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Pain avoidance is part of life. A campaign to minimize hunger and lessen pain drives us to develop systems that will provide us with nourishing food and protective shelter. Pain is a trickster. It can send us true or false signals that confine us to our beds or spur us to roam long and far. Pain has a lifesaving function. Pain can signal us to implement evasive action or attack our problems head-on. Pain has a putative role. Pain can torture us for engaging in careless deeds. Pain performs a restorative role. Pain can tell us when we must rest. Pain is tutor and a healer. Pain implores us to take heed of our physical and mental infirmities, urges us to call out for help, and compels us to adopt modified strategies.
Pain avoidance is part of life. A campaign to minimize hunger and lessen pain drives us to develop systems that will provide us with nourishing food and protective shelter. Pain is a trickster. It can send us true or false signals that confine us to our beds or spur us to roam long and far. Pain has a lifesaving function. Pain can signal us to implement evasive action or attack our problems head-on. Pain has a putative role. Pain can torture us for engaging in careless deeds. Pain performs a restorative role. Pain can tell us when we must rest. Pain is tutor and a healer. Pain implores us to take heed of our physical and mental infirmities, urges us to call out for help, and compels us to adopt modified strategies.
Approximate author period: c. 2016 AD · contemporary
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- Kilroy J. Oldster
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- Approximate author period: c. 2016 AD · contemporary
Approximate historical context for attribution to Kilroy J. Oldster, based on documented writing activity in 2016. Author blog section: Why I Created a Blog, published 27 July 2016. The evidence is the dated original post, not the user-submitted quotations or account-registration date. Source: Why I Created a Blog — original author post, https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15511708.Kilroy_J_Oldster (checked 2026-10-09). This does not establish the composition date or authenticate the attribution of these words. Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15511708.Kilroy_J_Oldster (accessed 2026-10-09).
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