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suffering
adults
sick
deadening
pain
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
I feel sometimes as if I am expected to justify life’s conditions, when of course they do not need any such justification.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
Men and women are born with a desire to push beyond the limits—to, in quotes (amused and loudly): “explore where no man has ever gone before”—a bastard version of the introduction [to a famous television program], I believe. Men and women are born with a sense of drama, a need of excitement. Life itself is excitement. The quietest mood rides the thrust of spectacular molecular activity.
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
Religious ecstasy does not need physical suffering as a stimulus, and such a means in the overall (underlined) will work against religious understanding. Those episodes, however, represent one of the ways in which man can actively seek suffering as a means to another end, and it is beside the point to say that such activity is not natural, since it exists within nature’s framework.
[... 16 paragraphs ...]
