"laura" "k ever since the chin times human beings have noticed a philosophy the secret of happiness but few philosophers have come up with more suggestive more relevant ounces in one form of greek island of samples off the coast of martin turkey" "three hundred and forty-one years before the birth of christ is named was epicurious very little about campus appalling all of his books have been lost across the centuries leaving his philosophy of happiness to be reconstructed just a few fragments" "particulars believed but we could will find a way to pick up the problem was quite simply that we would become in the room plants" "unlike many philosophers epicurious is idea of happiness actually sounds like a fun he didn't think we should feel guilty about wanting to have a pleasurable enjoyable life and promised that he procurements hampton post you might wonder why you need philosopher told to teach you how to" "have a good time we seem to think that the key to happiness is ready pretty easy it's all about having a lot of money so we can come to places like this and their shopping k the control what's computers wanted us to stop and think" "it's easy to imagine that money can solve everything mechanic a accuracy is committed to life with happiness six lobstering beauty who shouldn't spent his time pointing out that happiness is in fact rocker tricky issue and a philosopher might help you to find it more easily the credit card hypocrite" "cannisters who's in favor of pleasure told shocked many of his penchant week contemporaries his philosophy became synonymous with lotus watching lifestyle" "two distinct people who don't want you restating intrusion can sometimes be described as ticket to reunite in fact that's a complete misunderstanding harris appears at the pleasure was the most important thing in life politically actually look at the waiting list" "it seemed he lived far from a luxurious life his house is very simple clothes were extremely basic he would run water off and wine fish much too expensive a new topic is eating meals with greg vegetables and if you want" "he was a lot of friends send me a pot of cheese so that we can have feast whenever i like these are the kinds of takes of a man who despite pressure end-of-life the the" "at the heart of epicure assist philosophy is a simple food but we aren't very good at knowing what will make this happen that we may feel powerfully drawn towards material things and be convinced that they are not the required to be happy" "we're often wrong what we want is not always what we need and nothing shows ductile more starkly than our impulse to go shopping alright shop most weeks it's just ten twelve hours latches on the names dodging cabana still please close deep and wide" "full-page close as well steven perry is a hairdresser from liverpool who spends all his spare time shopping specified that causes a spot usually attend potential although when i go up and all this talk and makes me happy against them off on the credit card installed cocktails and thailand" "payments commencement stuff like last time stuff doesn't make it this way i want to scandalous contest sports what steps i have coming what should you go alumni split up political turmoil seventy article one person what's more u_s_ and watch the commander" "so i guess just uh... general update say desserts we say like ninety nine pounds so it's must even often gets into decks and i couldn't help wondering if his designs crucial pink might be a big out of control daywatch was the first was trying to" "watch t house without source the craziest thing you've poured in terms of life that impulse buying hatch bolt and turns from a shop in chop along with the po them his much later to get knocked my socks talk diesel fitment" "people from all over the just tend to look like truly horrendous life-size control solicitations how much of a cost about fifty pound fifty-six cantor they would have to take in power sayings he said sees g_a_t_t_'s a slip of the labels on" "this is for the satellite didn't game i'll see long miles today objecting to take them back home temptation conspire continued thing surrounded by shopping bags and remarkable in special article managed parts of the leading wifi spends a lot democrat tell bill clinton in the philippines inc uh... why" "did he spends a lot so stupid anyway we're all a bit like steven people who shop too much epicure stalking you why we don't understand what we really need and so forth pray too manic substitute designs for huge numbers of ill-fitting trials" "is who countless pairs of shoes but at the cures declared that he could actually discovered what week deepened and luckily anyone without much money the ingredients of happiness come pretty cheap yes fisting computing his friend carousel got their friendship very seriously so seriously getting made" "extremely radical innovation break into athens at three oh six bc the age of thirty five autumnwatch house just outside the city of actions is placed here which it called pulls at that time it was from paypal looking beautiful than it is now which" "seems to be a taxi graveyard report this house and also group of friends to move in with him the house is quite large there was room enough everyone's other importers at the same time is coming together foot nielsen conversations in in the congress" "of the house particulars was doing was picking up on a rather common sense points which is the friends are major source of happiness but i think what he was distinctive scissors idea really benefit from friends you have to see the just occasionally not just for the old drinking a far all" "the options on the phone liberties friends at all times so that your permanent companions that was his distinctive idea unhappiness who captured the cures to very lunch on his own look at them he recommended to retry never return to teach us macular" "before you can eat or drink anything he said consider carefully who you eat or drink with roth and walked him through drink feeding without a friend is the life of the landlords" "the second thing epicure responded to be happening i squeezed in and in order to achieve it he and his friends decided to leave a console to get them then to be free meant to be financially independent economically self-sufficient not on circle two horrible bosses for their income" "so there is sold to the city life and it's competitive and possibly atmosphere behind them once and for all today left at least and started what could best be described as a commune we must free ourselves from the prison everyday life in politics secure is rich" "semesters i see what they did the life was simple but at least enjoyed their freedom they didn't mind if you look shabby you or didn't have as much money as other people because they were self-sufficient and has gained their independence from what" "are the people films that was in the financial sense nothing to prove pedicures believed there was a thirteen credence necessary for happiness and that was and analyzed life by which he meant a life in which we take time off to reflect on our worries" "analyze what is troubling us our anxieties quickly diminish if we give ourselves time to think them through and to do that we need to take a step back from the noise he distractions of the commercial world and to find time in space quiet thinking about our lives" "allowed glove having loads of money was never made anyone unhappy but i think the lovely idea anitha cures is that if you were denied money for whatever reason and yet you have his three goods you've got friends you've gotten analyze life annual self-sufficient then you'll" "never be denied happiness and conversely if you've got loads of money but you lucky friends you haven't got a self-sufficient life we're not doing a lot of analyzing then you'll never be happy according to the cures" "so if we tried ruled this relationship between happiness and money on a graph russian on the side of the craft you've got levels of happiness and then on the side you've got levels of income africa curious so you've got enough money to provide you with the essentials" "of life you can start to be happy fairly early on if you have his three coats and you won't get any happier the more money you accumulate level happiest is pretty steady however if you've got loads of money you haven't got any friends or not" "self-sufficient you've got loads of anxieties level of happiness is gonna stay very flats and i think that's a lovely consoling idea pretty ones are the worries about that they may lose their money it denied the chance to make him" "but if the greetings of happiness is some simple want mortals actually happened the pictures sprint advertising as we've just seen advertising can be enormously seductive it tends to make us feel that they're all sorts of things missing from our" "lives particulars insisted that we couldn't three things to be happy friends freedom and analyze life if he's right why then do we want to shop so much securities on such would be that the commercial world slightly associates two" "things it wants to sell us but the things people who use the queen so for example this might persuade us to buy mccarty but only five blurring the facts but it's really difference we looking for this one tries to sell as perfume" "by naming it after the thing we're all really after and this one coaxes whiskey by promising the com resolution of our problems that only analyzed life could bring us and it's this blurring of our designs that makes us so confused bout wat it is" "we want were the most important things that make you happy the people around me if they're happy cannot happen works can cause dot mixmail paper but you ever think what if i threw it away through oral anal retentive" "and uh... just concentrated on getting the work right during the family and friends right i'll never forget attracts intricate seven and i stopped at g_ itself or the photocopy present its case awful terrorist act happened there" "i'm fairly happy sellout missile a large chocolate quite as much as what i used to or who's to say that affects me supply truck obstructive jewel" "epicure smooth lived more than two thousand years ago but he would have understood the pressures that make people like steven shops and money unhittable and practical solution to come to them the place to find it is here in a dusty in remote corner southwestern talking" "but at the cure it should still speaks to us a toll is something of a miracle as everyone for three hundred books heroes has been lost buddhist philosophy developed into a kind of creepy almost like a religion and remain popular for some four hundred years" "epicurean communities found it in places like this all across the ancient world and it's largely thanks to them fragments of water to cure its root of survived i've come with local archaeologist mustafa contact to see the ruins of the in chi-town" "or no wonder only one who was once home to twenty five thousand people place with a lavish theater pc market place with a group and huge applicant it was also a home to a follow-up but i think your sis philosophy" "once the wealthiest citizens of the town a man called by o_j_ needs of we knew and uh... around the eighteen one twenties distortions took a highly unusual decision he paid for an enormous wall to be put up" "as part of a joint structure known as the storm which he had inscribed pedicures his entire philosophy of happiness so that all the citizens of his talent could learn and be inspired by it where we where like welcome in the old echo" "pensioners texas what we see now is this is bits of the wall just almost broken up but not great was probably and stay on forbidden planet fragments of the fiction this is the one of the fragments is the beginning of inscription and this is what they would use trusted" "explain why he put up the wall in the first place yes he's saying that uh... extend them one dollar per parsons wa rosters yes he could set the indicates ten thousand only went down on many people so he decided to put off to school" "left this users were two people who didn't know how to be happy he you to talk to them but because there's so many of the best way to help them distance to go award in the middle in the middle of the town that's rad stagflation tickets is happening office" "into them solutions was acting on crucial india epicurious that in order to leave wisely it isn't enough just to read a philosophical argument once or twice wheat constant reminders of it will forget when we're in courage to go shopping by bright lights and inviting displays" "were quickly liable to lose sight of our churches alliance because so we have to counteract the influence of advertising by creating advertisment which says what we really do it and that's why don't you lose put up as a board options" "america eclipse physical collects them consistent we'll see the massive limestone walls originally stood right next to the marketplace of the town inhabitants shopping in the boutiques of or no wonder warned to expect little happiness from the activity luxurious food and drinks says one fragment in no way protect you from" "hongs yeltsin will for the u_n_ waters natural is new more houston overflowing contained real families generated more confused too simple most improve fumes in women's on philosophy open" "grueling crumpled into room welcoming biondi's inscribed on a trip to milan morella fins stress is a real paradox and that would have what people are going to open this international picked them in on the wall you've got these reminders for shopping is not necessarily again to make you" "happy alleged assault inscription the edsel everybody could see that peres's all written in in that area itself this is an intricate c_n_n_ new york into the other side of the marketplace uh... so" "you have seen that there was this named as a conduit for dismantlement for for epicurean is on the wall must be the principal spokesman modern dignity philosophy in life and it was a fantastic views onto to the surrounding countryside yes i can imagine it would be an easy to be wise" "not easy but easier to be wise here by with unless shopping if i have school the surrender it's a pity they didn't do it more and and they don't do it today inconsolably idea therefore philosophies statements could take epicure some his followers had been a life today" "we wouldn't have been sniffy about advertising they would've been listed it for that their own hands and for the same reason that tyler chinese built his wall to come to the constant inducements to go shopping with city quitting visible inducements to" "live philosophically uh... petroleum uh... statements like that shop you can easily i've come to the kind of place with epicurean smite of times the offices of the advertising agency simply xx to get ideas for creating some open public reminders of how to use it wisely" "the first onto the creative team came up with was a sarcastic campaign sacha rising the materialistic messages most athletes here israeli happens after the test itself it's very very cheap for many of the more challenge be happy to shopping t_v_" "really hard and i love that patrick does something wrong referees colorado relief overstates the case fill that void in your life and you have to shops advertising financial something's come products and uh... and this construc reminder capital right now" "fill in the fall aspirin myself if i guess was too kind of uh..." "luxury items includes and uh... just somehow kind of undermined the most of them for being kinda you know the seller of that kind of uh... mt inside just a couple of that persona like this just taking uh... your lovely image of ah... the beautiful" "house and uh... and practice using the uh... later privatizing the caveats kind of uh... batteries not included and and just change it to happiness that include brian i really like i'm in a way that says it all doesn't it says" "because that's what was it appears that which is it could be happening but is not included yet and i think that something is not sourcing wouldn't be happy and that which would be sort of marxism it's just saying it's not included so you better" "watch out for you stanley registrant get his house" "unfortunately philosophers have really have much money for advertising campaigns but imagine a world where instead of being surrounded by adverts and watches consul fancy qualities these amounts reminded you of how important it is to family friends escape the rat race reflect on the problems" "and didn't just use these genuinely nice things to send you after shooting recovery teams it's hard to know one of the people of all we know winter discovered what they didn't and cc'd behind what they didn't because of the" "joint advertisment in that means but at the cure is essential message seems if anything more relevant to today's consumer society unity to his own and this new reason to believe that happiness is anymore included into many more things to combine" "putting up one pursuing the traffic center in manchester couldn't on its own turn back the tide of consumerism although shoppers seemed interested in what my hat was trying to say i didn't see much of the since people stopping shopping" "but the fact remains were horribly confused about what could to make this happen if we really knew what we need to eat there a few things be desperate to find epicurious makes us think very carefully about the merits of our own society" "of course the societies are enormously wealthy weakened by almost anything we want in a place like this but colorful shop selling wonderfully well produced goods and yet what appears once is the thing is through places like this really providers with the key ingredients" "and he thought and i think he was right may be difficult to attain epicure submitted that but he insisted but the obstacles on not primarily"