What If It Were Possible To Wave A Magic Wand And Make Everyone Happy?

About your first question. If there was a magic wand to make everyone happy, it would need to be a objective one, that would bring them all to the state. It would be a lobotomy wand, that you wave over people and make them all the same. A person happiness is determined by their “make” how they are formed and constituted in their inner divisions of body, Mind, and their emotional state. No one person is the same, for this to be possible, they would all have to be made clean and this would negate their individuality. And yet it is this individuality which is vital to their growth. “I need my pain” — many people would say o that’s ego. But without suffering, there is growth. It is the struggling to overcome ones self, that is that self which has taken place of ones real essence, to have a self. People are different for this reason; life is like a schoolhouse — the differences reference a certain type of development, and certain course taken. To wave a wand and make everyone happy, would defeat the significance of the experience, which is necessary for their progress, in Mind and Being. People do need their suffering, they can transform it, through struggle and come to real happiness, to real life.
No it is not possible. Because as you said, happiness, on this level of being is subjective and quote relative to the happenings that are occurring to you. Peoples happiness, which you could coin, “Organic Happiness” depends solely on your identification. People are happy with their projections of life and people, if things exist within this projection, they are happy, if things go a certain way for them, in keeping with this projection (delusion) they have about themselves and others, they are well, as far as their experience goes. I am happy when such-and-such always greets me a certain way, when such-and-such doesn’t, I speculate, I internally consider, I dislike this person, I return to them what I have projected in delusion that they are doing to me — never do I try to see them without the coloring of my own perspective, never do I try to see as things are, only as I make them be. But this is not Genuine Happiness, which is a sort of freedom from identification, “the freedom TO BE FREE to be you” not what you think you are, but your Authentic essence. The great majority of what people think they are is counterfeit/artificial, dictated by the world, they have parted from their authentic essence a long time ago. You can say that organic “happiness” is divided, sometimes I like, sometimes I don’t — sometimes I smile and depending on what is “happening” sometimes I don’t — stuck between yes and no, positive and negative, affirming and denying, between the various polarities that form the intricate system of ones mental faculties. Real happiness is a wholeness, it is the GOOD of the Sun, it is when one has taken all that is them and unified it into a whole, where everything is seen exactly how it is, SO COMPASSION reigns, empathy reigns, and they know true Love, the real kind, not the fragmentary affection based on association or ones identification/attachment. This happINESS is a HARMONIOUS STATE.
“[...] and when he has bound together the three principles within him, which may be compared to the higher, lower, and middle notes of the scale, and the intermediate intervals—when he has bound all these together, and is no longer many, but has become one entirely temperate and perfectly adjusted nature, then he proceeds to act [...]; always thinking and calling that which preserves and cooperates with the harmonious condition, just and good action, and the knowledge that presides over it, wisdom [...].
Plato, The Republic, Book IV

waving a magic wand is rather wishfull thinking. What is happiness anyway? Some people are happy, when they make others unhappy, And I dont believe the state of happiness can be a constant thing, as happiness is rather fleeting at times. There was this minister who told everyone to leave their cross outside the doors, and after the sermon, they could pick up anyone’s cross instead of their own. funny thing is when the sermon was over, they all picked up their own cross to bear.

If that were possible everything would be wonderful! It’s actually nice to know that someone would imagine a possibility to an easy solution to all of our problems because a problem free life sure sounds refreshing, but yea I see what you mean, without probs you wouldn’t really have something to gage your happiness on, it seems there is a level for everything these days. I don’t think it’s possible to make everyone happy without breaking up the collective reality that most people have.

I had a look at your other questions and you end them all with that armour/steed/jousting thing.
If you waved a magic wand at me to make me happy, I would find that really annoying. So it would go away, then you wouldn’t be happy because its kind of like your signature.
For every ying theres a yang, therefore it is impossible for every single person on the planet to be happy at the same time.
Also, I agree that some people are only happy when they are miserable. I’m related to some of them.

I think people would become bored out of their minds, rather quickly. We have evolved via a world of trouble and problems to overcome. Taking that stimuli away is not a good idea. We would soon stagnate and stop evolving, learning. And when that happens our number would be pretty much up, with the next disaster, because we would have taught ourselves not to think via complacency.
Practicing shaman… quantum physics rocks.

The greatest problem I see here is how can you appreciate a sunny day if there are no rainy ones? We can only qualify our sense of security and well being when it’s related to insecurity and illness.
As you quoted, “I need my pain” otherwise I wouldn’t appreciate painlessness.
God bless.

How about the magic wand fixes things the best way.
So instead of giving the ugly person plastic surgery it sets them up with an equally ugly person.
But that would just take a little bit of work by both people, not even a magic wand.

The bigger question is why should we make everyone happy? What’s the real benefit besides feeling happy? What’s the loss? Which is greater.
If everyone were happy, we’d sure have missed out on a lot of good art. Can you imagine a happy Nirvana? A sane Van Gogh? A smiling Dr. House?

What happens when two people’s idea of happiness are at odds?
If two people desire the same mate, for example, or if many people think that being the wealthiest person in the world would make them happy.
You can’t please everyone.

That would be a hedonistic paradise… even god wasn’t willing to allow that (except for his heavenly kingdom presumably?)

That would be great, but their are to many problems going on in the world for that to happen. Wish that could be a reality, but that’s only wishful thinking though.

I would keep on waving the wand no matter how tired I am to keep every one happy.

I am always happy……Its the spirit that dweels within me.
I can’t help but to be happy. [smile]

I think perhaps Captain Kirk, was, is, will be right, happiness must be compared with its opposite. If happiness was the only game in town, wouldn’t it become boring? Indeed, if one had no experience of sadness, wouldn’t one become indifferent to the sensation of happiness?
My main bone of contention with the idea of heaven or paradise is that eternal bliss is such a strange and surely unrealistic desire. Your magic wand might be likened to a drug for blissful exuberance, with no side effects, and nothing to measure it by because there can be no memory of sadness to spoil the complete happiness achieved.