and realise that there were better things they could be doing with their time....
2006-12-02 22:54:35 · 15 answers · asked by catweazle 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The unquestioning didn't necessarily see the futility of the search. It never occurred to the unquestioning to start questioning or searching. Some people are simple and simplistic and just live without thinking too much about anything. If they do think, it is unquestioning thoughts - just routine, day-to-day living.
Are these people happier? I don't know - how I could I know without questioning them.
However, I disagree with you that the search is futile. I think searching and questioning are positive activities and shows your humanity.
Remember Descartes: I think therefore I am.
2006-12-02 23:48:42 · answer #1 · answered by happy inside 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do honestly feel that the unquestioning are happier, just living without wondering "WHY" they are living.
We, who think we are able to wonder, philosophise or question our raisons d'etre are actually no better off, because we come up with no real answers and fail to see the simple truth that life is for living, after all.
2006-12-03 01:11:30 · answer #2 · answered by simon2blues 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I overthink everything and as a result I've spent most of my life worrying. So, on a personal level; I think unquestioning people have a better chance of being happy.
2006-12-02 23:41:27 · answer #3 · answered by Just Me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say those who question have a greater capacity to be happy because they understand the depth to which their happiness can reach balanced by a comprehension of the depths to which their misery can lead them. You don't stop being unhappy because you don't question.
When I was younger I had few friends because I lived in a small town, I was lonely though I did not know it but content because that was what life was. When I went to University I met some great friends but they left before I did. Suddenly I was distraught. But I now knew what I wanted and what I had felt all my life before. Now when I met people who become my friends I value them more because I understand to a greater level what they mean to me.
It is my personal experience that those who do not question fear the answers to questions and to new experiences far more than is necessary. They also tend to be in some sense 'shut up' from the rest of the world because on some level they are refusing to interact with it. They also have the greatest capacity to cause hurt by their lack of understanding. An unknowing child can cause great hurt to it's mother with the words "I hate you." because it does not know what it says.
So even if 'ignorance is bliss' were correct I'd say that we ought to question for the good of our fellows.
2006-12-02 23:26:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of the ones i know of more of the unquestioning need therapy for longer than those that question. Maybe one finds their own meaning whereas the other has to be given a meaning.
2006-12-02 23:00:02 · answer #5 · answered by Part Time Cynic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer to this query does not seem to be an instance of either/or but both/and. On the one hand, Aristotle contends that humans inherently desire to know things. He maintains that some humans have a stronger desire to know than others have.
Conversely, the writer of Ecclesiastes insists that "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow" (Eccl 1:18).
The history of western thought bears out this observation.
2006-12-03 03:42:31 · answer #6 · answered by sokrates 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The search is not futile but it does take discipline. "Questioning" in and of itself can be a barrier to the self-realization of truth. So much of this “questioning” deals with the confusion related to the “duality” that is maya. On earth everything has its opposite and therefore it is pointless to seek absolute truth in that manner. But these are only barriers when viewed through the prism of early existence and which are not at all relevant to God. Through a direct self-realization of God's beauty, truth, and wisdom, God will light the light of knowledge within you.
2006-12-03 00:42:31 · answer #7 · answered by b_steeley 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look were all human. your applying an action and emotion that noone has. "unquestioning" what group is that? the dead? in one way or another we all fight for some kind of answers,were not robots,blindly takeing orders. Now, not everyone knows about everything, true, but someone always knows something.
2006-12-02 23:09:38 · answer #8 · answered by Licemen 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
philosophical are closser to happiness because they have more of an understanding for it than the unquestioning do.
2006-12-02 23:04:22 · answer #9 · answered by Manc lad 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.I use to be so keen for the answers i never had a moment to live the questions.
2006-12-02 23:05:03 · answer #10 · answered by rusalka 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋