And listen to those twerp commenters trying to convince themselves they ain’t trapped in Hell!

What’s amazing is that any twerp thinks that their life, which is after all, ACCIDENTAL AND INVOLUNTARY, has some inherent point or value. Oh, wait, that’s just civilization brainwashing them into becoming good little idiot consumer-citizens.

“Some days I suffer, some days I don’t.” D’oh! Can you say “Deluded Wage Slave?”

HP

i love the exile

The lowely MOSQUITO is a FAR MORE EFFICIENT KILLER of humans than your Stonefish.
(Although the Exiled story about the FOUR different life-cycle parasites did add some fun insight to the ongoing, primordial, parasite-vs-host battles.
The good news is, IF parasites can HIJACK a host’s DNA or hormones to create false limbs, maybe human doctors will be able to duplicate the same process to REPLICATE – regrow – limbs for amputation victims, much as some lizards can regrow their tails)
http://dev.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/26/2/285.pdf
Never been a philosophy buff myself, and screw all that existential “pain” stuff.
If you are a plant, and you want SUNLIGHT, you will have to OUTGROW the competition, or they will shade you in, and you will die.
IF you want MORE sunlight, you will grow ENERGETICALLY , and seek it out. If you are too lazy, or emotionally traumatized, your effort (to grow) will falter, and you will lose to your competitor.

Think of that sunlight as allowing you to create nectar or ambrosia (plant sugars) – Mmm, SWEET! NOT “pain”!

Life is about HARNESSING ENERGY, in ever more complex & powerful ways. But just as a “highly evolved” human mammal can be taken down by a very primitive, ancient reptile or shark, so too can an energetic & successful life form be taken down by an ancient virus or bacteria or other parasite.

Rather than “pain,” I’d say life is about GRASPING, whether a proto-life molecule GRASPING some energy-content sugars or building-block proteins; or a DNA molecule GRASPING amino-acid/protein building blocks to replicate itself, or a baby GRASPING something it wants to play with and possess.
Or look at another life sustaining energy source: the hot, volcanic vents deep in the ocean. These hot mineral vents can sustain colonies of BILLIONS of sulfer-synthezing bacteria without a lick of sunlight, but, regardless of parasites, predators, or even other species’ competition, when that volcanic vent finally closes off and stops venting, all those billions of bacteria will die off.
Absent parasites or extra-species competition, the bacteria energetically grow, multiply, and die of old age or lack of resources when the vent closes off, but leave their spores floating in the ocean to repeat the process.
Is there any “PAIN” in that scenario?

if the point of life was pain and suffering then its very inconsistent point.

perhaps the only consistent fact in the universe is that nothing is consistent.