Your Mind

Just a though I'd like to share; Is that everything that happens to you is because of your mind. Everything in your life is dependant on the way you're wired, but here's the point, you can change yourself. All it requires is a bit of will power. Everything in your life, your happiness, your social abilities, your fears & worries, your problems, are controlled by your mind, and you can change it, all of it. It's never a "that's just the way it is with me" or "I just can't do that", you can do anything you set your mind to, you just have to believe it. You have the ability to make yourself whatever you want to be.
(Self-empowerment, woo!)

Reply 1

LennonMcCartney

I would honestly like to believe that and appreciate your optimism. But in some cases life just isn't good, and things hurt. We have to also appreciate and learn that bad stuff does happen, and we have to get on with it.

Reply 2

-TMG-

9

I'd like to be able to write stuff like what's in my sig...I can't just put my mind to it, I need more experience, to feel what the songwriter felt :P

LOL or somethin like that.

Reply 3

spoonofdeath

OP

yes, you don't control your physical world, but you control how you react to it, and that's all that really matters, I think that was part of my point. Everyone gets hurts, what makes you who you are is how you cope with it.

Reply 4

Fyska

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spoonofdeath

yes, you don't control your physical world, but you control how you react to it

Sounds a bit like Soul Reaver...

Er, I'll leave now.

Reply 5

musicbloke

17

Some of us here have deep misgivings about this type of ontology - I personally find it quite offensive.

MB

Reply 6

spoonofdeath

OP

yes, well, could you take the time to explain why? a comment that "I find that offensive" isn't particularly insightful.

I'm all up for a philosophical dicussion, but I think this way of thinnking can help you with problems and life in general, hence why I put it in this section.

Reply 7

ChocoVet

spoonofdeath

Just a though I'd like to share; Is that everything that happens to you is because of your mind. Everything in your life is dependant on the way you're wired, but here's the point, you can change yourself. All it requires is a bit of will power. Everything in your life, your happiness, your social abilities, your fears & worries, your problems, are controlled by your mind, and you can change it, all of it. It's never a "that's just the way it is with me" or "I just can't do that", you can do anything you set your mind to, you just have to believe it. You have the ability to make yourself whatever you want to be.
(Self-empowerment, woo!)

To a certain extent, I agree. But I'm not God, and I have limitations. Sometimes I can't accomplish stuff that I'd like to, and I have to accept this, and that's just life.

Reply 8

KdySk8rGirl

What you dont mention, is that to change the way you think or the way you view things, you have to work and work for many years. So to achieve a mind thats exactly what you want would take decades of dedication.

Its a lovely thought though.

Reply 9

musicbloke

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spoonofdeath

yes, well, could you take the time to explain why? a comment that "I find that offensive" isn't particularly insightful.

I'm all up for a philosophical dicussion, but I think this way of thinnking can help you with problems and life in general, hence why I put it in this section.

Anyone who belives in either a late Kantian or late Hegelian analysis of society must see the world to be the exposition of the disenfranchisement of people. I see this sort of thought as propergating a false consciousness of autonomy and as encouraging self-alienation. Mayber I'm rather pessimistic about this but I see these thoughts as only being damaging to society - society can only be exposed for the dangerous machinery it is when we cut through this liberal superstition.

MB

Reply 10

spoonofdeath

OP

MB : I'm not a philosophy student. So I only have a vague idea of what your getting at, could you please explain for the people that don't know the jargon?

Reply 11

username18215

10

You can't dictate the way people treat you; even if you change, you are going to be treated badly at one point.

I suppose, your point is the way that we decide to handle that treatment.

Reply 12

musicbloke

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spoonofdeath

MB : I'm not a philosophy student. So I only have a vague idea of what your getting at, could you please explain for the people that don't know the jargon?

look, I'm not a philosophy student either and I've put it in the simplest terms I can (you should try reading Adorno or Habermas). sorry.

MB

Reply 13

ThePants999

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This is that Dianetics stuff is it not?

Reply 14

spoonofdeath

OP

musicboy

look, I'm not a philosophy student either and I've put it in the simplest terms I can (you should try reading Adorno or Habermas). sorry.

But you obivously have an interest in the subject, having read books... yeah? Well surely if your intelligent enough to talk about people's views to "the world to be the 'exposition' of the disenfranchisement of people" (though why you couldn't use purpose in place of exposition I don't know, and well disenfranchisement can mean many things, which one one were you refering to? as I'm uneducated on this subject it was not obvious to me from the content). you can explain it in laymans terms? Apprantly not. I don't think someone should have had to read everything you have in order to understand your points.

And md_red I'm glad someone got what I was trying to say.

Reply 15

musicbloke

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spoonofdeath

But you obivously have an interest in the subject, having read books... yeah? Well surely if your intelligent enough to talk about people's views to "the world to be the 'exposition' of the disenfranchisement of people" (though why you couldn't use purpose in place of exposition I don't know, and well disenfranchisement can mean many things, which one one were you refering to? as I'm uneducated on this subject it was not obvious to me from the content). you can explain it in laymans terms? Apprantly not. I don't think someone should have had to read everything you have in order to understand your points.

the point of the term exposition was that the nature of society constantly reveals itself and conceals itself through alienation dialectically. If you understand this about it then it can be nothing but an exposition of the nature of society. It is not a purpose; it is more like a nature.

MB

Reply 16

spoonofdeath

OP

Ya see, why couldn't you have said that in the first place! :smile:

I was only surmising about a method for personal improvement and coping by realising that for each person the only real thing is your own mind. I don't see how it translates to society as a whole, but if your willing to try to explain to me, I'm happy to listen. If not, oh well!

Reply 17

technik

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hehe spoon of death. quality name

i suppose you've seen www.rathergood.com/spoonguard ? :biggrin:

Reply 18

musicbloke

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spoonofdeath

Ya see, why couldn't you have said that in the first place! :smile:

I was only surmising about a method for personal improvement and coping by realising that for each person the only real thing is your own mind. I don't see how it translates to society as a whole, but if your willing to try to explain to me, I'm happy to listen. If not, oh well!

because some of us don't believe in individuals or autonomous minds.

MB

Reply 19

spoonofdeath

OP

well I can see that point, although It's probably not either/or independant or not. Surely it is lots of what would be independant minds interlinked into a system? So if dealing with just one mind it's best to think of it as independant perhaps?

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