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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

Better to accept that you may be wrong and continue questioning, or buy into a belief and give yourself over?

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Sometimes it seems as if the ignorant and self-deluded are happier, and if happiness is the goal of enlightenment wouldn't ignorance be the path?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Humility demands of us that we must always consider that we may be wrong. This is the essence of an open mind.

  • ?
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    1 decade ago

    If there is only one path to happiness it would not be ignorance. Perpetual consciousness would enable life experiences to pass through the consciousness before being released. Unreleased experiences would result in blockages. Learning and growing from the experience prior to releasing it is how one might achieve happiness.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes.

    But that, " happiness is the goal of enlightenment..." is clearly mistaken.

    See the source below for a clearer and more enlightened integrative account.

    Source(s): The work of the western philosopher kr Popper (e.g. his brilliant essay called Emancipation thro Knowledge in the book, In search of a better world) Also his better,clearcut distinction between the actual "enlightenment" and the real "rennaissance")
  • 1 decade ago

    @Jonathan, just because there might be a life after death doesn't mean we should believe in something. what you are stating is basically pascals wager. he said that we should believe in god because if he is real then we go to heaven and all that nonsense, and if he isn't, there really isn't a big downside to it. To believe in something just because "there may be a life after death" is hogwash. As for the original question, id say keep questioning, because the answers are out there, it just may take your entire life to find an answers, good luck!

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  • 1 decade ago

    it is always better to continue questioning. on the other hand people committed suicide because they questioned too much. that is why athiesm goes against logic, because, what if there is life after death?

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Questioning is seeking and troublesome where as believing is dreaming

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