If to be free from all pain we had to give up pleasure how many would settle for that life?

Question

Just a good hyperthetcal question to ask oneself i think.
When measuring out exactly how much one's life time is spent actually feeling the pleasure sensations within the body compared with how much time we spend feeling the pain body. If female the pain certainly out weighs the pleasure. (This is not talking about the pain and suffering mind, the physical sensation body only!)

God say's he is going to do away with pain and suffering, i just wondered how many would give up pleasure to make this believable and maybe even possible?

Time spent in non feeling state far far out-weighs time spent in pleasure and hopefully pain body state. For those born with problems that create pain in the body then that body is never free from pain. No one spends all the life time in sense pleasure, it is not possible. So why is this time spent in neither pain or pleasure so un-desirable when life times are spent mostly here!!! What is so wrong with this state? No pain no pleasure just being. Able to love and help all. Surely the best way.

Answer 1

if you have never seen the film Equilibrium i suggest you watch it , its a fantastic film and would answer this question wonderfully
but no thank you , i welcome all that comes into my life knowing that there is reason and that much can be learned from it , and i enjoy the pleasure too much also
a life without pleasure isn't a life .. its an existence

Answer 2

Sensations are experienced only when we label them. Otherwise there is no pleasurable Vs. painful. When the physical organism has pain it has ways of dealing with it. Beyond a point (threshold) it shuts down the experiencing mechanism of thought. However, there is no reason why you should endure pain. If there is a way of getting rid of it, why not?

When you label a particular sensation as pleasurable, however the trouble begins. Because then the mind wants to prolong the experience and wants it again and again. Every sensation is fleeting, transient. The body has no interest in prolonging it. It is just like every other sensation. As soon as the thought mechanism tries to capture the sensation and give it form, there begins the conflict.

Pleasure and pain are two sides of the coin, one cannot exist independent of the other. These opposites arise from our cultural conditioning, the language we use and our experiencing mechanism , but this is the only way we have to experience the world around us.

Answer 3

On the other side of the pain is pleasure. I know when I gave birth naturally to my children I could ride the wave of pain into an amazingly blissful place of pleasure. There were waves of pain that would come in then roll out and in it's place would be an incredible place of peaceful pleasure. As a woman I know how awful PMS can be but I have to say I experience more pleasure in this body than pain. So I guess we disagree. People try to fight pain and that just makes it worse. If you go through the pain there is pleasure on the other side.
Love & Light
Sharon
One Planet = One People

Answer 4

Without pain or pleasure, whats the point? We would all walk around feeling nothing. It all comes down to pain and pleasure. I would much rather take both than have neither. It would be a pointless life without.

Answer 5

If so, life would be more boring. There is a thrill in doing dangerous things because there's the risk of pain. As for pleasure, that's obviously desirable. Besides, if I were sick , I'd like to be in enough pain that I know to see my doctor.

By the way, the word is hypothetical. The prefix, hypo, means below, whereas hyper means above.

Answer 6

I have to say that this is what all addictions do. They take away the pain but along with it the real pleasure in life. All is stunted until they become sober or relieved of their addiction. Pain is hard to deal with. I have found Jesus holding my hand as I go through it. I feel that is why God gave him to us. He took on our suffering. What ever our pain he has been there too. His spirit is compassion and he is the healer of souls. I love him and through him I love you- who ever you may be.

Answer 7

It depends on how much happiness do you want in your life and how much suffering you want to endure. It all depends on how you look at each facets in life. If you think you had enough pain in your life then change your perspective and move on try to find something good in a lot of things. If have too much good time or happiness find nothing but mistakes and weaknesses in everyone and anything. Then you will be nothing but a miserable person.

Answer 8

Seeking ways to feel pleasure (and of course, the equivalent level of pain) is what's driven evolution. To give up both would to not be human, but more a rock instead.

Answer 9

"We are delivered from the law", to be free of painful "law worketh wrath". We do not give up grace(pleasure) to be free of law(pain), rather flush law(pain) to have only grace(pleasure).

The law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

He taken away the first (law),
that he might establish the second (grace).

For the only thing established by both is an oxyMORON; Or we could say the only thing established by more law, another law, is "one proselyte" that is "twofold", which is "more the child of hell" than former "hypocrites, fools, vipers, and blind guides" who sat in "Moses' seat": Law Law (Mt 22, 23), which is not merciful, but rather merciless, for the second (law) is like the first (law), and the first of Rom 8:2 law law is law: sin & death, followed by hell(Rev 6:8). So more law, another law, is called "evil concupiscence" and notably made Paul feel "wretched", by causing him to do what he would not do, and not do what he would do, and then hound him with guilt till he felt wretched.

POINT being it's both a "fall" and a "fearful" thing to fall into the plural law law "hands" of a God on "high", in plural divided "heavens"; which is obviously a "fall" from grace "above" in "heaven": "higher than the heavens".

The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 10

Never. Pleasure and pain go hand and hand. Just like love and hate, happy and sad, good and evil. One cannot exist without the other so to me it's really just inconceivable.