Spoken by a gal who lives in a city?! I bet your family would miss you!Only if this introvert doesn't get the space I need.
Assignment: "Freewill" (Pro/Con)
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Perhaps why I asked you?
seattlegal
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Hey, everything should be fine as long as I get first dibs on the time-out chair. {Although I am willing to share the time out chair and cuddle.}
Why, were you being bad... beating on your spouse again? Are you taking a timeout from doing good, because you were doing evil?
I can just imagine the sign on the entrance to a gulag: We just needed a timeout from you!
seattlegal
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Nope. I need the timeout chair because I am an introvert. Being introverted doesn't mean you are evil. (No matter how much the extraverts may chide)
I can just imagine the sign on the entrance to a gulag: We just needed a timeout from you!
Truth is stranger than fiction.
So you think a person afraid of life must avoid it, to overcome it.Nope. I need the timeout chair because I am an introvert. Being introverted doesn't mean you are evil. (No matter how much the extraverts may chide)
I've been known to put the dampers on a few relationships, but I have never used the excuse of being introverted.
There is plenty of fiction spoken within the real relationships... I'm not so sure why you call that strange.
seattlegal
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Nope. It's not like that.
Extraversion and introversion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Too trueI've been known to put the dampers on a few relationships, but I have never used the excuse of being introverted.
There is plenty of fiction spoken within the real relationships... I'm not so sure why you call that strange.
Both aspects are selfish, as taught and used by Carl Jung to justify himself. If Carl Jung believed in self realization, then why was he a psychiatrist?
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Why selfish? Being one or the other only indicates tendencies in what we prefer. The choice comes later. Isn't being selfish or not a result of the choices we make?
seattlegal
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We can move the introversion/extraversion discussion to this thread:
http://www.interfaith.org/forum/cult-of-personality-14705.html
http://www.interfaith.org/forum/cult-of-personality-14705.html
Why not sacrifice? Carl Jung's definition is that you are either: interested in a self attained mental state, or interested in obtaining self gratification from something outward. His definition and measure says more about himself than anyone else.
You say that choices come later, yet question whether or not a trait is a result of choices made. The future comes later. Is being something, or not, a result of the future? The history is past. Is being something, or not, a result of the history?
seattlegal
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Why not mercy instead?
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First Jung was a Theoretical Psychologist not a psychiatrist, in other words he developed the techniques of which psychologists and psychiatrists use.
I don't see extroversion or introversion as being selfish, could you go into that a little?
What do you believe Self-Realization to be?
Jung believed in Individuation, individuals in contact with the conscious world but also allow themselves to experience their unconscious self achieve individuation.
Yes, why not mercy instead? That is the sacrifice I intended: patience, mercy, forgiveness, kindness. Why not mercy instead? I hope you don't think I was implying that you should sacrifice your husband, pidgeons, or turtle doves.
That would be rather selfish.
radarmark
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The question is a little Ckicken and Eggish (I think). As we choose to act in a certain manner (selfish, sacrificial, mercifully, consciously.... etc) we reinforce the mental state (same as preferably select to exercise certain neural pathways with their associated chemical releases). But at the same time if we are selfish, merciful, etc we tend to express our choices in action that are selfish or merciful (same as our neural pathways have a predilection to release certain chemicals). It could be that being selfish or merciful releases the same neurotransmitters, making us feel "good".
Does that make any sense? Pax et amore omnia vincunt!
Does that make any sense? Pax et amore omnia vincunt!
Then I guess Sabina Spielrein and Antonia Wolff were not really his patients?! Perhaps then he was a patient of theirs.
What do I think self-realization is? I think self-realization comes from seeking the approval of others, not that others are necessarily honest or right, but that it requires living and making choices in the relationships with others to be known, to know self in those circumstances, and should it be seen as good to do so, to even change.
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If I understand you correctly this describes a person in a vacuum, but how we act also has reactions which shapes our future choices, yes? So even since childhood we have been shaped by reactions of our intro/extro attitude .
seattlegal
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I would also like to add the role of empathy/sympathetic joy to the mix, as well as "contagious" (generated and empowered by a group) feelings.
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Ok, he practiced psychiatry, but that's not what I'm talking about and you know it. If he made baskets in his spare time, are we calling him a basket weaver and the basket cases his clients? Isn't the crux of this discussion more important than this? I certainly don't have the time for defending myself over trivial pursuit.
Jung seems to think it is acquired through individuation which is the balancing of several aspects of the Self.
radarmark
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"If I understand you correctly this describes a person in a vacuum, but how we act also has reactions which shapes our future choices, yes? So even since childhood we have been shaped by reactions of our intro/extro attitude." ACOT.
Of course, but our actions and mantal states (decisions) are cyclic, they re-enforce. That but should answer the question (yes, it is the case that our mental states influence our choices which rdetermine our actions). I was a pre-adolescent male stutterer (really low, low recovery rate) and therefore very shy. I changed that, I do not even react in a shy way at alol any more (I am way too sensitive to criticism, my last three bosses have all been pretty shocked when they found out how insecure I am--currt boss is female and she groks it).
"I would also like to add the role of empathy/sympathetic joy to the mix, as well as "contagious" (generated and empowered by a group) feelings." SG
I was merely providing an "internal only view". empathy/sympathetic joy and contageous feelings are part of what I called "mental state". For me (unless I am working on project alone), those dominate my feeling space (but my bride would argue that "protection" or "guardianship" rule). I try not to seek projects alone, but sometimes (doing a lot of probability and other math work) I cannot help it (cannot find a job that lets me write philosophy or run projects).
Pax et amore omnia vincunt!
Of course, but our actions and mantal states (decisions) are cyclic, they re-enforce. That but should answer the question (yes, it is the case that our mental states influence our choices which rdetermine our actions). I was a pre-adolescent male stutterer (really low, low recovery rate) and therefore very shy. I changed that, I do not even react in a shy way at alol any more (I am way too sensitive to criticism, my last three bosses have all been pretty shocked when they found out how insecure I am--currt boss is female and she groks it).
"I would also like to add the role of empathy/sympathetic joy to the mix, as well as "contagious" (generated and empowered by a group) feelings." SG
I was merely providing an "internal only view". empathy/sympathetic joy and contageous feelings are part of what I called "mental state". For me (unless I am working on project alone), those dominate my feeling space (but my bride would argue that "protection" or "guardianship" rule). I try not to seek projects alone, but sometimes (doing a lot of probability and other math work) I cannot help it (cannot find a job that lets me write philosophy or run projects).
Pax et amore omnia vincunt!