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#402 - Paul Bloom - Why Pain & Suffering Are Necessary For A Good Life
Modern Wisdom
Is There a Need for U B I?
A lot of suffering we have in life is unchosen. I don't think that u b i can counter against status. Some people find, even from a shitty job, they find meaning. We tend to be more resilient than we think we are. But growth, i'm sceptical about it. And then you get frameworks where we try to make sense of things. Religion provides us with rituals and religious activities which include sacrifice or ar attempts to manipulate fate. With the contexts of religion, were these events randomist? You want to lend a cohesive narrative that explains why something's happened. That's not a narrative - there is a reason everything happens for a reason. A wonderful personcon
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