If you couldn’t die or be permanently injured, would you try to “play” with pain? Build a tolerance?

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10 August 2010

Question by uncleclover: If you couldn’t die or be permanently injured, would you try to “play” with pain? Build a tolerance?
By “any injury”, I mean literally ANY injury: If you were morselized in a woodchipper, your bits would come back together & you’d be all better again; if you were vaporized in a full-on nuclear explosion, your atoms would re-condense into you somewhere else. Nothing you went through would ever injure you for more than a few seconds, and never would you be permanently dead.

If that were the case, do you think pain might become something you could actually “explore”? I know for me, the biggest inhibitor when it comes to enduring painful experiences is not so much the pain itself, but the knowledge of the permanence of the damage that is normally an inevitible component of suffering. If there were no lasting damage, I might actually try various forms of self-mutilation just to build a tolerance or see what it’s like. Launch myself into the sun and feel the waves of a nova sweep over me (to quote Cavil from “BSG: The Plan”).

If you couldn’t die or be permanently injured, would you play with things that would otherwise kill you?

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Answer by Julia
morselized?? what ARE you on today?? have you been eating the dictionary?

lay off the narcotics… its addling your brain

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  1. Bobby Prince August 10, 2010 at 2:13 pm

    No, I wouldn’t waste time with that; if I were invincible I’d go about solving all the problems in the world that would kill me if I took them on right now. I’m sure I’d be shot and stabbed enough in the meantime to build a decent tolerance though.

    I think I’d also like to explore the bottom of the ocean, if the pressure and water didn’t crush and drown me. Not to mention what a wicked load of cash I could acquire. Hell, I could even get sponsorship deals, like some jackass athlete.

  2. roaster August 10, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    hurt yourself? i don’t think so. even immortals didn’t wish to harm themselves

  3. Twisted Over You August 10, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    If I could never die, or get injured I would do every dangerous thing in the book.

  4. canron4peace August 10, 2010 at 3:42 pm

    There are two words which I take exception to in your question. The first is in this phrase, “ not so much the pain itself, but the knowledge of the permanence of the damage that is normally an inevitable component of suffering. It is the word `knowledge`. What I believe you really mean is the word `fear`.
    That very fear causes resistance and resisting the experience of pain attracts more pain. Therefore the acceptance of the pain and even the acceptance of more pain is the key to eliminating it from experience.

    The second word is `tolerance`. Webster`s says of tolerance, “ 1a: ability to put up with something harmful or unpleasant. This is not really acceptance, it is merely putting up with…. There is a huge difference. The definition has probably been distorted over time.

    You also link the idea of pain with the idea of death of the body. Pain is meant to be a beneficial signal, a wake-up call. It is not there to frighten.

    To expect your atoms to re-condense into you somewhere else is simply evidence of watching too much science fiction-type movies or cartoons maybe. Here the idea of handling pain properly is by reason of taking an idea to extreme going from the sublime to the ridiculous. Physically speaking the woodchipper will survive but your chances are nil and always will be.

    Yet my answer is yes, it is worth investigating or `playing with`.

    Cheers !!

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