Truth or happiness

[Material Girl]

::happiness::

Can anyone explain why Asian girls always look perfect? Why don't I ever see them with puffy eyes or even a wrinkle? What's the secret, TelCat? Do tell. :wub:

[Squeezer]

Can anyone explain why Asian girls always look perfect? Why don't I ever see them with puffy eyes or even a wrinkle? What's the secret, TelCat? Do tell. :wub:

i sure cant :wub:

[Epinephrine]

LIKE WHOA :wub:

[fLaReD]

fucking women

[soup]

Can anyone explain why Asian girls always look perfect? Why don't I ever see them with puffy eyes or even a wrinkle? What's the secret, TelCat? Do tell. :wub:

They don't have beautiful eyelids as we do.


http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1950/

[T3l Ca7]

Many of the people who help the poor and needy these days does it just to make themself feel good and boost their conscience. Why is this happening? What happened to the thought that we're helping people in trouble because it's a privilege?

I do not think it was any different in the past, whether people realized it was another issue.

Depends on your definition/meaning of the word "truth" in your post. If you mean pseudo-truth then I'd rather be happy. If you mean objective truth, then even if it was attainable wouldn't it make you completely content?

The words "truth" and "happiness" are too vague to expect a serious, well thought answer. Then again, this IS TW forums.

Ok, fair enough accusation. Well, maybe I should clarify.

By happiness, I mean to obtain happiness (by all means).

By truth, I mean to search for the truth, to know the truth and to behold the truth. Of course, truth is ever so elusive, we will never know all the truth.

But consider the example, if someone you loved dearly was dying from late stage cancer, and with the current technology of science, the chance of her survival was only 10%. Would you accept the truth that she was unlikely to live longer than 3 months or would you wake up everyday, hoping miracle would happen and she would be able to make it and in a way made yourself into believing it?

[T3l Ca7]

Happiness is a lie. It is the tool used by a normative society to repress individuality.

Happiness is a feeling, it can not be a lie. It is how to obtain it that can be a lie.

Since I do not believe it's an either-or question, I will go with the fusion of truth and happiness, making true happiness become a reality for not only myself, but for all people.

Well, isn't truth happiness ... just ... happiness. It does not imply truth. :fear:

[T3l Ca7]

Can anyone explain why Asian girls always look perfect? Why don't I ever see them with puffy eyes or even a wrinkle? What's the secret, TelCat? Do tell

Asian girls do NOT look perfect, a lot of them are just ugly (it is not like I am so totally hot).

My mum looks much younger than her real age, but then again both of her parents are 96 and thriving, go figure :greedy:

truth or happiness? Im always happy with the truth. Id be happy with just a girl friend right now. T3l Ca7, you single?

I can be your girl friend, but not girlfriend ... but since you have not asked for it I guess it doesn't matter :fear:

[dads revenge]

Truth?!? You want the truth!??! You can't handle the truth!

damn took 25 posts before that got in EPI FTW

The truth will not make you happy and being happy will not lead you to truth. So I would say don't worry be happy.

[Kontrolz]

But consider the example, if someone you loved dearly was dying from late stage cancer, and with the current technology of science, the chance of her survival was only 10%. Would you accept the truth that she was unlikely to live longer than 3 months or would you wake up everyday, hoping miracle would happen and she would be able to make it and in a way made yourself into believing it?

If the person is going to die then all the hoping in the world will not change that fact. The only way you will be content after the person dies is accepting the truth of them being gone. Why delay the process of accepting truth? In the end you're only causing yourself more pain. You wont ever be happy your friend is dead but you also cannot self-deceive and believe they didn't die.

That seems to be a poor example though. There is no choice between truth and ignorance because you already know the truth, that your friend is dying.

Truth is what appears to be self-evident to an independent consciousness.

[Xog]

telecommunicationscat needs a large dose of magic mushrooms

[Epinephrine]

The Allegory of the cave

[Kontrolz]

I love the allegory of the cave epi.

[Squeezer]

The Allegory of the cave

omigod! it's like someone already thought about this

[Fluffz]

Happiness is a feeling

No its not. At best its a biological prison in which we locked ourselves inside in order to out-evolute others. At worst its an active oppression of people by the majority.

Happiness is not obtained, it is stamped on you. Once you free yourself from this conform thinking happiness is something you continuously possess rather than archive through choices.

The happiness you describe is a lie, its true form can be found only inside yourself where your word happiness barely applies to it anymore. Thats why your whole question is messed up, it only exists because you define happiness as something opposed to truth which it isnt.