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Old 12-10-2011, 02:04 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Just wrote and posted a page about how to turn from your selfish ways.....comments and stories welcome!

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Old 12-11-2011, 03:09 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Self-interest is one of the basic human motivations, perhaps the basic one.
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Old 12-11-2011, 03:13 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Whoaaa, reekah! Didn't you just start a post on your disbelief that human nature exists?

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Yeah, that's all I was trying to say. We are innately selfish in order to stay alive and to reproduce. But a mind selfish for happiness is a perversion because the mind can't see the source of happiness, just the effects or manifestations.
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