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NanceGreggs

(27,821 posts) Sun Aug 29, 2021, 02:34 PM Aug 2021

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If ignorance is bliss ...

... the US is currently the most blissful place on earth.

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If ignorance is bliss ... (Original Post) NanceGreggs Aug 2021 OP

Is knowledge agony? Cuz a lot of smart people are suffering. LakeArenal Aug 2021 #1

And they are suffering ... NanceGreggs Aug 2021 #2

Willfully ignorant. LakeArenal Aug 2021 #5

Yes. Emphatically, yes. n/t Moebym Aug 2021 #6

there has to be a knack to it... stillcool Aug 2021 #3

People do not suffer from knowing... sanatanadharma Aug 2021 #4

'tis folly to be woke? bigtree Aug 2021 #7

LakeArenal

(28,863 posts)

1. Is knowledge agony? Cuz a lot of smart people are suffering.

Reply to NanceGreggs (Original post)

Sun Aug 29, 2021, 02:37 PM

Aug 2021

NanceGreggs

(27,821 posts)

2. And they are suffering ...

Reply to LakeArenal (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 29, 2021, 02:44 PM

Aug 2021

... because of the blissfully ignorant.

LakeArenal

(28,863 posts)

5. Willfully ignorant.

Reply to NanceGreggs (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 29, 2021, 03:01 PM

Aug 2021

Moebym

(989 posts)

6. Yes. Emphatically, yes. n/t

Reply to LakeArenal (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 29, 2021, 03:03 PM

Aug 2021

stillcool

(32,626 posts)

3. there has to be a knack to it...

Reply to NanceGreggs (Original post)

Sun Aug 29, 2021, 02:56 PM

Aug 2021

the only way I know to be blissfully ignorant is with a lot of help from drugs and alcohol. Even then, at some point you have to sober up, and wafts of reality blow in. Definitely not blissful. I guess you have to be there...in the zone of ignorance to even appreciate that kind of bliss. Looks like hell to me.

sanatanadharma

(3,747 posts)

4. People do not suffer from knowing...

Reply to NanceGreggs (Original post)

Sun Aug 29, 2021, 02:57 PM

Aug 2021

People do not suffer from knowing...

People suffer from desiring...

Desiring is rooted in ignorance...

Ignorance is not bliss when desire exists...

bigtree

(86,013 posts)

7. 'tis folly to be woke?

Reply to NanceGreggs (Original post)

Sun Aug 29, 2021, 03:06 PM

Aug 2021

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