(January 17, 2018 at 8:56 pm)Khemikal Wrote: What's that about goblins and things that go bump in the night, again? The devil....psh, don't get me started on that infantile phobia. Shame isn't directly about survival, it's about status and image, and the damage you can do to ether. Some of us are just genuinely decent people - rather than trash human beings..... who feel bad when we think we've done something that would cause others to rightly look at us askew - even if no one will ever find out. We don't need to terrify our children, or ourselves, with stories of gremlins to effect that.
Status and image is partly about survival, you know that.
So we don't want to tread on anyone's toes because it will ruin our reputation?
Fair enough, we all do it.
What you are basically saying is that our relationships are on the horizontal and not the vertical, to each other, but not to an imaginary person in the sky.
Then whatever happens here, is only ever relevant to what or whom?
The majority, the closet group, the individual?
Do we really have a reference point, which isn't yet another repetition of failed history?
