would you rather be ignorant but happy or fully aware but miserable?

Question

you know what they say about smart people being the unhappiest..

Answer 1

ignorant but happy :O)

Answer 2

Hmm lemme see.... I'm miserable, so that does make my brain more perceptive about some things.

Yeah, I guess I prefer what I am right now since ignorance contributes to problems. Just like how the school system for passing has become a bit more stricter due to low grades predecessing students has made, thus affecting future students. Why need more obstacles to deal with by such fools when all the world needs is smarter, virtuous people?

Answer 3

Smart people only the unhappiest because they're surrounded by people who base their lives and blank their minds on mystical mumbo jumbo instead of utilizing their human reason, and threaten our lives and freedom at every step. If people abandoned mysticism and attempted to find something in the real world they could be passionate about and focus on, then there would be happiness, peace, honesty and freedom for everyone.

I've chosen the latter path and it's made all the difference, but has left me with no one to turn to for help or advice, no one to talk to, no one who would understand let alone embrace me for who I am. Honesty, fairness, transparency, are all I am, and all I expect from others, but there's no one. I am legend.

Answer 4

I enjoy having knowledge and knowing things. I don't think it would be possible for me to enjoy life knowing that I'm ignorant....except of course that would be oxymoronic because if I knew I was ignorant then I wouldn't be ignorant. Its hard to say. Everyone wants happiness ,but at what price? I would rather be miserable and have my intelligence because I would be of more use to the world. Happy people rarely are happy because they've helped anyone besides themselves and their motive are usually so simplistic that they cannot know they are being selfish.

Answer 5

I would rather be smart and unhappy than happy and dumb. Knowledge is suffering but I would like to keep learning good things and suffer than be ignorant and cheerful. Bliss is relative and knowing and feeling the sorrow is part of the sweet ,yes ,you read it right ,sweet experience called life.Life and learning incidentally start with the same letter and death ,intellectual if not physical ,dodge /demoralize/dull you beginning with the same as dumb. All great works of art ,literature etc., were borne out of sorrow and life ,well,is like that, another facet of knowledge you see!

Answer 6

Well at this point I have been .... ignorant for not being aware and now I am miserable.....

so it can work anyway you put it..
Happy Holidays All!!!!

Answer 7

Fully aware, but miserable, like Jebus! ps: they didn't make a smile on Jesus when he was on the cross, I sure would be happy if I was salvaging all humanity from eternal hell.

Answer 8

As a person who has worked taking care adults who were profundly and severely mentally retarded. I know how happy they can be despite their limitations. I think I would rather be happy and ignorant.
Ignorance IS bliss.

Answer 9

I'm already fully aware and miserable, and despite that I'm content with my life, so I'll stay the way I am.

Answer 10

Really ignorant and SUPER happy lol. I would like to be the dumbest person in the world if it really made me that happy :)

Answer 11

I guess one person can never know. Without wisdom we are blind, but with it we are miserable. In my opinion, I could never give up my brain. Knowledge is very important to me even with the cost.