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A condition of embodied reality that promotes imagination, focuses the mind, and gives meaning to struggle and goodness.
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A condition of embodied reality that promotes imagination, focuses the mind, and gives meaning to struggle and goodness.
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Bodies and pain exist because the universe is constructed to promote imagination; to vibrate more means to imagine more.
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Without pain, suffering, loss, or evil, people cannot imagine things and nothing has meaning.
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Only through pain and suffering can humans achieve their full potential, because pain focuses the mind and gives meaning to goodness.
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The seeker becomes troubled, astonished, and ruler over all because truth is painful like leaving Plato cave and learning to see light.
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The freed prisoner's encounter with sunlight is painful because his eyes are not trained for truth, but he slowly learns to see the beautiful world and the sun as the source of life and truth.
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The higher Platonic world is described as eternal, immutable, immaculate, and perfect, while the lower world is marked by death and pain.
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"What about the subjective physical feeling of pain in reality?"
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"...All right. Yeah. So the question is, why do we feel pain? And why do we have bodies? And the reason why is that..."
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"...like, if this world is one of death, of one of pain, one of suffering, why are we in this world? To improve our..."
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"seeking until he finds when he finds he will become troubled when he becomes troubled he will become troubled traveled he will be astonished..."
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"...go on the light you're blinded by it you feel absolute pain you feel uh confusion but over time if you persist you will..."
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"jesus said if those who lead you say to you see the kingdom is in the sky then the bird of the sky will..."
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"...chains themselves and then venture out into the light and experience pain and torment for themselves before they recognize the truth okay that's not..."
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"It's the only reality that exists. And they start naming things that they see and that creates language. And they like to play games..."
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"It's like burning him alive. And so at first, all he's doing is staring at the ground. And so he's seeing reflections in the..."
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"...complete opposite, okay? We will all die. We will all feel pain. But up there, no one feels any pain. No one dies. It's..."
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"...so what we try to do is we try to create pain points, leverage points, to force you to submit, to cry uncle, right?..."
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"...say to that that, you know, Trump has said short -term pain for long -term gain. And the big question, of course, is how..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central turn: Socrates attacks democracy by exposing the weakness of language and reason, then Plato rescues Socrates by turning the cave into a martyr story, a Christian universe,...
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