/lit/ - Literature

completely true. the concept of suffering is the foundation for the human sciences, imho. especially as we move further into a post-secular world.

every great religion deals with the question of suffering in one way or another. the forms by which they deal with it and metaphors they use to describe human consciousness vary greatly and lead to different kinds of organization, but suffering is pretty much the deal - from love, from knowledge, from the body, from the polis, whatever.