Re: Mind's Eye Re: Motive

We are also "trained" by family and culture which becomes habitual if
not countered.

On Jan 3, 8:09 pm, RP Singh <123...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neil , we know what we are doing but in some cases what we believe our
> motives for those actions to be are not so , rather the real motives
> are exact opposites and are buried in the unconscious traceable by the
> psychoanalysts. The promptings to the ' will ' arise from the ' grey
> matter ' which is unconscious, and we ourselves arise from the same.
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> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:01 AM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do we think a body human if it doesn't know what it is doing RP?  Part
> > of judgement is allowing for mistakes.
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> > On 2 Jan, 17:31, RP Singh <123...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Psychologists say that a person's conscious motives are not the real
> >> determinants of behavior but one's real motives lie in the unconscious and
> >> one is not aware of them. A person who is obsessed with cleanliness is
> >> ostensibly a very clean person but in reality he has strong instinctive sex
> >> drive which get repressed as he cannot accept them.
> >> The question is that are we to judge ourselves or judged by others for our
> >> behavior by the conscious motives or the repressed unconscious motives ?
> >> Clearly we cannot be judged for factors of which we are not even aware even
> >> though they are the real determinants of our actions.
> >> The question now arises of our will , is our will free ? Consciously we are
> >> free , we think and act as we want , we can open or close our hand freely.
> >> So , we have freedom of choice , and if our will is bound by unconscious
> >> determinants we cannot be held accountable for them. If unconsciously we
> >> are selfish and consciously generous , it is our generosity for which we
> >> can be judged and not the unconscious motive. So , the phantom of Bondage
> >> evaporates into thin air !
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