VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|The Big Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, Baron Aldgate   |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 2 out of 5 (A little platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130712.html][img=images/2013/07/pic130712.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Did anyone see [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b036ypxw/Horizon_20122013_The_Truth_About_Personality/]Horizon[/url] the other night? Apparently scientists have discovered that happy people live longer, seven and a half years longer to be precise. Even more exciting, they&#039;ve discovered that we can change our personality with simple exercises like meditation, or picking out smiling faces on a computer screen.

Many religions include meditation. Catholics, for example, can meditate on [url=http://www.catholic.org/prayers/mystery.php?id=2#2]Jesus being scourged[/url]. That cheers them up no end. 

Then there&#039;s picking out the smiling faces, that&#039;s [i]exactly[/i] like prayer. When we say &quot;Oh thank you Invisible Magic Friend for not squashing us, or visiting terrible afflictions on somebody other than us,&quot; we&#039;re really looking at the good aspects of life.

So science has proved that religion was right all along. 

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