Analyze That Dr. Jaz: Part Deux
If I buy someone a gift and in order to make them happy and it does makes them happy, am I selfish person for accomplishing my goals?
Am I selfish for holding the door for people if I do so because my expectation is that they would hold it for me? I guess that's where humility comes in where I'm not going to call someone out on not holding the door.
There are ways in which people are both way realer and way faker online.
All this quoted for truth.
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What?
And I haven't forgotten about the rest of you who posted in here just haven't been able to get around to it.
If I buy someone a gift and in order to make them happy and it does makes them happy, am I selfish person for accomplishing my goals?
Am I selfish for holding the door for people if I do so because my expectation is that they would hold it for me? I guess that's where humility comes in where I'm not going to call someone out on not holding the door.
There are ways in which people are both way realer and way faker online.
Yeah, it's all selfish. You're selfish for buying that gift, because you wanted to be in whoever-you-bought-it-for's favor. You're selfish for opening that door for someone, as it shows manners and puts you in the favor of society in general, etc etc. If you didn't do it, you'd feel like a dick, because that feeling inside of you that says, "someone noticed I was too much of a dick to open the door" starts up. I mean, really, opening a door for someone? Not much of a favor in the first place. It's a symbolic gesture of your desire to be a part of the society, and a desire to steer clear of hostility.
Of course none of this is really consciously/strategically thought of, but it's there, and that's what counts. It's when someone strategically thinks of these things constantly that they become cold and selfish.
I feel like crap when I see someone dying, and I wish with all of my heart that they live, but that's empathy developed evolutionarily, and if it came down to me and a stranger, I'd pick me unless I knew that I'd be outcasted for it anyway.
Whew!
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Oh my God, why are kids such assholes these days?
Just kidding, I don't mean that.
I mean, I know why they are.
lol
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Seriously though this is a fun thread and your shit is stinking it up. I can shit all over my own threads just fine thanks. 
Some people take themselves waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too seriously.
I know like those assholes who put their name in all their thread titles. Gahd they're such douches. 
Gahd! I know!
Jaz is the cult's Tyler Perry.
She makes more horrible movies than Michael Bay every year???
And she makes all black people laugh.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Yeah. Wait, cry. I mean cry.
A Good Man is Hard to Slime
Black people have been an integral part of my life lately. They love me and can't get enough of me, too bad they aren't giving me their money.
Almost a year later...this picture really put a bump in my road. Cammie stumped me! But I'm back
There is natural beauty all around you that you like to take a minute to sit down and enjoy. Yet joyous, life changing moments tend to cast this dark shadow over you. The people experiencing these dramatic life changes feel like you don't really know who they are and suffer for it. As the height of these moments try to steal the spotlight, you will stay grounded and centered.
Sorry I took so long Cammie. There was such a dark side that came out of this picture which boggled me since I'm used to bubbly, loving, happy go-lucky Cammie.
It has only been half a year!
Strange and thoughtful. You are trapped in feeling like you need to conform to those around you. Once you have freedom in your hands it fades away just as quickly. Thinking in gray scale is not as simple as it seems. The picture seems to be in black and white but there are so many shades of gray in between that make your picture quite complex. There's art within your reach, don't lose sight of it, it's practically already in your grasp.
interesting take on that picture, jaz.
by the way, I'm the shadowy figure snarling. the pregnant girl is my friend ashley. it was a photoshoot for my best friend's photo project.
I totally forgot about that until you posted it. I have more pictures from the set, it's actually a pretty morbid shoot.
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
6 months is almost a year hahaha but yeah I should've just said it's been a while.
by the way, I'm the shadowy figure snarling. the pregnant girl is my friend ashley. it was a photoshoot for my best friend's photo project.
I totally forgot about that until you posted it. I have more pictures from the set, it's actually a pretty morbid shoot.
I honestly couldn't even see you in the picture until maybe about the 5th or 10th time I looked at it which completely changed what I wanted to write. Even then I was still confused as what to write. I think you win the thread.
ALL I DO IS WIN
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
Strange and thoughtful. You are trapped in feeling like you need to conform to those around you. Once you have freedom in your hands it fades away just as quickly. Thinking in gray scale is not as simple as it seems. The picture seems to be in black and white but there are so many shades of gray in between that make your picture quite complex. There's art within your reach, don't lose sight of it, it's practically already in your grasp.
Nice.
You still love playing with your food and you don't give a fuck.
He gives the least amount of fucks!
It's true. I've known him as long as anyone and I doubt he owns any fucks.
Indeed I believe as well that there is a difference between rational self interest, which we all are guided by, and selfishness in the assholic sense. Ayn Rand's The Virtue of Selfishness was an attempt to impose a positive connotation on 'selfishness', but I don't think it worked that way.
If I buy someone a gift and in order to make them happy and it does makes them happy, am I selfish person for accomplishing my goals?
Am I selfish for holding the door for people if I do so because my expectation is that they would hold it for me? I guess that's where humility comes in where I'm not going to call someone out on not holding the door.
There are ways in which people are both way realer and way faker online.
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