Many things are unconsciously held, or at least subconsciously held. They begin to be programmed in before we are verbal, and continue on throughout childhood. We are unaware this is happening. We act on many of those beliefs/biases/distortions, unknowingly. We don't know they are even there, unless we do the deep, lengthy work, to access them & rewrite certain programs (belief structures).
Most values aren't rationally but unconsciously held, i.e. you might believe you have agency but the majority of values you possess are instilled in you from the outside by whatever parent culture you happen to have been born into. For example, if you compare the moral education of youth from ancient Sparta (300 BCE) and that of youth in 1700s France, you can see the role parent culture plays; that is, in Sparta theft was only considered "wrong" if one were caught stealing (otherwise one was regarded as cunning, self-reliant, industrious); however, by contrast a French boy who stole, regardless if they got caught or not, would be considered "wrong." So, while you might be able to articulate--from either the Spartan or French position--why something is wrong, the fact you think X is wrong is essentially arbitrary (instilled into you) and exerts all sorts of influence (subconsciously) over your actions. For this same reason a Muslim believes in the importance of praying five times a day facing Mecca while this isn't a living option to the Catholic (whose focus is more or less on Rome sans the prayer mat). For the Catholic and for the Muslim both feel compelled to face this way or that, and that compulsion reflects a series of subconscious desires placed there by their respective parent cultures; that is, the importance of facing and praying is not self-evident nor is believing in the pope's supposed authority over spiritual matters. These are unconsciously learned from an early age, and form part of the subconscious self, that shapes and determines the thoughts and actions individuals take.
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What we think we are we become. Tom Stevenson
We can create a mask or tool to cope.
How can something be unconsciously held?
Many things are unconsciously held, or at least subconsciously held.
They begin to be programmed in before we are verbal, and continue on throughout childhood. We are unaware this is happening. We act on many of those beliefs/biases/distortions, unknowingly. We don't know they are even there, unless we do the deep, lengthy work, to access them & rewrite certain programs (belief structures).
Most values aren't rationally but unconsciously held, i.e. you might believe you have agency but the majority of values you possess are instilled in you from the outside by whatever parent culture you happen to have been born into.
For example, if you compare the moral education of youth from ancient Sparta (300 BCE) and that of youth in 1700s France, you can see the role parent culture plays; that is, in Sparta theft was only considered "wrong" if one were caught stealing (otherwise one was regarded as cunning, self-reliant, industrious); however, by contrast a French boy who stole, regardless if they got caught or not, would be considered "wrong."
So, while you might be able to articulate--from either the Spartan or French position--why something is wrong, the fact you think X is wrong is essentially arbitrary (instilled into you) and exerts all sorts of influence (subconsciously) over your actions. For this same reason a Muslim believes in the importance of praying five times a day facing Mecca while this isn't a living option to the Catholic (whose focus is more or less on Rome sans the prayer mat). For the Catholic and for the Muslim both feel compelled to face this way or that, and that compulsion reflects a series of subconscious desires placed there by their respective parent cultures; that is, the importance of facing and praying is not self-evident nor is believing in the pope's supposed authority over spiritual matters. These are unconsciously learned from an early age, and form part of the subconscious self, that shapes and determines the thoughts and actions individuals take.
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Creativity
this could have been explained a lot simpler
Right? 😭 it's like looking up a word from the definition of another word .
Marx was a descended of Ham
Esooooo no entiendo ni pt de lo que dice a la md
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" putting the dog down" means you share your family's ideology. Sad😞