http://entangleduniverse.net/blog/2008/09/living-with-pain-and-pleasure/ Self improvement at the speed of light Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:21:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://entangleduniverse.net/blog/2008/09/living-with-pain-and-pleasure/#comment-1716 Sheri Angell Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:41:35 +0000 http://entangleduniverse.net/blog/2008/09/living-with-pain-and-pleasure/#comment-1716 Please visit Angellviews when you can. We have passed an award on to you! Please visit Angellviews when you can. We have passed an award on to you!

]]> http://entangleduniverse.net/blog/2008/09/living-with-pain-and-pleasure/#comment-1029 rummuser Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:22:12 +0000 http://entangleduniverse.net/blog/2008/09/living-with-pain-and-pleasure/#comment-1029 Where are you Elio? Where are you Elio?

]]> http://entangleduniverse.net/blog/2008/09/living-with-pain-and-pleasure/#comment-851 Sheri Angell Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:57:51 +0000 http://entangleduniverse.net/blog/2008/09/living-with-pain-and-pleasure/#comment-851 Very well written post: "Think again when you procrastinate. At the beginning you escape from the pain of doing something you judge as boring, you avoid it for days. When the pressure becomes too high, and you feel a greater pain because of the consequence of not taking action, you will eventually perform the task." I am printing this (now, not later!) and putting it where I can see it through out my day! Thank you! Very well written post:
“Think again when you procrastinate. At the beginning you escape from the pain of doing something you judge as boring, you avoid it for days. When the pressure becomes too high, and you feel a greater pain because of the consequence of not taking action, you will eventually perform the task.”
I am printing this (now, not later!) and putting it where I can see it through out my day! Thank you!

]]> http://entangleduniverse.net/blog/2008/09/living-with-pain-and-pleasure/#comment-772 DaveyB Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:18:55 +0000 http://entangleduniverse.net/blog/2008/09/living-with-pain-and-pleasure/#comment-772 Humans learn more from pain than pleasure - if life is a series of peaks and troughs we are only waiting to fall back into the troughs that the majority of life exists in. It sounds like a cynical point of view but imagine if two people apply for a job, the first person gets it - they are happy, but the second person, suffering the pain of not being employed, learns more. The first person remains ignorant until they once again suffer. If you describe life as an endless journey to escape pain then we all exist in a relatively unhappy state until we grasp brief moments of happiness...but then shouldn't everyone strive only to be content if happiness always means another person is unhappy? Or does humanity not progress at all if we do not suffer. Humans don't only experience pleasure or pain...they are much more complex, but if you want to reduce the debate to religion you either view society as 'good is the abscence of evil' or 'evil is the absence of good'. Humans learn more from pain than pleasure - if life is a series of peaks and troughs we are only waiting to fall back into the troughs that the majority of life exists in. It sounds like a cynical point of view but imagine if two people apply for a job, the first person gets it - they are happy, but the second person, suffering the pain of not being employed, learns more. The first person remains ignorant until they once again suffer.
If you describe life as an endless journey to escape pain then we all exist in a relatively unhappy state until we grasp brief moments of happiness…but then shouldn’t everyone strive only to be content if happiness always means another person is unhappy? Or does humanity not progress at all if we do not suffer.
Humans don’t only experience pleasure or pain…they are much more complex, but if you want to reduce the debate to religion you either view society as ‘good is the abscence of evil’ or ‘evil is the absence of good’.

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