that is, would you sacrifice your essential human quality, the element which by definition is responsible for your humanity to be in a complete state of blissful ignorance (imagine the feeling to be something like the euphoria of inebriation) for the remainder of your life, with no hope of an afterlife? Do you think this would be a wise choice? I think this is one that is hard to answer...
2006-09-20 11:23:27 · 11 answers · asked by holdcauf01 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
This is a good question.
Think about it. If you never had pain for the rest of your life... what would reasoning and questioning do? If simply walking outside made your heart fill with immense pleasure, why would you need to wonder why you got up in the morning, why the sky was blue, or what the meaning of life was?
If there was no afterlife, and you became 'nothing' after this... would that even matter, too? If you were certain that tomorrow you would be nothing, you can be almost positively sure that no one would remember you in 100 years. It's sad, but true(unless you were famous). And even if you were famous, wouldn't your impact be enough?
I am not advocating becoming a total apathetic. But if what you are suggesting could truly be achievable,
Yes. I would choose complete happiness. Isn't that what everyone searches for throughout their entire life?
2006-09-20 11:52:16 · answer #1 · answered by almostdead 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at a sheep, or a camel. It just does what it does... it spends every day being a 'dumb animal'. It's in a complete state of blissful ignorance, and has no hope of an afterlife. You're asking would I like to be a happy sheep, or a happy camel, or mouse, or spider............
Then we humans come along and shear the sheep and kill it and eat it with a dribble of mint sauce, and ride the camel through the desert, carry out vivisection on the mouse and squash the spider underfoot.
No, I wouldn't like to be in a complete state of euphoric blissful ignorance on this planet.
2006-09-20 11:41:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, not really.
I would be more inclined to use my ability to reason, my intelligence to question and my logical thinking to work to understand the world around me, then to take the next step and apply that wisdom to understanding the universe and that which created it.
Once achieved, can you imagine that bliss?
I think not.
2006-09-20 11:53:32 · answer #3 · answered by fra_bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not hard to answer at all...with that wonderful state of bliss comes total oblivion as to why we are here at all. We're all here to learn, once you give up the ability to learn...you become stagnant.
Give me life, with all of it's ups & downs, allow me to learn from my mistakes to maintain my freedom as an individual.
2006-09-20 12:35:06 · answer #4 · answered by Ivyvine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No attaining bliss frightens me because I would have nothing to work toward. I could never choose to be blissfully ignorant because it would mean as you said that i would loose what i cherish most of all : my humanity, my skeptisism and my choice to believe.
2006-09-20 11:28:02 · answer #5 · answered by UNknowN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
I will always cling to and demand my right to question.
The bliss you suggest is to become a thing. I am a human being.
2006-09-20 21:52:23 · answer #6 · answered by Temple 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, eveb though I am on meds the past 6 months I still am strong willed and question
2006-09-20 11:31:40 · answer #7 · answered by Steve P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No becuase I think that the thought of euphora is connected to feeling saddness now and then. It helps you understand it and desire it more. It maes you appreciate it.
2006-09-20 11:27:43 · answer #8 · answered by robyn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, ignorance is not bliss.
2006-09-20 11:25:08 · answer #9 · answered by steelypen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not.
2006-09-20 14:29:57 · answer #10 · answered by Edward 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋