Comments Thread For: Pacquiao: I Pity Floyd Mayweather, He Should Fear God!

[radioraheem]

No, many (not all)need a certain amount of money to be comfortable, not happy. As does those who have emotional needs. You also need your health, your peace of mind and comfort is both environmental and non-environmental and one type of comfort is not favored over another or a better precursor to happiness than another. Pain, discomfort, outlook, desolation, and a host of other anguishes are not just tied to money and are independent of money. Discomfort comes is many facets of living. Money does not protect you from "many issues that would cause unhappiness" it protects you from certain levels of discomfort, that is all. Again, happiness is a state of mind. There is a reason why research has shown that happiness is based on many conditions, some economical, some non-economical, some physical, some mental.

Lacking enough money to buy food to eat in a single day is not discomfort. This is something essential to life, it is a basic necessity. That alone throws your argument out the window. As I said before, unless you have your own farm, or are already self-sufficient, money is a necessity. Needing enough money to take care of basic necessities is beyond just bringing 'comfort.' It is a matter of life and death. Happiness can't even come into play without this.

[FloydvsPac]

Floyd obviously has lots of issues...pride/vanity, materialism, greed, anger, etc. But, I have issues with Pac always bringing up god, as if that's the only reason anyone should be scared from doing bad things. It's also highly patronizing to say that you pity someone and that you're going to pray for them. I give Pac somewhat of a pass because of his harsh upbringing and lack of education. But, he should know better.

[FloydvsPac]

Lacking enough money to buy food to eat in a single day is not discomfort. This is something essential to life, it is a basic necessity. That alone throws your argument out the window. As I said before, unless you have your own farm, or are already self-sufficient, money is a necessity. Needing enough money to take care of basic necessities is beyond just bringing 'comfort.' It is a matter of life and death. Happiness can't even come into play without this.

Basic needs like food, clothing & shelter are essential to physical health. But once the body isn't sick or in discomfort, then it is true that happiness is a mindset. Society collectively disparaging a person for not having enough material may also be mentally taxing on the individual, which I think is a major problem as well. Everyone wanting to be "better" than everyone else and money & material always seems to be the measuring stick, especially in American culture.

[MC Hammer]

just like a bible thumper, get roasted for running his mouth, then tries to get on high horse with"GOD". eff him and his prayers

[richardt]

Lacking enough money to buy food to eat in a single day is not discomfort. This is something essential to life, it is a basic necessity. That alone throws your argument out the window. As I said before, unless you have your own farm, or are already self-sufficient, money is a necessity. Needing enough money to take care of basic necessities is beyond just bringing 'comfort.' It is a matter of life and death. Happiness can't even come into play without this.

I am not arguing against the basic needs level being met. I am not saying that you don't have to have some basic needs met to be comfortable, it is the economical levels at or past that point where happiness is defined. No one is happy if they are sick, hungry, or homeless. Once everyone has basic needs met, when you separate two or three groups at or after their basic needs are met, you have the categories of people who don't have a lot, and those who are wealthy, and those in the middle. It is within these categories that indicate that there is no particular group that stands out as being happier. It comes down to a host of items that fit the category of necessity which is rudimentary comfort and after that when the economical lines separate, happiness does not extend to a particular group. Taking it one step further, even people who don't have all their basic needs met, they may still have general health which is a greater precursor to some form of happiness over a rich person who is about to get word from his doctor that he will not live another 6 months unless he changes his lifestyle and maybe not even if he changes his lifestyle. But at generic comfort levels with basics met, there is no happiness curve for one group over the other.

[bimhead]

i've worked around multi-millionaires in a job i had in 2009 and they were depressed with every negative market change, always stressed, working themselves into diseases, abandoning their families working late, and some wind up ill and in the case of one guy, he could not cure his disease will all the money he had and died in 2011. It is a complete myth that rich people are happier than others and studies prove this. Even the ones with all the toys want the latest toy and that toy is not good enough when it is a day old because there is a new one coming out soon and the chase begins again. Till they run themselves into the ground.

it's like chasing the wind!

[SterlingStained]

That was before he turned his life around so he is not a hypocrite unless he has done it since, which I doubt.

spoken like a true religious cherry picker.

"yeaaa i killed 50 people but i found the lord jesus christ so im forgiven. cant wait to hang out with him in heaven with pac and biggie."

get outta here. once a womanizer always a womanizer. once a dirty politician, always a dirty politician.

[richardt]

spoken like a true religious cherry picker.

"yeaaa i killed 50 people but i found the lord jesus christ so im forgiven. cant wait to hang out with him in heaven with pac and biggie."

get outta here. once a womanizer always a womanizer. once a dirty politician, always a dirty politician.

Cong**** on making one of the dumbest statements on these boards! A), don't even put Pac's name in reference with a mass murderer. B), There have been gang members who turned their lives around, became stellar citizens, working with today's youth teaching them right from wrong, contributing to society, became authors, artists, spokespersons, etc. Take a seat son and learn something about human behavior and personal change before sounding like a complete idiot with your blanket statement.

[El-blanco]

Haha fear god

[Dagomba]

His momma should fear god for that witchcraft she was performing on Bradley