Suffering Is Not Good

There are many paths up a mountain. In other words, there are many legitimate paths to enlightenment. However, suffering is not a legitimate path to enlightenment. Some take the Stoic position to extremes, and believe suffering through pain and the denial of pleasure is a legitimate path. This is most common in the Abrahamic religions. Suffer and believe, or believe in the martyrs and prophets (profits?) who suffered so you do not have to. What insane thinking!

While it is possible to climb to spiritual heights through suffering, this is not a legitimate path. It only leads to deranged perceptions of reality and an unhealthy demand to expand exponentially to escape even greater pain chasing it. Better is to avoid this path altogether.

To live is to suffer, but unnecessary suffering is evil, not enlightenment. Escaping unbearable pain by a forced spiritual climb is unhealthy, and denies the body's natural and necessary responses to heal: anger, sadness, and so forth.

I have been picked up and intentionally dropped from ever greater spiritual heights my entire life, because some insane, evil fools errantly believe that trauma is a legitimate path to enlightenment.

It is not.

And then they work so hard to recruit you to their cause, minimizing and erasing your pain, blaming your own victimhood, deflecting your pain onto the next vulnerable victim, and so forth. Anything except allow you to remember who did what to who, because that will end their reign of terror.

I will need the remainder of my life to try to recover from the spiritual trauma that I was intentionally and unnecessarily subjected to by others. I might need several lifetimes to fully heal. I don't know what is wrong with those people; why they would do so much harm to someone who trusted and loved them so much, but they need to be taken apart and put back together by a qualified higher spiritual being. As of right now, they are toxic to the community of life.