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dumbfounded1600
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Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean?
#8035939 - 02/17/08 10:58 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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Exactly what the topic says.
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: dumbfounded1600]
#8035940 - 02/17/08 10:59 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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As long as you are unaware of something, it cannot impact your consciousness.
It's hard to spend time worrying about things that you don't know exist.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8035948 - 02/17/08 11:01 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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Thanks dude this explains a lot...I've always heard this before but never knew what it meant.
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: dumbfounded1600]
#8035974 - 02/17/08 11:06 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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It's like having butt secks with a tranny you met at a club when you were 17 because you thought 'it' was a girl and didn't want 'it' to get pregnant so you had butt secks with 'it'.
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Edited by meatcakeman (02/17/08 11:06 PM)
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: meatcakeman]
#8035976 - 02/17/08 11:07 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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LMAO did that really happend?
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: dumbfounded1600]
#8035982 - 02/17/08 11:08 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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Not knowing the truth can be an easier pill to swallow than knowing the reality of certain situations.
Example: It's easier to bury your head in the ground and believe the United States is saving the world by invading Iraq than to realize the truth of the matter--that money and power is the main motivation for this war and that the countless innocent lives lost does not make it worth the millions of dollars a day spent to continue the bloodshed. Knowledge comes with a price but it's important that people see things as they are.
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: kosmic_charlie]
#8036002 - 02/17/08 11:14 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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Example: It's easier to believe that the United States is causing the bloodshed in Iraq and is the main source of strife in The World than is to realize that if we left the bloodbath would be on a scale heretofore unseen and that bad people really do exist in the world outside of the United States Boogeyman.
Perspective.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8036010 - 02/17/08 11:15 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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Quote:
Madtowntripper said: As long as you are unaware of something, it cannot impact your consciousness.
It's hard to spend time worrying about things that you don't know exist.
I dunno I think this puts the food on the table though
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: dumbfounded1600]
#8036027 - 02/17/08 11:18 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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dumbfounded1600 said: LMAO did that really happend?
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? *DELETED* [Re: meatcakeman]
#8036098 - 02/17/08 11:33 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8036102 - 02/17/08 11:35 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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Madtowntripper said: It's easier to believe that the United States is causing the bloodshed in Iraq and is the main source of strife in The World than is to realize that if we left the bloodbath would be on a scale heretofore unseen and that bad people really do exist in the world outside of the United States Boogeyman.
Ignorance.
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: kosmic_charlie]
#8036124 - 02/17/08 11:41 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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kosmic_charlie said: Ignorance.
I feel precisely the same way. But I'm having a very relaxing evening after a rough day and I don't want to ratchet up my brain to get into a political argument with you tonight.
I may think you have things completely twisted, but you're a good guy.
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: dumbfounded1600]
#8036152 - 02/17/08 11:53 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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put the words together man!
ignorance - lack of knowledge/information + bliss - extreme happiness
if you're ignorant/lack the knowledge of something bad, of course you're going to feel good/bliss
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8036170 - 02/17/08 11:59 PM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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Madtowntripper said: I may think you have things completely twisted...
Um okay. Why did we target Iraq? I hate to interrupt your relaxing evening but do you know about the mass genocide in Sudan that doesn't seem to worry our government one bit? What about the civil war in Congo where gang rape is a normal everyday thing? Male relatives are forced at gun point to rape their own daughters but the U.S. doesn't seem to give a damn. There's no oil in Congo.
If you think the invasion of Iraq is for something other than profit or For Bush Jr. to finish what his daddy started then you are ignorant. No one is saying bad people don't exist outside the U.S. Do you think it's easy for me to come to terms with how crooked my country's government has become? Ignorance is bliss and I am anything but blissful.
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: igwna]
#8036226 - 02/18/08 12:23 AM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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Their are different types of bliss I think. I think their is ignorant bliss. Like adrenaline based bliss, drug using bliss. Putting girls down and calling them whores and bitches. That can be pretty blissful. Bliss becomes something recreational, we have been socially conditioned ignorantly to strive for constant states of bliss. So people think that, "getting things" girlfriends, material items, money, sex will make you happy. So life becomes ignorant and superficial. People think they are in bliss but really they are sucking the energy out of the world. They kill, they are violent, they polute the world. Destroy the trees, slaughter animals, fuck up the world ignorantly because this idea of bliss have been so steadily implanted in their minds.
I think their is another kind of bliss, this bliss comes from the exact opposite of ignorance. This bliss comes from deep understanding of the world. Where love or whatever it is fills the being and where you are in touch with who you are as a human. You are not blinding programed by what the world has been telling you what to do but you have been following your own bliss. You are in touch with your own purpose.
"Follow your bliss" JOSEPH CAMPBELL
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: p4kSouL]
#8036233 - 02/18/08 12:25 AM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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innocence is ignorance is bliss is a crime
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: dumbfounded1600]
#8036248 - 02/18/08 12:31 AM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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The line comes from a poem written by Thomas Gray in 1742, and it's a poem which relishes youth and laments growing old. The final line of the poem is:
Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise
He's saying if ignorance is to be associated with youth, and wisdom with age, then it's foolish to desire wisdom, and also that it's preferrential that the youthful would not know their fate of growing old.
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: Disco Cat]
#8036263 - 02/18/08 12:35 AM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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It's quite true too, look at little kids. They're so happy and content because they don't know about AIDS, violence, their own mortality. but as soon as you learn about that... it sucks.
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: Chubba]
#8036274 - 02/18/08 12:38 AM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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Quote:
Chubba said: My dad just rang up while I was shitfaced, and told me to cook egg salad, fish and chips and I wish "blah blah blah..."
and she said "are you drinking again"
and I said "na"
and she said "wah wah wah, you sound fucking drunk"....
/now back onto the sky vodka
/it's your fault shroomery
Pronoun concordance?
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Re: Ignorance Is Bliss..What Does It Mean? [Re: dumbfounded1600]
#8036586 - 02/18/08 03:11 AM (16 years, 2 days ago) |
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Ignorance is bliss but Ignorantia juris non excusat
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