whether or not identity has any value in society: it does, in that society is made of individuals, who all have and value their own identities, but it shouldn't be given extra weight IMO such as use in governing

i have taken shrooms twice as far as i know i already had quite a depression when i took them the first time but after i took them the second time ive been doing better then i have in the last 5 years

kinda like how you cant say just dont be sad to people who are depressed but then you saying it to yourself

well since everyone has an identity we dont have to take it into consideration

how in a sum like -2/-2 you can leave out the - as they cancel each other out

but on a way more complicated scale

kinda

saying "but he's a good person" in a court of law wouldn't, and shouldn't hold up

because everyone thinks of themselves as the good guy

sorta

i would say as the right guy more then the good guy

i once saw a video of 3 cops in a shootout in some barbershop where a kid pulled a gun out and one of the bystanders said that the kid who pulled his gun out was "a good kid"

yes, but people generally don't see themselves as "evil" on a subconscious level

yeah, that wouldn't fly in court

well id say ask some vietnam veterans what they think about their time in vietnam

im pretty sure not everyone saw themselves as the good guy

I am evil, i accept it

would you still be able to call yourself good after you call in a napalm strike on some peasants village?

no, and that's what guilt is: the psychological dissonance between your subconscious saying you're good or right or whatever, and your conscious mind saying you're bad

some people, like myself, have an overactive consciousness that constantly overwhelms them by saying "you're not good, look at every inconvenience you've ever caused, you can't be good" which causes extreme dissonance and stress

others, like psychopaths, feel no dissonance, because their concept of good is entirely based on their subconscious view that they are good

therefore, by definition, they cannot be bad

And if I am at peace with my being "Bad"?

well i only have my subconciousness screaming at me and my conciousness is more like another person so count me in armchair therapists

i do however like shoegaze

@Khanclansith this goes deeper than acceptance. trust me, I took a psych course once #armchairexpert

shoegaze?

the genre?

and yes shoegaze is a fucking genre dont tell me otherwise

never heard of it

When I turned in my final for Pysch 101 I got a CLEP form passing me on Abnormal pysche.

I thought as much

its called shoegaze because the guitarsits in shoegaze bands always look at their feet because they have so many guitarpedals

I'd explain it by saying that your subconscious says you're right, and you've consciously accepted that you're evil, so you're "right to be evil" and eliminate the dissonance

but I'm not a real expert

just my hypothesis

well im not a therapist because as far as i know, a therapist is someone at the wrong end of a table

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