We are also the children of altruists, iconoclasts and serene kind-hearted peace-lovers. To believe any different is to lose the hope for the future.
Any fool can regret yesterday, as the Manic Street Preacher correctly says.
The potential for pain is infinite.
The capacity of the sufferer is finite.
Thus, there will always be pain in the world.
An individual's ability to suffer is limited.
While there is being there is pain.
Only in death is there freedom from pain.
Death is the endless 'experience' of nothing.
Existence is the constant suffering of pain by degree.
Pain is infinite.
The sufferer is finite.
Alleviation can therefore only be partial or temporary.
The can be no final escape unless one believes in rebirth or existence post-death.
Pain is being within the world. It is an excess of contact.
Managing pain is control of the circumstances of the world.
Something that can never be total. Although it is the dream of every dictator.
Pain is the outcome of existence. It is the proof of the passage of time.
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