The "World Map of Happiness" - Any Thoughts?

[BuddyRey]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061113093726.htm

Wow, we're not even in the top 20! :eek:

[a_european]

3. Austria

Yeah!! But i didn't expected it. Guess we just like to complain?
But see a pattern? The smaller the country, the happierer the people. Maybe libertarians are right...

[MicroBalrog]

It's not possible to scientifically measure happiness. Therefore this map is silly.

[ctb619]

unbelievable that Japan is rated below Communist China

[theseus51]

Buddhist nun Thubton Chodron on happiness. Just the first 20 minutes or so. It's really not religious, it's just the best explanation on "what is happiness, and how to attain it" that I've ever heard in my life. I've listened to it like 10 times. =)

http://www.ninomiya.org/dharma/Chodron_Monkey_Mind.mp3

[SeanEdwards]

Switzerland should be our model.

Ron Paul would like to be the president of Switzerland. He said so.

:D

[Marshall]

Well of course Denmark is number one. They're all eating pot brownies and sleeping with hookers :D