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Thread #59118   Message #943264
Posted By: Amos
29-Apr-03 - 11:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Roots of Violence in Humans
Subject: RE: BS: The Roots of Violence in Humans
Well, there's emotional layers and then there's self-fulfillment of the higher sort which comes after you clear away a lot of old freight. I think emotional freight is intimately tied in with physical duress and in turn ties itself in intimately with cognitive difficulty. As do cogntiive and spiritual difficulty -- like one of those layered parfait-liqueurs, each of these zones interacts with the one above and the one below in strange and wondrous ways. A lot of emotional turmoil sounds like frustration of self-fulfillment, because it is certainly an impediment and frustrating to the self, but in the Maslowian sense, I think there's a differentiation to be made.

Jus t my two bits worth, FWIW.

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