(May 24, 2015 at 11:58 am)Anima Wrote: [...]3. Those in paradise are not suffering, but not everyone is in paradise. Think of it like morphine. Those on it are felling fantastic, those not are not feeling as awesome. Does the one on the morphine suffer because the others are not feeling as fantastic? [...]Yes. You've obviously never taken drugs. Having people around who are evidently not in the same state of high as you are can really "harsh your buzz". Which is why people tend to take drugs (including alcohol and religion) in groups and tend to alienate/avoid abstinents, while doing it.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw