(March 14, 2013 at 1:46 pm)ronedee Wrote: Does anyone here feel there is any value to Pain & Suffering?
Yes, but that doesn't mean it makes sense to seek it out. In some banal sense we all grow through failure and through agonies endured. But I'm thinking more of the pain of failure to do or be that which you strive for. Such pain forces you to undergo reconciliation between self image and reality.
Physical pain on the other hand is always regrettable and better to alleviate or ameliorate so far as possible. Aside from the feedback provided there is no value in physical pain that I am aware of and none that I have endured which I can say I'm better off for today.