RE: The real reason people are weight-obsessed.
July 12, 2015 at 11:27 am
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2015 at 11:28 am by Razzle.)
(July 12, 2015 at 11:09 am)Atheist_BG Wrote:(July 11, 2015 at 12:12 pm)Razzle Wrote: wanting to look like models so the opposite sex will like them
It's quite normal - after all who wouldn't like to look like Brad Pitt? And not just for the opposite sex.
Oh yes, most people do care about that as well. But I'm talking about the level of emotional investment many people have in thinness, the shame and guilt leading up to and including eating disorders. I don't think that can be caused by wanting to attract a mate, or status among peers, which is another factor especially common for women. The stigma, the deep shame and self-loathing and the obsessive behaviour leading right up to people starving themselves to death, I think must come from something deeper than either of those motives.
"Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don't grab hold of the water when you swim, because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the water, and sink. You have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging, and holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
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