03-22-2019, 06:35 PM
(03-22-2019, 10:33 AM)Shannon Wrote:(03-17-2019, 01:33 PM)Have at ye Wrote: Lately I've been finding myself thinking that contrary to popular belief, pain and suffering serve no practical purpose whatsoever.
They motivate, do they not? You would not move without them to incentivize action.
They can also be used by the subconscious to punish the self, it try to manipulate it.
Well, yeah - ultimately they incentivize action aimed towards *their removal*. Or avoidance (so temporary removal). So it's somewhat like getting whipped to go faster - there can and do exist other motivating factors towards action. Heck, I'd even go as far to say you do not need motivation to act, only the will to act, but that's kinda abstract.
The way I see it, f. in. personally in my case, while pain and suffering have been a motivating factor towards action, I can very well see now that I could have very well learned all the things I have learned and taken the course I have taken *absent* the experience of pain and suffering to drive this course. There have been zillions of others possibilities that may have had led towards the same end.
True about the subconscious trying to use it to punish the self in order to manipulate (as well as people using it against other people for the very same purpose). I've actually been experiencing a little bit of backlash, I think, these past couple of days DMSI-wise, I'll write a little something about it in my journal over the weekend.
"A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him." - A. Crowley
