#wisdom #rationality #spirituality #metaphysical #psychology #philosophy Created at 2022-12-19 Last modified date: 2023-09-12 20:14 Commit: 7 # [Anonymous feedback](https://www.admonymous.co/louis030195) # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Emotion/Pain]] - [[Philosophy/Happiness]] - [[Philosophy/Humans/Depression]] - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Ego]] - [[Philosophy/Humans/Self]] - [[Personal growth/Enlightenment]] # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Pain >As a repeating theme, pain does not cause aggression; it amplifies preexisting tendencies toward aggression. In other words, pain makes aggressive people more aggressive, while doing the opposite to unaggressive individuals. >~ [[Robert Sapolsky - Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky|Robert Sapolsky]] ![slavoj zizek as the villain in christopher nolan's next blockbuster film ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/010a4ae7-8591-48f5-a5f6-22d2da607ab1) [[Ego]] as a shield for existence ![Trap in the highest, no, from all's, from where I saw a abyss between the fantasy, from what they created, to lined a link of a vivid so living, so it seeps lower through veins of the rivering skies, yes, so souly, incased in prism, that bodied in whole to the themes they've thought, photorealistic, digital painting, artstation, intricate artwork by Tooth Wu and wlop and beeple. octane render, trending on artstation, greg rutkowski very coherent symmetrical artwork. cinematic, hyper realism, high detail, octane render, 8k](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/00f6ec01-646a-40d5-aace-0f8df4509944) > On some level, man seeks to end his life. Understand, dear student, the pain and anxiety and turmoil and depression that man lives under each and every day of his life. Each and every day. Why would he possibly wish to free himself from a substance that would at least temporary shield him from such a painful existence? > ~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life|Kapil Gupta]] ![human bodies melted and fused to each other, creating a masterpiece ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/03526e83-8cba-4f8b-9ca9-55f8c4df45a1) > S: What does life give to human beings? > M: A steady stream of pain. > ~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life|Kapil Gupta]] ![death entity ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/13e89e0c-a180-4837-96a7-265a0d54ffe3) death is a state of [[Maximum entropy]] ![a detailed painting portrait inspired by moebius and beksinski of a xenomorph and a sheet of white linnen. science fiction poster. upperbody. cinematic sci - fi scene. accurate anatomy. symmetry. portrait and science fiction theme with lightning, aurora lighting. clouds and stars. smoke. futurism. fantasy. by beksinski carl spitzweg. baroque elements. baroque element. intricate artwork by caravaggio. oil painting. oil on canvas. award winning. dramatic. trending on artstation. 8 k ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/0340ef96-9a8d-44a8-bdcf-83fb3852147e) pain is when you increase the entropy in a form of life [[Mind|mind]] ![a portrait of a robot, high detailed beksinski painting, by adrian ghenie and gerhard richter. art by takato yamamoto. masterpiece, deep colours ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/0561570d-cef0-40ea-b811-8b732bd57cf5) **Pain** is the counterpart of [[Pleasure]], **pain** is **always** accompanied by [[Pleasure]], sooner or later. ![by roa abstract illusionism. a beautiful photograph of a group of creatures that looks like a mix of different animals. most of the creatures have human - like features, such as arms & legs, & some are standing upright while others are crawling or flying. ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/1845af10-cba4-4233-8f4d-9288d5f6495b) ![trompe l'oeil visual illusion by m. c. escher ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/1a9a6d57-20fb-4101-b659-b5722a51d098) > It is a great tragedy that the whole of a man's existence is spent living in pain. Even that which he thinks is fortuitous is also pain. It is a terrible way to live. > ~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life|Kapil Gupta]] ![complex 3 d render of a beautiful symmetric porcelain cyberpunk ai face, green black and gold, fractal veins, vegetal dragon cyborg, 1 5 0 mm, beautiful natural soft light, rim light, silver gold fractal details, roots, fine lace, mandelbot fractal, anatomical, glass, facial muscles, elegant, ultra detailed, metallic armor, octane render ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/054099a9-aaf4-4244-bc72-e641207c852d) >In our conflicts here on earth, either the **pain** is victor, and so [[Death 💀]] expels the sense of it, or nature conquers, and expels the **pain**. But there, **pain** shall afflict eternally, and nature shall suffer eternally, both enduring to the continuance of the inflicted punishment. ~ [[St Augustine]] ![a walther caspari illustartion in lustige blatter in 1 8 9 9 of a barbarian armored with swords and metal skulls, black and white pen an ink drawing ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/06ecdeed-7aa3-48c5-9a27-b1141e790f07) ![photo of the inside of a dark old rainy bedroom window at night with the curtains pulled back, dimly lit creepy | screaming face of donald trump staring in and pressing his bloody face and hands against the window, horror, scary face, demonic face, ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/05523ab5-6725-4628-99bb-4704da23d768) > Your moments of blackest despair are really your most honest moments; your most lucid moments. That’s when you’re seeing without your protective lenses. That’s when you pull back the curtain and see things as they are. > ~ [[Jed McKenna]] ![a ghost behind the curtains ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/0768d36e-88c8-4cda-8a3e-dbf8ae1ab524)