Money can't buy happiness.

Well, if you're going to define happiness that way, money certainly can buy drugs that cause the release of these same hormones. Or the research to produce such drugs or equipment (electrodes in the brain, anyone?), in case the exact thing doesn't exist yet.

Actually, it does in fact exist. There was an experiment conducted in which rats had electrodes attached to certain "pleasure centers". When they pulled on one of the levers, the experimenters would stimulate that pleasure center and they would "love" pulling this lever, just for the electrical shock. After trying it once, they become hooked and started pulling the lever up and down at surprising speeds.

For those interested, here is a VERY good website about this topic:
http://www.wadsworth.com/psychology_d/te.../ps02.html

The negative side of using money to buy drugs that release those hormones, is that overall, you'd be less happy. After becoming conditioned to become an addict, being off the drug will make you more depressed than if you had never tried the drug at all. Thus, it would be a "false" sense of happiness because you'd only be happy when you're on the drug, and over time, you would habituate to that drug and then you'd need a higher dose until you finally poison yourself in it. And every time you're off that drug, you'd probably be so depressed that if you had graphed and averaged your "happiness levels", if you can call it that, the average would be lower than normal.

Further elaboration on drug usage:
http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/drugs/...l_good.htm

Adding this:

Some of the happiest children I've ever seen were dirt poor in a third world country, playing games barefoot and outdoors with an empty soup can. Then you see American kids with their Nintendo DS, their cell phones, their Hollister clothes, and you have to ask yourself: are they really happy?

into my reply, the only way to truly experience "true happiness" is from having new experiences that have positive results. The reason I say this is that while my examples used pertained to "love", it's not truly the "love" that makes you happy, it's the new experience. For me, and many people on SP, "love" is something that is yet to be experienced, thus is the source of the happiness. Later on in live, it'd be generativity vs. guilt, satisfaction vs. regret, and on and on and on.

Throws' quote reminds me of when I used my Chaos scroll on my pendant, many people told me how "stupid" I was to do so, when I could have used one on a PAC and potentially make a lot more money. I told them that using it on a PAC would not give me the same euphoria I experienced when I used it on a Chaos scroll, and then they responded by saying, "by using the money made from a 6atk PAC, you can go on to make more PACs, and when you have finished making as much as you feel like, you can sit down and use a Chaos and reloot however many times you want."

What's wrong with that is that there is some sort of... illusion that these... monetary gains give you happiness when it doesn't. It's just flawed logic that had become the common attitude of today's world.