Is it necessary for vegetarians to delude themselves into thinking meat tastes bad?
Well I'm vegetarian and I LOVED meat before I gave it up. Now it's been 2 years and I find it to be very disgusting (when I look at it) and I'll never eat it again. You don't really delude yourself, it kind of just happens naturally after not having it for many years.
How do people manage to delude themselves?
Although it seems you steadily advance an argument and reach a conclusion and paradox, I couldn't agree with the first assertion you made:"In order for you to be able to delude yourself, you must first set out to delude yourself"Why? I think about these things a lot through the lens of a mental model known as "defense mechanisms." In this model, there comes a point in time where the brain must reach a conclusion, regardless of how distorted (deluded it is.) At this point, an idea is adopted...integrated with whoever you think you are. The ideas integrated tend to do things like preserve the ego and prevent self-deflation (Illusory superiority, usually manifested through the Dunning–Kruger effect effect.) Do these individuals *really* know or have they ever known the truth to their skill or position? No, I dont believe that the decay of memory is mandated by deluded thoughts, but that the unchosen, non-deluded explanation / thought was never considered truthful. It was simply rejected, over the distorted lens that favored ego preservation. 'Consciousness' chose to explain it's internal and external environment through a lens that favors positive image of itself. What I believe? The feature of the human brain that allows delusion is the acceptance of conjecture as fact. The ignorance that each and every thought we have must be us... and the subsequent building upon, or most crucially, never revisiting these consolidated yet ignorant, biased thoughts, ideas, principles, standpoints etc.Edit: I think it's interesting you bring up lucid dreaming in this question. Would you be able to expand on what you've learned and believe a lucid dream is?
Are people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) able to fully understand the extent of emotional damage they are able to inflict on others?
I unfortunately suffer from BPD. I had little realisation of the extent of emotional damage I was inflicting on others, until I began to form close friendships with others similarly afflicted with post-traumatic mental health conditions (most commonly, child abuse survivors). All of a sudden, I was on the receiving end of the extreme mood swings, idealisation/devaluation, and chronic suicide threats. I tried and tried and tried and tried to help these friends, but they would never take my advice, they would shoot down all my ideas, they never got any better, they just kept getting worse, the more I tried to help... I was really quite baffled, and eventually, totally burned out. I was forced to distance myself from them (which was extremely painful both for them and for me, due to their fear of abandonment, and my fear of abandoning others). It was only after my last friendship with a severe BPD sufferer ended, that I realised I can't save other people from their problems, I can only save myself. And it was only after that particular friendship ended that I really understood the pain I had unknowingly inflicted on everyone around me when I was a teenager (and still continue to do so, sadly). That's why, ever since then, I've been able to forgive people who were forced to distance themselves from me. It's not that they hated me, but they just couldn't cope with my problems anymore. They needed to save their own sanity, and they did the right thing.
Why don't people want to admit that we destroy ourselves?
There are three primary reasons for this:1. Most people don't intentionally destroy themselves (though there are some who do a la "leaving las vegas"). Most people just muddle through while on a slow slide to destruction.2. Those people on a slow slide to destruction often delude themselves. In other words, they lie to themselves at the same time they are lying to the world.3. Many people DON'T destroy themselves so you should not assume everyone is on a destructive path.Best wishes!
What are the reasons people mislead themselves?
When we are being overfull of our very own selves and are gathering far too much information without focusing on an ever broader mindset and our unique inner formation-we might start embarking on avenues that are tricking us to believe them as the most suitable?Our egoistical tendencies can tend to make us deviate from adhering to what is appropriate, whereas our mindful awareness can help us to realize the meaningfulness in all that is ever being as an foremost priority.So in that there is no way that any reckless or disruptive set of fallacious choices would be ever latched onto.For then we are ever vigilantly aware that if we tend to err, there is/are applicable consequences/liabilities that we will have to be accountable for and thereby refrain from any kind/type of nefarious indulgences whatsoever.
Concerning the Austin, TX serial bombings, why are people marking themselves “safe” on Facebook when these bombings have been well covered, and the victims are immediately reported?
Because people are not used to bombs exploding in their own back yards.Years ago, I was at University in Manchester when the IRA took it upon themselves to blow up parts of the city. (This wasn’t the massive bomb that ripped apart the Arnedale Centre, this was a few years earlier).Almost EVERYONE in my year phoned their parents that night, despite the fact the police would have already got in touch with the victims’ families.Except the Irish students who were attending the RNCM at that time. They were quite happy to let all the other students to use the phones in the Halls of Residence and wait their turn because - as bad as it sounds - they were kind of used to things blowing up.One of them pretty much said that - that his parents probably assumed if the Irish police hadn’t got in touch with them, he was safe and would get in touch the next day.Where as the rest of us were not used to explosions on this scale, because most of us hadn’t been caught up in terrorist attacks before.You hear about them on the news, and you shake your head at “how can these things happen” but you also, in the back of your head, think “it could happen here” or “it couldn’t happen to me”And then your next door neighbour gets a parcel bomb on their doorstep, and you realise that nutcases and whackjobs really do not discriminate.
How does the karate kata help you for self defence?
Kata is about body movement similar to shadow boxing. It is also helpful in teaching certain techniques that are too dangerous for sparring. They are also good exercise. Karate with kata alone is as useless with Boxing with just shadow boxing as training. Karate with Kata and real contact sparring against resisting apponents (the way it is meant to be trained) is more effective then boxing with shadow boxing and sparring against resisting apponents because Karate teaches way more techniques and is more about street fighting than sport fighting.
Why do people think they are smart, but they aren't?
It’s the dunning-krüger effect. Imagine a venn diagram if you will, one side there’s actually intellectual people who downplay their intelligence and are very humble. The other side are the people who are average or below in terms of IQ who do a couple of tests(online) ex:buzzfeed, and then brag or humble-brag these scores in quora or other social forums.Image source: Google picturesBut, as in all venn diagrams there’s an overlap where Intellectuals do tend to somewhat brag of their intelligence( I know I used to, but then I got schooled by a physics professor who definitely was in a super genius category, which made humble to this day). Also, there are average people with average IQs who know their limits. But, coming from personal experience I think that with passion in the right direction, work ethic and discipline these average people can trump intellectuals( if they are wasting their talents)“Hard work beats talent, when talent fails to work hard”I know this from personal experience. Even though i am a 145+ range individual in IQ,(I’m not humble-bragging, just stating it so you can get the idea, of what i’m about to tell you), I never applied myslf with the work ethic or passion which could’ve propelled me in a career i’d like. I’m always a master procrastinator and is a lazy guy, I like to read a lot, that too in religion and philosophy. I literally studied 10 days(more like 20 hours, as i never exceeded 2 hours a day) before my A/L exams and still got 2C’s and a D. Therefore i couldn’t get into a good university.Now onto the other side, a girl in our class (let’s call her angie) never had more than 70%, even though i knew she was going to tuition and studying harder than any of us in the class. She also studied daily and had an incredible work ethic, a never give up attitude. So, where did she end up?She is now in her 3rd year as a medical student in russian university with 3B’s in her A/Ls.Even average people can overcome those ‘intellectuals’, so we can’t just underestimate them cause they are not that smart.