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Life isn't "about" suffering. Happiness and pain are the carrot and the stick which nature uses. I am typically more concerned with what organisms do than I am with how they feel.
I embrace nature's purposes because it built me to do that. I seem to be relatively resistant to religions - and other memetic infections that would hijack my goal system - presumably in part because my ancestors also exhibited such resistance.
Odd. Nature built me to denigrate it on the internet whenever it does something I don't agree with. Which of us is the mutant?
Judging by gravity, Nature wants me down. Should I undertake a journey to the center of the Earth?
It seems odd that you should mention the downward force but ignore the corresponding equal-and-opposite upward one.
FWIW, I sometimes council not resisting gravity using muscular force - but instead aligning oneself vertically - so that the force can be taken by skeletal structures. It is a similar idea: don't fight against nature, instead align yourself with it. This is a common theme in Taoism.