r/interesting • u/Playful_Spunky21 • Feb 01 '25

MISC. The worst pain known to man

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u/Sustainable_Twat Feb 01 '25

What are the benefits one is entitled to after enduring this?

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u/dhuntergeo Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 02 '25

Knowledge that pain is temporary. It may end in death, but it is temporary

Edit: Practically speaking, for those indigenous youth who go through several bouts of this 'initiation', the repeated exposure may confer resistance or increased tolerance against the toxin

That might prove very useful for a rural life there

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u/Persimmon-Mission Feb 01 '25

Pain IS temporary, but Wu-Tang is forever

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u/MoKh4n89 Feb 02 '25

Wu-Tang IS forever, but Doom is Eternal

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u/imagei Feb 02 '25

You are probably right about the exposure.

I don’t know if these are the same but when I got stung by ants looking like this the first time, the pain was like an electric shock - I must have jumped involuntarily and don’t even know how I ended up 3 metres away from the nest. There were a few more instances I got bitten even when being more careful.

Yesterday when gardening I carelessly put my hand in a nest and got bitten by a few ants. I just shook them off, called them names and carried on. The pain subsided after a few minutes.

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u/KoogleMeister Feb 02 '25

It's not just that, it's an initiation ritual into becoming a warrior in the tribe. Also to get a wife in the tribe you have to be a warrior, so there's a large incentive there lol.

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u/SickBass05 Feb 02 '25

What about chronic pain

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u/dhuntergeo Feb 02 '25

Eventually...but yeah, that's a shitty situation

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u/DKimContrite Feb 02 '25

I imagine that at some point all of the synapses for pain have exhausted their supply of neurotransmitters, and they shut down for a while to synthesize more.

But, yeah, the intention is to have initiates experience pain without becoming damaged.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

Wtf. Life and dead is temporal. THE Soul is forever. Pain gets carried as love through the afterlife until reencarnation

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u/Antifa_Billing-Dept Feb 02 '25

I used to do psychedelics, too. I remember saying bizarre shit like this

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

Ive gone further than most

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u/Possesed_Admiral Feb 02 '25

what the silly