Disco Cat said:

If you find ignorance better than awareness that means you have issues that need to be worked out and you're running from them. If you don't have issues to work out and everything is fine with your mind, then becoming ignorant is nothing but a loss.

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Disco Cat said:

Ignorance is not bliss, it's denial. Whoever came up with that line was ignorant, and therefore could not be an authority on whether ignorance = bliss or not.

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Seemed like a smart guy to me. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gray

DrCamacho89 said:

Disco Cat said:

Ignorance is not bliss, it's denial. Whoever came up with that line was ignorant, and therefore could not be an authority on whether ignorance = bliss or not.

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Seemed like a smart guy to me. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gray

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Ok, I looked him up. It would be an ignorant statement, except he's using it poetically and not literally. Highly ironically tho, the bliss he's talking about is youth. He's saying that it's blissful to be ignorant of growing old 



Lo, in the vale of years beneath
    A grisly troop are seen,
The painful family of Death,
    More hideous than their Queen:
This racks the joints, this fires the veins,
That every labouring sinew strains,
    Those in the deeper vitals rage:
Lo, Poverty, to fill the band,
That numbs the soul with icy hand,
    And slow-consuming Age.

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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Here's an interesting fact: humans can regrow basically any part of their body, just like some lizards do. But this ability of our goes dormant by the time of birth.

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Quote:

The Wall Street Journal (no link available) reports that scientists are treating wounded Iraqi War veterans with a substance from pigs that seems to resurrect the ability to regenerate organs and other body parts--an ability possessed by fetuses but lost after birth. In this case, the scientists hope to regenerate parts of fingers the soldiers lost. From the story

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Disco Cat said:

Ok, I looked him up. It would be an ignorant statement, except he's using it poetically and not literally. Highly ironically tho, the bliss he's talking about is youth. He's saying that it's blissful to be ignorant of growing old 



Lo, in the vale of years beneath
    A grisly troop are seen,
The painful family of Death,
    More hideous than their Queen:
This racks the joints, this fires the veins,
That every labouring sinew strains,
    Those in the deeper vitals rage:
Lo, Poverty, to fill the band,
That numbs the soul with icy hand,
    And slow-consuming Age.

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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