The Result from a $20 Million Research that Christians Knew For Centuries

[Tomm]

Sometimes I chuckle when modern science spends millions of dollars and years of research to prove something that Catholics have already known for centuries.

One such case is the Grant Study of Adult Development, begun at Harvard in 1938 and carried forward to the present day. Researchers followed a group of Harvard men from their undergraduate days to the present to try and understand what accounts for human happiness and success.

Lead researcher George Vallient summarizes the project thus: "The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points, at least to me, to a straightforward five-word conclusion: 'Happiness is love. Full stop.'"
- Dr David Anders
http://calvin2catholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/The-Key-to-Happiness.pdf

 

[anna ~ grace]

Well, there you have it! Centuries of mystics, seers, and theologians would have told them that for free, but it's nice to see the secular world accept something as true that is most certainly true.

 

[PhantomGaze]

Hey uh... I'm pretty happy about the results too, but it would be a lot more powerful if you can give a more specific citation for the source.

 

[Ygrene Imref]

Well, there you have it! Centuries of mystics, seers, and theologians would have told them that for free, but it's nice to see the secular world accept something as true that is most certainly true.

Secular academia/natural sciences severely retard their potential progress by not only rejecting spiritual/religious perspectives as merititous, but any philosophy that isn't considered part of a natural phenomenon.

As a result, most followers of the discipline(s) end up rejecting a myriad of information people may already understand in "modernity," only to see much of that information vindicated.

It can be unfortunate when it means something groundbreaking - like consciousness, existentalism, and the creation itself.

 

[Ygrene Imref]

DP

 

[SkyWriting]

Hey uh... I'm pretty happy about the results too, but it would be a lot more powerful if you can give a more specific citation for the source.

Over nearly 80 years, Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life

For 79 years, this groundbreaking Harvard study has searched...

BEN'S INTERVIEW with GEORGE VAILLANT, MD

 

[PhantomGaze]

Epic. But you're right... the church has kinda been saying this for a while hasn't it?

 

[Occams Barber]

Sometimes I chuckle when modern science spends millions of dollars and years of research to prove something that Catholics have already known for centuries.

One such case is the Grant Study of Adult Development, begun at Harvard in 1938 and carried forward to the present day. Researchers followed a group of Harvard men from their undergraduate days to the present to try and understand what accounts for human happiness and success.

Lead researcher George Vallient summarizes the project thus: "The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points, at least to me, to a straightforward five-word conclusion: 'Happiness is love. Full stop.'"
- Dr David Anders
http://calvin2catholic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/The-Key-to-Happiness.pdf

The Grant Study also found that:

• Aging liberals have more sex.
• The most-conservative men ceased sexual relations at an average age of 68.
• The most-liberal men had active sex lives into their 80s.

As a left leaning male in his late sixties, I think the study was worth $20 million for the bragging rights alone.
OB

 

[Tomm]

The Christian faith saves Christians so much time and money.

 

[anna ~ grace]

The Christian faith saves Christians so much time and money.

Lol, true!