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| Question #1240252618 | Monday, 20-Apr-2009 |
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| Is it true that extroverts are more likely to have extroverted friends and introverts introverted ones? -- just wondering |
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A5 @A4 - I hope you realise that the 'rest mood' comes about differently in different people. "he said after being yelled at, that it didnt have any concern in him" (if I'm interpreting this right: He "confessed" that he didn't care, after being yelled at) I would most probably say the same thing NOT because it is what I really feel, but because I am mad at the person for yelling at me. At that point when I am very angry, my soul purpose for saying or doing anything would be to harm (emotionally) that person for yelling at me so that he or she would never do it again. I usually refrain from saying anything when I am mad or in a conflict because it would not be true. I need to calm myself down before I can say what I really think or feel. For me, my "rest mood" kicks in when happy with how things are at the moment and preferably around people, and people around me are happy, in harmony with me and each other. Other times I'm just trying to reach that goal and my mind is pre-occupied trying to reach that and thus can not be in the rest mood. And if someone creates conflict with me, or unstabilize my harmony, that rest mood goes farther than it was to begin with and so no truth is obtained. If I'm alone, I try to be in some kind of human interaction because thats what makes me happy. When I'm interacting with people, I need to make sure they aren't thinking negatively of me because if they are, that would cause them to act hostile towards me and that will severely dampen the atmosphere and cause unnecessary negativity. I'll have to disagree with you there "it is entirely thoughts generated in an other individual." Thoughts are very important, especially if they are taken seriously by anyone. Thoughts become action, actions become habits. "the thing in it's own definition" is an abstract notion that in my opinion is almost impossible. I know there are other philosophers that made this claim that I'm about to make. What a thing is, is what we PERCIEVE it to be. Say if an object is red, it is red because we SEE it as red. The 'color cells' in human's eyes is made so that that particular wavelength of light is percieved as red. Dogs and color blind people see it as some shade of gray I'd assume and so for them it is impossible to see it red even if they are in the rest mood. Maybe it's not red at all, maybe theres more to the waves the object emmits that we are not capable of seeing or sensing by any of our organs. Similarly, "the thing in it's own definition" would be different for different people. As we are living beings it is nearly impossible to not be influenced atleast subconsiously by other people's thoughts and opinions and I don't think there is anything wrong with that. Our thoughts can be postively influenced by other people - by seeing a different and more positive perspective of the same thing (which is very helpful and increases our lifespan by doinng so) or negatively one in which case we can choose to be more selective of our thoughts BUT can bring more awareness and show us what to avoid. Either way it is a beautiful learning process that is essential for us. It is basically a trail and error process which I think is more effective (postively) and important than pressing the "ignore button." Maybe that individual quit eating oranges because he now associates negative feelings with oranges because it reminds him of some unknown unpleasant experiences that he would rather forget about. Maybe he used to eat oranges only when that hated person brought them and so everytime he used to eat oranges, he had to bear the hated person's presence which must've been very agonizing for him. Yes, he was influenced in his opinions of oranges by some "outside forces beyond his control" but hey since when do people live in bubbles? He feels that way about oranges, he has every right to feel that way about oranges. He is entitled to the privilage of hating them effing oranges. I know I sometimes associate some perfume or a song when I used to wear a particular perfume or listen to a song in a particular phase of my life in which I used to feel a particular emotion. So, if it reminds me of a negative feeling I used to feel when I smell that perfume or hear the song much later. So I start to hate it because of that, but because I know that I still like that smell or song without the unpleasant nostalgia, I keep smelling it or keep listening to that darn song over and over until I reprint postive emotions with those. So I like the smell or the song all over again  -- Anonymous |
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