Goodness and Identity Questions

[Mustafa]

The old Masters were cautious, as if they were crossing a frozed river, alert - TTC.

I would then operate from within my comfort zone or safe zone (imagine a circles borders and you are in the center), and when I have the oppourtunity I expand my zone and influence of bad things. When your CZ increases, so will the thickness of your skin, and the depth of your mind. I call this expansion process for 'elevation', otherwise you are 'circulating'.

Edit: Check out the scale of consciousness. Reminds you of the Enneagrams 9 stages.

Peace

 

[ThaumaturgicTheorist]

Good is not really in my vocabulary... calling someone a good person is not something I would do. I don't like evaluating people's goodness based on their morality and actions... maybe people's healthiness rather. Which would be based off how they are treating themselves and society overall.

I operate kinda like this - weirdly the only person I will ever label good or bad is myself. Maybe because I feel like I can evaluate myself most accurately, since, y'know, I'm always with myself, and can better guess my own intentions.

I'm basically a massively confused hypocrite though: I think intentions are important, but I also think in a sense of "a good person does good things"...by extension of which doing good things make you a good person...regardless of intentions. Yeah, I don't know. And the idea of committing to a moral code makes me anxious.

 

[Mustafa]

I operate kinda like this - weirdly the only person I will ever label good or bad is myself. Maybe because I feel like I can evaluate myself most accurately, since, y'know, I'm always with myself, and can better guess my own intentions.

I'm basically a massively confused hypocrite though: I think intentions are important, but I also think in a sense of "a good person does good things"...by extension of which doing good things make you a good person...regardless of intentions. Yeah, I don't know. And the idea of committing to a moral code makes me anxious.

In Islam, you will be judged for both intention and action.