­°˖✧ ßrïttuh ßεε ✧˖°

Ordinarily, past and future withdraw on their own according with their nature of not being. And this is relevant because suffering loads the present with the immediate-past and immediate-future, which is contrary to their nature of not-being. The crucial fact about suffering and pain is their presentness; “pain-here-now” is so incontestably present that “having pain” or “suffering” could be thought of as an example of absolute certainty. For the individual experiencing intense pain or suffering, the pain or suffering is overwhelming and emphatically present now. Specifically, this pain-here-now produced by pain brings together no-more, yet-to-come, and now. This now is temporally disordered suffering because there is no longer an absence of no-more and yet-to-come. In severe pain and in some cases of melancholic suffering, all there is is the immediate self-negating suffering of pain-here-now. Suffering in this context is known by its intensity and in its characteristic ability to reduce both past and future to nothing. More accurately suffering presents the sufferer with an unchanging past and an unchanging future. Both future and past are no longer absent; they are now because of the nature of suffering present in terms of a recapitulation of the suffering moment. One suffering moment begins to resemble the next suffering moment and the next and so on until the suffering begins to ease and temporal movement is reestablished.

how america felt as a 5 year old with no concept of the economy or foreign affairs

i feel like when we discuss the gender pay gap there’s this underlying idea people have that women choose these underpaying fields/jobs when in reality these fields/jobs are underpaid BECAUSE they’re women dominated and often have been for centuries. female labour has always been undervalued and that translated into being underpaid.