The living space of some depressed and anxious minds are less than modest.
Whether hung upside down naked on a steeple, or cleaving, white-knuckled, ropeless, to a shear cliff, or lost, neck high, down a well. It is no time or the right time to cur(s)e oneself. It would be so easy to leap if one weren't bound, less easy to grow too cold.
We might venture that no animal is as cur(s)ed quite like us. The censorious mind, deranged driver of ego and the executive mind, augur of all pasts and futures, arbiter of motion, has given us the task of digging a grave or a foundation for what is to come.
Go easy, censor. Live and let live. — Nils Loc
An innocent mind doesn’t fear unhealthy dialogue. — praxis
Sorry, you strike me as overly critical and what you are attempting to describe is unclear and seemingly in part contradictory.
Implicit knowledge cannot help leave a mark on the mind as it develops. There are dysfunctional minds, unbalanced minds, depressed minds et cetera but a corrupt mind sounds like a self-interested immoral mind (like a sociopath) that exploits knowledge for power at the expense of the well being of others. Corruption is a judgement made from an a particular point of view, relative to a set of values. It would help to ground your generalities through real life particulars, or imagined characters.
Or maybe on par with your abstraction, a corrupt mind is related to the maladaptive constraint of ego boundary, as is with depressed minds, where one cannot move forward constructively due to the emotively charged content of the past. One cannot step out of the bounds of the known and is thus limited by a fear mediated projection of the world (seeing through shit tinted spectacles).
You can ignore me if you like, if it is good to avoid depressed (perhaps corrupt) minds. — Nils Loc
Hope all this clarifies. — skyblack
Yes, you're much clearer but your value judgement using the strange words "corrupt" or "innocent" don't really mean anything because according to your language all minds are corrupt or innocent.
You haven't adequately fleshed out the difference between these two types of mind. — Nils Loc
I suppose that goes both ways though. You can't really be the objective judge of your own mind. The esteem you grant yourself is otherworldly if so. — Nils Loc
The person or the thing you are looking at may or may not fall in the box you have mentally created, yet does that stop you from stereotyping? — skyblack
The OP could jettison "corrupt" and "innocent" for different qualifying terms, like virtuous versus virtueless, skillful versus unskillful, logical versus non-logical, et cetera. Not much to be gained by giant black and white categories reminiscent of the church or court of law. — Nils Loc
The OP could jettison "corrupt" and "innocent" for different qualifying terms, like virtuous versus virtueless, skillful versus unskillful, logical versus non-logical, et cetera. Not much to be gained by giant black and white categories reminiscent of the church or court of law. — Nils Loc
if a mind is afflicted by all this then it's an unhealthy, corrupt and damaged mind. Such a mind is violent, competitive, confused, a conflicted mind that won't be able to attribute true values... — skyblack
If a bear eating salmon in a river is an example of a kind of mind corruption (conditioned knowledge) all I can do is shrug my shoulders. I would much rather be like a bear salmon fishing, with no relationship to a past or future self that engages a ceaseless anxiety, supposing that is the case. There is just life in motion, pain and pleasure which comes and goes, no concept of death or something to die — Nils Loc
(wrong example. not only the wrong end of the stick, but it's the wrong stick) — skyblack
a mind that is common to all humanity. — skyblack
Apparently not, since we now know that a bear isn't corrupted by conditioned knowledge. — Nils Loc
But are you included or excluded as one who has a corrupted mind? I would be surprised if you alone could make that designation. — Nils Loc
But your response is not driven by an emotional reaction? Not like an innocent bear. You're keep going on and on about how everyone has a corrupted mind... it stands to reason you're not excluded.
Then you also project an assumption (not conditioned by corrupting knowledge) about what it is like to be a bear.
No need to reply. But your poetry is kind of interesting, though dour, uncharitable, melancholy and nihilistic. The corruption has moved into my bowels. I must seek a toilet. — Nils Loc
How can such a burdened human ever be free to meet a new unknown moment. — “skyblack”
The first signs of a failure of intelligence and affection is to fixate on the author/poster rather than the topic/what they are saying. — skyblack
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