True Happiness, unintelligent?

Question

I do not mean to offend anyone, but i have really began to wonder if being unintelligent can lead to happiness. Sometimes not knowing as much can make things easier. As a child everyone was in a much better state of mind than our older years. People not noticing their surroundings or what is really out in the world can sometimes be happy with a simple life. This is including people who have not traveled often, sheltered lives, and narrow minded.

What no one noticies is that filling our insecurites is what most people believe is true happiness. Our emotions are also another big part of this equation. Wheather it be love, money, or popularity, why should any of these things lead to our happiness. Are human beings so weak that something along these lines can actually bypass our search of true happiness? nothing is secure, a lover can cheat, you could lose all of your money, and people can turn on you. These can not possibly lead to true happiness, yet be a cover for weak minded.

Answer 1

Tree of Knowledge...

Get it?

Answer 2

I think it’s the other way around, the lack of intelligence or knowledge will lead to unhappiness, for instance, not knowing that the population is 350 million people.

You may ask what does the population have to do with happiness, look at the number this way, you are 1 and everybody else is 299 million, the fraction is 1/299,000,000.

When you realize that you are sometimes the small part you soon realize that you cannot make everybody happy and not all of them will make you happy, other times you will be of the larger part and then you realize that when the one don’t make you happy there’s another one in the larger part that will.
Living life will require you to bounce from one side of the fraction to the other, when you get the timing right, you'll be happy.
It’s pretty arrogant for one to think they’re better than the rest or to think one is irreplaceable.

Answer 3

Happiness is a state of mind not a destination,just getting on with each day can be a big challenge, by there is an old old saying Life is what we make it Happy, Sad Carefree

just because life changes does not mean that we have to change our values to fit in

Follow how you feel inside and what makes you a truly special person, and give what you can to others, it will come back 100 fold

God bless

Answer 4

This reminds me of the time honored question: "If a tree falls in the woods, and no one hears it, did it really make a noise?" You're saying in effect that IF certain people knew certain facts that those facts would ruin their happiness, but because they don't know these key facts, they enjoy "true" happiness?

Not to get too philosophical on you, but let's say that your dad died 5 hours ago and you still don't know about it. If someone asked you how you feel right now, you might say, "I feel GREAT!" But ... if you knew the whole truth, you wouldn't feel great, right? I'm saying that REALITY dictates how we SHOULD feel, but every one of us has a less-than-perfect view, even understanding, of reality. Therefore, our sadness is not true sadness, but rather a distortion of truth, based on our distorted view of reality. And the same goes for our happiness. It may be a lot of things, but it ain't true.

Answer 5

Happiness is generic, and is applied to almost
every kind of enjoyment except that of the animal
appetites. It ia a state of well-being
characterized by emotions ranging from contentment
to intense joy. These include: bliss, joy, joyous,
carefree, jubilant, exultant, cheerful, playful,
amused, fun, glad, gay, gleeful, jolly, jovial,
delighted, euphoric, ecstatic, thrilled, elated,
enraptured, comfortable, harmonious, and
triumphant. Societies, religions, and individuals
have various views on the nature of happiness and
how to pursue it.

Only saint-like persons, who feel that they are no
longer interested in the external world, think
that happiness is within. For many persons,
nothing can make them happy. Our minds are as
different as our finger prints - no two are alike.
Listening to loud music makes one happy and makes
another unhappy. Hence, there can be no single
definition for happiness. It is probably
impossible to objectively define happiness as
humans know and understand it, as internal
experiences are subjective by nature. Because of
this, explaining happiness as experienced by one
individual is as pointless as trying to define the
color green such that a completely color blind
person could understand the experience of seeing
green.

As a state and a subject, it has been pursued and
commented on extensively throughout world history.

"Call no man happy till he is dead." - Aeschylus

"Happiness is a positive cash flow." - Fred Adler

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what
constitutes true happiness. It is not attained
through self-gratification but through fidelity to
a worthy purpose." - Joseph Addison

"True happiness arises, in the first place, from
the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from
the friendship and conversation of a few select
companions." - Joseph Addison

Happiness is often associated with the presence of
favourable circumstances such as a supportive
family life, a loving marriage, and economic
stability. Kali Yuga, the age of darkness, is the
time when these favourables are difficult to find.

Unfavorable circumstances - such as abusive
relationships, accidents, loss of employment, and
conflicts - diminish the amount of happiness a
person experiences. In all nations, factors such
as hunger, disease, crime, corruption, and warfare
can decrease happiness. However, according to
several ancient and modern thinkers, happiness is
influenced by the attitude and perspective taken
on such circumstances.

From the observation that fish must become happy
by swimming, and birds must become happy by
flying. Aristotle points to the unique abilities
of man as the route to happiness. Of all the
animals only man can sit and contemplate reality.
Of all the animals only man can develop social
relations to the political level. Thus the
contemplative life of a monk or professor, or the
political life of a military commander or
politician will be the happiest according to their
own psyche.

The following is the self-reported positive affect
(i.e. positive emotion) during the day by 909
employed women in USA:

Activities and their positive effect index:

Intimate relations 5.10
Socializing 4.59
Relaxing 4.42
Pray/Worship/Meditate 4.35
Eating 4.34
Exercising 4.31
Watching TV 4.19
Shopping 3.95
Preparing food 3.93
On the phone 3.92
Napping 3.87
Taking care of
my children 3.86
Computer/Email/
Internet 3.81
Housework 3.73
Working 3.62
Commuting 3.45

Interaction with partners:

w/ friends 4.36
w/ relatives 4.17
w/ spouse/Significant
other 4.11
w/ children 4.04
w/ clients/customers 3.79
w/ co-workers 3.76
w/ boss 3.52
alone 3.41

Further, happiness is not entirely psychological
in nature - it has got a biological basis too. The
neurotransmitter dopamine is involved in desire
and seems often related to pleasure. Pleasure can
be induced artificially with drugs. Use of drugs
is not some thing new, it has been used by many
including Sanyasis since millenia.

Answer 6

yes,.. ignorance is bliss,...

why you ask?

just think back to highschool, and the myriad of socialites who think HS is the end all be all of there existance,.where they are a king or queen, and rule the school...

they are unaware of the future,.. and the unknown,..

and when that fateful graduation day comes,.. adn they realize no one any longer cares that they were homecoming queen, scored that touchdown, or gave that guy a wedgy,...

they are screwed,.. as they realize that all they can now do is work at McDonalds with limited success, to raise the illigitimate children they now have, and have thus doomed themselves as well as there kids,...

what fun...

yes,. to be stupid is to be happy i think

but to be rich,.. well,.. i think that helps too ;)