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If you are to live a life without pain and burden, would you consider yourself fortunate? Thanks.

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Life is a lesson. Learn from it.

no.see odin.his sacrifices and the pains he suffered made him a god.

pain,suffering etc... they forge us to create a great piece of art.

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"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
Voltaire

Yes, but that is because I'm not relativist.

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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
~Bertrand Russell

no idea if i would consider myself fortunate cause me no prince of lalaland... but anyways i guess for all other people like us who are stuck in competition against each other pain is part and parcel cause no pain no gain...

I would totally consider myself fortunate. While the pain and suffering has, indeed, forged me into the person I am now, I'd have liked the opportunity to become a different me without the pain.

The only reason people accept their painful pasts is because to do otherwise is to be miserable and unhappy. We need to somehow justify the suffering we endured so we say things like, "I wouldn't be who I am today without those experiences."

Awful things happen, and we need to accept them and move on, but to be given the opportunity to live a life without them would be a priceless gift beyond measure.

Some people live noodle-salad lives.

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The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

Some pain and suffering makes the good moments better.

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"The Truth may be out there but the lies are in your head"
"I tend to think if God wanted us to believe in him he'd exist."

You can't appreciate the highs without the lows.

See, I don't believe that at all.

I'm pretty sure I'd still love my son and daughter with all my heart even if their older brother and sister hadn't died in a fire....

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The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

but you miss them the same...

Knowing loss makes me appreciate that which is left more.

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السلام عليكم

But whose highs and lows are we talking about? We see suffering and pain around us all the time, and very little of it actually touches each of us (comparatively), yet we appreciate our gifts more when we see the pain and hardship that all those around us go through.

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Sanctuary: a small safe place in a troubling world

A very large part of me wants to agree with Mellony, that to live without pain would be ideal, but I figure that pain is inevitable, so we might as well embrace it as noble suffering.

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"I learned to stick up to myself today, you're not angry are you?"

I don't embrace pain, hell no, and I don't need it nor want it nor desire it nor want anything whatsoever to do with it. Pleasure and pain are what they are because they are relative, sure, but relatively speaking there is no doubt at all that I prefer pleasure, hands down, no doubt about it.

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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
~Bertrand Russell

And yeah, I know what pain is. Now that I know what it is, I certainly don't need anymore of it to prefer pleasure. You can have your pain if you need it. I can do without it. I'm a hedonist. I love pleasure.

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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
~Bertrand Russell

See, my problem is I'm a hater. I've grown up surrounded by rich kids and airheads, and when I was younger I figured that they knew nothing of true suffering and that I did, so I hated them. Now I'm staring to realize that it's me who's never seen any real pain in life, and I kind of want to.

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"I learned to stick up to myself today, you're not angry are you?"