Does your philosophy fit...

your temperment?

If it does could this be the reason you have it?

 

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How oblique.

 

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"There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world." - Albert Sorel


Do you determine your philosophy based on who you are, or do you shape who you are based on your philosophy?
I like to think I fit into the latter category.

 

1) have you met resistence in yourself? what if one looked at this resistence as coming from a different philosophy?
2) is there a way we, you, one can tell which came first and was causal?

 

My philosophy vs My personality? Both are so amorphus. Rigidity of either would appear to cause guaranteed internal conflicts if one is honest with oneself. If you are willing to be dishonest with yourself, you can justify your personality using whatever is necessary to fit your philosophy, or vice-versa.

 

I used the word temperment, though personality could be a useful wording also.
If one likes some of the following and not others

mysteries
control
linear steps
adventure
experiencing without verbal thoughts
looking before leaping
not hesitating
intimacy
distance

one might end up preferring things to be a certain way or to ONLY be a certain way. A philosophy might arise out of one's desire.

Unless you are really good at taking over yourself. Perhaps somewhere off in the unconscious there is struggle (transcendentally), but the person never notices (or only brief flickers).

One can also avoid noticing the conflicts by finding others and trying to get them in line. They are like the parts of yourself you don't want to notice.

And if you have a philosophy that does NOT fit your temperment it is very hard not to be a hypocrite.

 

Wait, so I want to be honest all the time, but honesty is something that goes against common sense by past experience, so sometimes I slip and am deliberately dishonest. Dishonesty is freedom from the stainless steel cell of behavior I try to maintain myself in.

 

For example. And me laughing also.

Philosophies can often be lacking in nuance. They are nice in the mind. Sort of like how one imagines one should act when out on a first date. And finally you find a way to act and what to say
and then
reality intrudes
and the little map you had in the mind
is suddenly a joke.

First off you usually forget to include all of yourself in the map.

 

Personality is what it is, on the other hand, and only changeable with alot of work. Right?

 

And sometimes no work at all, but if work, then it seems to take quite a bit. All we really need is another job, right?

 

I just try to go with the flow as best I can but do have certain core items I will not alter.

 

Do those core items match your philosophy?

 

Sometimes, depends upon the situation. :tempted:

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so your temperment does not entirely fit your philosophy.

 

I have a philosophy because I want to change my temperment.

 

So there is 'something wrong' with your temperment and the philosophy will help fix it?

 

As I said, listen now, it depends upon the circumstances at the time as to what I will do.

 

I think I got that. So sometimes you'll do things that go against your philosophy. I paraphase to make sure I understand, and also just in case the implications are not clear to you or other readers. Of course I might be wrong about those implications.

 

Exactly.:bravo: