10-01-2014, 09:51 AM
I read this thread with complete dismay. It smacks of the tactics of the Stasi - but worse, imo.
Can you imagine shooting someone for gambling on a football game, after you'd befriended them and talked them into incrementally increasing their bet until it became a felony? It's sheer madness, especially, when the state you represent as a policeman, spends $20 million promoting its lottery.
Can you imagine shooting someone for gambling on a football game, after you'd befriended them and talked them into incrementally increasing their bet until it became a felony? It's sheer madness, especially, when the state you represent as a policeman, spends $20 million promoting its lottery.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14