Life's Funny. So Laugh!

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there is a positive association with smiling, use this too often and it will turn negative, and smiling will be bad and you will frown when happy and you will look like a fucking freak, or smile after someone dies... good way to get to nice padded white room.

also, smiling does not cure depression, to someone who actually suffers from this your post sounds like trolling. its THAT insulting and you obviously dont fully understand. try smiling after a pet dies, now, try doing that in the presence of someone else.

then you have to consider that perhaps negative emotions have their place.

 

[Jonathan Hexley]

just smiling may work after half hour but i prefer the method known as The Bacon Sandwich

You sir, are a prophet.

Anyway, I do get the general gist, but I think the logic is quite flawed. Smiling doesn't make you happy all the time. I don't think sending a letter to the poor, starving people in Africa telling them to smile is going to work, or make you feel very good about yourself.
Sometimes it IS good to think about the future though, because a lot of the time - to quote Modest Mouse - 'good news is on the way'.
So basically, we'll all float on at some point, but a smile isn't always the way to do it.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

We are talking about chemical reaction here that occurs when your facial muscles contract during a smile, sending a chemical signal to your mind saying "I must be happy, because I only smile when I am happy."

Why not just cut out the middle man and dose yourself up to the eyeballs on valium and get your dopamine that way.

Your science is also flawed. The smile didn't used to be a sign of happiness in primates it is a sign of danger. The smile is a by product of happiness not the other way round. Smiling along doesn't trigger a chemical reaction.

Depression is both a biological and psychological disorder and can't be solved simply with a sudo-psychological answer. It's foolish and insensitive to think otherwise.

 

[Blank Verse]

Y'know, I wake up every day and thank His Almighty Majesty of Divine, Inspirational Light, Lord God. I grab my prayer knee pads, kneel before my bed and thank Him for not smiting me with the Black Plague.

...even though the Black Plague hasn't been a serious epidemic in ages.

But I am incredibly thankful. I encourage everyone to be exasperatingly thankful. It will improve your life drastically.

Because you could be struck by the Black Plague at any moment. Though you probably won't be, you could. That, my colleagues, is worth appreciation.

 

[Jonathan Hexley]

Y'know, I wake up every day and thank His Almighty Majesty of Divine, Inspirational Light, Lord God. I grab my prayer knee pads, kneel before my bed and thank Him for not smiting me with the Black Plague.

...even though the Black Plague hasn't been a serious epidemic in ages.

But I am incredibly thankful. I encourage everyone to be exasperatingly thankful. It will improve your life drastically.

Because you could be struck by the Black Plague at any moment. Though you probably won't be, you could. That, my colleagues, is worth appreciation.

I don't have to pray to God to be thankful, do I?

 

[RAWKSTAR]

Im disabled and staying in hospital over Christmas!
Ill just smile then!


No. No I wont.

 

[Blank Verse]

In response to Jonathan Hexley:

Only on Sundays. On Sundays you're also required to wear prayer knee pads, a cross (I hear Dollar General has two nails you can stick together and form a cross-- check that out), and a bible (or Cliff Notes) for general applications.

On every other day, you must simply smile.

 

[PureChaos]

just smiling may work after half hour but i prefer the method known as The Bacon Sandwich

You sir, are a prophet.

i know, it's a curse really but what can you do!

 

[Jonathan Hexley]

Actually, on Sundays, I sit around doing nothing.
Now, before you call me a bad Christian or something, I have no religion. Which is why I would not like the idea of having to pray to God to be thankful.
Mostly because God's prayer box would be full of 'I am thankful for Guitar Hero'.

 

[Blank Verse]

Actually, on Sundays, I sit around doing nothing.
Now, before you call me a bad Christian or something, I have no religion. Which is why I would not like the idea of having to pray to God to be thankful.
Mostly because God's prayer box would be full of 'I am thankful for Guitar Hero'.

Mr. Jesus doesn't appreciate that.

I guess he's depressed? Mr. Jesus needs to smile.