Ignorance is bliss?

You wouldn't believe how many people have told me this. Is it because they can't cope with knowledge? I have never believed this phrase because everyone is raised with a certain amount of knowledge of something from birth. Every time a bit of knowledge is added (sometimes beyond your control), the base of awareness from what you were aware of before is extended.

It would be hard for me to comprehend the idea of not learning of some sort. Maybe I just take this too literally.

What if you were ignorant of the fact that stepping on a Portegeuse Man of War might kill you? If it didn't, would bliss be your first thought? What if it did?

If you were ignorant of the fact that you didn't have a mother and father, but observed other people with their parents and how happy they were, would you be blissful based on your observations?

What is the opposite of bliss? Despair? What about 'ignorance is despair'?

I always thought that ignorance is ignorance; and bliss is bliss. Seems like comparing apples to oranges here.

Ignorance is bliss, what you don't know will not hurt you. All right or wrong sayings?

What if someone were cheating on you in a relationship and you didn't know it? You think you're happy in it. All the signs point to eternal bliss....but...

Maybe it does only pertain to certain situations.

Ignorance is bliss..??
Then that "bliss" comes from ignorant nature. Who is more ignorant..?? The one who chose to ignore the incoming or the source..??

Either way it's come from arrogance if you ask me lady.


Eternal question?.!!

I can understand why some people who are ignorant are also arrogant. But I think fear is the motivation here.

There are also people who are ignorant because they just don't give a damn. That can also be interpreted as arrogance.

I think bliss comes from knowing what you want, or at least accepting yourself are you are.

If you didn't know what makes you truly happy, would you be happy?

Ladydane.

"If you didn't know what makes you truly happy, would you be happy?"

Yes.. I would say double YES? experiencing the happiness always comes from the "unknown", and that "unknown" always welcome to my life.

If we knew what makes us happy, then we wont be surprised and that happiness without the "surprise elements" is superficial, it is what we expected "lasts 2 seconds and changes nothing"?!

It is our mind work based on our expectations, which makes us feel a sense "commonly known" as happiness or unhappiness,in my opinion .

Qbone,

I think I got it.

It is the search, isn't it.

So you're happy not knowing whether you have something or not, it's the 'getting there'.

Well, if I'm that damn lazy, now's the time to find out.

I put that box of 'mystery items' in my closet somewhere.

B

Err..


"So you're happy not knowing whether you have something or not, it's the 'getting there'."

No ladydayne.. I am not expecting to get anything, but when I get it I always make sense of it.

Say... I get you by surprise in the street and you haven?t seen me or heard from me for ages and it is your birth day and I invite you to a very expensive romantic restaurant for a dinner..!

Nice surprise from unknown... yeah.

Or same situation but I say I have travelled 1200 miles to say "happy birthday" in person. Would you care for a cop of coffee?

Is that nice too..?? Of course it is?"in my opinion".

It depends on our perceptions and the level of our expectations? what if it is your birth day and even your own mom and daddy forgot to call you for that..??

Means bad day..??

If it is, then you are expecting? In my humble opinion expectations force us to longing and seeking for something that makes us feel different, happy or unhappy..!

However.. "Sense of accomplishment" that many of us misinterpret it with happiness is different.

Imagine at your work you stay on a hopeless project for a long time and your boss is nagging and show you the dead line? you work harder (while you are happy or unhappy)? so, right before dead line you get the solution and voila?.job is done but the feeling you get is the (sense of accomplishment) not the happiness..!

I am not sure you understand what I mean? but in time I will explain it deeply.
🙂