(December 10, 2013 at 2:40 pm)StrongWaters Wrote: Edgar Allen Poe (Mesmeric Revelation)yes...
V. All things are either good or bad by comparison.
(December 10, 2013 at 2:40 pm)StrongWaters Wrote: A sufficient analysis will show that pleasure, in all cases, is but the contrast of pain.Yes...
(December 10, 2013 at 2:40 pm)StrongWaters Wrote: Positive pleasure is a mere idea. To be happy at any one point we must have suffered at the same."at the same"?... what does that mean? I'd say "at some other point".
(December 10, 2013 at 2:40 pm)StrongWaters Wrote: Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed."blessed"? well.. in a broad sense of the word... yes...
(December 10, 2013 at 2:40 pm)StrongWaters Wrote: But it has been shown that, in the inorganic life, pain cannot be thus the necessity for the organic. The pain of the primitive life of Earth, is the sole basis of the bliss of the ultimate life in Heaven.And you lost your audience...
What.... The.... Hell?!?!
(December 10, 2013 at 2:40 pm)StrongWaters Wrote: 3...2...1 (SNAP) Wake up!Sorry, your hypnosis trick didn't work...