Epicmafia

pain&suffering

over 8 years

greetings epicmafia community,

I think we need a good discussion on one's suffering.

Generally, your suffering is not real nor as bad as you think it is.

There are over 7 billion humans on this planet, hitting 9 billion in a few more years. You are not a special snowflake. You are not special at all. We are smaller than grains of sand if you look at how big the galaxy and beyond are.

I remember reading this phenomenon where astronauts who look at Earth for the first time in space, they are so struck by how minuscule humans are. They realize that their "problems" aren't real problems.

as I said before: there are millions of Syrians fleeing ISIS, and trying to survive

there are still millions being born into actual slavery, but they are still trying to survive

there are still people who do not have a reliable source of water or food, but they are trying to survive

these people would love to trade places with you.

How to solve most people's suffering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5WrWncDZw

pain and suffering

ALWAYS valid

generally, not valid

deletedover 8 years

premeditated suffering is only really suffering if it results in the supreme leader of the dprk calling you gay and a noob

Chaika

over 8 years

MeetTerry says

because north korea is a totalitarian regime that censors any form of free thought and is filled with absolute poverty. if caught, you are senselessly worked to death and tortured. extremely poor access to food and water.

Maybe you should take a trip to North Korea then.

deletedover 8 years

find out if you're suffering!
https://epicmafia.com/topic/79042

Associate

over 8 years

how can terry be real if our super-suffering isn't real

deletedover 8 years

starvation in africa is real suffering but the upcoming video game where you play as a malnourished sudanese boy somehow doesn't make the cut

deletedover 8 years

Nailpolishremover says

why is vigana censored? ? is that censor? the funk?

it was a very confusing time in laurierose's life

aquarius

over 8 years

TERRY'S A SJW PASS IT ON

deletedover 8 years

Nailpolishremover says

why is vigana censored? ? is that censor? the funk?

it's all a massive cover-up by the cia, just like suffering

deletedover 8 years

why is vigana censored? ? is that censor? the funk?

deletedover 8 years

terry loves attention he soaks it up probably cause he was neglected as a child. i would neglect my child if they were terry. i dont blame terry's mom, we all cope in our ways, and her way of coping is allowing her son to speak on the internet instead of to her.

i messed up my birth control and now im having two periods in a row instead of once a month like normal. it sucks a lot because im bleeding from my more often than i am supposed to be.

terry would you like to eat it? would you like to eat my period blood? some cultures i hear would finally see you as a man. i think its called getting your red wings or something?

deletedover 8 years

IMO they should just rename north korea "sufferingstan" and get this whole mess over with

MeetTerry

over 8 years

cub says

how is living in north korea "true suffering"? starvation, sure, that actually kills you so if you wanted to link suffering to mortality you could make that argument, but why is living in a police state "true" suffering if it doesn't affect your mortality?

because north korea is a totalitarian regime that censors any form of free thought and is filled with absolute poverty. if caught, you are senselessly worked to death and tortured. extremely poor access to food and water.

cub says

looks like you're claiming suffering is objective and your evidence is relative suffering

sure, I'm creating two groups of suffering. real suffering and fake suffering

cub says

because citizens of a police state have it worse than citizens of a democratic republic, they know true suffering

police states tend to be poverty-stricken. in the case of north korea, it is real suffering.

cub says

because middle class americans have it worse than upper class americans, they know true suffering

middle class suffering isn't real

Kyanite

over 8 years

Is digging yourself deeper suffering
Because you're doing it right now
I mean it's kinda obvious people disagree with you, why try to get them to know what you're thinking when they won't accept it?

cub

over 8 years

MeetTerry says

being bullied isn't suffering

get over it people

you can be a masochist but don't push your fetishes onto others

cub

over 8 years

MeetTerry says

cub says

relativists are really dumb

by the relativist's logic, starving children have nothing to complain about because they could be north korean political prisoners, and north korean political prisoners have nothing to complain about because it could always be something worse

i said in this thread that there are certain types of true suffering.

starvation, living in north korea, etc. are true suffering

im not saying that if someone has it worse than you, than you must recognize this and get over it, but i am saying that most people's "struggles" here aren't real examples of actual suffering.

tl;dr: there are real, valid examples of suffering. Most people do not have them. This is not trying to be relativist.

how is living in north korea "true suffering"? starvation, sure, that actually kills you so if you wanted to link suffering to mortality you could make that argument, but why is living in a police state "true" suffering if it doesn't affect your mortality?

looks like you're claiming suffering is objective and your evidence is relative suffering

because citizens of a police state have it worse than citizens of a democratic republic, they know true suffering

because middle class americans have it worse than upper class americans, they know true suffering

tell me why one of these is valid and the other isn't

MeetTerry

over 8 years

being bullied isn't suffering

get over it people

deletedover 8 years

[a tense silence falls over the live studio audience as i withdraw several very official-looking documents from a manilla folder]

[adjusts bifocals, clears throat]

[maury voice] when it comes to enduring distress inextricable from the human condition.....you are NOT the sufferer!

[the crowd goes hog fúcking wild]

deletedover 8 years

as the global authority on human hardship, i'm here to tell you that being abused to the point of self-endangerment or worse is a load of tumblr fueled poo poo

MeetTerry

over 8 years

error says

citation needed

give me a list of experiences and i will tell you which and which aren't examples of actual suffering

deletedover 8 years

[desperately flips through the cia world factbook of verifiable and authentic suffering]

deletedover 8 years

citation needed

MeetTerry

over 8 years

cub says

relativists are really dumb

by the relativist's logic, starving children have nothing to complain about because they could be north korean political prisoners, and north korean political prisoners have nothing to complain about because it could always be something worse

i said in this thread that there are certain types of true suffering.

starvation, living in north korea, etc. are true suffering

im not saying that if someone has it worse than you, than you must recognize this and get over it, but i am saying that most people's "struggles" here aren't real examples of actual suffering.

tl;dr: there are real, valid examples of suffering. Most people do not have them. This is not trying to be relativist.

OhLookACat

over 8 years

how do I feel about any of this

Ashe

over 8 years

I must post about socks before this thread gets closed by Bebop