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Originally Posted by citamgine
You've said in the past that you sometimes make it a point to battle your conscience. I was wondering if you view the conscience to be, in totality, part of the Other. (I do not think it is.) That would make more sense to me as to why you'd want to go to battle. But by your answer it doesn't seem you think that is the case. Do you only do battle with the Other part of your conscience, or do you go all the way?
In my view the Other is mostly a nuisance. It's the spazz telling me not make a joke because it's not PC. Or not to look at a girls ass when she walks by. The Other has probably saved my ass enough to let it live though.
Expected to have sex by this age. Expected to hold down a full time job by that age. Expected to partner up by this age. Expected to have kids by that age. Expected to be monogamous at all ages.
The Other expects things of you. Pushes things on you. Some fitting; some not. These things are both moral and non-moral in nature. The more you meet these expectations the more you seize to exist. You become a kind of living embodiment or amalgamation of the Other. Inauthentic. Unexamined. Worthless.
But hey, at least people refer to you as "a nice guy". That's something.
"We sacrifice two thirds of ourselves trying to be like others". - Schopenhauer.
Some fall far to the side of agreeable - on the the agreeableness personality dimension. Harder for these poor folk, I suppose (me included).
Last edited by VeeDDzz`; 07-25-2018 at 06:39 PM.