What is pain?

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001

Answers

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Loss.

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2001

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And yet many will say "No pain, no gain."!!!

-- Anonymous, October 04, 2001

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One asked: "What is pain" and another replied "Loss". And I say: Pain is the diamond which cuts through the rough stone to reveal truth. AM

-- Anonymous, October 06, 2001

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Perhaps a lesson still unlearned.

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001

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Or a knot yet untied.

-- Anonymous, October 17, 2001

Anne Marie suggested that this thread was like a poem -- this was before some of the answers appeared. Here is one possible version (And I thik we should ascribe it to Anne Marie, because it is her lines that enable it to "lift off"):

What is pain?

Loss.

Or perhaps a lesson still not learned / or a knot as yet untied.

I say:

Pain is the diamond / which cuts through / the rough stone / to reveal / truth.

-- Anonymous, October 19, 2001

And is this truth just another diamond to cut another stone to reveal another truth?

-- Anonymous, November 22, 2001