would you rather be delusional and happy your whole life or know the truth and try and find a happiness true to you?
2007-08-02 18:39:21 · 20 answers · asked by James W 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
As the delusional you would still get the full range of emotions but they would be deluded from the truth, you could feel sadness and pain but delude yourself into being happy about these things. Not a contradiction eg. you could be happy that you are able to empathise with another persons sadness. And S&Mers dont get sad from pain
2007-08-02 18:59:20 · update #1
either way, i'm happy
2007-08-02 18:48:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Were you happier as a child when you found out Santa Claus was made up or when you thought he was real?
The truth is that people kill Chickens, Cows, Pigs, Lamb in order for you to enjoy a good meal. But would you kill these animals if their life depended on you? Most people wont. But they just ignore the fact that the meat you eat at the dinner table once walked the face of the planet.
Another example, what do you think drives the religious people to do what they do... when nobody can prove the physical existance of a God.
People think they know the whole truth. But the fact of the matter is their perception of the truth is delusional.
2007-08-03 02:52:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good question. I'd rather have the second. I am currently receiving psychotherapy and this is what it is doing to me. It is helping me lift the veil and showing me the delusions I have been living on all my life, which created a balance that would make me happy in a delusional world. But if it is not the real you, there will be gaps in the 'veil' when you feel it is not your true self there - that is, if you are not completely disconnected from your real self. So therapy helps you lift the veil, starting from those gaps, and realise it is not who you really are - it's helping me find who the real me is and it is painful at times, quite painful. This is not a pre-fabricated truth to find as a whole, but it is discovered and 'recognised' bit by bit in a long process.
2007-08-03 07:53:10 · answer #3 · answered by VV 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indeed a very relevant and great question!!
The trouble with delusion is that it can not last long enough and when it breaks, it gives an additional unhappiness of realizing what a fool one has been all the while!!Happiness relates to the mind and make believe can not fool our mind for too long.... truth has a habit of revealing itself at some very inopportune moments if we are not willing to take it by the horn. Happiness can only stand on the twin legs of truth and courage.
2007-08-03 02:32:44 · answer #4 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That depends on what makes one happy. If disguising truth softens reality, one may be contented, as when, for example, you are in truth demonstrably duller than most, yet this knowledge you refuse to suffer.
One may also be discontented with presumptions not based on facts or illogical and wish-full conclusions not verifiable in reality and rather limit your ideas or beliefs to what can be known regardless of the consequences for ones cherished and comforting views and find this harsher, yet truer view, a more liberating one.
The distinction is between intellectually and emotively driven people.
2007-08-03 04:31:52 · answer #5 · answered by concentrated points of energy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me there has never been any doubt. I take truth, always. In the last version of Miracle on 34th Street, the one with Richard Attenborough, the lawyer asked the court, "What is better, a lie that causes a smile or a truth that causes a tear?" I flipped out.
2007-08-03 01:49:24 · answer #6 · answered by Brant 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Truth all the way baby! I'll take a full rack of prime smoked truth with truth sauce, and a truth salad on the side. Hell, while we're at it I would love a large diet truth and a couple truth napkins. That would rock!!! That'd make me happy.
Enthusiastic about truth,
-Red
2007-08-03 01:49:10 · answer #7 · answered by RedzWild 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I suppose those who are ignorant are supposed to find bliss, right?
I don't think if you have truth you ever find true happiness, and I can't speak for the other half because I am one of those who want to learn all the time.
2007-08-03 03:08:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just take it day by day. Whats truth for you is untrue to another. There really is no magic formula and the philosophers stone is just a lump of rock. We can only solve each problem on its merits. For most of us life is good.
2007-08-03 03:03:52 · answer #9 · answered by inthedark 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lol. Would I prefer to already have happiness, or endlessly search for it? I'll take door #2. It was that "happy your whole life" bit that got me- who wants to experience only one emotion for the rest of their life!? Boring.
2007-08-03 01:47:04 · answer #10 · answered by Beardog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said,
"and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free"
John chapter 8 verse 32
2007-08-03 13:23:05 · answer #11 · answered by Jadore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋