2006-06-23 15:31:51 · 24 answers · asked by Red Yeti 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Sounds like John Lennon's song "Imagine." In reality this is only a dream and a creation of men trying to make sense of the brevity of our time on earth and a vain attempt to answer the question we all want the answer to-"Why is there so much suffering in the world?" We fear what we do not know so we create intricate theories and religious dogmas to cover over and explain away life's bitter realities and unpleasantries.
2006-06-24 19:50:17 · answer #1 · answered by Type3Thinker 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Pleasure,and happiness, WOULD BE not having Death , Sorrow, or Pain.
2006-06-24 14:27:06 · answer #2 · answered by laughsall 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there was no death, no sorrow, no pain, etc., then there would be no pleasure or happiness. Everything create's it's antithesis merely by being; the existance of happiness means that there is the existance of unhappiness. So, to get rid of unhappiness, you'd have to sacrifice happiness, but in the opinion of many, it's more than worth it. Similarly, to get rid of death is easy, simply get rid of life! If nothing was alive, we wouldn't see a single death ever again.
2006-06-23 22:39:10 · answer #3 · answered by Fenris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pleasure needs death, sorrow and pain to contrast itself with these negative states/feelings. If the contrast did not exist then pleasure would just be the normative state. Pleasure implies exceeding normal circumstance.
2006-06-23 22:46:16 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a circular question. Ironically, the answer is another question.
How do we define pleasure and happiness without death, sorrow, and pain?
2006-06-23 22:39:57 · answer #5 · answered by Rainbow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there were no death, there would be no room for new life. If you've never known sorrow, how would you know what happiness is?
There is a circle for everything, with different sides and levels of opposites to everything.
For your body to be able to build a proper immune system against sickness, it must experience that sickness. So you must get sick to be healthy.
It's so basic and set in as the foundation for existence that most of us take it for granted. To notice balance of everything is to admire everything, even breathing, how you have to exhale to be able to inhale.
In short, if there was no death, there would be no life.
2006-06-23 22:47:51 · answer #6 · answered by Gallen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is no birth there would no death,no happiness there would be no sorrow and if there is no pleasure there would be no pain.Hence everything relative so thinking of heaven is possible because of presence of hell.
2006-06-23 22:45:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought I was ok until I met someone who made me happy.
Even if there was no death, no sorrow, no pain, you'd still be able to recognize pleasure and happiness because there are different degrees of it. When you are normal, you are neutral. When you are happy you are a degree higher than neutral, etc, etc.
2006-06-23 22:35:54 · answer #8 · answered by kitt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know better. If there's none of death, sorrow and pain, then there's no such thing as feeling because we have nothing to feel. Everything is one thing.
2006-06-24 00:36:59 · answer #9 · answered by Jivan S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no good without bad, so you what you are proposing is complete entropy and the non-existence of all things. If you'd classify that as "pleasure" then happy day for you.
2006-06-23 22:39:43 · answer #10 · answered by PALADIN 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋