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Oh the Pain..!

revolutio

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Motivation not to do harmful things and to keep yourself alive.
(God is malevolent or just hates me, I can't decide)

Same reason you don't want a computer program telling you the same warning about Internet Security over and over. You already know what is secure and what isn't the message has no use anymore.
(To make me feel happy and loopy without actually breaking any laws)
 
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Kira Faye

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I think its mroe of a body thing.....if u fall out of tree and hit something on a rock it has to hurt!!! no two ways about it! I don't feel anygod inflicts pain, and for the pain u didn't cause urself its ur bodies way of sayng something is wrong inside and as said before a survival mechanism.
 
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TScott

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Pain is a sensation just like any other. I used to suffer chronic pain and had to learn what is called "sensate focusing" to help me cope with it. The idea is that you focus and concentrate on the actual sensation of pain that you are experiencing, and you attempt to see it as a positive sensation rather than a negative one. I found it would only work if I was in a dark and quiet place.
 
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