Truth or Happiness?

[packbat]

Okay, I can't sleep for wondering how people would answer this, so...

Which do you value more: truth or happiness?

Answer any way you please (though I reserve the right to delete anything obscene).

Comments

[ailado.livejournal.com]

My first thought was happiness. I'm not all that confident that truth is all that concrete a thing, in the first place. I don't believe ignorance is bliss, but for the most part I value happiness over knowledge. I've spent the greater part of my life in constant analysis, trying to find that glint of awareness, but it hasn't been terribly rewarding. It only gets one so far. It's what one does with it that matters, I think, not discovery.

BTW, Have you ever heard of pancritical rationalism?

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Hm, interesting.

No, I haven't heard of it. What is it?

[ailado.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancritical_rationalism

too lazy for html. but there you go.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I'd heard of Popper, but I wasn't aware of much of the corpus of theories developing after his work.