This question came to me as I read a poem from another about pain and agony.
2007-03-15 06:24:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
While I agree with some of the thoughts that have been put forth, when life is viewed from the animal kingdoms' point of view ... How often is eat or be eaten the plain truth?
2007-03-15 11:53:04 · update #1
At least you have a reasonable assumption of what the meaning of life is - a question that is asked here time after time - it is pain.
2007-03-15 06:30:32 · answer #1 · answered by Polyhistor 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Your argument is fallacious.
It does logically follow that if life is pain then no pain would mean no life. But let's look a little closer the other conclusions of your premise...
If life is pain, the more pain means more life and less pain means less life. Can you heal sick people by slapping them? Will enough anaesthetic to knock someone insensible automatically kill them? Are people who have lost a limb more alive if they feel phantom pain from it and less alive if they don't?
These are all pretty much ridiculous assertions. Thus the premise that life is pain can only be false. Arguably, it's just as (not) true as the premise that 'life is pleasure'. Dead things certainly don't seem to experience pain or pleasure, but that hardly makes life identical to these experiences.
2007-03-15 07:39:28 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why 'pain'? God would not have created such a beautiful world if He wished us to have pain all along.
Let us associate life with a painless phiosophy. Let us make our work a pleasure giving one for both the performer and the observer.
2007-03-15 07:06:09 · answer #3 · answered by smartobees 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pain ? What do you mean by pain ?
There is no such thing as pain - both physically and spritually . It depend upon your tolerabilty . Nothing will be painful if you don't feel it . Only when you feel , you will get the pain .
Pain is only an imaginarry feeling . It is human nature to torture their body as well as mind to get consolation from others .
2007-03-15 06:44:30 · answer #4 · answered by subra 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gee, call me unenlightened, yet i stumble on discomfort to be no longer something stable in any respect - only painful. i ought to very nicely stay devoid of discomfort and that i could venture to declare that definitely everyone else ought to too.
2016-09-30 23:22:52 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
without pain u wont feel relieved, without sadness you wont taste happiness, yen and Yuan positive and negative. LIFE
2007-03-15 07:32:54 · answer #6 · answered by rima 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there were no Clouds..we wouldn't Enjoy the Sun as Much as we Do.
Forget where I heard that...maybe Church
2007-03-15 06:34:53 · answer #7 · answered by dancerciser 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without sweetness.
What is Joy without sweetness?
2007-03-15 06:42:23 · answer #8 · answered by Blank 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life with out pain would be dull, dry and insipid. It intensifies pleasures like darkness enhances brightness of the light.
2007-03-19 06:24:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
It would be painless.
2007-03-15 07:07:23 · answer #10 · answered by astralpen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋