A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
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2007-01-08 22:43:15 · 12 answers · asked by helehelo 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The "Curse of joy" I'll give you the warning and you respond as you will.
Beg not for simple lives or easy paths. Ask none for true knowledge for it is to be seeked. The easier food comes the more there are to eat it and the easier joy comes the more you will feel it's curse. Feel pains and sorrows and live as you must.
The Curse of joy is the dooming to revelry. Happiness gives way swiftly to boredom, boredom leads to stillness and stillness leads to self hatred. Pure hatred is borne of self hatred. The curse of joy is hatred.
En Tis Blethec.
2007-01-08 23:03:05 · answer #1 · answered by tian_mon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since you posted this in this Forum I will answer this way: That is why we who believe in the Lord look forward to the Day when we go home to be with Him. There will be ever lasting joy and happiness that will never end. Look at it this way. IF a Sparrow had a handkerchief in its feet and flew over the tallest mountain on earth and the handkerchief brushed against the top of the mountain with every pass, when that mountain was leveled with the ground, that would only be the start of one day in heaven. Get it?
2007-01-08 23:28:37 · answer #2 · answered by Ex Head 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on what type of happiness. On the one side of happiness it is selfish only used to cover up one's true face of pain. This is the happiness of demons. On the other side of happiness it is being at peace with yourself and you feel a weight lifted because of it. You aren't really happy or mad, you just are. This is the happiness of angels. This quote is only referring to that of demons. Of course, that is to be expected because that is how most live their life, hiding. No one can run forever.
2007-01-11 06:12:28 · answer #3 · answered by weism 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
guy famous himself in conflict,in achievements,in useful factors&losses alike, take all that faraway from him and enable him stay miserably in a existence that do not have the bitter yet wanted discomfort of solitude,anger,be apologetic about. all of us crave the disappointment as a lot as we crave happiness in our lives. human beings each so often turn unaware of how pleasant sorrow feels,or how healing melancholy turns into,or how ideal existence is because it truly is. existence of happiness in the global with a soul like ours might want to be easily hell.
2016-12-02 01:10:08 · answer #4 · answered by kobielnik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the dumbest thing I have ever read.
Humans spend their entire lives, every moment of their exsistence striving for happiness. And you're telling me having a life with no problems would be bad?
2007-01-08 23:12:01 · answer #5 · answered by No More No Less 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I disagree. Never feeling sadness, never losing the ones we love, never feeling the need to cry or grieve, being the eternal optimist and having it work out. Sure would love to try it. People say that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger but that's just PC bullshiite to me. Unhappiness s*cks.
2007-01-08 22:51:13 · answer #6 · answered by Debra D 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Iy would be better than a lifetime of suffering
2007-01-08 22:49:28 · answer #7 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be crushingly dull. Also, if everyone was totally content we would have no progress, no exploration, just boring sameness.
2007-01-08 22:51:49 · answer #8 · answered by sngcanary 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely true.
2007-01-08 22:48:28 · answer #9 · answered by Prophet ENSLAVEMENTALITY (pbuh) 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I agree.
2007-01-08 22:49:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋