Knowledge = Destruction of Simplicity = Infinite Sadness

[Diode-Man]

The fun in life is greatly surrounded in new things to do, learn, explore and love. If one obtained all knowledge (such as God), you'd suddenly become very very depressed.

All knowledge means all experience. If that happened to a person, all the pain and joys of the ages would be infused into one bloated consciousness. It's sad to think that love of life could be destroyed by obtaining all knowledge of the universe.

Now I'm wondering if Eternal life would be all that fun.

A person who lives forever is eventually going to become bored, depressed, and angry with all things. I'd rather die and be reincarnated with knowledge of previous lives lost, for an infinity, than live one story that gets extremely boring after about 10,000 years or so. hahaha

(random/irrelevant thought: Ideas like this make me hate bands like.... Smashing Pumpkins, what a stupid band More especially hate their album: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.... I hate that album so much )

 

[nietzschefan]

Ya you are probably right about that...

Where the good begins.-- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s. 53, Walter Kaufmann transl.

 

[Betrayer0fHope]

What kind of options are those? If you know everything, you know how to make yourself happy.. Isn't that obvious?

 

[Norsefire]

Where's the option of "living forever"?

 

[Diode-Man]

What kind of options are those? If you know everything, you know how to make yourself happy.. Isn't that obvious?

Hmm.... I suppose that there are some flaws in this theory....

Well maybe. Much of being happy for me, is knowing that I don't know everything, and that there is always something new and mysterious in the world, still to be discovered.

 

[Diode-Man]

I love learning.... thats a big deal in life for me. If I had nothing to learn.... that would be a major loss in my book