Are scars cool?

cleanbluesky · 19 Jun 2007 at 11:55

After looking at Salmon Rushdie's wife I'm wondering whether scars are cool?

It's been so long since I even cared about scars that I am wondeirng what others think

cleanbluesky · 20 Jun 2007 at 10:19

Arcade Fire said:
Does it matter? Likes and dislikes can be completely arbitrary - there's no sense in looking for reasons in them!

That's not neccessarily the case. Every social interaction you have has a purpose, everything you like or dislike can say soemthing about you.

Whether your reasoning is concious or unconcious is another matter. One idea that I love is that your unconcious mind is constantly in control of much of your body, and can give many things away. For example, try faking a smile.
You can only lie to people when they want to believe what you are saying

Penski and I have chatted on the subject of body mods before and he opened my mind to the subject, he's quite logical.
I now think it is a mixture of self-abuse and instinctual modification whereas before I thought it was just about self-abuse.

cleanbluesky · 20 Jun 2007 at 11:05

Arcade Fire said:
But if (some of) your likes and dislikes are dictated by your unconsciousness, which is something completely beyond your control, then what's the difference between that and a completely arbitrary like/dislike?

What's to say that there are arbitrary dislikes?

It may be the case that the arbitrary parts of our brain have nothing to do with our proclivities.
For example, Jung suggested that the arbitrary parts of our mind are unconcious and will influence our concious, but his work was around dreams and ideals rather than a direct and specific desire.

We understand so little about the mind (despite what some psychologists would have us believe) that it's pointless to try and look for reasons and causes. For any observable phenomenon of the mind there are umpteen possible causal relations that we can't effectively distinguish between, which makes it pointless to theorize.

Yes and no. A lot of psychology is pap, but I am finding the ideas surrounding philosophy and psychotherapy increasingly accurate. Also, there is an intersting idea that the unconcious actually WANTS you to know what it hides, and wants others to know as well.

This is why we dream and this is why you can tell when a person lies.

At present, the mind is too complex for us to subject it to skeptical empiricism except in the most basic of cases.

We can never see ourselves through ourselves, we must attempt to investigate subjectively rather than pretend that objective observation is possible.

cleanbluesky · 27 Jul 2007 at 15:21

BrightonBelle said:
Here is my scar:

It is about 8 inches long... really didn't think it was that long

BB x

This belongs in the 'suggestive pictures of hot-ass girls' thread

cleanbluesky · 28 Jul 2007 at 10:43

Tob3z said:
I don't think its kool. I am self conscious of it. I haven't taken my t-shirt off in public for 2 years. I think about the pain that I went through everyday. Emo heh...

A curious idea. I have scars on my arms that are pretty recognisable as self-harm marks. However, this doesn't stop me wearing short sleeves or even giving a **** when people ask what they are... simply because I have realised that I have caused myself more pain than anyone else has ever caused me, therefore I will not allow it to continue.

I don't care if people see it and becasue of that, I would say that you shouldn't be self-concious. If you are confident about yourself, others around you will pick up on that and accept it.