Isis wrote:
i don't see suffering as a flaw. i don't see it as something caused by not accepting something or not balancing something. i think the root cause of suffering is a need. i'm only seeing perfection here. i see it as lifting weights & growing stronger
most times we have the choice to end the suffering by suicide. it's not "plain stupid" to think 1 could get brownie points in an afterlife for choosing to suffer instead of leave
@Isis: Suffering is said to be the given name for reactions of internal sensations and brain chemicals by external forces that cause discomfort. However, this is only part of the definition; the other part describing suffering as these reactions from recollection of such feelings. In other words, suffering can not only be on a physical level but it can also be on an emotional level.
As humans,since we carry instincts as well as surprising psychological abilities,we may be able to help ourselves to "feel less" of our physical and emotional pain,as stoicism seems to prove,in a way. For example,what has been mentioned above about monks lighting themselves on fire and seeming to not react in pain.
I've heard of a story of a man who,supposedly,didn't react to another man breaking his leg. I don't know if this story of stoicism is true or fiction,but the idea that someone of human nature can cause their minds to "trick" their body into not feeling pain from something as intense as repeatedly breaking a bone is very interesting. In Psychology and Psychiatry,there may be a touch of this idea when someone in such a profession tells their client that,even though some pain may linger,there is a way to "let go" of at least a fraction of our emotional,psychosomatic and even genetic aching through changes in brain chemistry,which could be accomplished through internal or external chemicals.
There have been tests to prove the idea that certain phobias can be passed down through generations. If the mind is able to work that well against the animal kingdom,perhaps there is a way to allow that kind of power to help it?
i don't see suffering as a flaw. i don't see it as something caused by not accepting something or not balancing something. i think the root cause of suffering is a need. i'm only seeing perfection here. i see it as lifting weights & growing stronger
most times we have the choice to end the suffering by suicide. it's not "plain stupid" to think 1 could get brownie points in an afterlife for choosing to suffer instead of leave
@Isis: Suffering is said to be the given name for reactions of internal sensations and brain chemicals by external forces that cause discomfort. However, this is only part of the definition; the other part describing suffering as these reactions from recollection of such feelings. In other words, suffering can not only be on a physical level but it can also be on an emotional level.
As humans,since we carry instincts as well as surprising psychological abilities,we may be able to help ourselves to "feel less" of our physical and emotional pain,as stoicism seems to prove,in a way. For example,what has been mentioned above about monks lighting themselves on fire and seeming to not react in pain.
I've heard of a story of a man who,supposedly,didn't react to another man breaking his leg. I don't know if this story of stoicism is true or fiction,but the idea that someone of human nature can cause their minds to "trick" their body into not feeling pain from something as intense as repeatedly breaking a bone is very interesting. In Psychology and Psychiatry,there may be a touch of this idea when someone in such a profession tells their client that,even though some pain may linger,there is a way to "let go" of at least a fraction of our emotional,psychosomatic and even genetic aching through changes in brain chemistry,which could be accomplished through internal or external chemicals.
There have been tests to prove the idea that certain phobias can be passed down through generations. If the mind is able to work that well against the animal kingdom,perhaps there is a way to allow that kind of power to help it?
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