We Need a Load

i've been thinking about how to figure out what's real for a long time. One thing i've noticed is that people, no one argues with their own pain. Everyone who hurts acts as if they believe that pain is real. So we could say the ultimate reality is pain. That's how people act. It's in keeping with the claims of many religious traditions. You know, the jews are always recollecting past pain. I mean, the christian god is a crucified person. There's a fair bit of pain there. For the buddhists, the fundamental maxim is that life is suffering. And it seems to me that there's a metaphysical claim there....