<p>this phrase has been thrown around in so many ways now - as a concluding statement in exasperation, to mock me (!), and i don't even know what else - so i thought it deserved its own thread.</p>
<p>ENJOY :D.</p>
<p>Truth or happiness?</p>
<p>happiness ALL THE WAY :D.</p>
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<p>i’m pretty * curious * about that claim ^.</p>
<p>The burning itch… Aught I know that feeling.
Just curious. If one day your girlfriend or wife cheated on you, would you want to know? (Change the gender if you are the other gender). You don’t have to answer, or just say yes or no.</p>
<p>I used to think that saying was full of meaningless crap. Education on issues was necessary, people should try to seep in as much knowledge as possible because that makes for a better individual, etc etc.</p>
<p>As time went on, I realized that ignorance has its fair share of pros. Having no insight on pop culture in the western world is oddly liberating.</p>
<p>Lol, I really don’t know much about pop culture. Bad for making friends in high school.</p>
<p>I’ld go with truth rather than happiness</p>
<p>Lol this thread reminds me of Persona 3 &4</p>
<p>I used to wonder which was worse of apathy and ignorance, but then I realized I don’t know and I don’t care.</p>
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<p>How heteronormative of you. Just kidding. </p>
<p>Anyways, shouldn’t we first define “ignorance” before we can argue this point in any systematic way?</p>
<p>yeah we shud. thankfully no one is trying to be systematic about it in the first place though.</p>
<p>ps: i replied to some your comments about intelligence and wisdom in that other thread. respondifyouwanto.</p>
<p>Jimbosteve: are you planning to become a lawyer?</p>
<p>@cchanged: Yes, I’d want to know for sure. </p>
<p>The search for truth can be futile … curiosity=imagination=win.</p>
<p>The search for the truth may be futile but not always meaningless. The journey to find the truth may be exciting, but once you find it, you feel empty. Hopefully we will all be able to fill that emptiness with something new. You fill the space with your curiousity and the whole cycle starts again.
Between truth and happiness, I’ll pick truth. I’ll pursue and find my happiness later. I just can’t imagine living like a happy fool without knowing the truth. Happiness is a state of mind. It doesn’t pursue you, you pursue your happiness.
Of course you can always be curious without ever trying to find the answer. But I will die of that burning itch if I don’t get going, lol, even if in the end the search is futile. Action counts more than result for me. I will regret for the rest of my life for not trying.</p>
<p>I don’t think you’ld feel empty if you find truth. I think finding truth would lead to more of a joy like ecstasy, and then, like you said cchanged, curiosity since we can never know everything and one answer only leads to more questions than there were before.</p>
<p>if you’re curious without trying to find the answer, the curiosity would die away. and then I suppose you really would be ignorant. but I can’t understand how anyone can ever be happy knowing that they’re avoiding the truth. wouldn’t that haunt the person? how would it result in happiness?</p>
<p>Before we can discuss, we must first define our terms - rough paraphrasing of Voltaire.</p>
<p>If we narrowly define ignorance to be ignorance of government secrets, then perhaps ignorance is bliss. Just ask Julian Assange. I’m sure he didn’t like being held up in court on charges of rape ;).</p>
<p>Assange is one of the luckier ones. Other people who had knowledge of government secrets were assassinated :eek:.</p>
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Some truths are devastating. If they don’t know the truth, how do they know they are avoiding the truth? I think that’s called denial.</p>
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<p>But you’ve forgotten the other half of the witticism. Unless we first establish that bliss and death are mutually exclusive, or that death is inversely correlated with bliss, your argument would have no bearing on the validity of the contested saying.</p>
<p>retrohippo, that’s an extremely lovely way to put it.</p>