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Episode #094 ... A Look at Suffering

Philosophize This!

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Is There a Day When We're Going to Never Have to Experience Suffering?

The idea that suffering is a guaranteed part of your life, there's no escaping it always brings me back to this thought experiment i heard when i was 13 years old. They often talk about how how art and this new post arwinian age will make things like beethoven sound like a raccoon scratching on a trash can. Maybe a day will come in the future where there's this next level of human being that won't ever have to experience suffering. And maybe, simultaneously, for us people living in 20 16, maybe suffering is an intrinsic part of life, comparable to breathing.

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