If I had to sketch out my philosophy.. :

.. then the passage I just reread after coming home from another one of these legendary Poker evenings with the boys would definitely be part of it:

"When shall we come to recognize that health is as contagious as disease, virtue as contagious as vice, cheerfulness as contagious as moroseness" (in Huston Smith's "The World's Religions")

I guess Monty Python (and may be Aida) would simply crucify themselves, whistling along to the tune of "always look at the bright side of life" to drive the main part of this point home.. ^^

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