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falling, once again
Apr 2003
time: 23:33
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Yang has excellent pain endurance, trust me. It is not so much not to scream when you are in pain, it is how you control your mind when you are in pain. Don't let the appearance of a screaming man deceive you ...
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Suddenly the shadow exploded into motion, and a black serpent crossed the distance to Yang in a heartbeat. Yang felt red hot wires of pain lace his neck, and he fell to his knees, cursing the post-sleep weakness that dulled his reflexes.
Psych-whip, a part of him thought calmly. They have been in the armory. And then he smiled as the pain intensified...he welcomed it, opened himself to it, letting it dance on his nerves and dissolve into his spine. Pain, awaken me….
"We mean you no immediate harm, but I know of your special talents. You must follow my instructions. Do not speak. Crawl along the blue lines."
He looked at the blue dots on the floor, his head still swimming. His eyes flickered up to one corner of the room, a zone of darkness with the vague sense of a metal bulkhead curving. In that darkness he could imagine the bland silvery eye of the security camera staring down at him, but it could not see into the far corner, where the blue dots lead.
He felt the muscles tighten along his back. He felt the cool metal floor beneath his hands.
Abruptly, he stood. Electric tension jolted across the room as shredder pistols twitched to follow him. He could smell the uncertainty...should we fire?...and it had the metallic tang of fear.
He took one slow pace along the blue dots, shuffling as if from fatigue, and then every muscle in his body exploded backward toward his cryocell as a yell from the bottom of his lungs split the darkness. One roll and he reached back over his head to take the black metal lockbox into his hands...no wasted motion, no wasted time. He had already seen the action in his mind. And then...
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From Journey to Centauri. There were more, but I wouldn't bore everybody with it. 
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TimeTraveler
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Yang got a .96 on the Atherholt Trauma Function test, meaning his tolerance to pain is ridiculously high for human standards, but not perfect. All they had to do was raise the pain level of the punishment sphere to more than ridiculously high.
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Enigma_Nova
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Perhaps Yang has the sort of training I have.
Why bother in futility to fight a feeling which is inevitable? Why resist it if you gain nothing by doing so?
Would it not be better to accept the feeling, and let yourself be based around it, rather than waste your time trying to fight against it?
(Of course I try to fight the bloody pain if I feel I have something that needs to be done but if I'm sitting in a sphere I can't do very much can I?)
Rather than fighting the pain, fight yourself, and control yourself so that you can take the pain.
Make it so, that pain no longer bothers you. Let it be a part of you, and you a part of the pain.
Do not ignore, accept. Acceptance is superior to ignorance.
Accept the pain and fight its source. That's my strategy. I see FAR too many people doing things the other way around...
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Enigma_Nova
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Originally posted by Lazerus
Why accept pain when simply cutting it off at the source and utterly ignoring the neurons in your brain that are telling you there is such a thing would result in immunity rather then your adjustment strategy?
However the downside to both cases is the better you get then you will basically lose a sense, touch. Unless you can control it like a switch. |
I can ignore -most- pain this way. I can't ignore being exhausted, though; It's probably a good thing as I'd likely kill myself if I could!
But Ignorance is inferior to acceptance, I'll give that.
Fighting wastes valuable energy and resources, it is more efficient to work with your surroundings.
Adapting the surroundings works too, but programming yourself to be immune to pain tends to make you do dumb things.
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shawnmmcc
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Sometimes though the Gaians get to feed him to the mindworms. :P
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Enigma_Nova
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Sorry, but both Morgan and Miriam follow their doctrines more hard-coredly than Yang does.
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08-01-2004 16:22
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