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I'm gonna completely dumb down for just a second and ask if anyone has seen Vasquez's vision of "heaven" from Johnny the homicidal maniac?
Despite the fact that it sits in a comic among pictures of graphic dismemberment and excruitating pain, I think it displays a very interesting concept.
In it, all people just sit, and stare into space. They have no cause to do anything. Motivation is the ultimate cause for us to do anything. In heaven, we would have no desires, and hence no motivation, so happiness in heaven, is simply mimiking the dead! Does that sound like the perect world to you?
Consider an earthworm. I've never heard of manically depressed earthworms going around commiting suicide. They presumably don't feel sadness (or other negative emotions in the usual course of events), hence must be close to supreme happiness? Hypothetically if you don't posess the intellect to have desires, you are completley at peace, and hence "happy"? Ignorance is bliss?
Recievers of a full frontal lobotamies, must surely be well on their way to attaining happiness?
To me, happiness is found in the quest. It is striving to attain happiness, wherein happiness is found. I don't believe that happineess is an enduring state. At no point do I believe somebody could state; 'I have achieved happiness, and now I simply must stay at this point'.
(BTW: My discussion of heaven was from a purely hypothetical stance. I am a 'confirmed atheist' )
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