Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli, such as stubbing a toe, burning a finger, putting alcohol on a cut, and bumping the "funny bone". Because it is a complex, subjective phenomenon, defining pain has been a challenge. The International Association for the Study of Pain's widely used definition states: "Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." In medical diagnosis, pain is a symptom.
Pain motivates the individual to withdraw from damaging situations, to protect a damaged body part while it heals, and to avoid similar experiences in the future. Most pain resolves once the noxious stimulus is removed and the body has healed, but it may persist despite removal of the stimulus and apparent healing of the body. Sometimes pain arises in the absence of any detectable stimulus, damage or disease. Simple pain medications are useful in 20% to 70% of cases.
Philosophy of pain may be about suffering in general or more specifically about physical pain. The experience of pain is, due to its seeming universality, a very good portal through which to view various aspects of human life. Discussions in philosophy of mind concerning qualia has given rise to a body of knowledge called philosophy of pain, which is about pain in the narrow sense of physical pain, and which must be distinguished from philosophical works concerning pain in the broad sense of suffering. This article covers both topics.
Historical views of pain
Two near contemporaries in the 18th and 19th centuries, Jeremy Bentham and the Marquis de Sade had very different views on these matters. Bentham saw pain and pleasure as objective phenomena, and defined utilitarianism on that principle. However the Marquis de Sade offered a wholly different view - which is that pain itself has an ethics, and that pursuit of pain, or imposing it, may be as useful and just as pleasurable, and that this indeed is the purpose of the state - to indulge the desire to inflict pain in revenge, for instance, via the law (in his time most punishment was in fact the dealing out of pain). The 19th-century view in Europe was that Bentham's view had to be promoted, de Sade's (which it found painful) suppressed so intensely that it - as de Sade predicted - became a pleasure in itself to indulge. The Victorian culture is often cited as the best example of this hypocrisy.
"Pain" is a song on Puff Daddy's 1997 album No Way Out.
The song is about tragedies from Puff Daddy's life, including the murder of his father Melvin Combs in 1972, the New York City College Stampede of 1991 and the death of his label-mate and friend Notorious BIG in 1997.
The song features audio from Notorious BIG which was recorded before his death when the song was made.
There is a completely different song also entitled Pain on the follow-up album Forever.
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PAIN!
ALBUMS
- Come Get Some released: 2014
- Waking the Dead released: 2013
Pain
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- On Air released: 2001
- Full Speed Ahead released: 1999
- Wonderful Beef released: 1997
- Midgets With Guns released: 1996
- Goggins released: 1994
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- We Come in Peace released: 2012
- You Only Live Twice released: 2011
- Cynic Paradise released: 2008
- Rebirth released: 2008
- Psalms of Extinction released: 2007
- Nothing Remains the Same released: 2006
- Live Is Overrated released: 2005
- Dancing With the Dead released: 2005
- 2001-04-14: Live at Inferno: Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo, Norway released: 2001
- Pain released: 1996
Live Is Overrated
Released 2005- Supersonic Bitch
- End of the Line
- On Your Knees
- Dancing With the Dead
- It’s Only Them
- Just Hate Me
- Same Old Song
- Shut Your Mouth
- Greed
- Breathing In Breathing Out
- Suicide Machine
- Nothing
- Eleanor Rigby
- On and On
- Supersonic Bitch
- End of the Line
- End of the Line
- Suicide Machine
- On and On
- Shut Your Mouth
- Just Hate Me
- Same Old Song
- Bye / Die
- Instrumental
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- Numma Eyns released: 2005
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- Fantasy Dance Hits, Volume 5 released: 2008
- Tazmania Freestyle, Volume 4: Still Going released: 1995
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- House Club Selection 30 released: 2009
House Club Selection 30
Released 2009- Saturday (2009 Remixes) (Alex Gaudino & Jason Rooney remix)
- The Beat Goes on (Louis Botella remix)
- Boys & Girls (Passion Fruit mix)
- Everybody Be Somebody (club mix)
- Voices (Fuori Di Guesta mix)
- Destiny (Manyus Main Piano mix)
- Happy Birthday (extended mix)
- Talking Louder (original mix)
- Deep Emotions (MG club)
- Another Dimension (Timmy Vegas House mix)
- Joe the Plumber (vocal mix)
- It's Love (Trippin') (Out of Office remix)
- In Too Deep (Dero & M.O.N.D.A.Y. dub)
P.A.I.N.
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- O.U.C.H. Our Universe Commences Here released: 2000
- Oh My God! We're Doing It! released: 1996
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- Perverse And Industrial Nightmare released: 2001
Pain
ALBUMS
- Wellenreiter in Schwarz, Volume 4 released: 1999
Pain
ALBUMS
- Menny és pokol released: 1999
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Pain
by: Face To FaceInhibition and indecision
Do you realize it's all the same
Cowardice, prejudice
Do you realize it's all the same
Liberty, poverty
Do you realize it's all the same
Angelisize, and generalize
Do you realize that it's all the same
That it's all the same
That it's all the same..so
I don't wanna feel this pain
I don't wanna feel this pain
Everyday I see these same four walls that keep me here
And I wanna change the things that hurt
And I wanna end this constant fear
So I say
I don't wanna feel this pain
Inhibition and indecision
Do you realize it's all the same
Tell the lies (tell the lies) , socialize (socialize)
Do you realize that it never ends
That it never ends
Everyday I see these same four walls that keep me here
And I wanna change the things that hurt
And I wanna end this constant fear
So I say
I don't wanna feel this pain
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