No, that's The Devil whispering in your ear there, son. Don't listen to him. (Okay, sometimes it's okay, at Bachelor Parties and stuff, but go easy, god dammit.)

I think he'd have been considered an innatist not nativist, he thought we were born with some innate knowledge. I can't see a French man who moved to Holland and spent his life sitting in ovens and smoking tobacco cut with pot to think as being a strong nationalist.

You are only morally wrong if that god is the provider of your morals. It is quite possible that the god you believe in does not actually provide objective morals, but simply rules that would cause him/her to approve of you. Big difference.

In many cases, those that claim their god as an objective moral compass are actually only using the most recent interpretation of a holy book, historically subjected to enough editing and human interpretation to make it a subjective moral set, not objective. Since many biblical followers no longer stone unbelievers or their friends (as required by god in Deuteronomy), most followers regard the bible as subjective whether or not they admit it.

It does the exact opposite, in my experience. It heightens awareness, clears perception and "danger" just doesn't happen. Even in what others might consider to be "dangerous" circumstances or environments.

I think it simply becomes so obvious that you don't really notice it - like traffic that you don't notice not walking into or a cliff that you don't notice not walking over. "Danger" is like a place that one goes and a place in which happy has no interest.

Sometimes, it appears to others as if a happy one walks very close to danger but look at the amount of fear there is, compared to the amount of actual danger. That's all out of whack. Look around - where's the danger? If you eliminate television and news sources - where is all of this awful danger people worry about?

Unless you're talking about "social" danger - being deceived, manipulated, embarrassed or whatever. But that sort of stuff is so common and so irrational and the happier one is the clearer one is thinking and the less interest one has in such things so...no.

It appears to me that worrying about danger is the primary SOURCE of danger. If you're worried or fearful or "on alert" or whatever, then you're not happy and if you're not happy, two things are going to happen - you're going to attract the attention of others who aren't happy, including those who are looking to hurt somebody, and you're not going to be very aware or thinking very clearly or interpreting your environment very accurately. A sort of perfect storm.

When you're happy, your conscious and "subconscious" are closer to and more in tune with one another and you notice it more, as well. You notice that this awesome thing that happened all started because you turned left instead of right "back there" or you met that person because you had a flat tire (which didn't freak you out or piss you off because you were aware it was coming) at that specific location and on and on. "Coincidences". The happier you are, the more "happy" coincidences. The bitchier you are, the more crap coincidences, as well, but you don't notice those things being coincidental because your awareness isn't "on".