I must confess that I myself would easily be categorized as an "under-achiever". I know I've lived below the bar and have not achieved the mark of excellence in my studies. Perhaps I am easily distracted, haven't found the correct method of action (sounds rather unlikely) or just fit into the quote "those who cannot do, teach", which means I'm a windbag about ideals but don't act upon said ideals. I cannot help but admit that "over-achievers" seem a little strange to me. I've met "work-horses" (those who work steadily and hard), and I've met excellent problem-solvers (thinkers who also work hard and steady, but excel in completing difficult tasks), but I have yet to meet an "over-achiever".
That quote was my poor choice, because it is out of context with what exactly we were discussing. Machiavelli was concerned with the acquiring and preservation of a king's power, not necessarily the moral good or popular benefit of it. Of course the interest in the attainment and preservation of absolute power has been the poison of many. The likes of Thomas Paine's "The Rights of Man" and many other texts has pointed out the truth of such matters. (“Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” -John Adam's)
There is such a thing as "healthy fear", and the word for that is "Reverence", a respect so high, that to displease or to offend against it would be unthinkable.
I seem to be hung in the middle. But I seem to be that way about most everything.
Oh, that makes things clearer. I would agree with that, corruption is so hard to identify when one is the one being affected. But that seems to be the case with a lot of things. Not being able to see the forest for all the trees.
Exactly! Then there's the levels of trust and all the things mixed in.
Hung in the middle, about most everything? Well rounded I hope. That is, you don't go to extremes, no?
Hmm? I thought that saying was applied to seeing trees individually so as not to see the big picture, or seeing the foresting and not noticing the trees themselves. You say that when one is affected negatively by something, the person often has an obstruction in recognizing it. That reminds me of a saying "false tears bring pain to others, a false smile brings pain to oneself". Because there is falseness in oneself (weather dealing with political power or social cues) one believes a lie that that person tells to himself/herself. It begins early and is difficult to uproot.
Trust comes from the word for "strong", related to binding. The word "truss" I believe is related. So not to trust someone is not to believe they are strong, or able to do a thing. Because humans are challenging in identifying the "strong" and even more difficult in becoming strong, trust is hard to build and very easily broken. The funny thing is that trust (real trust) is never blind, but is built on knowing the actual strength of the other party. Too often to say "I trust you" is a phrase of doubt, or a phrase to bind the other person to be good, when there really isn't doubt or binding in trust, although binding (more commonly know as "promising") is used to show a total pledge, sort of like tightening someone down beyond what is necessary.
I seem to be hung in the middle. But I seem to be that way about most everything.
Oh, that makes things clearer. I would agree with that, corruption is so hard to identify when one is the one being affected. But that seems to be the case with a lot of things. Not being able to see the forest for all the trees.
Exactly! Then there's the levels of trust and all the things mixed in.
Hung in the middle, about most everything? Well rounded I hope. That is, you don't go to extremes, no?
Hmm? I thought that saying was applied to seeing trees individually so as not to see the big picture, or seeing the foresting and not noticing the trees themselves. You say that when one is affected negatively by something, the person often has an obstruction in recognizing it. That reminds me of a saying "false tears bring pain to others, a false smile brings pain to oneself". Because there is falseness in oneself (whether dealing with political power or social cues) one believes a lie that that person tells to himself/herself. It begins early and is difficult to uproot.
Trust comes from the word for "strong", related to binding. The word "truss" I believe is related. So not to trust someone is not to believe they are strong, or able to do a thing. Because humans are challenging in identifying the "strong" and even more difficult in becoming strong, trust is hard to build and very easily broken. The funny thing is that trust (real trust) is never blind, but is built on knowing the actual strength of the other party. Too often to say "I trust you" is a phrase of doubt, or a phrase to bind the other person to be good, when there really isn't doubt or binding in trust, although binding (more commonly know as "promising") is used to show a total pledge, sort of like tightening someone down beyond what is necessary.
I am a mass of contradictions. XD I hope so too. Maybe my opposite extremes negate each other and cause me to be well rounded?
Somewhat. But I was also getting at the fact that sometimes someone gets so absorbed in something that they don't realize they are corrupted and going downhill. Then they end up thinking. "What have I done, how did it come to this?"
Interesting, I didn't know they were related. Agreed. Sometimes trust is a tricky thing indeed.
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Post by Essa Kryze on Aug 30, 2018 18:09:27 GMT
So this time I won't just vanish on ya'll. XD So heads up I'm going to be MIA from Friday to Tuesday or Wednesday. I'll be low-tech to no-tech so I doubt I'll be around at all but you never know eh. I'll miss you all!! D:
So this time I won't just vanish on ya'll. XD So heads up I'm going to be MIA from Friday to Tuesday or Wednesday. I'll be low-tech to no-tech so I doubt I'll be around at all but you never know eh. I'll miss you all!! D:
So this time I won't just vanish on ya'll. XD So heads up I'm going to be MIA from Friday to Tuesday or Wednesday. I'll be low-tech to no-tech so I doubt I'll be around at all but you never know eh. I'll miss you all!! D:
So this time I won't just vanish on ya'll. XD So heads up I'm going to be MIA from Friday to Tuesday or Wednesday. I'll be low-tech to no-tech so I doubt I'll be around at all but you never know eh. I'll miss you all!! D:
So this time I won't just vanish on ya'll. XD So heads up I'm going to be MIA from Friday to Tuesday or Wednesday. I'll be low-tech to no-tech so I doubt I'll be around at all but you never know eh. I'll miss you all!! D:
So this time I won't just vanish on ya'll. XD So heads up I'm going to be MIA from Friday to Tuesday or Wednesday. I'll be low-tech to no-tech so I doubt I'll be around at all but you never know eh. I'll miss you all!! D:
Yeah, I like diving and hurting myself, so I put my destructive energy into something CONstructive by playing goalie. It's better than soccer fields with mole hills.
That board is like half of who I am. Mainly the old one, though. It never took off here. I wrote my first two stories there.
Interesting. XD Don't make mountains out of them.
Same! But LotR instead. Lots of stuff never took off, but some did. Good for you.
I'm trying to rally some intramural teams right now...it's harder than it looks.
I didn't know you were that involved...were you around for the infamous SOPO?