Yerda
Veteran Member
If you think about it, you probably don't need to worry about defining happiness. If you can define it, problem solved.The idea of paradise falls into the same bucket as utopia; it's not realistic. If you want to be happy forever, you have to define happiness.
If you can't then you can feel it without being able to define it and you don't have to worry about defining it. Problem also solved. Celebrate with a biscuit.
The reason we aren't able to experience constant happiness might not be anything to do with needing the opposite for contrast. It is, at least in some part, connected to the type of things we are biologically. It might very well be possible for a person to have a constant state of happiness.Is that a permanently sustainable state and is it even desirable to be permanently happy, without contrast? Would happiness not lose something were there no contrast? Furthermore, which sorts of alteration would it take to make humans eternally happy? The way I understand it, the concept is more horrifying than it is pleasing. How would everyone get along? They would have to desire the same thing and be the same way. They would also have to be free of sin.
And let's not stop there. It might well be possible for a person to live a life completely encased in total euphoria. I mean, who knows how good persons can possibly feel?
Btw, I don't believe in heaven but I can imagine it and I like the look of the place.