Spiderman
Veteran Member
What are some things that money, good job, career, and fortune and fame not offer? Some might say it cannot buy love, but that would depend on what a person's definition of love is. A lot of people would consider a successful rich person to be more lovable than a bum for instance.
There is certainly evidence that fortune and fame cannot buy happiness. A lot of deaths from drug overdoses and even suicides come from people who had great jobs, careers, fortune, or fame.
Also, I don't think all of those celebrities would be addicted to drugs, if they were truly happy. In my experience, drug and alcohol use is often found in people who are very miserable, scared, or mentally ill and trying to self-medicate their misery, emptiness, sickness, or pain.
There are completely impoverished people who are very happy. From the research I've done, it appears that the evidence is that poor developing countries have a lower suicide rate than First World countries on average.
I don't think money can buy sanity as a general rule. Perhaps they can afford the nutrition that could somewhat increase how content they are with life. They can afford more hobbies and a nice sports car, a yacht perhaps, nicer clothes, or a mansion, but there have been suicides who had all that.
I guess to some standards, money can purchase for a person the possessions and clothing that would make them feel better about themselves, so perhaps for some people, having lots of money will have more ways to raise their self-esteem and self-worth.
I really have little interest in money while sober as long as I can afford a trantula, incense, candles, and flowers for a shrine and nice Rosary lol. What I want is holiness, enlightenment, spiritual maturity, mental and emotional maturity, understanding, wisdom, and unity with God and heavenly beings; something money cannot purchase.
There is certainly evidence that fortune and fame cannot buy happiness. A lot of deaths from drug overdoses and even suicides come from people who had great jobs, careers, fortune, or fame.
Also, I don't think all of those celebrities would be addicted to drugs, if they were truly happy. In my experience, drug and alcohol use is often found in people who are very miserable, scared, or mentally ill and trying to self-medicate their misery, emptiness, sickness, or pain.
There are completely impoverished people who are very happy. From the research I've done, it appears that the evidence is that poor developing countries have a lower suicide rate than First World countries on average.
I don't think money can buy sanity as a general rule. Perhaps they can afford the nutrition that could somewhat increase how content they are with life. They can afford more hobbies and a nice sports car, a yacht perhaps, nicer clothes, or a mansion, but there have been suicides who had all that.
I guess to some standards, money can purchase for a person the possessions and clothing that would make them feel better about themselves, so perhaps for some people, having lots of money will have more ways to raise their self-esteem and self-worth.
I really have little interest in money while sober as long as I can afford a trantula, incense, candles, and flowers for a shrine and nice Rosary lol. What I want is holiness, enlightenment, spiritual maturity, mental and emotional maturity, understanding, wisdom, and unity with God and heavenly beings; something money cannot purchase.
