Good Things

What are good things? To me something that is good is something that evokes a positive emotion. But why is it so hard sometimes to get this emotion, free of the negative emotions that the positive are bonded to. This is where I can see the adage "ignorance is Bliss" have some merit. For if one is ignorant of the negative emotions then they only experience the positive- enjoying a life of bliss. The problem is that true ignorance is does not exist. For if we are free human beings (speaking in an American backdrop, for more ignorance occurs when a culture is immersed in bondage but we won’t go there now). So if we are free human beings we are not truly ignorant as freedom is knowledge. Granted there are levels of ignorance, and I feel the more ignorant you are the happier you can be. That is when putting equal amounts of energy into something. For a person who has the capability to think will understand the concept of consequences and how EVERY action can have a negative consequence. This statement is difficult for the thinking man to overcome. For that is like telling him to kill one man in order to save his brother. The one man is the negative consequence the positive is his brother is saved. An ignorant man kills the other guy for he doesn’t comprehend the negative aspect of taking another man’s life, a man that was created equal in the image of God. So the ignorant kills and doesn’t feel the negative emotion due to ignorance and just experiences the positive emotions. The thinking man understands death, and therefore struggles with the choice. This struggle will not allow him to experience the positive emotion to the fullest. Therefore either way he chooses he fails, simply because he thinks. This leads me to wonder why advancement is so great; it just sets us up for failure. Take medicine for an example. The human race would probably become extinct without medicine; it is a crutch that we will never be able to remove. If we had no corrective lenses we wouldn’t be able to see and would die being blind how can one get food or avoid dangers, they couldn’t and would perish. But the fact that we would all die without medicine and technology is a mute point because we can’t go back now it is too late. But is a philosophical point, how great is advancement look where it has put us, more vulnerable and susceptible to dangers than ever before. So why is it stressed so much in our society? I am not trying to provide answers I am just pondering over the problem. I do not feel there is an answer and maybe everyone has seen this problem realized there is no answer and moved on a long time ago and I’m just the slow guy. I don’t know, I just feel like ignoring the problem isn’t the answer cause we cannot be truly ignorant, if we were that’s different, be we aren’t. so we need to man up see the problem and well I don’t know it’s like the man choosing the other guy or his brother what do you do? No one has the answer to this dilemma and this is why no one has the answer to the individual issues of how to experience good things better and more often. So if there is no answer to the big thing then there can be none to the little, and we must give up. Thankfully I have found something rather someone called God, in whom the answer is found for he is outside the box. Everything I have said thus far has been logic and reasoning inside the box of this world. But the answer is found outside. I can only speak for myself in all of this for it is a personal quest to obtain contentment in the problems and flaws of this world.