Ignorance is Bliss.

[EvilPurpleMonkey]

just to add to the argument (because it seems too one-sided) if ignorance is bliss then why do we keep trying to learn more? we naturally do whatever makes us happy, so if we know that being happy means to stop learning, why do we continue?

What else do we have to do other than learn?

be happy? can't you just sit in a park and stare at the clouds, doing nothing, and be happy?

Not worry yourself to death, that's a good thing other than learning.

yeah...

Right, I wasn't thinking. But just staring at the clouds and being happy, wouldn't that be a form of ignorance?

[static_ice]

just to add to the argument (because it seems too one-sided) if ignorance is bliss then why do we keep trying to learn more? we naturally do whatever makes us happy, so if we know that being happy means to stop learning, why do we continue?

What else do we have to do other than learn?

be happy? can't you just sit in a park and stare at the clouds, doing nothing, and be happy?

Not worry yourself to death, that's a good thing other than learning.

yeah...

Right, I wasn't thinking. But just staring at the clouds and being happy, wouldn't that be a form of ignorance?

yes so why don't we do it more often or all the time?

[CrazyAnglican]

Ignorance certainly is not bliss. Explanation attached.


http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewto ... ht=#370531


It's a long one though.

[static_ice]

Ignorance certainly is not bliss. Explanation attached.


http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewto ... ht=#370531


It's a long one though.

wow

but you were warned you were just too foolish to listen

[CrazyAnglican]

That is certainly true.

[I GOT SERVED]

Firstly, I believe the word was "beseeched"

Secondly, ignorance really is bliss, but only for a certain period of time. You can only remain ignorant for so long. And the longer you put it off, the harder it hits you once you come back to the world of logic.

So I'd say a healthy mix of the 2 would be perfect.

[jnd94]

I would say that ignorance is bliss. Whewn you are ignorant, you are not realizing what is happening around you. Therefore you arent really aware of the bad things happening in the world on the news and such. Your only focused on what your doing. If you are learned and everything, then you know what is happening, and all the bad thing that are in the world.

[Fircoal]

this is my believe: Ingorance is bliss, but is bad in the long run.

[static_ice]

this is my believe: Ingorance is bliss, but is bad in the long run.

I guess a lot of people think that... but look at Forrest Gump, he wasn't hit hard at the end


anyway I would like to add that I think there are different kinds of ignorance, and I think there are different kinds of intelligence that go along. (this is just my theory so don't flame) I think there is knowledge... which is pretty much knowing facts etc. then "practicality" which is pretty much instinctual, clever intelligence like always knowing what to do and finally wisdom, which is pretty much self-explanatory and different than the others, it comes from experience mainly.

so anyway each of the three types of ignorance is lacking the respective form of intelligence. So lets say you're unknowledgable but very wise, would that make you blissful? (assuming my theory has any relevance whatsoever)

[daddy1gringo]

anyway I would like to add that I think there are different kinds of ignorance, and I think there are different kinds of intelligence that go along. (this is just my theory so don't flame)

You lost me here a bit, but your basic premise is a good one. I think the important question is, "Ignorance of what?"

There are things that you can't do anything about, or that will never actually affect you at all, but we drive ourselves crazy worrying about them. Ignorance of those things is indeed bliss.
Other things, if you know about them you can change something and make yourself happier. In those instances the answer is no.

Other things, as "I Got served" said, will bite your butt at a later time, so ignorance is bliss...temporarily.

Or as St. Francis said:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
The courage to change the things I can.
And the wisdom to know the difference.

[daddy1gringo]

Blah, I was ignorant to think that more active posts would of beseached this thread.

beseached?

No idea, i thought it was a word.

It is, but it's spelled with two e's and means "to ask".

I at first had it spelt with two e's, but then yeah. And I totally used the wrong concept of it.

Besieged is probably what you meant.

"General! We're being besieged by active posts!"

I'm reasonably certain he meant "besought"