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RJ Tubs 202


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The inner critic
#23765433 - 10/23/16 09:36 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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The inner critic... the voice inside our heads reminding us that we are never “good enough.” This relentless judge causes us to doubt ourselves, as it mocks us, often creating shame and self-loathing. Inner critic (Freud's "super-ego") judgments come in a myriad of forms.
Sometimes the critic strokes our ego and puffs us up, telling us how good and special we are.
But, as Dustin Hoffman once said,
"A good review from the critic is just another stay of execution."
From an evolutionary aspect, the inner critic has been important and functional to our psyche.
But, going unrecognized, it can cause severe anxiety, depression, and even suicide.
What's your inner critic telling you today?
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akira_akuma
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i'm top-loaded with stuff i feel i ought to do but ultimately realize there is no point in doing them. because of this frigid outlook, rolling out of bed is quite a demeaning exercise. i slept in today, with my thoughts. i only got up because i started having nightmare quality dreams.
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akira_akuma said:
i'm top-loaded with stuff i feel i ought to do but ultimately realize there is no point in doing them.
That sounds like a conflicting quandary.
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akira_akuma
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the high-load stems from the fact that i've taken a side-stepping to my usual psychological load, recently, and addressed something in my life that was long-overdue. not too big a deal, but big enough so that my shifts into certain other areas of interest, that are new to me, weren't shining through fully today (due to worry on account of something that i cannot change -- the hardest of things to be good with), and that ultimately created a depressed state of mind, that led to the usual thoughts of the ultimate meaninglessness of doing things in life. i have food, warmth/shelter, and i simply couldn't bother with any more than that, until i felt a little less of a mental load...which is how i feel right now. less top-loaded, less overbearing expectations, but...ultimately, still realizing that nothing's changed in reality, of course, i'm still a bit reserved in my goings-on, in my current mental state.
ie, i still don't feel like doing anything that is ultimately pointless, eg, i'm not in a very fun-loving kind of mood. i wish i was, but i am not...but i couldn't stay in bed any longer, my brain would just not allow that.
and of course, i don't live in The Warriors universe, or like The Iliad, or something like that...so basically, there is nothing to do but wheedle away the time.
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RJ Tubs 202


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You refer to the "meaninglessness of doing things in life"
Do you find value in your relationships with people?
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akira_akuma
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i find value in having the life i am given, and relationships above all else, in this life. what i should have said was...instead of life..."this life" would have been much more clearer.
'cause what i mean by "this life" is (much more accurately): this life that we have constructed for ourselves in our expectations of other people, within society, civilization, and in general human behavior.
ie, you can't win with people. you can only play. today, i didn't feel like playing, today, the last thing i wanted to do was fall.
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You have nothing to lose. You have nothing to prove. Do as you please.
"Might as well have fun 'cause your happiness is done" - Outkast.
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Re: The inner critic [Re: remake] 1
#23766044 - 10/24/16 06:38 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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not at all. i will break above the gods, and will have my own auspices. happiness has always been a pursuit; to relinquish the chase is for those whom have no fun.
the end goal is death. embrace the mistakes. life isn't so precious, considering that what people do is mostly driven by the mistakes they make.
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you know some word selections are just plain pompous. extreme. boastful even. kinda like bible thumps.
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Blistering bohemian bastards!
Chisel the mould and you shall find an inner word of simplistic polymetric proportion.
The word does not convey the man. You are what you think I am.
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redgreenvines said: you know some word selections are just plain pompous. extreme. boastful even. kinda like bible thumps.
take my words for real? how dare you.
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Re: The inner critic [Re: remake]
#23766410 - 10/24/16 10:49 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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FranniePilgrim said: Blistering bohemian bastards!
Chisel the mould and you shall find an inner word of simplistic polymetric proportion.
The word does not convey the man. You are what you think I am.
I like your nose but wtf?
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My inner critic? If by that you mean my best friend, who keeps things balanced and intuits when I fall below my best and encourages me like a brother to get up get up get up and do my best!
When I listen and follow through with change to the inner critic things are better in general around me and my conscience stays true.
Its my own voice, not something else, when I ignore it for short term pleasure or gain it reminds me of the suffering iv just sowed and sow I do!
Its you and its me, you can be your own best friend with practice its easy and wonderful in your own head space.
No such thing as a victim after the fact
if your still a victim after the fact then your not a victim, your a bully.
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RJ Tubs 202 said: What's your inner critic telling you today?
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Subjectively I can say the third eye is real, it is the thought in my mind, the voice on my shoulder and the friend in hard times.
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I don't have an inner critic, it's more like a inner jester cracking jokes about when I fuck up (they're not always funny jokes tbf).
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Re: The inner critic [Re: viktor] 1
#23771814 - 10/25/16 10:59 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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viktor said: I don't have an inner critic, it's more like a inner jester cracking jokes about when I fuck up (they're not always funny jokes tbf).
This. Since I learned to love myself, and reside in awareness, it's been this. About 3 months now. It cracks me up every day the nasty shit that goes through my head.
But as I am not 'it' it's fucking hilarious to watch how bonkers the shit my inner dialogue comes out with. To what I owe this blessed state of existence I know not, but even the second wisest of all people I know personally has not achieved this state.
I wish I knew some magic formula I could share that explained how to achieve this state, but I don't know. Years of practice? I dunno. Over and above, I think it's the love I feel for myself that keeps the critic and ego at bay.
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RJ Tubs 202


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The Blind Ass said:
My inner critic? If by that you mean my best friend, who keeps things balanced and intuits when I fall below my best and encourages me like a brother to get up get up get up and do my best!
Yes, exactly! The inner critic often appears to be our best friend!
We often see our inner critic as the motivational force that whips us into shape.
We (falsely) believe without our inner critic, we would be a lazy lump of clay.
We think we would be worthless without our inner critic!
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No. Why would that make me worthless? I dont believe that. Its fun either way with or without it. I am it and Im the one its talking to, i just pretend like Im only one of them sometimes because its fun that way. Switching it around is fun, dropping it completely is fun. Tis all good.
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The Blind Ass
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In fact I drop all inner activity thats fabricated after waking up and before going to bed. tis a practice . But Ill use it as a method , one of many to whip the blind ass into plowing the fields! Bc id rather eat and sleep and shit all day if i let myself become lazy. But even thats no fun IMHO, the balance is where I have the most fun. The fall from balance and return to it is also fun. The cycle is fun. Fun fun fun
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The Blind Ass said:
No. Why would that make me worthless?
Because you said when you...
"listen and follow through with change to the inner critic things are better in general"
As if the critic is something that helps you.
I never said the inner critic is bad. It's fun to watch, as long as you don't take it seriously.
We don't need the inner critic to live a wonderful life.
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Of course not, its just fun sometimes and great for certain things!
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The Blind Ass
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Now stop bashing the inner critic before he cries and goes away forevr!!!!!!!!!!! 
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Imagine if you were an ape in a jungle and you realized you didn't notice a fig tree ripe with fruit.
And the competitive / neighbor tribe of apes saw the tree and picked all of the fruit.
The ape's self-critic would reinforce adaptive intelligent strategies for survival.
I never said the critic was bad or to be destroyed. Just understood.
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The Blind Ass
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critic is slowly crying himself to sleep now thanks alot pal
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The Blind Ass
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good points though
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RJ Tubs 202 said: Imagine if you were an ape in a jungle and you realized you didn't notice a fig tree ripe with fruit.
I feel that every problem that plagues our species in our post-modern world can be traced back to a primal, survival instinct gone wrong because we changed our natural habitat, and have had nowhere near enough time to adapt to it. And perhaps we never will, with the accelerating rate of change.
Basically, I think we made a major fucking mistake coming down from the trees, and away from tribal living.
I wonder what cunt ever thought that was a good idea in the first place? Why do birds migrate only from here -> there -> back again, and great apes fight to control a single habitat, whilst humans got into their heads that it was a good idea to go and explore everything, outer space and the bottom of the ocean included? Why do we need to know what resides in places so inhospitable to us. Is it the inner critic, telling us that we're inferior if we can't 'master' this, that, or anything else? Or some other survival instinct gone wrong?
From what I can see, that thirst/need to push boundaries and explore is basically the cause of nearly all our misery, greed and fear of death aside. And yet, when we conquer some new habitat, our brains reward us with feel good chemicals.
Sometimes it really does just feel like a cosmic joke.
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In general, humanity is more interesting in exploring outer-space than inner- space.
Yeah, there seems to be an unquenchable thirst . . .
seeking, seeking
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