interesting notion,so everything is illusion,including yourself?

Happiness is such a revolting experience that it was created in such a way that it MUST include the lack/absence of it, i.e. sadness, so that you can be happy about it. 

Actually there is a lot of unhealthiness in a 'healthy' body. We have toxin buildup and germ warfare going on every second. 'Health' only means our healthy bits are stronger than our unhealthy bits.

A healthy body doesn't just happen. It needs to be conditioned. That conditioning involves the pain of exercise and often unhealthiness like immunization. When we immunize, they inject a germ (weak dose) into us that we wish to immunize against. Its like throwing us to a gang fight, a small one so we toughen up and are prepared for the big one. We usually feel unwell a day or two after the innoculation.

If we take all that away beforehand, we will be unhealthy. That is the causal link between unhealthiness and health that I see.

If that's the case, what is the meaning of unhappiness when it's obviously an experience most will shun?

I see where you're coming from and you have a good point. I do remember falling sick for a day after I got an innoculation, for smallpox I think. Would you say having fever as being in a healthy or unhealthy state? If not unhealthy, would we describe the people getting treatment at the clinic for cough, fever, etc. as not sick? (sick = unhealthy)

But you see, the problem is that even unhealthy people are capable of being happy. But I'm trying to say is that that the description of the "good", intangible, "feeling" known as happiness cannot be gauged as a nice, acceptable, and embraced feeling until there's an exact opposite emotion that promotes the lack of that particular feeling.

Well in that case, pray explain. Because I don't think I can fully understand the analogy you've pointed out.

This is how we got started:
And so I pointed out, and so you asked me what the f**k. So explain, if I'm really missing something here.

well, problems will always be around the corner, whether you are looking for it or not.

nice to see u too...lol

yup...solutions are there.
the issue is whether one wants to explore the different solutions given out there or he/she rather be a coward by not facing the problem.

ok...hmmm
well, i dont think so.

Sadness is not necessarily needed for happiness, but it sure helps you to understand and appreciate happiness than its original value, i.e. like how some call it: "thy true happiness".

Think about it. A world where sadness simply does not exist. Everyone's joyful and jumping around, and laughing and stuff.

But the problem is, with such a society where sadness is not possible, why will one even bother with the question: "Are you happy?"

And since no one bothers about such a question, why should one bother with the word: "happy", a term to describe a specific, human emotion?

And since no one bothers about this "happy" word, isn't the word "happy" simply just vestigial word? An emotion that is so common (since there aren't any sadness available in the world) that people are simply living their lives without knowing what being "happy" really means? Will that then, means, that a world without sadness will simply be a world that is simply voided of all emotions, simply "happiness" is simply valued as something "common", and "mundane"?

and how would you understand sadness without experiencing it?

yes, books tell me that, but i have yet to find a book that adequately explain feelings like sad, love, etc

as well as feelings are not such discrete and fixed properties that different people experience it the same way for the same event. heck the same people might have different feeling about the same event at different point of life.

bad analogy much?

uh huh, yeah right, please give some examples.

experience sadness = being sad.

so sadness now is defined by the time period? sad is sad, stop twisting about.

i can observe his reaction to his sadness, i cannot feel his sadness because i'm not him. and i avoid it because i dont want to have the same reaction. i have no idea what the experience is.

and even come back to you example. if i dont gamble and lose money, would i be happy? i would be in an emotionally neutral state because i will have no idea what is the emotionally negative state is

are you sad now? no? does that mean you are happy?

at what point does your happiness scale slide to the unhappy side? and at that exact boundary point, are you happy, or unhappy?

or a more scientific analogy, at pH 7, is a liquid acidic, or alkaline?