Money doesn't buy me happiness, but...

...neither does being poor. Happiness, like all emotion, is controlled by the focus of attention, not money. Money is an inanimate object, like a hammer. You can build a fortress with a hammer, and bash someone's head in with it, too. The power is given, not by the hammer, but by the one who wields it. A more accurate statement would be: Money has absolutely nothing to do with happiness, or any other emotion whatsoever - they are unrelated phenomenon, Get more money, here. Happiness is a funny phenomenon, too. I was talking to a religious guy earlier, about the money thing - and then happiness came up. He said something like this: Well, maybe Jesus said it's harder for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, because religious people are less likely to depend on God for happiness. Maybe that's true, but here's the problem: Happiness has nothing to do with God. Now - before you bash the Bible over my head - I'm not bashing religion there, I'm just disconnecting non-related phenomenon
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