2007-06-21 14:55:30 · 11 answers · asked by megalomaniac 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
An example would be cool, either hypothetical or real.
2007-06-21 14:56:01 · update #1
Not lame hippie chick.
2007-06-21 15:36:40 · update #2
Oh, pleasure has more to do with the material aspects of life, where as happiness is more of emotional aspect.
The confusion arises because this emotional aspect at times manifests in a physical form , and the consequence of this manifestation could 'trigger' some pleasure too !
The pleasure when felt at physical level is easy to distinguish, but when it is vicarious, it tends to confuse us with happiness.
As an example, some 'drugs' could give pleasure & pleasure only. When there is a deep addiction, the body craves for such pleasure when the mind actually suffers the sense of slavery to that addiction.
Happiness , to quote an example, could be there (even manifesting in the form of a deep smile) when we are full of bullet holes, about to die, having sacrificed our life just to save some innocent child caught in a cross-fire, and there could be no scope at all for any sort of 'pleasure' in such an action !!
2007-06-21 15:24:46 · answer #1 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's like comparing apples and doughnuts.
Any thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations or beliefs which feel good to us implies a proper flow of creative energy, also called real love. Any of those which do not feel good and which are held on to, obsessed with, or otherwise become habitual, slow down the above mentionned flow resulting in a bad or uncomfortable feeling which is called resistance. Whether or not they are intellectually named by one word or another is really not important. Moving up the scale of emotions increases the flow and eventually permits an ever increasing flow of love to be felt. What could be more valuable than this?
2007-06-21 15:47:40 · answer #2 · answered by canron4peace 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Interesting. It would be a sudden realization wouldn't it? And if it's sudden, did it really happen? If there is a question to discerning pleasure and happiness, then, you have neither.
It happens all the time now that I put it that way. I used to think they were both cool, now, I'll have to put them on my enemy list.
2007-06-21 15:02:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
oh yea, i believe thats why women, girls, whore around, there looking for love, thinking that if they sleep with this guy or that one, they are being loved, its pleasure for sure, but is it happiness? i was there, in my younger years, until i started feeling the emptiness, that came with it. im a thinker, so i did figure it out, took me a while, but i got there. this might be lame to some, but that is my example.
2007-06-21 15:13:08 · answer #4 · answered by hippie chick 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Mainly material things create pleasure. However when you take away the material things you find out alot about your condition.
2007-06-21 15:04:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyday.
2016-05-17 06:56:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, like when you are in a relationship and the physical part is great, so it obscures the fact that the relationship is really empty.
2007-06-21 15:03:06 · answer #7 · answered by lei 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in enjoying the pleasure there was no confusion but while enjoying the happiness there is confusion, there is pin-pricks, there is misery even!
2007-06-22 21:14:05 · answer #8 · answered by sristi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we are confused whether if we are satisfied or if we are truly happy.
2007-06-21 15:50:19 · answer #9 · answered by pete_1473 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sex seems like an automatic answer here.
2007-06-21 15:03:04 · answer #10 · answered by Caitlin (: 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋