it will become your Frankenstein do you agree?
2007-09-07 15:53:18 · 30 answers · asked by Rita 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Of all the answers, Meg_On the Run was the only one who expressed the "Frankenstein" in your question. "...I have grown weary of letting it control me."
This is the Frankenstein, not the "thing."
Quite a few perceived the "thing" as a mirror reflection--what you dislike in others is what you should work on yourself more, etc. Some pointed out destruction of the person one wishes to control.
I believe that any psychologically sound person would agree that that we should not wish, or attempt to control another.
It is the motivation to control that can destroy you. It can be a fixation, & a very unhealthy attitude. THAT is the root of the destruction.
2007-09-09 12:25:22 · answer #1 · answered by Psychic Cat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So very true!! :-)
Just like when we're scared of some bug we kill it. We destroy what we fear so that we can live to our liking! It has always been so in our kind's history. The more powerful will dictate the weaker ones and will destroy what they would deem as a potential obstacle.
A person whose potential or capacity is better than yours makes you feel challenged and under pressure but I don't think it should be that way!
If someone has an incontestable talent we should sit back and appreciate this nature's beauty instead of eliminating it. We don't have to top everything!! We should all be sharing potentials without turning them into threats or a path to obtain power! The sooner people understand that, the better it would be for humanity!! :-)
Thank you and sorry for the lengthy answer!! Have a nice day! :-))
2007-09-09 03:05:56 · answer #2 · answered by KT_(Kritty) 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That proposition seems polarized. It could destroy someone but that is very extreme and probably does happen much at all. Trying to control something in another could turn around and make the controller's life a bit muddy for sure. However, it could end up being a blessed teacher also.
2007-09-07 16:06:35 · answer #3 · answered by Richard15 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Oh yes. The sad thing about control freaks is that they have no self control so they cannot see the cycle they are stuck in. They spend all their energy controlling others and have none left for themselves. So they actually feel as if everybody else is controlling them by NOT doing what they want! So then they try harder---
2007-09-08 03:31:31 · answer #4 · answered by phil8656 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anytime you try to control another person, it usually destroys the relationship. Or you turn and look at it and hate what the control has become. MOST people who control other people, be it one or millions never recognize that it is they that have a problem.....they always see it in the other(s) and they usually destroy them!!
2007-09-08 04:44:02 · answer #5 · answered by kickinupfunf 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Every person wants to create copies of himself by creating impressions on the other. In fact everything wants to create impressions of itself on us.We fail understand that every creation is unique not one leaf of the same tree is like another .So when we try to impose something on the other we destroy the glory of the other and simultaneously ours because we are carrying some beliefs and donot know the reality we are just busy in changing others by not changing ourselves .That is we have to change ourselves and the whole exsistence will change for us!
2007-09-08 18:12:50 · answer #6 · answered by shivamat bhairav 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it depends on the thing.it could be something i can accept it like little bad habit because i will think that i love this person and it will be stupid to change him.but if the thing was something i cant accept like he being aggressive or anything else so yeah i will wish to control him and it will kills me in each moment that i see him,because when i will look at him i will only think if i can control him.so it will destroy me.so the solution for me is to leave any person that i don't like.so controlling isn't my way in life.and i don't even try to change someone because i know that no one can change me
2007-09-08 02:37:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
typically the things we try to control in others are the things we are (mostly secretly) trying to control about ourselves. the old adage "easier said than done" applies big time to this one.
& as you focus more and more attention on trying to control or change another, you are most likely taking yourself away from your own growth, feeling satisfied that you have such advanced knowledge on the subject to offer counsel on it.
i always see "Frankenstein" as a hodgepodge of unfamiliar and sometime incompatible concepts or factions. i would go more with a Dr. Jeckle / Mr. Hyde anaolgy with this one since it is a "convincing yourself" kind of subject.
2007-09-09 06:04:41 · answer #8 · answered by ỉη ץ٥ڵ 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Agreed!
2007-09-07 15:55:54 · answer #9 · answered by Suzi 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, because then you would start obsessing over it. Exactly like Frankenstein did with his monster.
2007-09-08 07:30:52 · answer #10 · answered by Megs 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋