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Rachel's Musings

Sharing ideas and provocations on living single while happy. Reflecting on the social psychology of stereotypes and other cultural phenomena.

Rachel's Musings

Tag Archives: money

A Historical Perspective on Happiness

Posted on March 29, 2008 by Rachel
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There are two aspects I want to focus on in my summary of Jennifer Hecht’s Happiness Myths: Wisdom gathered from history about happiness and the influence of money on our society. The book is very well written and contains much …
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Posted in Book review | Tagged community, connection, Happiness Myth, Jennifer Hecht, money | 4 Replies

Money = Life Energy

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Rachel
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That is the key of the Your Money or Your Life (YMOYL) program devised by Joe Dominguez back in the 1960s “to extricate himself from the shackles of wage slavery” (xv). The longer version of this equation is: “Money is …
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Posted in Skeptical musings | Tagged fulfilled life, fulfillment, integration, Joe Dominguez, lab notes, life energy, meaning, money, simple living, time | Leave a reply

Essential Elements of Buddhism

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Rachel
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Now that I have bashed Buddhism, I want to step back and look at its essential elements. If we assume that Theravada Buddhism is the most original, we can look at some of those renditions. I have studied some of …
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Posted in Religion, Skeptical musings | Tagged Buddhism, doubt, four noble truths, money, systems thinking | 1 Reply
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