To lie to yourself and make yourself happy, or to find the truth at all costs? Are we better off enjoying life and taking things as they come, or should we look for something more? Which makes a "better life"?

Should we even think about things like death or truth, or should we just ignore them? It's an old question, but still a tough one.

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one important point is: Is knowing the truth better?

personally my philosophy is to live life while at the same time analyse the little clues given away. Enjoying what i've got but don't denny what I may get. keeping off ignorance is important, but there are things we don't want know about, all the rest is good knowledge.

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Second option all the way.  If you can't look back at your life and say "Wow, that was a good ride, I don't regret it at all.", then what's the point of having it?  Why should we be alive if we're not going to make something worthwhile of our lives that we won't turn back on?

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- I believe because it is impossible. -

I agree with Xocrates. There's a balance to be kept between the truth and the illusion. There's nothing lost and everything gained by knowing the truth and yet also enjoying the ride.

Life should not have been. It was a mistake that would cost us everything.

This goes with "Ignorance is Bliss" which I have begun to believe.  Knowledge is a burden for once you know, you will always know.  To not know means you don't have to worry about something or regret because you know no different.

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My head hurts................ ow...............

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Gotta get this monkey off my back. Hey! Get off! *monkey screeching*

The thing is,mankind tends to be naturally curious.

As for my beliefs,I like to explore things and find out about them.But I also like the idea that there are still age-old mysteries left in this supposedly modern world of ours.

Such as ghosts,I like researching them and checking out all the latest information on them but a part of me hopes mankind never finds out what ghosts really are.

So I'd have to say I'd like to know the truth but I still can't help but wonder if ignorance is better.

 

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Ever so slowly I slip into the depths of madness...

I try not to wonder about things. Cause it always ends up with me taking Tylenol for my major headache. But sometimes I do wonder, mmmmm...*Leaves to take Tylenol*

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Gotta get this monkey off my back. Hey! Get off! *monkey screeching*

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This goes with "Ignorance is Bliss" which I have begun to believe.  Knowledge is a burden for once you know, you will always know.  To not know means you don't have to worry about something or regret because you know no different.

Only true from a single perspective, the person who is ignorant.  But the person who is ignorant cannot neccessarily classify themself as blissful, if they don't realize that the system that they are living in is cheating them, that their life is merely an illusion of the ruling class, so that the ignorant working bums will continue their mindless servitude till the end of time.  No, being ignorant does not make one blissful, and yet, the opposing sentiment is neither true.  Knowledge rarely brings greater happiness, yet at the same time you cannot truly be happy without knowing something about what's going on.  If you are completely "ignorant" one must assume you are not aware, and because of that, you cannot be happy.  Happiness is a state of existence which perpetuates a feeling of bliss, and if true bliss is unachievable without knowledge, while knowledge in and of itself brings some sort of pain, isn't that ironic?

Ironic, yet paradoxically true.  Pain and pleasure are often intermingled, for if you look at nearly any happy event there is some sort of carthargic pain involved.  A purge of things unneeded, of some sort.  In any case, I follow a far more specific philosohpy: enlightenment would be the entirety of knowledge, and since enlightenment means that one shall be removed from the burdens of actual desire (according to Buddhist precepts - desire brings pain), then in and of itself only a truly enlightened person (who is not ignorant) is happy.

Lets all be Buddhists.

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"... if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for Destruction Ice is also great
And would suffice."
- Robert Frost