"Would you give up your feelings and your life if it meant no more suffering? if it changed the way you lived and thought?"
I think that suffering is a necessary part of every life, and that life wouldn't be "life" without it. Suffering helps us appreciate all of the things that make us happy. Giving up feeling all together I think would be even worse than suffering. What use is life/thought if we can't truly experience it through emotion? Emmotion and feelings are what drive us to live and pursue our desires, though it is true that they also bring us sadness when we are not successful in reaching our goals, or when we experince loss. Please excuse my cheesy reference, but to me, the idea of being void of feelings whould put me in the same state as the Harry Potter villian Voldemort (though not necessarily as evil.) He is notorious for being unfased by the death and suffering of others, even his own followrs, but thoughout the books Harry Potter claims to pitty Voldemort for not being able to experience love and friendship.
What are some good philospohical books you have read and would reccomend?
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