Good point. So what your saying is that each person is different and their capacity and definition of contentment is different? Also that it’s each person’s own responsibility to define what will make them happy and then for them to go for it? I definitely agree with that. It is each persons own responsibility, but I think that this is definitely not what is happening in our world nor will it be for a long time.
For children, it’s their parent’s responsibility. If parents do a bad job then their kid is just gona have a hard to impossible time integrating a responsible attitude towards them self and life. I think humans are hard wired to be socially orientated and most people in the world are not individuals as defined above. Most people seek the approval of their social groups and it’s the values of the group that make them who they are.
The Karma philosophy is one of the social stigmas that make a lot of people who they are, just because it is a dominate belief system within one of their social groups.
To become an individual means to break free from the bondage of other people’s design of us and to really find ourselves and emerge as our own creation. A creation which maybe based on our animal instincts, the part of us which is divine, or what have you. I think most people don’t want this at all, wither it be because of fear, dependence, or even love for and from their social groups. Not to mention its harder then hell. For some people being accepted in their groups is their definition of happiness. co-dependence seems to be what society is built on. Good or bad I cannot say.
What you said about leaving the BKs defintily sounds sound. Another way of looking at it is that those of us that left the BKs either left because of pressure we felt form other social groups, because we started to develop a strong sense of self, or perhaps a combination.
For children, it’s their parent’s responsibility. If parents do a bad job then their kid is just gona have a hard to impossible time integrating a responsible attitude towards them self and life. I think humans are hard wired to be socially orientated and most people in the world are not individuals as defined above. Most people seek the approval of their social groups and it’s the values of the group that make them who they are.
The Karma philosophy is one of the social stigmas that make a lot of people who they are, just because it is a dominate belief system within one of their social groups.
To become an individual means to break free from the bondage of other people’s design of us and to really find ourselves and emerge as our own creation. A creation which maybe based on our animal instincts, the part of us which is divine, or what have you. I think most people don’t want this at all, wither it be because of fear, dependence, or even love for and from their social groups. Not to mention its harder then hell. For some people being accepted in their groups is their definition of happiness. co-dependence seems to be what society is built on. Good or bad I cannot say.
What you said about leaving the BKs defintily sounds sound. Another way of looking at it is that those of us that left the BKs either left because of pressure we felt form other social groups, because we started to develop a strong sense of self, or perhaps a combination.