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by Venator of Verum

Or is it the other way around?

 

 Nope, it's the outer world what reflects on the internal. 

No worries and sweats.

I got it.

Just playing on the religious notes.

Psychology for the believers.

Science for the meek and gentle.

But not to the observer, when he focuses on his own perspective?

Or perhaps the observer is a trapped animal with an overwhelming and an impossible to resist desire to find a way out of the trap?

Focusing on one's own perspective is seldom a good idea.

Then again, when in a trap, that's often the only perspective.  

Even though it may lead to Escher's Infinity Staircase in D minor.

Should i crack open another bordeaux?? 

Focusing on one's own perspective can overwhelm the acceptance of ideas derived by others.

But it can also help you find the weak spots in different ways of arrival at any goal in the competing points of view.

Still all that is alive is only a surviving manifestation of what can be garnered about life.

Every overtly developed/adjusted survival mechanism tends to be devoid of a perfect fail safe.

Your perspective is derived purely from your ability to understand what constitutes reality and what you believe to be true.

Eventually you acknowledge the reality of what you are and what you aren't.

Perhaps it is because there is a weakness to every attempt at organizing?

Or perhaps every form of organization has a fundamental weakness?

P.S.

Beauty is only truly recognized once and then only admired afterwards.

Beware, for therein lies the way for learning to both hate and love it,  destroy and create it, understand and forget the meaning of it.

Only being blind to it will give you the freedom from that burden.

Truly understanding that which can be a gift will cost you plenty more than what is afforded to the ignorant, but will deliver plenty more in your appreciation of what it means to be alive at the cost of death.

Isn't life dependent on murder after all?

by Turncoat

The "vacation in filth" is symptomatic of a few disorders isn't it? Hell, some turn it into a means of protecting themselves. Or... do they mean a vacation into someone else's filth?

That alcohol entry was a fun read.

I believe that Cleckley was referring to the moral definition of "filth" common to his time. I think he was referring to the psychopath as a man who will quite randomly and without provocation become drunken, aggressive (though Cleckley specifically states that serious aggression is rare in this state), and prone to partake of activities that would be considered morally reprehensible. A "vacation in filth" tends to have been considered a temporary state; a way of "escaping" the "drudgery" of "normal" life.

I apologise if someone already answered this question. I'm too lazy to read the rest of the thread.

And I'm glad to see that you're still here, TC. Last I saw, you were concerned that LP was going to ban you. That would have been a poor decision on her part.

"I apologise if someone already answered this question. I'm too lazy to read the rest of the thread."
I think this is the third time now?

"And I'm glad to see that you're still here, TC."
Thanks.

by Turncoat

"I apologise if someone already answered this question. I'm too lazy to read the rest of the thread."
I think this is the third time now?

 Sorry. I should've sculled my coffee before I replied. My bad. :-D

by Venator of Verum

Your perspective is derived purely from your ability to understand what constitutes reality and what you believe to be true.

 Should've expanded a bit more on that staircase. 

Can't quite put a finger on any flaw in the perspective:

Yet i can't build a fecking staircase like that in brick & mortar, however much i try. 

Some say it's a trick on the mind. However, lately it's rumoured  (by the Cern crowd et al)  that the universe is in fact fashioned along the lines of Escher's perspective. 

Or perhaps the observer is a trapped animal with an overwhelming and an impossible to resist desire to find a way out of the trap?

To find a way out of the trap it would be essential to figure out which perspective is a trap, to begin with - the brick & mortar staircase, or the infinite one?  If any at all. 

Every overtly developed/adjusted survival mechanism tends to be devoid of a perfect fail safe. 

Haha, we can cut that shorter: Every survival mechanism tends to be devoid of success. Or else things wouldn't die.  ('Survival mechanism' as in a fancy synonym for 'life'.)

Which raises the question, isn't death the defining factor (proof) of life? 

Could ontological vagaries please be kept to a minimum.

Thank You.

The Mgt.