Thread 16723068

Ignorance may, in fact, be bliss. No?

>>16723068 (OP)
>I know that I know nothing
>t. happiest man in history

>>16723068 (OP)
this is a failure mode of the human cognitive unit.

Awareness doesn't solve any more problems.

>>16723068 (OP)
You should consider the connotation of "bliss." Have you ever experienced it? If it doesn't elicit profound disgust in you, you are likely malfunctioning in some manner.
Bliss is not a good thing.

>>16723195
Do you hate yourself growing up that make you type this shit?

>>16723068 (OP)
Happiness is not the goal, happiness is just a primitive motivator that gets your retarded monkey ass to do shit that actually matters. The story of life is the story of dissatsifaction. Without it we would have never left the caves.

>>16723068 (OP)
Half of mankind, literally four billions sub-100 IQ normtards can't be wrong.

>>16723068 (OP)
Well, all those things are useless to know.
Knowing useful things can give you bliss.

>>16723068 (OP)
To a point, yes.

>>16723068 (OP)
i don't feel that much happy anymore whenever i try to rewatch all the cartoons that I used to watch when i was kid, because as an adult I now know that some parts of it are just fuckin silly and not true, which is kinda sucks because I want to watch my old cartoons to be happy because I hate this fucking world so much.

>>16723878
i'm sorry to hear that.

>>16723221
Did you fail to consider what I actually said?
Bliss is not happiness. Bliss is an invasive 'good" feeling that masks damage.
One might even call it an automated physical coping mechanism.

>>16723950
Bliss is automatically achieved by not worrying.

>>16723759
>Without it we would have never left the caves.
You go back to your caves every night anyway, so what was the point in leaving them other than to shit somewhere else than where you sleep?

ignorance is not a barrier to survival
however arrogance is

ignorance is only bliss as long as the stuff you are unaware of does not have a negative impact on your experience

>>16723069
The wisest philosophy always comes from the ancients.

>>16723068 (OP)
It can be. However you can also have bliss by knowing much while just not giving a shit about any of it. That's my situation. Same care free life, I'm just a lot more useful of a person.

>>16723068 (OP)
Lots of those things matter. But other than being able to join a cult for 40 dollars a year what does knowing your IQ get you?

I got a 1520 on my sat and that got me a bunch of scholarships. I scored 99th percentile on all my state standardized tests and that got me passed to the next grade. I got a 99 on my asvab (148 gt) and that got me every option in the army.

But I'm not dumb enough to pay a shrink 300 dollars and waste a Saturday to take a test that the only payoff is you can join a cult and get monthly newsletter.

>>16724244
Yeats already said this, in an actual poem too, you hack
>The best lack all conviction, while the worst
>are full of passionate intensity

>>16724558
based bill

>>16724563
The only thing medical doctors are any good at is reading your cholesterol and a1c levels to you. But go ahead bro never go to the doctor.

I'm fat and unhealthy as can be but somehow my a1c is 4.9

Do you know if you are diabetic?

>>16724558
>you hack
>like it is my quote
based retard

>>16723068 (OP)
No, just indifference.

>>16724558
came here to post this.

>>16724612
I can get a blood test without my GP being involved.

>>16723151
It does, the hard part though is changing habits.

>>16723878
I feel you on that one.

>>16723068 (OP)
>the guy who didn't know all this stuff
...and died of prostate cancer in his early 40s

>>16727384
why live past 30

>>16724244
>>16724740
In awe of the irony.

>>16723770
>>16724244