If you could live in reality but be miserable, or live a lie but be happy, which would u chose?

Answer 1

The only way I'd be miserable is if I were living a lie. I find happiness in seeking out the truth about life.

Answer 2

How would I be assured that I was living in reality? Maybe the lie I'm living is that im happy? I'd rather live a lie but be happy because reality probably sucks the reason you have to live miserable with it lol. At least I know when im living a lie that somewhere beyound the lie im living is truth. If I live in reality I can never know what a lie is thus not really living in reality from my perspective... This could go on forever.

Answer 3

I would rather live in reality. There is no way to truly be happy while living a lie, because you know what you are living is not real. You will always have that thouhgtin your head telling you "this isnt even real." On top of it all...lies always come outin the open at some point. When that lie gets shattered and the truth is spilled, you will see how bad that lie has ruined your reality...and then still be stuck living in reality in the end anyway.

Answer 4

it depends, would I know that I am living in reality and not living in a lie? For all we know in what we are living right now is just a lie.
Most humans would answer that they would rather live a miserable reality...its human nature to make such a decision because living a lie scares us and a we have no control over a lie. If I had no knowledge that the lie was indeed a lie, then I would choose to live a happy lie.

Answer 5

I'll choose the miserable truth & make the best of it rather than living a lie. How could you ever be happy living in a house of cards, knowing it isn't real? That would be more miserable for me. The truth sets you free. Lies keep you a prisoner.

Answer 6

I would choose the first one. It is better to be REAL even if I am miserable rather than to live a lie and seemingly happy. The spirituality of 'reality and misery' is deep and it makes one happy, though it is not known to many.

To 'live a lie' is disintegrating my person and all that it brings is emptiness and chaos.

Answer 7

A live a lie and I am unhappy. There is no antinomy there, but a paradox.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_logic.htm#69


http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hl/hl667.htm#HL3_671

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/sl_iv.htm#SL48n1

'Kant, on the other hand, tried to prove that the statements issuing through this method could be met by other statements of contrary import with equal warrant and equal necessity. In the enumeration of these antinomies he narrowed his ground to the cosmology of the old metaphysical system, and in his discussion made out four antinomies, a number which rests upon the list of the categories. The first antinomy is on the question: Whether we are or are not to think the world limited in space and time. In the second antinomy we have a discussion of the dilemma: Matter must be conceived either as endlessly divisible, or as consisting of atoms. The third antinomy bears upon the antithesis of freedom and necessity, to such extent as it is embraced in the question, Whether everything in the world must be supposed subject to the condition of causality, or if we can also assume free beings, in other words absolute initial points of action, in the world. Finally, the fourth antinomy is the dilemma: Either the world as a whole has a cause or it is uncaused.'

Answer 8

If I didn't know it was a lie, I'd rather live the lie and be happy. I'd think it was reality anyway: if I knew it was a lie I'd be unhappy, thereby negating everything.

I'm tempted to say miserable reality, but that would be dishonest in the end.

Answer 9

You cannot live a lie and be happy. You can live a lie and live in fear that you will be found out. Which is a miserable way to live.

Answer 10

I would choose happiness any day over miserable.

The question is though, how can one be truly happy when living a lie. The only way would be to deliberately close your eyes, mind and heart against the truth, or to be unintelligent enough to not even realize what was happening.