mjolnir
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- Nov 15, 2025
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Consolation? Moral advantage? Or just a guarantee that our suffering "makes sense" in the world? Does this comparison reveal empathy or, on the contrary, our inability to accept that each existence is its own unique, incomparable universe?
What if pain didn't need to be measured?
What if the value of a feeling wasn't in its intensity compared to another's, but in the silent question it forces us to ask ourselves?
In the end, perhaps the mystery isn't why we feel, but why we insist on transforming the unspeakable into numbers, forms, and equivalences—as if the immaterial weren't precisely what reminds us of what we still don't understand, and perhaps never will.
What if pain didn't need to be measured?
What if the value of a feeling wasn't in its intensity compared to another's, but in the silent question it forces us to ask ourselves?
In the end, perhaps the mystery isn't why we feel, but why we insist on transforming the unspeakable into numbers, forms, and equivalences—as if the immaterial weren't precisely what reminds us of what we still don't understand, and perhaps never will.
