What does enduring physical pain and suffering do to your soul?
>>41246748But how does this effect one's afterlife? What if they already understand the polarity fully?
nothing. souls don't exist.
>>41246800You don't know that
>>41246723Nothing. Soul is unborn. Life is but a dream
>>41246836My dreams always set my trajectory for the day
>>41246723It gives G*d tasty loosh energy to feed on
>>41246836When you were unborn, your parents made hundreds of thousands of choices. Many of these choices heavily effected where you've ended up and will end up in life>>41246930So what you're saying is that to make the objective most worthwhile use of your life in service of all that is holy, which is to deprive Yaldabaoth of as much loosh as possible, is to own nothing, live in an insulated pod while being fed nutrients and opium through a tube and just chilling there until you die peacefully?
>>41246723It crystallizes my spirit but not by your choosing
I suppose you could say it's the simple extrapolation of events.
I am more than match for you
I will light this fuse and blow the powder keg kapt'n
It grants you the experience of enduring pain.Not everything is pleasure, in some places pain is nothing more than a piece to barter with. Whose to say your soul doesn’t also desire pain?
>>41246800get a load of this guy
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>>41246723i imagine it does some amount of cleaning, like when you smelt a metal it removed impurities. I know in some circles its said that suffering physically removes sins from ones heart.
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>>41248131Conscious suffering does. Suffering under repentance does. Under equanimity pain eventually becomes indistinguishable from pleasure. Physical sensations remain, burning away at impurities. Unconscious suffering is useless and hard to let go of. So is masochism. Your body is full of pins and needles that only need to be brought to attention. No need for external source of pain.
>>41246723I suffer from cluster headaches, which is said to be the most intense kind of pain known to man. Once or twice a year I will have an episode, or a cluster of headaches that last for 3-6 hours at a time, and will happen daily at the same time of day for 2-3 weeks. It wears you down. There is a limit to how far self-discipline can take you with tolerating extreme pain, at some point you get tired of the extreme effort it takes to not react physically to the pain, and sort of "let go" after which the body starts to do things like cramp, kick, twitch, shake etc. uncontrollably, and the psyche sort of does the same, the internal psychological landscape becomes increasingly incoherent, random pieces of visions become mixed with forced internal monologue, like a fever dream. I imagine that is what hell would be like. On the positive, it seems to broaden the horizon of what can be endured and encountered psychologically and astrally, i.e. you get used to extremely dense and negative states and can function to some extent in environments others could maybe not
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
>>41246723“Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.” (Proverbs 22:15)
>>41246723It gives you Stockholm Syndrome and makes you cope about how great suffering is and how it builds character or some bullshit, and makes you want to inflict pain and suffering on others to perpetuate the cycle.
>>41246723It is one of the ways of burning karmas.Karma is the quality of your actions, Kriya is action.When you don't have any more karmas left then you are free of the cycle of death and rebirth.
>>41249271Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
It helps harden you for future battles.
It doesn't make you a better person, at least not on its own, like people who mistreat you love to suggest. Think about it--has anyone's "character" improved by being batted around? It's always the batter saying this kind of shit. Mostly improvement comes from how you respond to it, so pain can "improve" you but it's really all about your strength of character, which is an internal force, not an external.Just my thoughts, though. I'm not a very wise person, so take it with a grain of salt. And it's possible that this isn't really what you were asking :P
