Just like energy, is it true that happiness plus sorrow in this world is conserved ? That is, you cannot create new happiness and sorrow. If you are happy, it is at the cost of sadness of others in some form .
2007-10-21 23:23:19 · 10 answers · asked by bsure 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I would request readers to ignore the last line i.e.
"If you are happy, it is at the cost of sadness of others in some form ."
This is where I feel the link is lost and it conceals the generality of the idea .
I urge to visualize things as a whole... not on a particular human being.
Regards all.
2007-10-22 02:09:10 · update #1
I must admit that Kerrick's first sight rejection compelled me to add this note so as to refine the original intent.
2007-10-22 02:15:00 · update #2
All things are conserved, yes, but not all things are experienced at all times by the observer. The tendency is greater appearance of energy, as discovery, and comprehension take their roles.
Nothing is lost, but trivial things are as forgotten when true meaning is inborn to the Observer.
Until this unbiased approach is sought, all things will appear to change, and anything once thought will move into, and out of existence, as quantum mechanics predetermines as an essential material function.
God bless.
2007-10-22 00:16:33 · answer #1 · answered by Gravitar or not... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the simple reason that the 'happiness levels vary depending on the person', the above theory can be easily ruled out.
Say, a farmer undergoes pain to produce 10 apples. 5 of them are bought by a person of positive attitude while the others were bought by a negative-minded person. You would see the first person being the happiest while the other not so happy. According to this theory, the farmer would be less happy for 5 apples and more for another 5.
2007-10-21 23:58:33 · answer #2 · answered by jaggie_c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope! Its crap written by a thinker who at one point ran out of ideas or came to a dead end. Absolutely not.
There is true inner peace. True inner peace involves letting go. Letting go leads to happiness. Letting go relieves sorrow. Sorrow is more attributed to selfishness. This means that selfishness, if connected to happiness, leads to the two together being conserved. If you know what true happiness is then the rest just falls into place. If you look at happiness as what you take........... then yes.... there is also sorrow.
All philosophers need to: Bar tend at their own tavern for a while and listen to those around them, close up a tavern and listen to the hum of a beer cooler after closing with the lights turned down and think.... open a cold one....... Nope! Buddy whoever wrote that was full of crap. You must know inner peace and the art of letting go. Letting go of all of it. Inner peace (=) happiness (-) sorrow. If happiness (=) taking then happiness (=) sorrow. Consider it to be co-op happiness. If all have inner peace then all have happiness because none have the need to take. I rest my case.
2007-10-21 23:33:33 · answer #3 · answered by Kerrick C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe in the mind of the creative esoteric. I think both sorrow and happiness are infinite wells, fresh with each individual, intensity and circumstance, but common to human existance. I wish we could put a capper on the well of sadness though.
2007-10-21 23:30:28 · answer #4 · answered by Susan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in spite of the indisputable fact that it relatively is confusing to teach, I do have faith in a concept of 'Grand stability' or '0 Sum' which might have a tendency to assist the view reported via your question. it is why I define authentic Happiness as a state of tranquility and equanimity fairly than pleasures or excitement. in case you think of roughly it deeply, the 0 Sum and Karmic theories are incredibly no longer so diverse or divergent from one yet another..... on the backside of the two seem to lie the inevitable and inviolable 'reason&result' syndrome that we come upon for the time of all life and fact!!
2016-12-18 14:16:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is so in this world of duality.If you go beyong this sense of duality,there will only be happiness and that too not at the cost of sadness for others.To go to that you have to become inward,seeking pleasure from within you and not from the world.
2007-10-22 00:50:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well there is a generic sense that when one team wins, the other loses, but strict conservation of happiness/sadness is absurd.
2007-10-22 00:36:02 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No so. You can create happiness. It is all a state of mind. If you say to yourself I refuse to be sad, you may surprise yourself!
One has no baring on the other.
2007-10-21 23:45:11 · answer #8 · answered by secret society 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not at all..suppose u go out on a holiday and ur really happy,where's the part of sadness that u talk of?everyones happy and no one is visibly sad.
2007-10-21 23:35:51 · answer #9 · answered by ash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be like saying we should attack Iraq because some Saudi's who were holding up in Afghanistan and Pakistan and we're falling the Charles Manson, Adolph Hitler of their sec, Osama Been Forgotten, killed mass amount of US citizens.
2007-10-21 23:41:24 · answer #10 · answered by Clayto 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋