The world is beautiful if we’re only looking at it. Unless we’re looking at a pile of dead bodies or a mound of horseshit. But for the most part, we see no shortage of charming vistas. Rapturous, even. What makes the world evil isn’t how it looks, it’s what it does. A beautiful view is a breather between executions. The world an assembly line of slaughter.
"An act is pleasurable to the point of eliminating pain and beyond that it injures"
So if pleasure is really the absence of pain, and not it's opposite, then wouldn't our real default state be something like ecstasy? Maybe this is what Heaven is like. Sin causes suffering, and sin is everywhere around us and in us, but we are allowed glimpses of what we were intended to be, and this is also a glimpse of Heaven.
I just got smarter. Good stuff.
"An act is pleasurable to the point of eliminating pain and beyond that it injures"
So if pleasure is really the absence of pain, and not it's opposite, then wouldn't our real default state be something like ecstasy? Maybe this is what Heaven is like. Sin causes suffering, and sin is everywhere around us and in us, but we are allowed glimpses of what we were intended to be, and this is also a glimpse of Heaven.