » February 1, 2003, 9:15 am

Sirensa and Lalanae are totally fuckin right, so I give mad props to mah girls. There are lots of things I could buy for my self to make me happy for a short time like a big house and a phat car and some hot ho's (already got too many of those), a 80 inch plasma TV in every room and the phatest computer set up you ever saw in your life. But in the end all this shit can’t KEEP you happy. People think that they can just buy and buy and buy to make themselves the happiest motherfuckers on the earth. This bullshit just aint true because in the end, no matter who you are you can't find fucking happiness in expensive fucking department stores or any kind of crap like that.

But like I said before, if you are unhappy without a lot of money then you will be unhappy with a lot of money. Money can only buy happiness in the short term. Because even if you are able to buy your way out of debit and buy everything you have always wanted sooner or later you are gunna end up right back where you started, which is unhappy.

If you are happy without a lot of money then more money is just an added bonus.

Sorry Ravvenn but you are 100% wrong. =\ (I still lova ya tho hehe)

Masekle · Post by **Masekle** » February 1, 2003, 9:28 am

If I was unhappy with my new house I would go buy a house that made me happy. Along the way I might find a few hotties to ride in my lear jet and make some other parts of me happy. After awhile I might hop over to paris and make my palate happy. Then I might buy a company and make my friends happy. Just for Fun I could go buy a F1 race car and make my foot happy. Drive it down I-5 at 220 and make the local police happy. But first I would buy all my friends and relatives a new house that makes them happy.

Would be kinda tough to find time for unhappiness

Phugg_Innay · Post by **Phugg_Innay** » February 1, 2003, 10:22 am

I agree that money can buy your way out of an unhappy deal. Yes money can buy instant gratification , hell $50 at the tity bar will make Almost any man (and some gals) Very happy. When you leave though is the question.
I voted No , but thats me , I have never been well off, and yes when I wasnt as finnancially strapped I could be a little less worried , but I wouldnt call it happy. The question is one that will go on forever with no real answer , like the Chicken Or the Egg, Abortion vs a womans right, etc etc ... some things in life are Free and they make you happy , some cost a little or a lot. Just all depends on the day and the circumstance.

Millie · Post by **Millie** » February 1, 2003, 10:54 am

emmer wrote:I'm happy because I heard a catchy song on the radio tonight and after looking it up just now I learned it just so happens to be sung by two hot lesbians from europe.

yoink

what was I talking about again

The girls from Tatu aren't real lesbians; they just pretend to be in order to boost their popularity and sell records.

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » February 1, 2003, 12:11 pm

Hell no money cant buy happiness. I grew up in a wealthy backround and knew many riduculously rich people, they dont know there RL friends are anymore,everyone kisses there ass and they have to work so hard to maintain a level of "high class".Once you have it, it isnt all its made up to be.

There sure isnt anything "wrong" with money. But its your personal state of mind and prioritys wich gives you happiness,and if one of your primorities is working hard in order to make a lot of money then you will be a miserable basterd,and knowing who are your friends etc and who are those that are trying to use you.

Masekle · Post by **Masekle** » February 1, 2003, 2:08 pm

Phugg_Innay wrote:I agree that money can buy your way out of an unhappy deal. Yes money can buy instant gratification , hell $50 at the tity bar will make Almost any man (and some gals) Very happy. When you leave though is the question.

If they made me happy enough I am sure for the right amount of money, I could take em all home with me and be happy for quite awhile =)

I guess the way to answer the question is to ask yourself this. Name one thing in this life thats free, and you will have your answer

PS Air is not free. A certain part of your taxes goes to making sure that we can breathe hence it costs money to breathe.

Love is not free. Sooner or later you lovebirds gotta come up for air and pay the rent. Love is the most expensive thing on the earth. It costs a part of yourself, that can never be returned

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 1, 2003, 2:39 pm

Millie wrote:The girls from Tatu aren't real lesbians; they just pretend to be in order to boost their popularity and sell records.

Yeah, but they can still make a nice video!

emmer · Post by **emmer** » February 1, 2003, 6:56 pm

Millie wrote:
emmer wrote:I'm happy because I heard a catchy song on the radio tonight and after looking it up just now I learned it just so happens to be sung by two hot lesbians from europe.

yoink

what was I talking about again
The girls from Tatu aren't real lesbians; they just pretend to be in order to boost their popularity and sell records.

I'm a simple man Millie...

I don't ask for a lot. I was happy in my belief that those two very hot girls are lesbians and spend the majority of their time tangled up in some sweaty hot european variation of the advanced black bee... but I guess that was just asking too much from you, wasn't it?

WASN'T IT??!

Masekle · Post by **Masekle** » February 1, 2003, 7:00 pm

Sigh... Some folks just gotta throw a monkey wrench in anothers happiness

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » February 1, 2003, 7:17 pm

I don't think phony lesbians would be on the cover of She.

Brittney · Post by **Brittney** » February 1, 2003, 7:55 pm

Lol its true... those ho's are BS, Millie is right. It’s just a bullshit gimmick to sell CD's.

Millie · Post by **Millie** » February 1, 2003, 11:32 pm

They're definitely faking it. They even say so in most interviews. Their video is still hot, though.

And hey -- if it sells them a bunch of albums, more power to them.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 2, 2003, 12:23 am

I saw a mini documentary on them last night. They are bi sexual, and mostly do that lesbian routine as theatrics.

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