SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agoEvading suffering is itself a form of sufferingmessage-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down16
arrow-up177arrow-down1message-squareEvading suffering is itself a form of sufferingSubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareiii@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoI’d mostly agree that suffering invades your mind without your desire for it to happen. But so does pleasure, surprise, beauty. Those too can’t be forced to happen, they’re discovered.
minus-squareAnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoTrue, but in those cases you don’t want them to stop, unless of course, you are getting distracted by them and would like to stop in which case: suffering. Context is more important than raw qualia.
I’d mostly agree that suffering invades your mind without your desire for it to happen.
But so does pleasure, surprise, beauty. Those too can’t be forced to happen, they’re discovered.
True, but in those cases you don’t want them to stop, unless of course, you are getting distracted by them and would like to stop in which case: suffering. Context is more important than raw qualia.