RE: How to be happy
July 30, 2016 at 12:52 am
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2016 at 12:53 am by Excited Penguin.)
(July 30, 2016 at 12:39 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Ignosticism doesn't apply to happiness and I'm not an ignostic anyway.
Happiness is not trivial but the existence of it is indeed trivially true. Of course happiness exists. This thread is about achieving it, not questioning its existence.
Happiness is an ambiguous term, just as that wiki post states, so I'm saying it's meaningless. Ignosticism may not apply to happiness, but something quite like it does nevertheless.
In a trivial sense, yes, happiness exists, except in that trivial sense it is simply an umbrella term for a variety of other emotions, so happiness isn't its own emotion. And then there's the idealized version of happiness, which I already mentioned. That, certainly, doesn't exist, and people never achieve it - and it's the only one people search for. You don't search for love, you find it, you don't search for good times, you stumble upon them, you don't seek out an emotion, it surfaces within you. The only thing people search for is happiness, and happiness is unachievable.
