Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:06 am
From my experience or exposure to psychology and philosophy at a Jesuit center for higher learning some 40+ years ago, I would say that we have here a deep-seeded desire, almost masochistic in tone, to emaciate yourself with pain and suffering. Why else would you continue to cast yourself upon the Indian (not native-American) bed of spikes, the Arabic bed of hot coals, the on-line baseball game of HAL the Impaler? BTW, I think Hal was in some of these same classes with me.
But what do I know? I was an 18 year old kid looking for a beer and a lay. I may be wrong.