Shame and Repression

Some thoughts on repression and how people use shame to encourage it.

Father0blivion's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWLTBr5As4w

In case anyone is wondering, the foil is an attempt to help me sleep later in the morning; the sun keeps waking me up.

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• shame
• repression
• psychology
• loneliness
• human
• needs
• love
• companionship
• friendship

[RationalDischarge]

There's no lower form of life, in my opinion, than any man or woman who derives pleasure from the personal pain of others. An amoeba has more integrity than someone like CaptainOblivious.

[UnschoolingEagle]

Heh, FatherOblivion made another video in response to this where he plays the victim. I suggest ignoring him.

[DixyHair]

In addition, people don't choose their beliefs - you couldn't genuinely believe in a God even if someone offered you a million dollars for it - so you can't fault people for what they honestly believe.

But more to the point, that comment was an attempt to dismiss moral nihilism, not through reason, but by personally attacking nihilists for what they believe. You of all people should know better than to use such psychological intimidation tactics.

[DixyHair]

When moral nihilists act angry, or say something nasty about people, it is with the full knowledge that their emotions are just that - emotions. Sure, they're trying to push their preferences on others, but so does everyone else - when moral realists try to make other people follow moral laws, they're still imposing their preference for objective moral laws (assuming they exist) in the first place, despite what anti-moral preferences the other person might have.

[drew335533]

Continued, again,

Finally, in all honesty making an assumption that you are worrying about this guy or focusing energies toward debating with him, I think that's the wrong thing to do. You need to adress the real problem here, your loneliness, not some guy on Youtube that is honestly an asshole. Focus your energies on solving your loneliness and meeting new people, not on this guy, if you aren't already.

[drew335533]

Continued,

However I don't want to ignore the fact that if you really do have a deep physcological issue from childhood, then talking about it and thinking about it are proabably the best ways to solve it. However with that being said, I think that if you are lonely, meeting people is a great way to solve this.

[drew335533]

Continued,

However with that being said, I think he did have a good point. If you really are feeling lonely, I think I am in a somewhat similiar situtation. FO said that one of the best ways to deal with loneliness is to get out and meet people, and I think that's pretty true. I think if you are really pushing people away who like you, then you are feeling lonely about it, you need to change what you are doing.

[drew335533]

Continued,

Alright, so I think it's really cool that you are coming clear about your problems, and that's the best way to deal with them in my opinion. I also think that Father0blivion is being pretty mean about it, and just because you are problem solving in a differen way doesn't mean it's "bad" or annoying, and I don't think that the way that he purposes solving problems works for everyone.

[drew335533]

Alright XOmni, I never really posted a direct comment to what I thought about the situtation between you too.  So ya, I've been watching your past videos on this subject, and honestly if you were so lonely about being lonely to the point of crying, I feel really bad for you and this comment(s) has no intentions of making you feel bad or to get you angry.

[stealthswimmer]

hm, yeah guess I see what you're sayin, especially if you've never interacted with him before.

[modelmark]

The idea seems to be "If I can bully others in not self reflecting, I do not look so strange going around unaware halve my leg is missing"

[XOmniverse]

I'm just explaining that I didn't react until he jumped my shit, and I think its reasonable to react to that.

I don't feel compelled to be the one to carry the olive branch to someone that does that.