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SufferingSuffering is any unwanted[?] condition and the corrresponding negative emotion. It is usually associated with pain and unhappiness, but any condition can be suffering if it is unwanted. Antonyms include happiness or pleasure.In a phrase like "suffering from a disease" emphasis is on having the disease, less on the unhappiness it causes. Related terms are sadness and grief. Some view anger as a type of suffering. Boredom, or ennui (a French word, from Old French[?] enui) is a reactive state to wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious stimuli: suffering from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, etc., or do (physically or intellectually), while not in the mood of "doing nothing". Temporarily being in a situation of boredom may also be felt as a waste of time, but then it is usually considered worse than just that. Alternatively one may have the feeling that boredom is caused by having too much time.
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In Buddhism, suffering is called dukkha. The fundamental principles of Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths, describe dukkha and a method of ending it.
The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment[?], 1984 defines "torture" as involving "suffering":
Similarly, the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998, defines "torture" as a crime against humanity as involving "suffering":
"Suffering belongs to the discipline of all Christ's followers (Romans 8:17; 2 Corinthians 1:7; Galatians 3:4; Philippians 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:5; 2 Timothy 2:12; 2 Timothy 3:12; James 5:10; 1 Peter 2:20 f.; 1 Peter 3:14, 1 Peter 3:17; 1 Peter 4:1, 1 Peter 4:13, 1 Peter 4:16; 1 Peter 5:10). Such suffering is called a suffering for God's or Christ's sake (Jeremiah 15:15; Acts 9:16; Philippians 1:29; 2 Timothy 1:12). This fellowship in suffering unites us with the saints of God in all times (James 5:10), and is indeed a fellowship with the Lord Himself (Philippians 3:10), who uses this discipline to mold us more and more according to His character."1 (http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/Topic/Suffering)
An alternative meaning of "suffer" is "to allow".
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pleading in her voice.
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you must think of us--after all you'd done for Milo. And I
he knew my brother and Rodney had left you there at the mercy
might be hours before I could convince them and make them go
all that time. So I slipped out of the house and ran to the
through that strait back there. I recognized the fruit
would have run at such speed toward that clump of reefs. You
She shuddered, and ceased to speak. For another moment or two
with all she said. He was dissecting and analyzing her every
his trained powers of logic but his knowledge of human nature.
And all at once he knew this trembling girl was in no way
the speech of Hade's which she had just repeated. that
but that that detail had been devised by Hade for Roke to put
secret by Roke.
In a few seconds Brice had revised his ideas as to the
Speaking with careful forethought and with a definite object
you just now. And when you've heard why you won't blame me.
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