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The egotist has an overwhelming sense of the centrality of the 'Me': of their personal qualities.[2] Egotism means placing oneself at the core of one's world with no concern for others, including those loved or considered as "close," in any other terms except those set by the egotist.
If you are not willing to TAKE, do you really have anything to give? How can the moon shine in the night if it doesn't absorb the sun's light? The moon is not shining for "US". It shines because it ABSORBS the light, and as a result it SPREADS.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by arpgme
The egotist has an overwhelming sense of the centrality of the 'Me': of their personal qualities.[2] Egotism means placing oneself at the core of one's world with no concern for others, including those loved or considered as "close," in any other terms except those set by the egotist.
en.wikipedia.org...
I like helping other people and animals in need. You can take your Ayn Rand cult fantasies elsewhere. Selfishness and lack of empathy for others is what we call psychopathy. Corporations work in this very manner, usually screwing over their employees in the process, along with whole economies. Why pay them a 1$ more an hour?! If I keep it, it'll be in my self interest and my happiness will magically trickle down unto them. Righhhhht.
Originally posted by yourmaker
Have you ever heard of Epicureanism? en.wikipedia.org...
plato.stanford.edu...
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by arpgme
I like helping other people and animals in need.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by arpgme
You can take your Ayn Rand cult fantasies elsewhere.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by arpgme
Selfishness and lack of empathy for others is what we call psychopathy.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by arpgme
Corporations work in this very manner, usually screwing over their employees in the process, along with whole economies. Why pay them a 1$ more an hour?! If I keep it, it'll be in my self interest and my happiness will magically trickle down unto them. Righhhhht.
Originally posted by arpgme
Service to self is FREEDOM.
Originally posted by AdamOver
reply to post by followtheevidence
Service to others ? You're joking right?
Perhaps thousands of years ago, when we were hunter gatherers, self preservation was our primary instinct.
I feel we have somewhat evolved from those times. We are social animals. Like many animals. I don't see them bitching that they must Service the others.
Originally posted by Nostalgic
The problem is, you're viewing the entire spectrum in the wrong light. Instead of viewing "generosity" and "selfishness" as two different things, why don't you try being both at the same time? Nobody is telling you that if you place yourself as top priority, that you can't continue to "give" to others.
For some reason you've seemed to paint them in a black & white light, when in reality, they have no problem being merged together. Try it!
Cheers,
Nos
If you are not willing to TAKE, do you really have anything to give? How can the moon shine in the night if it doesn't absorb the sun's light? The moon is not shining for "US". It shines because it ABSORBS the light, and as a result it SPREADS.
I simply said that instead of helping people all the time, we should teach them to help themselves so that they can be independent and free from depending on others.
Helping a person in their struggle is OK. Becoming "service to others" and always giving, giving, giving, instead of teaching them to be independent and do things by themselves is another story.
in fact it did since even animals knew better than to keep depending on others and to actually DO for themselves.
Then every single human and animals alive is a "psychopath" if that is what selfishness is. Everyone is selfish to some extent and to say otherwise is to be a liar.
People help others to feel good about themselves, that they "did" something for another.
And you know what the corporations are doing? GIVING people jobs!
People sit like slaves in a factory working all day for a "dollar" knowing that they are being taken advantage of but they allow it to happen, why? Because they don't think about They have low SELF-esteem, so they don't speak up.
This is what happens when you begin to hate the SELF or try to put focus on another. You get scare to speak up when you are being taken advantage of