The world Basically Divides Into Two Groups Of People
Mantas Jalinskas writes:
The world basically divides into two groups of people:
1. Those who think they are better looking than they really are.
2. Those who think they are worse looking than they really are.
But to be serious and to get back to the pendulum presented by Mantas, I thought about it and concluded “that’s why critical thinking is important. And then, one’s thinking about one’s perception is sometimes colored by that which is without than that which is within.
Our experiences and ideas of what is, is at times influenced by this ego driven individualistic cosmetic world. And this may create a false impression of self which can create a self-esteem or a self devoid of it.
And then there are several selves: what we see, what we want to see and what is really us. Freud speaks of what I call the “projected self” and the “mechanized self” that places walls to defend against a false sense or compromised sense of self.
But what of the religious or spiritual man whose idea or thought of self is derived from his theological view of self. In fact it is the Protestant thinking in Christianity that teaches the theology of the “already but not yet”; where a man of such predilection views himself as the work of Christ Salvific work and grace where he (the man) is being saved, he shall be saved and he is being saved; as he thinks that he is only better looking than who he is because of something divine or beyond himself and he thinks also that he is worse off without that connection.
Whatever the case “all have sinned and fallen short@ and aren’t we all human-beings prone to faults and mistakes. So we then lack honesty and right perspective. For to be honest whether we think we are better than we are or worse than we are, we are; and as long as we are there’s always room for improvement and work as we are a “work in progress”.
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