Would you like to know things you do not know?

[Mr. Ed]

Somethings are best hidden from me because once I know something there is no turning back to a former state of understand. I think about the atrocities of war and murder, it would be hard for me to live with that. Knowing the agenda of government would push me further away the trust scale than I am already. Religion is another huge institution, like the government and as far as I am concern are no different by comparison.

Knowing a secret includes what you plan to do with the secret. Are morally convicted to expose the secret or will you keep it to yourself? What if people's depended on the secrets you keep? Would you rectify an adulterous situation even if you did not know the other parties?

If someone was stealing, would you report it? What about family abuse, child or spouse?

Secrets come with responsibility are you willing to act responsibly based on what you know?

 

[CallMeKate]

Somethings are best hidden from me because once I know something there is no turning back to a former state of understand. I think about the atrocities of war and murder, it would be hard for me to live with that. Knowing the agenda of government would push me further away the trust scale than I am already. Religion is another huge institution, like the government and as far as I am concern are no different by comparison.

Hmmm.... well, I'll tell ya, @Mr. Ed ... there was a time in my life when I would have wanted to know everything. I wanted to know what was going on around me whether I actually had a stake in the outcome or not. If there were secrets, by golly, you'd better share them with me so that I can see if I could help/fix (I've always been a fixer and it's caused so much grief.) But now? Nah... too much anxiety that way and I'm perfectly fine being oblivious now.

 

[Lewkat]

There are so many things I've become aware of over the decades that I would have happily gone to the hereafter never having known.

 

[NorthernLight]

Some things aren't worth knowing. The news? Nothing I can do about it, and it's just upsetting. Secrets? No, unless I can help (sometimes it's helpful just to listen). Even my own past, I mostly strive to forget.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I think I'm like everybody else, what I don't know is vast compared to what I do know. If we were afraid of what we don't know, we'd be writing these threads on parchment, and waiting for a guy on a horse to deliver them.

 

[spectratg]

We know very little about the universe in which we live. And, in general, except for scientists, humanity pays very little attention to it. In the vastness of the universe in time and space, human "secrets" are nothing.

 

[Murrmurr]

Yes, I would. It's a lot, but yes.

 

[Murrmurr]

We know very little about the universe in which we live. And, in general, except for scientists, humanity pays very little attention to it. In the vastness of the universe in time and space, human "secrets" are nothing.

One of my favorite You-Tubers is a guy who researches all that universe stuff for you, Anton Petrov.

 

[Tish]

I would like to know, WTF is going on with all these UFOs

 

[Disgustedman]

Somethings are best hidden from me because once I know something there is no turning back to a former state of understand. I think about the atrocities of war and murder, it would be hard for me to live with that. Knowing the agenda of government would push me further away the trust scale than I am already.

Well, just a year after 9/11 G. Bush did say "We are looking to prevent further attacks and HAVE DONE SO" meaning there's dead bodies that were terrorists. As Barney Fife was so proud to say "Nip it in the bud!"

But, we went deeper. We didn't HAVE TO invade Afghanistan. There wasn't a good reason. Which is sad. Besides all the weapons left behind.

We could have simply let the SEALs, Green Berets, Army Rangers and others go quietly and eliminate hostiles with less collateral damage.

And all we ended up with is a rock quarry where we wasted 2-3 trillion and thousands of lives

 

[bingo]

ignorance is bliss

 

[Alligatorob]

Would you like to know things you do not know?

Yes, I could be Carnac.

 

[George1959]

I'd like to know things I don't know. But only important ones and not the gossip about the so-called celebrities.