Guilty!
Guilt is difficult to analyze because it is ‘dumb’. It is a feeling of being blocked and frustrated without knowing why we feel that way. This develops when embraced by powerlessness while clutched by the unknown. Guilt is a bind of life.
A feeling of guilt emanates from our peculiar ability to apprehend life’s totality but unable to move in relation to it. “This real guilt partly explains willing subordinacy to his culture: after all, the world of men is even more dazzling and miraculous in its richness than the awesomeness of nature. Also, subordinacy comes naturally from man’s basic experience of being nourished and cared for; it is a logical response to social altruism.
There are many ways in which we feel this “bind of life:
* When ill or injured we are cared for by a cultural system
* Not achieving all one can be
* Recognition that we are the source of a serious accident
* Inability to meet responsibility to family
* Displaying certain accomplishments
* Evolution’s bounty to me
* Fate’s bounty to me
* Sticking out in a crowd for some biological reason
* “There, but for the grace of God, go I
Social organization helps the individual expiate guilt by sharing guilt and a symbolic confession of it. “This is why the main general characteristic of guilt is that it must be shared: man cannot stand alone. Primitives seem to be more honest about these things, probably because they were more realistic about our desperate situation vis-Ã -vis nature. You cannot fool Mother Nature. Modern man seems more arrogant as regards nature.
Hubris is another word signifying a forgetting from whence real power comes. We seem like sophomores, not yet comprehending the source of real power; imagining it is in our self.
Quotes and ideas from “Escape from Evil—Ernest Becker
Guilty!
Guilty!
Quite frankly I dont even know what the hell youre talking about, but in laymans terms (thats me, layman) aka non-critical thinker.
Guilt is a normal and valid human emotion. It can guide us in our lives determining the path we ought not take.
Guilt is a normal and valid human emotion. It can guide us in our lives determining the path we ought not take.
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Guilty!
I think that one cannot enter into the territory of some domains of knowledge while listening to common sense voices. Our common sense will immediately reject some facts because those facts are contrary to common sense.
You must still these instinctive reactions because common sense knows nothing about many things; just as the physicist had to still her common sense reaction at the results of some experiments regarding the inner working of the atom.
The inner working of human nature can be as mysterious to common sense as is the inner reality of the atom.
We can see only what we are prepared to see. Common sense does not prepare us to see many things. We have to creep up on certain matters and withhold judgment until we are intellectually mature enough to judge their reality.
You must still these instinctive reactions because common sense knows nothing about many things; just as the physicist had to still her common sense reaction at the results of some experiments regarding the inner working of the atom.
The inner working of human nature can be as mysterious to common sense as is the inner reality of the atom.
We can see only what we are prepared to see. Common sense does not prepare us to see many things. We have to creep up on certain matters and withhold judgment until we are intellectually mature enough to judge their reality.
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coberst;568250 wrote: I think that one cannot enter into the territory of some domains of knowledge while listening to common sense voices. Our common sense will immediately reject some facts because those facts are contrary to common sense.
You must still these instinctive reactions because common sense knows nothing about many things; just as the physicist had to still her common sense reaction at the results of some experiments regarding the inner working of the atom.
The inner working of human nature can be as mysterious to common sense as is the inner reality of the atom.
We can see only what we are prepared to see. Common sense does not prepare us to see many things. We have to creep up on certain matters and withhold judgment until we are intellectually mature enough to judge their reality.
Very interesting! So, how did you come up with your name? It is almost like colbert. I do like that show.
You must still these instinctive reactions because common sense knows nothing about many things; just as the physicist had to still her common sense reaction at the results of some experiments regarding the inner working of the atom.
The inner working of human nature can be as mysterious to common sense as is the inner reality of the atom.
We can see only what we are prepared to see. Common sense does not prepare us to see many things. We have to creep up on certain matters and withhold judgment until we are intellectually mature enough to judge their reality.
Very interesting! So, how did you come up with your name? It is almost like colbert. I do like that show.