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Daniel Plainview
Daniel Plainview Members Posts: 895
edited June 2011 in The Social Lounge
made you happier? Or is ignorance really bliss?
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  • Plutarch
    Plutarch Members Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That's too general of a question. It depends on the person and the knowledge. And knowledge can make you happy, sad, or both.

    As for me, generally speaking, knowing has made me sad, angry, happy, etc at different times. But I equate knowledge with truth and I don't think that the truth is ever a bad thing even if that particular truth is an unpleasant one. I would not want to live my life believing in lies or living a lie, even if it was a lie that would make me happy. But that's just me. I would think that ignorance would certainly be bliss for many people, but that's just limiting yourself to a small island within a larger world in my opinion.

    Nevertheless, the pursuit of knowledge can be quite cumbersome and disorientating
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  • BiblicalAtheist
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    Ignorance is hell. Awareness can carry sorrow, but ignorance carries darkness.
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  • Jonas.dini
    Jonas.dini Confirm Email Posts: 2,507 ✭✭
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    "Ignorance is bliss" is some propaganda
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  • And Step
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    BiblicalAtheist wrote: »
    Ignorance is hell. Awareness can carry sorrow, but ignorance carries darkness.

    Man that is the perfect explanation. Is that your quotable? Or did you pull a Puffy?
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  • HafBayked
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    yea its some ? i wish i didnt know...gives me a headache but i aint depressed...i guess it depends on what it is...i did always think autistic people and bums had the easiest life...they aint worried bout ?
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  • BiblicalAtheist
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    And Step wrote: »
    Man that is the perfect explanation. Is that your quotable? Or did you pull a Puffy?
    I can't lay claim to it, the understanding was given to me.
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  • melanated khemist
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    BiblicalAtheist wrote: »
    I can't lay claim to it, the understanding was given to me.


    no it wasnt. youre magnetizing/attracting it
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  • BiblicalAtheist
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    melanated khemist wrote: »
    no it wasnt. youre magnetizing/attracting it

    That works too :tu
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  • alissowack
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    Well, the more we know, the more we're "responsible" for it...or the more we have to acknowledge it when that knowledge is to be understood. I'm not worried about the sincerity of not knowing (though it's hard to know who is sincere), but those who know but have no respect for what they know.
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  • Bully_Pulpit
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    In a sense yes ignorance is bliss but i'd rather be informed, its what my spirit wants
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  • Bully_Pulpit
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    Pain makes you stronger
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