| What does Christianity say about achieving happiness? Not a damned lot.
Twoshanks, art is emotional and it isn't. It's puritanical and it isn't. It's all-enveloping and entirely unnecessary. And you still can't live without it. You choose to believe in it what you will, however much you will. It's art. It's superfluous, and yet it feels right. This is half tongue-in-cheek, and yet it's certainly got a lot more for it than the big three...
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |