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procopius · « **on:** July 31, 2014, 10:27:02 AM »

Pope Francis issues top 10 tips for happiness – including don’t try to convert other people

Pope Francis’s secrets to happiness

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1. “Live and let live.” Everyone should be guided by this principle, he said, which has a similar expression in Rome with the saying, “Move forward and let others do the same.”

2. “Be giving of yourself to others.” People need to be open and generous toward others, he said, because “if you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.”

3. “Proceed calmly” in life. The pope, who used to teach high school literature, used an image from an Argentine novel by Ricardo Guiraldes, in which the protagonist — gaucho Don Segundo Sombra — looks back on how he lived his life.

4. A healthy sense of leisure. The Pope said “consumerism has brought us anxiety”, and told parents to set aside time to play with their children and turn of the TV when they sit down to eat.

5. Sundays should be holidays. Workers should have Sundays off because “Sunday is for family,” he said.

6. Find innovative ways to create dignified jobs for young people. “We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities they will get into drugs” and be more vulnerable to ѕυιcιdє, he said.

7. Respect and take care of nature. Environmental degradation “is one of the biggest challenges we have,” he said. “I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing ѕυιcιdє with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'”

8. Stop being negative. “Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self-esteem. That means, 'I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down,'” the Pope said. “Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy.”

9. Don't proselytise; respect others' beliefs. “We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. But the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: 'I am talking with you in order to persuade you,' No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attraction, not proselytising,” the Pope said.

10. Work for peace. “We are living in a time of many wars,” he said, and “the call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet, peace is always proactive” and dynamic.

ggreg · « **Reply #1 on:** July 31, 2014, 11:06:00 AM »

So, basically, the pope is a self-help guru ???

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #2 on:** July 31, 2014, 03:45:46 PM »

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So, basically, the pope is a self-help guru ???

He sure comes across that way!

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Neil Obstat · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2014, 06:01:42 PM »

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9. Don't proselytise; respect others' beliefs. “We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. But the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: 'I am talking with you in order to persuade you,' No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attraction, not proselytising,” the Pope said.

Funny, the Catholic Church has been declining in Latin America, where Francis is from, for the past 20 years, so he must have noticed it.

Add to that, the Protestants are making huge strides in Latin America, by using the very methods that Francis here denounces -- proselytism, 'I'm talking with you in order to persuade you', and all manner of aggressive tactics, including calumny against the Church's dogmas, and the open promotion of heresies. And long-time Catholics are GOING for it.

So what's up with that?

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(Could he be talking about something else, not the Catholic Church? Maybe when he says "the church" he's talking about BoD or implicit desire or invincible ignorance.)

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Neil Obstat · « **Reply #4 on:** July 31, 2014, 06:11:57 PM »

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So, basically, the pope is a self-help guru ???

Don't forget that he has a history of health problems the recovery from which he attributes to the help of a guru who showed him how to heal himself.

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Cantarella · « **Reply #5 on:** August 01, 2014, 12:38:10 AM »

Instead of the sound theological eloquence and moral guidance we are in need of, Pope Francis embarrasses us again by giving us a bunch of sentimental modernist silly talk. A highschooler could have done better.

There are some "tips" that totally forget the stain of original sin in the human soul.

cassini · « **Reply #6 on:** August 01, 2014, 05:39:12 AM »

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/education/Pope-Francis-ten-commandments-for-a-happy-life.html

Here is another website where this message is broadcast. Note the girl on the video says Pope francis 'is the most loved pope in history.' So much for Jesus's warning to his apostles that 'as they hate me so they will hate you.'
Wow, did HE get it wrong.

Do you know any family that watches TV while eating?

I have heard of francis being called all sorts of things, like a Freemason etc. I disagree, I think he is just what we call here in Ireland an 'eejit.'

But here is another thought. Look at the adulation surrounding Francis. You would think you were in heaven - priests, nuns, crowds everywhere all in ecstasy. Now if you lived in such daily surroundings, would you think of a billion Catholics ending their junior schools without any idea of the Catholic faith, or empty churches all around ther world?

I am really looking forward to VORIS's telling us what Pope Francis really said. Like ehhh, he meant be like an Apostle, go teach tyher Catholic faith until they kill you.

2Vermont · « **Reply #7 on:** August 01, 2014, 05:58:30 AM »

Was there anything in there that was Catholic? You know, so that one would know the Pope was actually giving the advice?

Cantarella · « **Reply #8 on:** August 01, 2014, 10:32:41 AM »

1. “Live and let live.” Everyone should be guided by this principle, he said, which has a similar expression in Rome with the saying, “Move forward and let others do the same.”
-> This leads to tolerance of error and sin. Does Pope Francis need a reminder of the extent of original sin on the damned human race, making it simply wrong to adopt the progressive thinking of "live and let live"?

7. Respect and take care of nature. Environmental degradation “is one of the biggest challenges we have,” he said. “I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing ѕυιcιdє with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'”

-> Although normally this statement would be positive and true, the obsession with ecological purposes and "mother earth" is other tactic of the devil to distract people from the true Faith. It is a naturalist freemasonic principle.

9. Don't proselytise; respect others' beliefs. “We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. But the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: 'I am talking with you in order to persuade you,' No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attraction, not proselytising,” the Pope said.

-> Vatican II. Enough said. If the Catholic Church is actually not the ONLY way of salvation, and people can be saved in their false religions ( a Jєω as a Jєω, Moslem as a Moslem, Hindu as a Hindu like 95% of Catholics Novus Ordo and traditional think) then this makes perfect sense, though. No need to proselytise at all. It becomes actually quite annoying because there is not really any "Good News" to share. It is all a lie!

10. Work for peace. “We are living in a time of many wars,” he said, and “the call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet, peace is always proactive” and dynamic.

-> Coming from Pope Francis, this sounds like part of the progressivist utopia of "world peace". The same that annihilates religion, boundaries, race, culture, conviction, sovereignty, etc. in the aim of an "Universal" Brotherhood". Another freemasonic principle.

OHCA · « **Reply #9 on:** August 01, 2014, 07:47:25 PM »

I think he stole his top 10 from the Democrat platform.