i meant just that and of course poverty as lack of health has no real part in that... i also meant that "happiness=contentment+smile" is something (or at least may be something) like the definition of slavery. i don't mean slavery in the physical/social meaning but in a much more generic way (being passive before life).
ok i don't mean either that contentment is only that but it is more neutral and more ambiguous than happiness. As jang was saying (much better than me) happiness is adequation to the personnal and subjective ends that one has determined for himshelf/hershelf. Contentment is something less in appearance and much more in reality. Contentment is the feeling that you are in adequation with the world (and the social world) and not with your own ends.
so contentment with or without the smile may be the same thing than happiness if you have an exact place determined in the world, if things and beings have an exact place and that place is reachable by way of mind.
"Not only God does play with dices but he doesn't know where they have fallen" (Stephen Hawking, i retranlante from french in english so the correct quoting is probably not exactly that)... how will i know where my place is after that?
MG!!! The most infamous member these forums have ever got!
