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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Part 2: Why anger solves nothing while revealing everything

Anger can be defined as a fire after a campfire has long since been extinguished. There is a very peculiar state of mind associated with rage; that being, an animalistic one. When a being becomes enraged what happens to self? Where does the concept of "self" go? It vanishes instantly without any knowledge to the being in question. "Self" is often defined as being 'personality' by the human being while self in the animal kingdom is simply "survival traits". This is not to say animals do not have a personality but they keep it separate from their "self". The R-complex or rather, the lizard mind, does not compute self when infuriated. Instead it computes "ME" not "WHAT IS ME?" but rather "ME ME ME, I *This* I *that*. The term "you" becomes non-existent in instances of anger.

How is this accomplished and why? The R-Complex is associated with survival; when a person feels anger, it is usually due to something threatening their lifestyle or at least making it uncomfortable. A train can only run so smoothly until a rock is put on its tracks to put it poetically. Therefore when some sort of assumed discomfort is brought into a beings existence either due to another or due to their NON-ACCEPTANCE of another beings choices there is brought the emotion anger. Anger can be caused by multiple things however, these are a few key ones:

 -Discomfort towards limitations put on self-survival (lack of food, resources, materialism in raw form)

-Discomfort towards injustices in other emotional endeavors (Dating, sex, so on)

 -Discomfort towards another beings personal "self" (As in, another person does something that doesn't agree with what another person has accumulated and assumed to be "true" in their own lives. Or another being does something that is viewed as "unfair" towards the selfish "ME" robot that is the R-Complex. All beings have the right to opinion and choice and to go against another being for simply doing what they believe is right would be saying that you basically wish those same rights were removed from yourself. Due to the lizard mind's inability to reason outside of "self" 99.9% of the time there is seperation from the respectful "self" which then becomes the "ME". The human "Self" acknowledges others in the same way they acknowledge others in return, but when "self" is replaced with "The Me" notion, there is a loss of self for material.

 So then anger is a result of assumed injustice based on pre-conceived opinion? In a good summary yes it is. But then why do some people get angry just "because". It is because they "believe" there is a reason to be based on past notions, and if they have no knowledge of a situation but infuriate themselves regardless it is because they refuse to believe there is anything "correct" going on when a situation becomes too vastly different for themselves to readily accomadate to. This lack of understanding is a result of a lack of personal forgiveness and thus the forgiveness of others, is also lacking.

 The best cure for the useless emotion of anger? Accept its existence as a part of human existence, but treat it like you'd treat a screaming child, with patience, tolerance, and not letting anything the "angry brain" says be taken seriously, for it is just a phase that may serve no use, it is still natural, and therefore can be adapted to.

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