I hope, Neil, that you don't think that I am a narcissist. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:57 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you RP - I feel a link to what you say, though don't feel it > necessary to define god. > > Tony raised narcissism, which we might connect to destiny. > > One form of Narcissism is a little understood personality disorder which > is increasingly showing up in our leaders across political, business, > sporting, psychological and spiritual institutions. Indeed narcissism and > narcissistic is increasingly being used to describe the mass cultural shift > to a “self” obsessed culture where there is rampant consumerism, the > pursuit of power, excesses, and the abuse of others in the pursuit of these > ends. We all need a healthy dose of narcissism, as else we would not back > ourselves in life, nor have a healthy sense of self. There are healthy > forms of narcissism. Pointing to and ridiculing one's own might well be > healthy. > > The dangers of narcissism are discussed here - > http://www.energeticsinstitute.com.au/page/narcissistic_group_dynamics.html > > One problem in recognising religious diversity is the idea that all people > are honest about religious motivation and profession. > > > > On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 4:07:16 AM UTC, RP Singh wrote: >> >> Neil, why think of God in the usual way, think of him as something before >> the big bang from which the universe emerged. Think of him as the mind >> which contained the unmanifest which became manifest as the universe. We >> know that there is predetermination but why think that he has >> predetermined, think that it all naturally happens and evolution is a >> natural predetermined process. Why should God be aware like us, as the >> source of all he need not be bound by the limits of consciousness and can >> very well be unconscious. Have faith in such a God and your destiny. >> >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:19 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Postmodernism is supposedly a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical >>> practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the >>> simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as* >>> presence*, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the >>> univocity of meaning. >>> >>> Tony could be seen as replaying the liar's paradox here. To admit to >>> hypocrisy may be to admit the truth. For some postmodern writers, one has >>> to go further than any set of analytic rules and recognise madness at work >>> and restriction of dialogue to safe metaphors like Freud's Oedipal family, >>> when the world of real desire is very different (quite a few writers were >>> gay). >>> >>> Skepticism, over many centuries, has taught a kind of suspension of >>> judgement to a point when one works with many different arguments. Humour >>> can often be the only thing left after rigorous doubting, a kind of >>> self-depreciation in the face of conflicting evidence and themes. Those of >>> us who 'know nothing' still know how to jibe "and even this is to know more >>> than them, those who claim to know everything". This doubting process, in >>> science, comes to at least a temporary end in crucial experiments that >>> anyone, in principle, can demonstrate. This is rarely the case in ordinary >>> living. >>> >>> Descartes had it that we could undergo these difficult skeptical >>> processes with faith in a warm, benevolent god. It would be good to feel >>> such a presence, but I don't. He had the instruments of torture to contend >>> with for that matter. There is a presence of thinking on god without >>> ancient fable, much as there are ways of thinking on economics without the >>> dominating manners of neo-classical fantasy. The admission of perplexity >>> is something of a start, but has something of the vulnerability of sensory >>> deprivation. >>> >>> I am interested in the still mystical point of argument resolution after >>> doubt that is not merely conviction, superiority.or promises so vague they >>> are empty. >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 9:12:31 PM UTC, facilitator wrote: >>>> >>>> Of course Allan! My narcissism is baptized in hypocrisy. >>>> >>>> I espouse to walk in the light and yet there are plenty of "Neighbors" >>>> I don't treat better than myself. I claim spiritual superiority and yet >>>> find myself in constant need of attitude adjustment. I want world peace >>>> but have done little to push that round peg into all of the square holes I >>>> have encountered. Maybe only 1 out of three times do I turn the other >>>> cheek. And, I am definitely superior to most of the people I meet in this >>>> life. My spirit is ill equipped to take on a higher plane of existence. >>>> >>>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
