Define "pain" beyond it's dictionary meaning and medical connotation.?

Answer 1

Pain is what you want.

If you didn't need anything, and/or if you didn't want anything, then you wouldn't know about pain.

But it's all good, even pain.

Pain is so close to pleasure. Actually, pain is the absence of pleasure.

Pain and pleasure are the same. The only difference between them is you!0!

Answer 2

It just means they are Protestants who are far more ignorant than the mainstream Protestantism. Typically such a person is a fundamentalist. Why do so many Protestants not want to be identified as Protestants? Probably because they have a sense of insecurity as to how they would deal with the influx of questions directed toward the justification of Protestant doctrine. It's all part of their plan to avoid having to assert themselves on the defensive, as there is no defense. Instead, they find ways to turn every situation into an attack on another faith. Plus, they don't want to admit the harsh truth that their faith was founded by a man. They are simply trying to find ways to avoid admitting that the roots of their faith can be traced back to the Catholic Church.

Answer 3

My personal definition of "Pain" is anything that becomes uncomfortable beyond one's personal threshhold of tolerance for that specific discomfort.

This is true in perpetuity, whether it be physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually.

Eventually, exposure to pain may cause an acclimation, whereby pain would no longer be "painful".

Once the threshhold has been increased, the pain must also increase for it to remain as "painful" as it once was.

Think of your hand. Now, think of it after digging in the snow for ten minutes. Now think about going inside and turning on cool (not cold) water until it feels like it is burning your hand (a presumably painful sensation). After about 2 minutes, your hand will warm up, acclimating to the cool water. The painful sensation should diminish considerably. Now think about what happens if you then increase the temperature of the water until it feels as if it is burning again. Than, wait for your hand to acclimate. You should be able to do this two, maybe even three times before the water actually IS burning you.

Each time, your threshhold for pain had been increased. You increased the pain, but eventually the threshhold again increased. In order for the sensation to actually be "painful", the amount of pain must have been increased.

I admit that this is a crude example, but it illustrates the point that each person has their own relative tolerances to certain forms of pain, be it failure, humiliation, heat, cold, loss, violence, neglect, etc.

And, that each form of pain has its own levels of intensity that either exceeds the threshhold of the individual or doesn't.

Pain is relative, but it's defining characteristics can be defined. For a sensation to be painful, the intensity of its uncomfortable nature MUST exceed the threshhold of the person(s) experiencing it.

Answer 4

Pain is a an emotion experienced at the loss of something very close to ur heart. such pain always lives in ur heart though life goes on seemingly. Sometime it is ur strength to achieve ur goals. At other times it is ur destruction. All depends on ur attitude to life. If u retaliate as pain for pain then u will destroy urself but if u feel that no other person should experience such pain as u have gone thru then u eradicate the root cause of the pain and become more loving. If u become more loving and compassionate then that is ur evolution and makes u live eternally and die peacefully i.e. achieve Moksha from pain and suffering.

Answer 5

PAIN: You just totaled your brand new 2007 Mercedes Benz.
PAIN: Your about to get a divorce.
PAIN: Your kid has been nagging you all day.
PAIN: You lost a huge acct. to the leading competitors.
PAIN: You lost the only memory you had of someone who was very much loved by you.
PAIN: Your Dad whom you were very close to died of lung cancer.
PAIN: Your little brother gets all the attention, and no one even knows you're there.
PAIN: You're feeling lonely and depressed.

PAIN it's all around us in so many different ways!

Answer 6

Any set of electroneurochemical responses that will most likely result in the avoidance of the stimuli to which the response has occured. (There are plenty of people and animlas who gravitate towards pain, for various reasons.)
I wonder then, if a hydra (plant) can be said to feel pain?
Technically, I suppose so.
If you add the notion of consciousness, that most elusive of psychological and biological constructs, then you might have to conclude either that the hydra is conscious, or that it does not feel pain.
Now, when we can locate consciousness in the being, we can make that determination!

Answer 7

It's LOVE.

Answer 8

The pain associated with growing like the pain of a new tooth forcing its way to the surface, learning postures in yoga gave me lots to look forward to and it was four months before I was able to tolerate what at first I interpreted as pain, of managing to be in the posture comfortably to learning to identify this effect as part of the growing into the postures. And learning to identify this activity as part of the process. Or try fasting and managing to tolerate the signals sent out by the brain as it wants to continue on with the old habits.
Or the pain suffered as one watches a loved one grow into an adult.

Answer 9

The biggest pain for the Soul is the cycle of birth and death; death and birth. The day it will relieve itself of this pain will the Soul be relieved of pain. (Sadly so man has attributed pain only to physical, mental or emotional level). But continuing to live embodied in body depriving itself of its true characteristics (i.e. pure bliss and peace) is the most painful thing for a Soul regardless of however happiest his life may have been.

Answer 10

pain is losing some loved ones. breaking up with an intimate friend of urs.it is the feeling that some one xperiences when he or she has suffered through large amount of difficulties in life and is tired of sufeering more

this might not be correct but this is my point of view[14]