This is like a rerun of my life dealing with my mother.
Yesterday my little brother was prevented from any contact with my psycho mother (just like I was). My little brother upon hearing this was in hysterics.(just like I was). He now has to make up all of the work that my mother convinced him to ditch to make my dad look bad (just like I had to). He has been ditching school work and bombing his grades because my mom told him to (just like i was told).
So my last day has been watching a rerun of what I went through in sixth grade. My parents have required me not to pick on him, but everyone knows that will never happen. If he gets on my nerves he is still going to be given his just deserts.
Okay now that I have gotten that out of my system lets talk about the uselessness of pain. Our bodies have developed pain to too far of an extent. Pain was initialy a signal that something was wrong in our body and that we need to avoid hurting it more. So far, so good. But our bodies often treat pain as a debilitating factor that can even cause us to pass out. The signal that we nowadays know as pain is an overeaction to a situation and causes much more trouble than it solves. If you think about it, wouldn’t it be better if we just knew what parts to avoid putting under too much stress. I understand that there would be cases where people would ignore that knowlege but the pain factor is just stupid. If you are in pain you avoid that pain to a point where you damage another part of your body and unless you either do nothing long enough for it to heal correctly or you manage it so that you do not cause too much change because of your pain, you can end up in pain for extended periods of time that can cause injury that is much worse than the original one. So pain the feeling is mostly useless and while the addiction factor is not something you want to end up with it would be much smarter to find a way to block those pain signals rather than try to avoid them. Maybe the issue is with our brains, which are severely overdeveloped, but I will talk about why it is evolutionarily stupid for us to have a mind that deals with so much information.
Rawls (maggietheloud) Said:
on December 16, 2008 at 4:16 pm
my fsvorite part of this?
the second “possibly related post”
themarcher Said:
on December 16, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Okay, fess up who’s the masochist?
I voted for the necessary evil option. Just so’s ya know.
As for the long talk on pain:
Pain is not an overreaction in most instances. It can be, but usually isn’t. Pain is the result of stimuli working to a negative end on the body, or perceived by the mind. It is pain that allows us to keep ourselves safe, and allows us to know what joy is. While I agree an overreaction to pain will send you into more pain, an adequate reaction should reduce the pain to minimal or none. You don’t necessarily avoid it and run into another pain, usually, if done correctly, a reaction to pain should instead resolve it. Merely avoiding pain is bad, and can lead to extended periods of pain as you have pointed out. Thusly, we see that pain is not useless. It is perhaps one of the most useful of our senses.
bluben Said:
on December 20, 2008 at 3:29 pm
you responded to my pain poll twice. HEHEHE