Egoism

So, i've been absent for quite a while, time to fling some stuff on here:
Lets talk egocentrical behaviour. Generally speaking, we have the tendency to label egocentrical behaviour as actions or thoughts that relate to or benefit only the source, in this case the egocentrical person. As such, a person who buys sweets and shares it with another may be considered considerate. Where as a person who buys sweets for himself and does not share it, even when asked politely, is considered egocentric. This may be a shallow example, but it presents several things. In both situations, the same basic logic was applied at the lowest layer of thought, this logic being: I want to eat something because I feel like eating it. This comes from the need for something that can be satisfied with sweets. The second layer however is the decision layer, where one choice is to eat it, as the other is to share it for one of several reasons. With the first choice, the process ends and the person is considered egocentrical. The second choice however adds another layer(which we'll dub the consequential layer). In the consequential layer, the choice of sharing is made by considering the consequences of sharing and not sharing. For example, the pros are things like: Other people appreciate your sharing, other people benefit your sharing or some other reason that affects other people. The cons are: Not having it all for yourself. While this might seem as a simple equation, I'm going to add a variable, relation to the other person(people). If they are your friends, you'll have the benefit of enjoying their appreciation, which rebalances the loss of not having it all for yourself. If you don't know them, you won't want to share, because sharing has no real value in appreciation. Of course when you care about what other people think of you, that might also trigger your sharing, to get satisfaction from their opinion of you. I could go on forever with these variables, I'll just cut to the chase. Whatever we do, technically, there is "allways" a egocentrical/selfish reasoning behind it. The difference between non- and egocentrical people is that the egocentrical people are - lets face it - honest about it in their behaviour. Any thoughts? post away.

Fling poo

I didn't really have any idea how to name this first post so the first thing that popped in my head was flinged down there. Ah well, since this blog is no more than a trashdump for my thoughts, crazy ideas and stuff like that, I don't need structure anyway.
Thus, moving on the important part of this first post, I was having this idea of applying logic to the idea of darkness and light. Meaning the idea of darkness actually, because technically, there is no darkness. It's just the absense of light, which makes 100% darkness the absolute zero for light, just like there is an absolute zero for temperature. It occured to me that people have much more difficulty grasping the idea of light being the only factor in the idea of light and darkness, than understanding that cold is the absense of heat, not an energy in itself. I am still wondering if this has anything to do with the fact that we can't shut out the effect of warm as well as we can shut out the light. Moving along, understanding is accepting and accepting is not necessarily understanding. Thus people can accept this and go along with it without actually understanding it. Which is where my thoughts turn to religion: does this cerebration apply to such concepts as religion as well, considering it acts as a solution for most religious people, a universal solution to accept the facts beyond their understanding. Does the decision to not chase the facts but accept whatever presents itself lie in their mental capacity or is it a more specific aspect of the human psyche that triggers this accepting other than trying to understand? Maybe in due time I'll come back to this question, but for now, I think its important to reflect on the connection I just made: physics-cerebration-religion. If anyone reads this stuff that is my cerebration, feel free to post yours on the subject.