Is it normal to justify pain and suffering w/ a greater purpose?

It's all madness.

I think it's something you learn from. For example, with physical pain (say, putting your hand in a fire) it's just your body's way of telling you to not do whatever it is that's causing you pain. I mean, otherwise your hand wouldn't last long. It's pretty much just warning signs and your body letting you know that you're doing something that it can't handle, so to speak.

I guess the same could be said for other types of pain, like emotional. Pain is bad, and most people don't want to suffer much of it. So, whenever something causes you pain, you bear that in mind next time a similar situation comes up. Pretty much just learning from your mistakes and all that.

So yeah, I do think pain serves a purpose. I see it as mainly your body's way of warning you. Our bodies can only take so much, and if we weren't aware that we're doing damage to ourselves, then we wouldn't last long. It could also be said that it's to act as a kind of balance. Going through something painful makes you appreciate the good things in you life a lot more.

The greater purpose is aliens.

Suffering is part of wisdom. We go through are sufferings to learn knowledge of what is around us. I see it as shallow if nobody went through painful emotions; where is the empathy otherwise.

To gain empathy you need to go through all sorts of emotions. I believe there is a purpose to suffering once you get through it; it shows you the better end of things in life. People need to learn to embrace pain to find the light. It's really not too bad once you accept it instead of avoid it. People hide it instead which only makes it worse. That is where narcissistic personalities come in then; they avoid their past pain when they were a child. They were maybe abused or something awful happened and they don't let go and find the good in what they need to learn from that. Sometimes people are born with that personality disorder though.

When you truly realize that in situations that others have sufferings too, then that's when you are more likely to make the situation good. Kindness kills anger, which speaking calmly to someone who is frustrated, irritated, annoyed or angry can break it. Negativity is a waste of energy and you don't need to accept it from others; there is no point in arguments. Of course it takes patience to accept situations that way. :)

It's a coping mechanism. A way to make sense of the world we live in.

Physical pain serves a function. If you hurt, it's your body's way of telling you something is wrong.

But pain is not the same as suffering. A woman in labor may go through pain, but that does not mean she suffers.

Does it seve a greater purpose? If you attach meaning to it, sure. But you can't attach meaning to it for someone else.

It's a way of controlling the masses. No one should suffer for crimes they haven't committed.

We suffer because we are human.

Umm, there's suffering because there's a crap load of bad people in this world making us suffer. There's no reason or purpose of this, they just like watching everyone suffer.

There's no reason, but it happens. Why? Because.

I truly believe that every significant thing that happens in our lives has a purpose.

To me, it's not only a "coping" mechanism. There are things in my life that I have suffered through, but do not regret because they have made me a better person.

Everything has to have a balance.

I think it's a byproduct of society, the rich getting richer the poor getting poorer. And some people are in between, getting by but never feeling like they belong, or feeling that there must be an unknown greater purpose to their lives. We are all born into this world but some of us can never quite seem to fit.

I think we suffer to learn. It's unfortunate, don't get me wrong, but it causes you to appreciate. We suffer in this life, to appreciate what we have in the next.

Shit happens. thats pretty much it. we were born into whatever and our quality of life can diminish at any moment.

Only through true suffering can we find true contentment.