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Re:Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy th... by plainOldText on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @09:02PM (#13873012)
Speaking about battling ourselves: I recently started questioning whether we're truly free – as in, do we have complete control over the decisions we're making.

There are certain things about ourselves we simply can't control, such as our parents, where we were born/raised, our genetic makeup, the structure of our brains, etc, and these things highly influence our decision making.

So it looks like there is constant battle between who we want to be and who we truly are.

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Re:Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy th... by dsbmac on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @09:14PM (#13873051)
There's a whole eastern philosophy around this sort of sentiment. The idea being that things aren't inherently 'anything' but we do attach emotions or ideas to those things. You can take a 'meta' step back and notice this.
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