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Pain...

Anyone who has ever had quad tendon surgery is intimately familiar with this concept. Try doing anything without the use of a quad muscle and then consider that the movement, or any effort to move it will cause your entire body to freeze as you attempt to deal with the searing pain it induces. Pain is your body's way of saying "hey, you are damaging me... stop it." The pain caused by hitting your thumb with a hammer while painful at first, is useful because it is your body's way of telling you not to do that anymore and probably saving you from losing the use of your thumb.

In their non-fiction book "The Gift of Pain", Phillip Yancy and Dr. Paul Brand describe a world without any pain:

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