Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pain is my protection against this place. I like to gouge my wounds with a broken stick that has nice big chunks of sea salt glued to its splintered end. I figure if I can still feel my nerves crying crimson tears, then I'm okay. Once I ran down the sidewalk, tripped three times and was so happy to see rivulets of blood gushing from my mangled knees that I couldn't stop grinning for days...
Indeed, the idea of human suffering and the theory of a benevolent deity seem wholly incompatible. If a higher power exists, and He is "good" and "omnipotent," then how can He possibly allow His creations to suffer pain? Why do we have even the capability to suffer...
...answer this question, but many before me have tried. C.S. Lewis devoted an entire book, The Problem of Pain, to it. But one is convinced by Lewis only if one subscribes to his unique, Christian beliefs. Moreover, nearly every religion tries to answer the "problem of pain...
...point is, each of us will suffer throughout our life. The trick is to recognize that others suffer too and attempt to make life more livable for us all. I'm not convinced ignoring Sally Struthers is immoral, but it is immoral to forget the pain of the people she helps...
...action, all the blood and gore of bombings is really just more material for the cameras to take in. It's the book as snuff film, real pain made distant by the act of filming. At one point, the apparent master terrorist-supermodel Bobby Hughes commands the killing, and then turns to his associate with the camcorder and says "Keep rolling...