We are also "trained" by family and culture which becomes habitual if not countered.
On Jan 3, 8:09 pm, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Neil , we know what we are doing but in some cases what we believe our > motives for those actions to be are not so , rather the real motives > are exact opposites and are buried in the unconscious traceable by the > psychoanalysts. The promptings to the ' will ' arise from the ' grey > matter ' which is unconscious, and we ourselves arise from the same. > > > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:01 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do we think a body human if it doesn't know what it is doing RP? Part > > of judgement is allowing for mistakes. > > > On 2 Jan, 17:31, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Psychologists say that a person's conscious motives are not the real > >> determinants of behavior but one's real motives lie in the unconscious and > >> one is not aware of them. A person who is obsessed with cleanliness is > >> ostensibly a very clean person but in reality he has strong instinctive sex > >> drive which get repressed as he cannot accept them. > >> The question is that are we to judge ourselves or judged by others for our > >> behavior by the conscious motives or the repressed unconscious motives ? > >> Clearly we cannot be judged for factors of which we are not even aware even > >> though they are the real determinants of our actions. > >> The question now arises of our will , is our will free ? Consciously we are > >> free , we think and act as we want , we can open or close our hand freely. > >> So , we have freedom of choice , and if our will is bound by unconscious > >> determinants we cannot be held accountable for them. If unconsciously we > >> are selfish and consciously generous , it is our generosity for which we > >> can be judged and not the unconscious motive. So , the phantom of Bondage > >> evaporates into thin air ! > > > --- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --
