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miniaturization

One was guilty of this – “miniaturization”. It’s comforting to draw people down to size, to remove the intimidation and make the person less overwhelming. That’s how “affection” can backfire, because sometimes we do not want to be shrunk down into something merely soft, small and cute. We often want respect, and not merely affection, the two don’t always work together.

malicious interviewing

One trait that I dislike in people is malicious interviewing, which is a type of interrogating that involves asking questions that have no respectable answer, the questions are not designed to produce insight and clarity, but rather, to activate fear. In a malicious interview what they essentially want to know is how big is your dick, what terrible deeds have you done, why you look so weak, how many trophy’s do you have for what, and how much money do you have. Everything else is superfluous. It’s like, “Just tell us that, now.”

Maturity sees that there are no literal answers, and that personal and private knowledge is precisely that, personal, and therefore such knowledge is easily abused.

So, from a universal and impersonal view, we might say that we want to reinforce a curiosity that goes beyond the individual, as Marie Currie said, “be more curious about ideas, and less curious about people.”

Primitives are more honest

Primitives are more honest: everything which comes to them unexpectedly from within they call spirit; not only that which is bad and which possesses one, but anything of which they would say: ”My ego did not make it, it suddenly came to me” that is spirit. In the latter case, when the spirit is still outside, when I get possessed by having to say or do something which seems not to belong to my ego, then it is a projected aspect of my unconscious; it is a part of my unconscious psyche which is projected and then experienced as a para-psychological phenomenon.

That happens when you get into a state in which you are not yourself, or into an emotional upset where you lose control of yourself, but afterwards wake up completely sober and look at the stupid things you did during your possessed state and wonder what got into you: something got hold of you, you weren’t yourself, though while you were behaving like that you thought you were it was just as if an evil spirit or the devil had got into you.

http://carljungdepthpsychology.blogspot.ca/…/on-divination-…

Unknown Soldier

Not many people know of this person. He is not really the best at anything, and he has some despicable and silly habits. I often find myself laughing at him affectionately. He doesn’t ask me too many questions, and he can ramble quite wildly. Sometimes he shows up drunk, talks too loud, and walks with a lack of grace and coordination. If he starts to demand access to too many of the available resources in the room, I will sometimes threaten to throw him out. He has some charming hobbies that I admire. If he’s ever unpredictable, it’s because he’s doing what he always does. That’s just who he is. He doesn’t make me feel very important.

This person is a friend.

Conduits

Should we treat people like reference points within our own narrative?

Should we see people as conduits?

Is it ever appropriate to seek an expectation from this particular conduit we call “someone?”