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Yet everything I believe, think and do is filtered through this unconscious “entity” (of me). Chances are, that everything I feel is also an unconscious preference.
Life is filtered through this confidence in my “self-knowledge”. Perhaps it is as it should be, but whatever I justify to be my self-values, will be how I believe, think, and act. I will attempt to enforce these views upon all those around me, and judge everything and everyone accordingly.
It is impossible to know yourself in the abstract, in isolation.
For every behavior that you identify, there will be a justification, explaining why it can be no-other-way. A list of these parameters could be called “benchmarks”, with or without judgements upon them. You decide what has value for you. These benchmarks are only neutral tools by which to judge your own actions. Still, I believe it is a very difficult proposition. We see these traits in the world, and we may deny them in ourselves. I will make a list and put them in a “time-slot”, which I will tell you about below. (The list could go on, and become very long.) But this gets it going.
As far as we can determine, most of these basic psychological motivations are universal to mankind. Everyone in the world has fears, insecurity, conclusions, judgements, struggle and dissatisfaction. Also, the positive side. Above, are identifiable many dozens of these similar parameters. Of course, everything OCCURS in the present tense, the only place where movement is possible. But you can visualize a focus, (it’s more active in), or an origin of each thought and emotion toward the past tense, or the present or the future. This is just my arbitrary expedient which might help in narrowing down the list.
What we see and dislike in the world situation, how nations react with each other, might be what we have hidden within ourselves. We might find them in our own mentality; if we choose to look. Society is constructed by men, and so it is a reflection of their collective mental states.
How can the time qualifications help to organize? For instance; worry, hope and fear are all focused on the unknown in the future. For me, I find it possible to reign-in thinking; so that wandering in future, what-if suppositions is minimal. Therefore, I have very little-or-no worry, no hopefulness nor fears. I have defined it that I will meet all those possibilities, if and when they occur, in the then-to-be present. I am trusting myself to be spontaneous, and handle what I meet each day, as it happens (tomorrow). That comes from years of spontaneous actions, that have always seemed to work out for the best.
You could also say that the conclusions that have built my judgements my logic systems, and my rationality, were all collected from past experiences. Therefore, all my choices for behavior have an origin from the past. Some of those parameters are not so active now, so I have categorized them as past thinking. For instance, I don’t engage in gilt, grief or regret. Some other ones that may or may not be active, I have shown in present-day challenge/opportunities. It’s something to investigate. True, many of these guidelines could be active in more than one, or in all these time concepts, it’s arbitrary.
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What makes you and I different is how we handle each of these traits. We have all been conditioned by past beliefs. I might say that beliefs could be obvious when looking at the other’s behavior, but rather obscure when searching our own. Our state of reactiveness is the direct outcome of our adopted world-view. Much of it is our decision about what we are willing to accept, and what we are NOT willing to accept in our relations to others, or how we blame them. Those people that are full of personal prohibitions and blame, are very emotional, very reactive. People have said that it is impossible to “get-inside-someone-else’s-head”. But really, it is spilling out in all their movements. There are no secrets, and it is all reflected in the world at large.
We say that, I can have no effect on the world at large, so don’t even try. Perhaps the only proactive step when considering the outer situation and current events, is to search within ourselves. Could we purge something, if we find it? Why should we carry what we disapprove about the others, within ourselves?
The “How” is another story, I could talk about it. Most people just take the victim stance, and say that those others, “are doing it to us”. It’s the illegal immigrants, the “bad-governments” of the world, and the axis of evil. If we suppress and dominate all of them, then we will have peace. It is a very difficult prospect, through all these wars which we intend to wage.
SO WHERE IS THE AGGRESSION AND CONFLICT IN THE WORLD ACTUALLY COMING FROM?
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