To "Know Thyself" is considered quite an accomplishment

[vovat]

You are: HARLEY QUINN!


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The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free.

In love, you feel the most alive when everything is uncertain, one moment heaven... the next moment hell.

You'd like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring.

You would be forced to break up with someone who was insecure and in constant need of reassurance.

Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with.

Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.

You think of marriage pessimistically. You don't think happy marriages exist anymore.

In this moment, you think of love as something you can get or discard anytime. You're feeling self centered.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

Now, how accurate is this? Let me break it down:

1. I guess? I wouldn't say that's my main factor in judging attractiveness, though.
2. Not very accurate. I like a certain degree of comfort.
3. Sure, I'd LIKE to be thought of that way, but would it ever HAPPEN? I doubt it! There are much more important things in a relationship.
4. Now that would just be incredibly hypocritical of me, wouldn't it?
5. Yes, definitely.
6. Again, yes.
7. Well, yes and no, I suppose. There are still happy marriages, and I think there's a good chance I'll get married someday. I don't see marriage as anything sacred, though. It's more of a convenient arrangement. Is that a pessimistic view? I don't think so, but some people might.
8. Not at all. I'm self-centered in many ways, but I'm neither callous nor confident enough to think that way of love.


DUMB PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION OF THE DAY: Is there really anything to the concept of "knowing yourself" (or, by extension, "finding yourself")? Doesn't everyone, bar certifiably delusional people, know who they are? When people "find themselves," are they not really changing who they are? Who we are is defined by our thoughts and experiences, and is changing from any one instant to the next, right? Does that mean we always know who we are, or that we never really are?

Oh, well. The thing with philosophy is that it rarely, if ever, has any practical application. Neither do most things I'm interested in, though.

Comments

[revme.livejournal.com]

I like Harley.

Also, to answer your question: According to an anti-drug film I have on DVD, anyone who thinks they can find or know themselves without the help of a trained professional is delusional and wrong. So, apparently, you CAN find/know yourself, but only with a psychiatrist. And certainly not with LSD, which can cause Chromosome Damage and is Against The Law.

(Actually, I'd agree with that last bit, but that film is so condescending and lying-to-you-ish that it basically made even _me_ want to drop Acid, and I'm all Cap'n No Smoking/No Drinking/No Drugging here.)

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's about how I am with some of the more ridiculous anti-pot commercials.

[loz]

I think the whole point of philosophy is that it has no practical application, if it did, it wouldn't be philosophy.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

What WOULD it be, then?

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

I think the practical application of this philosophy is that people who follow it no longer have to waste time finding themselves, as they're already there, so that is pretty practical after all, isn't it!

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. Would you mind explaining further?

[twobitme.livejournal.com]

I think there are implications in the "finding yourself" philosophy. Many times people will go against what they really want to do because of societal moors. Gay people pretending they're straight, even though they have alternate urges. Sticking with a job because it's safe, even if you're miserable.

There are many things that can result in a person not being themselves. So, finding yourself, to me, is a legitimate venture. I don't think anyone can truly "know yourself" because, there are many, many things hidden and repressed in our brains, forming who we are, but we'll never know that's what's forming us.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess you have a point there. A lot of people are tempted to conform, rather than forming their own opinions and attitudes. Once they DO conform, though, I suppose that becomes who they are.

The sexual identity issue is a somewhat complicated one, and not something I was thinking of when writing the entry. If someone is homosexual by nature and heterosexual in their actions, does that change who they are? I'd tend to argue that it doesn't really matter in most cases. Homophobes often claim that it's unnatural to be gay, but not only do I think they're wrong, but I also have to wonder why it matters so much. Even if someone really DID choose to be gay, how would that hurt anyone else?

I suppose there's also the issue as to whether or not we're destined to follow a certain path in life. If who we are is predetermined, that adds clout to the idea that people have to find out who they truly are.