The saying goes that ignorance is bliss but is it not true that ignorance is just easier?
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Sure, you don't have to put forth any effort to be ignorant. You don't have to take any responsibility because you can just claim ignorance. I guess that is why the courts say "Ignorance of the law is no excuse.", otherwise we would just have a lot of ignorant criminals trying to claim they didn't know any better. Ignorance becomes a major problem for the rest of the world when the ignorant and uninformed are allowed to vote and decide on what laws and bills are passed and what politicians are voted into office. When that happens, ignorance is no longer blissful!\n\nA.H.
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If you're still on the site, and will even read responses to your "question", know that you're going to find ignorance and inane commentary on every site, blog, or message board you visit. Human nature online is not much different that what you experience in daily life.\n\nIt's ok to be contemptous of ignorance; it almost impossible to run away from it.
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Ignorance is bliss because if you don't know something, it can't hurt you. As children, people are themselves and get along much better. The more we age, the farther we lose who we are and begin to restrain ourselves for fear of others. As we grow older, we become increasingly aware of pain and suffering, and the more we know about everything wrong in the world, the more we lose our innocence and become less 'blissful'. I read once that when we lose the innocence of childhood, we become compassionate. That's the start of adulthood. We loose our ignorance and bliss with innocence, but we gain knowledge, compassion, and understanding.
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knowledge is easy to measure. It can be with tests, but inteligence isn't that easy
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Ignorance and more ignorance
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because people can be ignorant.
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Ignorance is what comes to my mind.
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Well I dont fully agree, a good attitude will help you to solve problems, it will make everything go easier. But on itself it wont solve anything...\n\nAbout this quote...\n"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort"\n\nA positive attitude that annoys other people is in fact not a positive attitude, to solve problems. Do you think it will be easier to solve problems by annoying someone else, or by ensuring a good relationship with another person.. \nSo the quote does not much for me actually .
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I don't believe that there is always happiness in knowledge. Sadly, many highly intelligent individuals have commited suicide.\n\nI rest my case.\n\nPersonally, I'd prefer to wear a smile, not a light-bulb.
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Sure there is. Fear.  People generally fear what they don't understand. So, if there is someone who has a uniquely gifted ability and there is no way to easily explain it, that person is feared, even hated.  It is sad what ignorance can create.
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False ignorance is a danger, look at the spread of aids,and other sexual diseses,we need to be more open not in a perveted way but informative so that people can protect themselves people are going to do what they want to anyway, but let them be informed before its too late.
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No, most scollars believe it is "Wisdom & Understanding." The careful reading of this Chapt also supports this.
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Because we are all still in ignorance. Before we all have a fit. Ignorance means: Choosing to ignore fact(in this case anyway) We still choose to ignore the fact that were all human, we all share this planet, haven't found a way off it yet, maybe never will, and that until the end of time we have to share it. That means diversity will most probably always be around, and it's something we can no longer ignore.
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Not at all. No beliefs, no probelms!\n\nKnowledge is the answer. Ignorance is the root of all evil.
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In its simplest form it means what you don't know won't hurt you.\nIt's from Thomas Gray's 1742 poem, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" and the full quote is:\nWhere ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
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No I do not. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge of something and how can that be a good thing?\n\nFor the ignorant person it may seem like it because it is the easy way out...but for those surrounding the ignorant person besides for sometimes getting a good laugh off them no it is not.
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The one that loves ignorance.