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purplepower · 02-19-2007, 01:34 PM

I hope this doesn't sound offensive - I don't mean it to be, but I find that I have very little in common with (and sometimes, I confess, very little time for) people who have not "suffered" on some level. And I am not talking just of suffering on a grand scale. Suffering is the Holocaust of course and all the repeating atrocities of this world but suffering can also be very quiet, very personal and very individual.

That is not to necessarily make suffering a positive or desirable thing, but simply that people who have not suffered in some sense, seem two dimensional, "unfinished"(?) Which is not to say at all that I think suffering necessarily improves people but it CHANGES them in a way that resonates only with others who have suffered.

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purplepower Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 23	Suffering - A Viewpoint ? I hope this doesn't sound offensive - I don't mean it to be, but I find that I have very little in common with (and sometimes, I confess, very little time for) people who have not "suffered" on some level. And I am not talking just of suffering on a grand scale. Suffering is the Holocaust of course and all the repeating atrocities of this world but suffering can also be very quiet, very personal and very individual. That is not to necessarily make suffering a positive or desirable thing, but simply that people who have not suffered in some sense, seem two dimensional, "unfinished"(?) Which is not to say at all that I think suffering necessarily improves people but it CHANGES them in a way that resonates only with others who have suffered.