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223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Difference Between Chosen Suffering and Unchosen Sufficiency

Suffering that you can control, versus just happens to you. And then the experience of it, verses afterwards, when you look back on it. So let's cut at those two ways. Unchosen suffering is much more of a mixed bag. You choose as kind of an investment in the future where what you rience pain now gives your life meaning and shape and texture and importance. This s i've been accused of making counterrtutive claims in my career. But this is not one of them. Bad stuff is afor you. Om.

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