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Ignorance is bliss 1
#14416598 - 05/07/11 09:13 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ignorance in the sense of lower intelligence, not meaning to say drop dead stupidity. Knowledge is irrelevant to the quote. They never mention the other part of the story, true intelligence with a high intellect is misery.
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not true, ignorance is the cause of all suffering. if you are trapped in the intellect, that is misery, but if you know how to leave your mind and just be...it's all good
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: g00ru]
#14417301 - 05/07/11 11:23 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ignorance of our upcoming death and of all the suffering in the world around us would be pretty blissful, dude.
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: deCypher] 2
#14417361 - 05/07/11 11:36 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: deCypher]
#14417370 - 05/07/11 11:39 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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deCypher said: Ignorance of our upcoming death and of all the suffering in the world around us would be pretty blissful, dude.
yeah i guess, until you died! but i don't think that's possible. being born means knowing you're gonna die one day. all component things must dissolve. if you somehow managed to avoid that knowledge, well you might be in an ignorant state of comfort but i couldn't imagine it would last long
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: g00ru]
#14417471 - 05/08/11 12:05 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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One of my favoritest Terence McKenna quotes-
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I mean it's easy to hope if you're stupid, but is there any basis for intelligent people to hope?
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: Cups]
#14417560 - 05/08/11 12:35 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: Cups]
#14417566 - 05/08/11 12:39 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cups said: One of my favoritest Terence McKenna quotes-
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I mean it's easy to hope if you're stupid, but is there any basis for intelligent people to hope?
yeah...visualization helps you achieve goals.
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: Mufungo]
#14417577 - 05/08/11 12:41 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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aye, to each his sufferings. Ignorant and wise alike.
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: g00ru]
#14417670 - 05/08/11 01:04 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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guruu said: if you somehow managed to avoid that knowledge, well you might be in an ignorant state of comfort but i couldn't imagine it would last long
I couldn't imagine how anybody could possibly have the beliefs you do, yet here we are.
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: Poid]
#14417688 - 05/08/11 01:11 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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i would never have imagined i'd end up thinking like this either, i was a serious atheist, rational skeptic not 4 years ago. srsly.
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: Poid]
#14417692 - 05/08/11 01:12 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: g00ru]
#14417714 - 05/08/11 01:17 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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guruu said: i would never have imagined i'd end up thinking like this either, i was a serious atheist, rational skeptic not 4 years ago. srsly.
So, all of a sudden, your imagination experienced a marked increase? You're about my age, aren't you? Sounds like the onset of schizophrenia (which typically occurs around the age you experienced this unexplained increase in imagination). 
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Ignorance is bliss... true some of the time. Ignorance is misery... true some of the time. Ignorance has no effect on affect... true some of the time.
So, I wonder why this saying is liked and used so much.
Perhaps it is a way of putting a silver lining upon and feeling better about being unhappy when the unhappiness is associated with superior intelligence. I.e. "I'm unhappy, but at least I'm not ignorant. Yay for me!"
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: Poid]
#14417806 - 05/08/11 01:49 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Poid said: Sounds like the onset of schizophrenia (which typically occurs around the age you experienced this unexplained increase in imagination). 
that's actually a pretty irresponsible thing to say to somebody you've never met. luckily for you i don't worry about schizophrenia any more you are getting warmer though as to the kind of shit i've experienced
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: g00ru]
#14417826 - 05/08/11 01:55 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Poid said: Sounds like the onset of schizophrenia (which typically occurs around the age you experienced this unexplained increase in imagination). 
that's actually a pretty irresponsible thing to say to somebody you've never met.
How is that irresponsible? I'm just telling the truth, your sudden increase in imagination really does sound like the onset of schizophrenia. 
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Why do you say "any more", did you have to worry about it before? 
You've experienced schizophrenic shit? Why am I not surprised?
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: Mufungo]
#14417854 - 05/08/11 02:03 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I suspect it may be a reaction to new information shattering old illusions.
People seem to be happy when they've made some conclusions about their world and can go about their lives, doing the dance without considering the steps... the rules which they've accepted based on past experience.
Then, something happens... new data comes in which doesn't fit the mold, and one must re-work the old assumptions, or strain to hold dissonant ideas in seperate rooms.
The old, ignorant mold is generally a 'feel-good' form as, if it weren't, we wouldn't be sorry to see it go. Few reminisce fondly of the ignorance of heartbreak or depression.
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: Poid] 1
#14417886 - 05/08/11 02:15 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Poid said: Sounds like the onset of schizophrenia (which typically occurs around the age you experienced this unexplained increase in imagination). 
that's actually a pretty irresponsible thing to say to somebody you've never met.
How is that irresponsible? I'm just telling the truth, your sudden increase in imagination really does sound like the onset of schizophrenia. 
It's only irresponsible if Poid was actually skilled at giving diagnoses of mental illness or if his opinion on such a matter held any weight. In this case it amounts to a form of name calling in which the put down is implied by ones own negative associations of schizophrenia.
I take issue with the use of a serious mental illness in a pejorative way for the sake of picking on someone else. People with schizophrenia are stigmatised and as such discriminated against enough without people perpetuating the sentiment even in a light hearted way. In this forum I thought we assessed each argument upon its own merits or lack there of, not based on the person making the argument, don't we?
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: DisoRDeR]
#14417887 - 05/08/11 02:15 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Knowledge is irrelevant to the quote.
I forgot about this part.
Knowledge can't be irrelevant, as ignorance is defined as a lack of knowledge.
But I see what you're saying. Low mental acumen correlates with a lower tendency to analyze captured data, poor pattern matching, and slower uptake of new techniques, hence less probability of making connections which might spark an evaluation of one's worldview... I think...
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: Mufungo]
#14417914 - 05/08/11 02:26 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Poid said: Sounds like the onset of schizophrenia (which typically occurs around the age you experienced this unexplained increase in imagination). 
that's actually a pretty irresponsible thing to say to somebody you've never met.
How is that irresponsible? I'm just telling the truth, your sudden increase in imagination really does sound like the onset of schizophrenia. 
It's only irresponsible if Poid was actually skilled at giving diagnoses of mental illness or if his opinion on such a matter held any weight. In this case it amounts to a form of name calling in which the put down is implied by ones own negative associations of schizophrenia.
Huh? Why do you assume that that was a put down? 
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The onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood...
This isn't merely my opinion, this is what studies have concluded.
Also, the symptoms he described sound like the onset of schizophrenia (he even described them as being schizo-like in nature)--my opinion on this matter holds weight because it is true. You say "if his opinion on such a matter held any weight" as if whether or not I am highly educated on such matters is relevant to whether or not what I said is true--talk about not making an argument based on the person making the argument. 
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Mufungo said: I take issue with the use of a serious mental illness in a pejorative way for the sake of picking on someone else. People with schizophrenia are stigmatised and as such discriminated against enough without people perpetuating the sentiment even in a light hearted way. In this forum I thought we assessed each argument upon its own merits or lack there of, not based on the person making the argument, don't we?
Yeah, but the rules leave room for some personal banter:
A certain level of personal banter is in the grey area while getting to know your fellow posters over time...
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: Poid] 1
#14418294 - 05/08/11 05:36 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Poid said: Huh? Why do you assume that that was a put down? 
I assumed you were trying to put him down in any way that you could think of without overtly crossing the line of the rules of this forum. I assume this based on all of your posts towards gurru. They're a series of snide remarks and indirect insults. So when you make assertions about his mental health saying that he has a mental illness, how else could it be interpreted? Sincere concern for his well being? Very unlikely, who are you trying to kid. From where I'm sitting, I read it as you were taking the piss and trying to get a rise out of him. And of course you would deny this because to admit you were saying it just to take the piss would make you look like a douche.
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The onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood...
This isn't merely my opinion, this is what studies have concluded.
Also, the symptoms he described sound like the onset of schizophrenia (he even described them as being schizo-like in nature)--my opinion on this matter holds weight because it is true. You say "if his opinion on such a matter held any weight" as if whether or not I am highly educated on such matters is relevant to whether or not what I said is true--talk about not making an argument based on the person making the argument. 
So... you're still unqualified to make diagnoses and this is an internet forum, so sorry to burst your bubble, but no your opinion about whether another member has schizophrenia really doesn't hold any weight here. Or would you try to argue that your opinion here should hold weight and as such should be taken seriously? If so, oh god! guruu better race out and get checked up on immediately! 
He didn't mention any schizo-like behaviours in this thread before you brought it up. So it wasn't as if you brought it up only after he had. Actually I don't think there was any mention of schizophrenia in this thread until you brought it up. So how exactly are you trying in vain to argue for the relevance of your comments about schizophrenia?
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Mufungo said: I take issue with the use of a serious mental illness in a pejorative way for the sake of picking on someone else. People with schizophrenia are stigmatised and as such discriminated against enough without people perpetuating the sentiment even in a light hearted way. In this forum I thought we assessed each argument upon its own merits or lack there of, not based on the person making the argument, don't we?
Yeah, but the rules leave room for some personal banter:
A certain level of personal banter is in the grey area while getting to know your fellow posters over time...
Yeah, I'm not trying to push the rules. I really don't care either way for them. I'm just on a bit crusade against the pejoration of mental illnesses in particular psychosis. People with psychosis have been getting an undeserved bad rap for too long. I know this isn't all that relevant, but I thought I'd explain why I'm particularly sensitive to people calling each other schizophrenic or some version of it. So that said, feel free to chalk it all up to me being hypersensitive on the issue.
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: Mufungo]
#14419043 - 05/08/11 11:10 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Could it be considered an ad hominem to associate a person's ideas with the (real or imagined) fact of schizophrenia on their part?
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Re: Ignorance is bliss [Re: Mufungo]
#14419571 - 05/08/11 01:11 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Poid said: Huh? Why do you assume that that was a put down? 
I assumed you were trying to put him down in any way that you could think of without overtly crossing the line of the rules of this forum. I assume this based on all of your posts towards gurru. They're a series of snide remarks and indirect insults.
That's bullshit, I always give him well thought-out responses, and he either continues with more stupid shit without addressing them thoroughly, or outright just ignores them.
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Mufungo said: So when you make assertions about his mental health saying that he has a mental illness, how else could it be interpreted?
As a friendly, half-serious joke, perhaps?
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Mufungo said: Sincere concern for his well being? Very unlikely, who are you trying to kid. From where I'm sitting, I read it as you were taking the piss and trying to get a rise out of him. And of course you would deny this because to admit you were saying it just to take the piss would make you look like a douche.
I did have a bit of sincere concern for his well being--you seem to think that I deeply hate guruu, and this is funny to me because I don't. At all. 
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The onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood...
This isn't merely my opinion, this is what studies have concluded.
Also, the symptoms he described sound like the onset of schizophrenia (he even described them as being schizo-like in nature)--my opinion on this matter holds weight because it is true. You say "if his opinion on such a matter held any weight" as if whether or not I am highly educated on such matters is relevant to whether or not what I said is true--talk about not making an argument based on the person making the argument. 
So... you're still unqualified to make diagnoses and this is an internet forum, so sorry to burst your bubble, but no your opinion about whether another member has schizophrenia really doesn't hold any weight here. Or would you try to argue that your opinion here should hold weight and as such should be taken seriously?
I don't see any reason why it shouldn't--he has experienced symptoms similar to schizophrenia (and, again, even described them as being schizophrenia-like in nature), it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put 2 & 2 together and realize that, if he has experienced symptoms similar to schizophrenia, then it's at least somewhat likely that he has it. I don't need a degree in anything to realize this exceedingly simple concept, but I guess some people do... 
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Mufungo said: If so, oh god! guruu better race out and get checked up on immediately! 
It would help if you were actually able to describe why this sounds so ridiculous to you. You know, actually converse and all that. 
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Mufungo said: He didn't mention any schizo-like behaviours in this thread before you brought it up. So it wasn't as if you brought it up only after he had.
So? 
My god, man, what on Earth do you think that proves, and why? Why does it matter that he mentioned such behaviors after I brought them up? Does my bringing up such behaviors automatically make it impossible for him to have schizophrenia, or does it necessarily mean he's lying when he says he's experienced schizo-like symptoms?
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Mufungo said: Actually I don't think there was any mention of schizophrenia in this thread until you brought it up. So how exactly are you trying in vain to argue for the relevance of your comments about schizophrenia?
Personal banter needn't necessarily have relevance to the main thread topic.
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Mufungo said: I take issue with the use of a serious mental illness in a pejorative way for the sake of picking on someone else. People with schizophrenia are stigmatised and as such discriminated against enough without people perpetuating the sentiment even in a light hearted way. In this forum I thought we assessed each argument upon its own merits or lack there of, not based on the person making the argument, don't we?
Yeah, but the rules leave room for some personal banter:
A certain level of personal banter is in the grey area while getting to know your fellow posters over time...
Yeah, I'm not trying to push the rules. I really don't care either way for them. I'm just on a bit crusade against the pejoration of mental illnesses in particular psychosis. People with psychosis have been getting an undeserved bad rap for too long. I know this isn't all that relevant, but I thought I'd explain why I'm particularly sensitive to people calling each other schizophrenic or some version of it. So that said, feel free to chalk it all up to me being hypersensitive on the issue.
Yeah, I've noticed your hypersensitivity on the issue in the past--I was not trying to put guruu down by saying he may have schizophrenia, this is merely your own projection, caused by your self-admitted hypersensitivity on the issue. I agree that the mentally ill have been getting an undeserved bad rap for too long, that's why I never seriously put them down.
But, you can go on and believe what you want to, & continue to make a bad guy out of me.
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