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Well it's been a while since I read your comment but here's the gist of my response. You're wrong. Well not completly, but knowledge is not happiness, it is merely knowledge. Here are a couple of examples. E.G. 1 Marissa and I were at my dad's house making a lot of noise in the kitchen, just having a gay ol' time. We had inadverdantly woken my stepmother up. Know she knew exactly what was happening, i.e. she had the knowledge. But what to do about it? Now in a sense I guess you could say that this is just more knowledge (the knowledge of what to do to make one most happy, which you would have if you knew everything). But let's restrict this to knowledge that is accesible to humans. She knew what had woken her up. Now she could have been upset (how come these kids wake me up at all hours of the night when they know I have to wake up ealry tomorow etc). She could have come downstairs and told us to be quiet so she could sleep. But she decided to take a more postive spin on it. "I heard you guys laughing downstairs and thought how nice it was that you were in good spirits and so I just put earplugs in and went back to sleep". E.G. 2 (very similar) They were doing some landscaping at Marissa's house and there was a ladder that went to the roof. We (bree, marissa and myself) climbed up with some alchohol and walked around the roof. We walked on top of everyone's bedroom. Not the nicest thing to do after midnight. We walked paritcaluarly loudly on Lulu's ceiling (marissa and bree aren't big fans of Lulu). This is of course disturbing, and Lulu knew exactly what was going on. Well I don't know if she knew how bree and marissa feel, but we'll assume that Lulu knew that they had some disrespect for her because they were walking on top of her room. So what does she do? She comes and joins us on the rooftop and has a gay ol' time with us. Good times. So what do we learn from these examples. It's not just what you know, but how you react to it. And here I have a direct response to you. Happiness is not knowledge (why is depression associated with genius?), even knowing what will make you happy does not make you happy. Doing it does. I am not an idiot, and I think I know how I can make myself happiest. However some of those things will make me unhappy (usually in the short term). Like quiting drinking for example. But happiness is not the knowledge of this, the action of it almost is. The actual feeling is happiness. But this thing I call fulfillment I think is the action. Knowing what to do and doing it, that is fulfillment and that makes you happy. hopefully I will write more on this later. It makes me happy. Post a comment in response: |
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