About the ego.
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Is the ego a mental plague?
No, needs of the self just need to be balanced out by needs of others. We also need to start realizing that the idea that people act solely by rational self interest, which is currently pushed heavily by our political and economic elites, is at best incomplete and at worst completely wrong
>>1420933
Das Ego is but a mental description of your physiological state and biological imperative to survive as transcribed into your phenomenological states.
As such it is necessary for psychological survival, as it is what wills you to eat, to help yourself. Without it you would wither into a little bitch.
A parasite maybe? One that attaches itself to a human host to feed off its emotions and self-indulgence, but is incapable of living independently of a host.
>>1420933
you would kill yourself without it
>>1421119
Are you sure about that?
Lack of ego is a mental plague. Ego is motivation for almost everything that we do. Pride is the foundation of all noble conduct. Anyone who holds himself to a higher standard, he does so because of his self-regard. Tiny, weak, small men deny the ego because it can lead to anti-social behavior and conflict, ignoring that it is also the direct creator of nearly everything good man has ever done.
>>1421161
Thanks for taking the time to comment, Satan. What does liquid basalt taste like, by the way?
>>1420933
The Ego is the only thing that isn't.
>>1421173
Slave morality plz go.
>>1421193
>is actually enslaved in real life by a pointless hedonic treadmill that never amounts to anything for the individual and will have no greater significance at the end of history
>literally lifelong exertion for nothing
>accuses other of being slaves
Seriously though, have you ever set foot in a church? I've never payed the material reduction of spirituality much attention but who knows? Your skin might start cooking.
>>1421215
>Used to be a dedicated Thomist
>Read the Bible countless times
>Read Aristotle
1. What is magnamity, you spineless fuck-face.
2. In the Scripture, God himself creates the universe purely "for his own pleasure" and "namesake".
3. Nowhere did I imply I was a hedonist, and I take offense at the notion
4. My original point is correct. Pride and ego are just as often, if not more often, positive forces than negative ones. Every time you say "I stop doing [bad habit], I'm better than this", you are employing pride as a motivation.
>>1421225
>personal attacks
>compares himself to God
>lies to my face by claiming hedonism is not an integral part of the ego
>uses himself as a standard for judging other
I wasn't memeing when I said you're typing this from Hell. You can stop now.
