02-01-2023, 06:46 AM
(01-31-2023, 03:54 PM)Benjamin Wrote: Sounds like good results, especially not caring what others think about you.
But I personally don't think there's anything wrong at all with not liking something or someones actions because it disgusts you. There's alot of talk that I guess partly comes from the spiritual communities of not having 'division' but personally I believe that as a man I have to know what I will tolerate and what I will not tolerate.
If you extend it to this overarching idea of 'tolerance' we see these days, it seems to almost be a virtue to talk about how tolerant you are, personally I don't think it is because there are some things and people I do not want anywhere near me. Whether these are untrustworthy people or dishonest or whatever.
I've also found very consistently that the people who preach tolerance are in reality by far the most intolerant people i've ever come across.
Also your physical body is an expression of yourself so there's nothing wrong with having a good appearance, and especially having your own actions be appealing to yourself.. that's exactly what I would call having self esteem as opposted to just letting yourself do absolutely anything with no morals or boundaries for yourself because of this also recent idea going around in society that everything should totally be unconstrained and a free for all.
I'm not saying be constrained by society programming or external pressure, but I mean something inside yourself that says "No I won't do that thing because it goes against my morals or beliefs".
I get what you're saying, but it goes beyond things like untrustworthy, even I wouldn't tolerate that or stick around people like that, what I meant was something more childlike or silly, as if there is a set of rules about how people should behave (but silly rules, nothing like toxic behavior that is a NO), something absurd like the way of walking or facial expressions, trying to explain it is already difficult, maybe related to the first years of life but that's the gist of it, that also applies to my behavior and somehow related to perfectionism.