{"id":1153,"date":"2008-01-17T13:09:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2008-01-19T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T15:31:31","slug":"1153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"The true nature of happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having based sermons on readings from the Beatles and from Monty Python, I consider myself open to the insights of the sacred texts of British popular culture. But for the past couple of years, I have not found myself inspired by the Brits.<\/p>\n<p>Until Carol discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mighty_Boosh\">The Mighty Boosh<\/a>. And lo, unto us has The Mighty Boosh spoken words power and righteousness on the nature of happiness. I&#8217;m not sure when exactly I&#8217;ll use this reading in a worship service, but it will be sometime in the next year&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scene: the Zoo.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Howard Moon and Vince Noir, in green zookeeper&#8217;s uniforms, carry a bucket of animal feed to some small cages. Vince wears a poncho over his uniform.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vince: C&#8217;mon, Howard, put some energy into it. Get involved.<\/p>\n<p>Howard: I&#8217;m carryin a bucket of seed. How am I supposed to get involved in that?<\/p>\n<p>Vince: This is the best job in the zoo &#8212; millet distribution!<\/p>\n<p><em>(Vince opens door of small cage, chucks a scoop of seed in. Sound of small animal squeaking in delight.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Howard: Somethin wrong with you, you know, don&#8217;t you.<\/p>\n<p>Vince: What d&#8217;you mean?<\/p>\n<p>Howard: You&#8217;re always happy aren&#8217;t you? Everythin&#8217;s fun for you.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Vince sighs.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Howard: You see a peanut &#8212; the day&#8217;s off to a good start. You witness some soil &#8212; it&#8217;s a jamboree for Vince Noir. I need something more.<\/p>\n<p>Vince: I think it&#8217;s this poncho.<\/p>\n<p><em>(He swirls around so poncho flares out.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vince: I mean, it&#8217;s impossible to be unhappy in a poncho!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there it is, the answer to one of humanity&#8217;s age-old questions: how to find true happiness.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But lo, the mighty shaman Naboo tells us there is another answer&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/kitties1.jpg' title='kitties1.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/kitties1.jpg' alt='kitties1.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(The kitten on the left is Phillip.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=P3rwpZZCISw\">Work cited:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barrat, Julian, and Noel Fielding. &#8220;The Mighty Boosh.&#8221; London: BBC, 2004. Season 1, episode 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having based sermons on readings from the Beatles and from Monty Python, I consider myself open to the insights of the sacred texts of British popular culture. But for the past couple of years, I have not found myself inspired by the Brits. Until Carol discovered The Mighty Boosh. And lo, unto us has The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-maightee-bewsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}