Atreyu wrote:My view is that self-pity is the driving force behind so called "tough" or "macho" behavior...
Yes, it is not the (fear/anger) reaction to our environment which is bad, but our own, internal reaction to these emotions.
Atreyu wrote:My view is that self-pity is the driving force behind so called "tough" or "macho" behavior...
I hope you told him to keep his mind on the game and his hands to himself.Belinda wrote:Lavie, I used to enjoy playing squash but the game was spoiled when the other person wanted to start scoring.
Not sure whether you have an especially sharp wit or just a one track mind, or both :)Alec Smart wrote:I hope you told him to keep his mind on the game and his hands to himself.Belinda wrote:Lavie, I used to enjoy playing squash but the game was spoiled when the other person wanted to start scoring.
I can only work with the material at hand, Greta. Besides, I'm too preoccupied with my middle age gut and going bald to have a one track mind about anything else.Greta wrote: Not sure whether you have an especially sharp wit or just a one track mind, or both
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Friedrich Nietzsche in the Genealogy of Morals called priests the weakest of the weak, and described that it would result in destructive behaviour and the harming of others.Postman becomes a court psychiatrist
The German postman Gert Postel, after a disastrous treatment of his mother, wanted to show that psychiatry is a scam and successfully infiltrated the forensic psychiatric establishment and was almost appointed professor of forensic psychiatry and director of a forensic clinic with self-made diagnoses.
Postel: "In psychiatry one can explain everything, but then everything in a plausible way: as a psychiatrist you can claim the opposite, but also the opposite of the opposite. Those who master the psychiatric vocabulary, can endlessly continue to debit nonsense and thereby pack graduates. "
Postel: "It is a matter of psychiatric speech acrobatics and a little staging." Postel: "I thought to myself: who is the scammer here: they or me?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Postel
I personally do not believe in weakness, only in good intent and prevention of corruption. It is easy to not care. It takes strength to choose a righteous path. Life is a fight. Every person can be the strongest and serve life in the best way, by their intent. The people described in the OT can be considered the strongest in ways that may not be able to be predicted when their intent is not to corrupt or diminish the perceived strength - or optimum condition - of others.The priests are, as is notorious, the worst enemies—why? Because they are the weakest. Their weakness causes their hate to expand into a monstrous and sinister shape, a shape which is most crafty and most poisonous. The really great haters in the history of the world have always been priests, who are also the cleverest haters—in comparison with the cleverness of priestly revenge, every other piece of cleverness is practically negligible.
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All sick and diseased people strive instinctively after a herd-organisation, out of a desire to shake off their sense of oppressive discomfort and weakness; the ascetic priest divines this instinct and promotes it; wherever a herd exists it is the instinct of weakness which has wished for the herd, and the cleverness of the priests which has organised it, for, mark this: by an equally natural necessity the strong strive as much for isolation as the weak for union: when the former bind themselves it is only with a view to an aggressive joint action and joint satisfaction of their Will for Power, much against the wishes of their individual consciences; the latter, on the contrary, range themselves together with positive delight in such a muster—their instincts are as much gratified thereby as the instincts of the[Pg 177] "born master" (that is, the solitary beast-of-prey species of man) are disturbed and wounded to the quick by organisation. There is always lurking beneath every oligarchy—such is the universal lesson of history—the desire for tyranny. Every oligarchy is continually quivering with the tension of the effort required by each individual to keep mastering this desire. (Such, e.g., was the Greek; Plato shows it in a hundred places, Plato, who knew his contemporaries—and himself.)
The question why discipline is vital may be most important. Why does someone naturally feel the urge to follow a righteous path in life? What is righteous and how could one know without thinking (i.e. instinctively)?Ensrick wrote: ↑March 31st, 2020, 1:25 pm @arjand, I agree with your bottom line and I would add that in the interest of pragmatic solutions to societal problems we need to build our thoughts on the existing psychology around these issues. I think we need to be aware that we have to exert a level of self discipline to overcome our nature when it is no longer suited to the world we live in.
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