Thoughts Triggered by Tolstoy's A Confession

Isn't it nice when threads start speaking to each other.  Especially if it shows that they are being read, and even sometimes by the very people who seem to want them not to have been written in the first place.  Strange world we live in.

AJ

It is the customary response upon being ambushed in an multiplayer game.

The expression of surprise, the realization of impending doom and then you are BBQ'd by your opponent.

Ptolemy wrote: Oh my god, what the ****, don't know the rest

which brings us to http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/language-and-abbreviations_topic6747.html.

So, KillerPoodle, how does one pronounce "OMGWTFBBQ?"  LOL

AJ

I suspect you may be correct, but only if you are trying to tell another person that their suffering is "good."  That we choose to endure pain for ourselves and for others out of a desire for some goal we think worth the suffering, is normal. Athletes and visionaries do it all the time.  Most of us do it too.  What is saying "no" to a current pleasure in order to reach some future goal, but making suffering into something, in some way, joyful?

The categories of joy and suffering are not black and white and what may appear to be a great pain to one person may, in fact be something another likes.  I think of the runners high, the "no pain, no gain" philosophy, and other examples of suffering for a future goal.  Perhaps a truly altruistic person may endure a whole lifetime of pain for that one moment of realization that the suffering he or she endured put a smile on a child's face.  Who is to say that the suffering wasn't worth the price?

But maybe that's what you meant in the first place.  Maybe you mean that pleasure is not necessarily good and pain is not necessarily bad?   If so, how does a moral code develop with fuzzy measurements like that?

AJ