Carl Jung and The Importance of Pipe Smoking

[Servant King]

The funny part too is that if you actually research the church of Satan, they follow the exact inverse of this practical ideology. They don't actually teach to worship a baby-eating blood-drinking demon who lives in a furnace. They teach you to worship yourself... that your individual ego and fleeting desires should be held above all else.

^^THIS^^

...and once you're in that self-worship modality, the next logical step is self-determination, making your own rules, or laws even. Which means overruling the rules/laws that were already in place for us to follow, and that never ends well. Just ask Eve.

As a continuation of the semantics I delved into earlier in this thread, it's also interesting to note that the Latin "ditio" means "self-rule," which is the basis for "dition" in words like "sedition." Add the prefix "per-" to "dition," which means by or through, and you have...perdition. Which the dictionary defines as "the loss of one's soul." A loss that occurs when you...rule yourself.

Wait...isn't that what countries are all about? Self-rule?

Jeez, no wonder things are the way they are!

 

[lazar]

Great post, thanks for sharing. But how on earth can the author refer to Jung as "utterly simple"? Even those short excerpts show that he was not, and works reveal an incredibly complex person.

 

[MisterBadger]

^^THIS^^

...and once you're in that self-worship modality, the next logical step is self-determination, making your own rules, or laws even. Which means overruling the rules/laws that were already in place for us to follow, and that never ends well. Just ask Eve.

As a continuation of the semantics I delved into earlier in this thread, it's also interesting to note that the Latin "ditio" means "self-rule," which is the basis for "dition" in words like "sedition." Add the prefix "per-" to "dition," which means by or through, and you have...perdition. Which the dictionary defines as "the loss of one's soul." A loss that occurs when you...rule yourself.

Wait...isn't that what countries are all about? Self-rule?

Jeez, no wonder things are the way they are!

I saw what you just did, there. I will neither confirm nor deny whether I agree with your conclusion, but - damn! It was elegantly made

 

[First Sealord]

Jung was quite the thinker. Some say the true motive of his rupture with Freud was dur to the fact he preferred pipes, and Freud, cigars.

 

[NookersTheCat]

There's actually a pretty interesting movie on Netflix rn that pertains perfectly to this thread... didn't see if it was already mentioned... Freud's Last Session. It stars Anthony Hopkins and centers around a discussion/debate he and C.S. Lewis had when they met each other, coincidentally right at the start of WW2. Pretty worthwhile to any interested in this thread's topics...