The Benefits of Suffering

[four1298]

Emil Cioran said, "You are alive only when you live by the skin of your teeth." While I'm not sure what he means, I think it means there's something good about suffering. The obvious way is that it makes you aware of suffering and want to end other people's suffering. It makes you empathetic.

It also seems to make you love life, which is good: "only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse." Tbh I'm not sure if I'm making sense.

For sure, suffering seems good. For example The Bible says: "be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced." And: "Don’t run from suffering; embrace it." Are we really in the thick of what Christ experienced though? Sometimes I ask myself if God had forsaken me, so I guess that we are. I know he hasn't though. As Naomi said, "He still loves us, in bad times as well as good!"

This is sort of off topic but I'm going to quote my favorite quotes from Cioran's book in this post because I don't want to make two different threads:

This world is not worth a sacrifice in the name of an idea or a belief.

If anybody had died so that I could be happy, then I would be even more unhappy, because I do not want to build my life on a graveyard.

Why don't I commit suicide? Because I am as sick of death as I am of life.

Nobody will experience ecstasy without having experienced despair beforehand

And the one who said that he died for us did not die; he was killed.

Since the world has no meaning, let us live!

I don't really agree with this, but I've heard that life has no meaning. Even with that attitude, you can still muster reason to live.

Why not wrench from suffering all that it can yield, why not tend a smile until we have reached all the way back to its vital springs?

This seems to be saying to make the best of what you have.

If there is happiness, then it must be shared and communicated.

Man should stop being—or becoming—a rational animal. He should become a lunatic, risking everything for the sake of his dangerous fantasies, capable of exaltations, ready to die for all that the world has as well as for what it has not.

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other.

What does it matter whether our tears come from pleasure or pain?

One of my favorite quotes of all time.

All gain is a loss, and all loss is a gain.

No one practices psychology out of love: it is rather a form of sadism, a desire to annihilate the other by taking possession of his intimate being, by stripping him of his mysterious aura.

This one's not really important but I thought it was funny.

 

[HypergamousPopcorn4]

Emil Cioran said, "You are alive only when you live by the skin of your teeth." While I'm not sure what he means, I think it means there's something good about suffering. The obvious way is that it makes you aware of suffering and want to end other people's suffering. It makes you empathetic.

It also seems to make you love life, which is good: "only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse." Tbh I'm not sure if I'm making sense.

For sure, suffering seems good. For example The Bible says: "be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced." And: "Don’t run from suffering; embrace it." Are we really in the thick of what Christ experienced though? Sometimes I ask myself if God had forsaken me, so I guess that we are. I know he hasn't though. As Naomi said, "He still loves us, in bad times as well as good!"

This is sort of off topic but I'm going to quote my favorite quotes from Cioran's book in this post because I don't want to make two different threads:












I don't really agree with this, but I've heard that life has no meaning. Even with that attitude, you can still muster reason to live.


This seems to be saying to make the best of what you have.








One of my favorite quotes of all time.




This one's not really important but I thought it was funny.

There’s a reason we always choose survival in Minecraft and never creative.

A simple fact that humans love suffering, they pay to watch ufc fights, boxing matches, wrestlers.

We loving watching people struggle and suffer and die, we laugh when we see sub 5 men rejected by a stacylite. It’s something in all of us, a natural instinct made and programmed.

 

[Wizardmaxxer]

Suffering doesn't make me stronger, it only breaks me down even more, im tired of those redpill retarded sayings "JuSt EmbRace The PaIn BrO" Im about to fucking burst either on tears or blow myself with a gun so it will stop

 

[Rick prime]

There’s a reason we always choose survival in Minecraft and never creative.

A simple fact that humans love suffering, they pay to watch ufc fights, boxing matches, wrestlers.

We loving watching people struggle and suffer and die, we laugh when we see sub 5 men rejected by a stacylite. It’s something in all of us, a natural instinct made and programmed.

Except me I am inorganic

 

[Rick prime]

Suffering doesn't make me stronger, it only breaks me down even more, im tired of those redpill retarded sayings "JuSt EmbRace The PaIn BrO" Im about to fucking burst either on tears or blow them with a gun so it will stop, in Minecraft

fixed it for you

 

[Wizardmaxxer]

fixed it for you

thank you, im fucking tired of feds

 

[Pancakecel]

If you suffer constantly, with no good times then what's the point of said suffering. It just feels like a piece of me is being broken down as each day passes, and has for years.