Pain and Pleasure

Pain and Pleasure - (3646)

Pain and pleasure are intimately related. If there is one the other is close. One is the cause of the other and one takes one to the other.

A person delves into pleasure beyond a healthy limit when there is something wrong, something is not quite right, or because something has failed (will, reason, common sense), or because the consciousness is absent, or because there is some pain somewhere or because they just want to...

Well what do you reckon about that, they want to dive into pleasure knowing that empty pain will result and that when feeling the pain they will regret it. Still something is not quite right there. There is something not made fully conscious yet. There are still some contradictions there. Basically it says I just want pleasure and the pain. Who knowingly wants pain - only a sleeping person does. Anyway that is a contradictory state. I love and hate you. I like and dislike you. I kiss you and punch you. In that state we are neither here nor there. No one wants a friend who loves and hates you - are they a friend or what?

Anyway we have to find the injury or the cause of the pain so that the automatic response of pleasure seeking has little and less and less to compensate for or cover up for making us forget that pain.

End (3646).

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