The feeling of the need for power

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I have some degree of power. At work, if a higher-up reports badly on me, he gets sent away "on assignment" and is never really heard from again. Also, money is power. Being a homeowner is power. Being fit and healthy is power. Making your own decisions, right or wrong, is power. I could assume several dependents in the form of wife and children if I wanted. That's power. Having capacity to make big decisions. The Bigger the decisions, the more power or responsibility you have.
 

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TyTe`EyEz said:
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I'm not going to try and convince you, that's just your problem and to be totally honest, it's none of my fvcking business eather.

We all got our own decisions/opinions we have to make. I got my opinion on the matter, you got yours, I'll leave it with that.
 
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Credos said:
I'm not going to try and convince you, that's just your problem and to be totally honest, it's none of my fvcking business eather.

We all got our own decisions/opinions we have to make. I got my opinion on the matter, you got yours, I'll leave it with that.

You aren't going to convince me that everything is possible? Come on, man, I was looking forward to another uplifting post. I really appreciate your can-do attitude.

So, it's my PROBLEM that I'm content with who I am - it's my problem that I'm not stupid enough to think that anything is possible? We aren't all born equal, Credos. Far from it, actually. Some of us are born wealthy; some of us are born handsome; some of us are more intelligent. Do you see what I'm getting at? Life isn't fair. Welcome to the universe. Prick.
 

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TyTe`EyEz said:
You aren't going to convince me that everything is possible? Come on, man, I was looking forward to another uplifting post. I really appreciate your can-do attitude.

So, it's my PROBLEM that I'm content with who I am - it's my problem that I'm not stupid enough to think that anything is possible? We aren't all born equal, Credos. Far from it, actually. Some of us are born wealthy; some of us are born handsome; some of us are more intelligent. Do you see what I'm getting at? Life isn't fair. Welcome to the universe. Prick.
:) Don't cry, crybaby...
 

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Credos:

Only real fools believe something is impossible...

Want to hear impossible?:
- man flying in the air is impossible
- making a iron object that weighs a 1000kg move is impossible
- making iron (wolfram) glow, so we have light, is impossible
- etc...

Yet all those things do exist... Nothing is impossible, only the weak use that word to justify their stupidity and arrogance. They suppress other peoples potential to make them feel better about themselves...
The phrase "Nothing is impossible" is not literally true, and if one wished to be pedantically philosophical then if "Anything is possible" then one possibility is things can be impossible. There are impossibilities like perpetual motion machines or reversing the law of entropy, for sound, proven, verified fundamental reasons. Although we do have flying machines called airplanes, humans flying in the air through brute physical effort is impossible because it's impossible to cyclically flap your arms fast enough for your body weight. Aside from the fact your examples bear no relation to the topic at hand, psychosocial dominance, the point is "nothing is impossible" is a meaningless phrase without nuanced parametric definitions of the boundaries and limitations of the possible and impossible, even for psychosocial dominance.

And as to the quote, "We're all created equal, some of us just work harder to achieve their goals." That's not quite true. People are born with certain talents, certain domains of specialty, which can possibly exceed the capabilities of anyone without the talent. I would like to see you accurately memorize the first 23,000 digits of the number pi, as accomplished by the autistic savant David Tamet, or memorize every name and phone number in the entire phone book of a large city as Los Angeles, as accomplished by the autistic savant Kim Peek. Effort certainly does play a role in accomplishment successes but we're not created equally. People with certain talents will achieve equally comparable accomplishments with less effort than others, and will far sublimely surpass others when putting the full effort.
 
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Rogue said:
The phrase "Nothing is impossible" is not literally true, and if one wished to be pedantically philosophical then if "Anything is possible" then one possibility is things can be impossible. There are impossibilities like perpetual motion machines or reversing the law of entropy, for sound, proven, verified fundamental reasons. Although we do have flying machines called airplanes, humans flying in the air through brute physical effort is impossible because it's impossible to cyclically flap your arms fast enough for your body weight. Aside from the fact your examples bear no relation to the topic at hand, psychosocial dominance, the point is "nothing is impossible" is a meaningless phrase without nuanced parametric definitions of the boundaries and limitations of the possible and impossible, even for psychosocial dominance.

And as to the quote, "We're all created equal, some of us just work harder to achieve their goals." That's not quite true. People are born with certain talents, certain domains of specialty, which can possibly exceed the capabilities of anyone without the talent. I would like to see you accurately memorize the first 23,000 digits of the number pi, as accomplished by the autistic savant David Tamet, or memorize every name and phone number in the entire phone book of a large city as Los Angeles, as accomplished by the autistic savant Kim Peek. Effort certainly does play a role in accomplishment successes but we're not created equally. People with certain talents will achieve equally comparable accomplishments with less effort than others, and will far sublimely surpass others when putting the full effort.

Eloquently explicated.
 

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The only power you get in this world is what you decide to do before you die and how hard you go after what you want.
 

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TyTe`EyEz said:
You aren't going to convince me that everything is possible? Come on, man, I was looking forward to another uplifting post. I really appreciate your can-do attitude.

So, it's my PROBLEM that I'm content with who I am - it's my problem that I'm not stupid enough to think that anything is possible? We aren't all born equal, Credos. Far from it, actually. Some of us are born wealthy; some of us are born handsome; some of us are more intelligent. Do you see what I'm getting at? Life isn't fair. Welcome to the universe. Prick.
I think what he's saying is that your station in life isn't set in stone from the time that you're born. That you can to some degree influence your fate through your actions, and that that degree of influence over your life is shaped by your perspective.

I suppose it would be something like: "Aim for the moon and the bullet will travel farther than if you aim for the horizon."

One can accept that his perspective is not rooted 100% in reality, if the result is that his actions somewhat influence his reality.

He might act/talk/dress to a prospective employer/investor as if he is more intelligent, more handsome and more wealthy than reality suggests, and through that manipulation of perspective he may have achieved more than if he had maintained a completely realistic attitude(not quite as smart, not quite as handsome, and not quite as wealthy as his competition).
 
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