> [Original Message] > From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 8/15/2005 3:32:42 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: War, no sort of about it > > Andy the A: Basically you're saying there is no such thing as pain. > You're saying pain is in the mind of the beholder. > > Eric: No, just that the way our imagination builds up fear of pain > is much more impressive than the pain itself. > This is true. The mind would probably step in and block the experience at least in part. That's the origin of the "out of body experience" I think, as well as of PTSD, the submerging of the terror and its continual resurfacing. It's still a no go on talking me into getting eaten by a grizzly to prove it doesn't hurt that much. BTW, the grizzly incident happened in 2003. It's now a documentary. Below is a review. Sorry about your foot. You were one tough little kid. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/5 0726001/1023 Andy > When I was a child, I was walking in my father's lumberyard and > stepped on a nail that went through my foot, came out the other > side. There was nobody around but me and I had to pull it out and > hobble back to my house. It is much more painful to pull a nail out > of one's foot than it is to have the nail in one's foot. > > It gave me a great story to tell. The actual pain was much more > short-lived than my future precautions against stepping on nails, or > my imaginations of what bullets and arrows feel like. > > Fear of harm, the imagination of pain, are much stronger than the > thing itself. Again, I was only averring that the horror of the > world is on our eyes, is a form of our desire to avoid pain. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html