Spiritual Guardian

[Fool]

if you were looking to a higher power and a spiritual guide, would you prefer someone with a possible cognitive challenge? or someone with a narcissistic personality disorder?


should we be careful what we wish for?

What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

Many people may be familiar with the casual use of the term narcissist, referring to a person who is very self-centered, boastful and hungry for attention and admiration. However, narcissistic personality disorder, a condition described in the DSM-5-TR*, is more severe, persistent and problematic.

www.psychiatry.org

Healthy Aging | Memory and Aging Center

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and how would that effect someone's wisdom overall?

 

[JustGeorge]

if you were looking to a higher power and a spiritual guide, would you prefer someone with a possible cognitive challenge? or someone with a narcissistic personality disorder?


should we be careful what we wish for?

What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

Many people may be familiar with the casual use of the term narcissist, referring to a person who is very self-centered, boastful and hungry for attention and admiration. However, narcissistic personality disorder, a condition described in the DSM-5-TR*, is more severe, persistent and problematic.

www.psychiatry.org

Healthy Aging | Memory and Aging Center

memory.ucsf.edu

and how would that effect someone's wisdom overall?

Higher Power and Spiritual Guide are two different things to me.

I will take whatever Spiritual Guide my Higher Power has designated for me.

 

[Soandso]

I'm kind of confused by the premise of the question. Are you referring to someone in specific?

 

[Fool]

I'm kind of confused by the premise of the question. Are you referring to someone in specific?

no, i'm referring to actions and consequences not personalities

 

[Fool]

Higher Power and Spiritual Guide are two different things to me.

I will take whatever Spiritual Guide my Higher Power has designated for me.

our higher self is our spiritual guide. dualism teaches otherwise.

but if i needed an earthly guardian to represent my best interest, who would i choose to do that in regards to earthly matters on a larger scale.

 

[dybmh]

if you were looking to a higher power and a spiritual guide, would you prefer someone with a possible cognitive challenge? or someone with a narcissistic personality disorder?

That is a very interesting question. You are employing an "exclusive-or". Because of this I cannot answer. I do not agree with the premise.

Narcissistic personality disorder IS a cognitive challenge. This renders your question self-contradictory.

Sorry.

 

[dybmh]

Higher Power and Spiritual Guide are two different things to me.

I will take whatever Spiritual Guide my Higher Power has designated for me.

Taking whatever? I agree. But it's risky, imo.

Negative Role Models are everywhere. There are many more negative Role models in comparison to the positive ones, in my life experiences.

Because of that, there is a wealth of teachers and guides surrounding me on all sides. I just need to be careful to properly recognize the valence, the vector of their trajectory, in relation to who I am, where I want to go, and what I want to do along the journey.

 

[Fool]

That is a very interesting question. You are employing an "exclusive-or". Because of this I cannot answer. I do not agree with the premise.

Narcissistic personality disorder IS a cognitive challenge. This renders your question self-contradictory.

Sorry.

Then allow me to address it more simply.


would you prefer a leader, a representative of your well being to be a service to self type, or service to all as self type?

The Law of One

www.llresearch.org

 

[JustGeorge]

our higher self is our spiritual guide. dualism teaches otherwise.

This imagery never worked for me.

but if i needed an earthly guardian to represent my best interest, who would i choose to do that in regards to earthly matters on a larger scale.

Who would it be?

 

[dybmh]

I'm kind of confused by the premise of the question. Are you referring to someone in specific?

My vote? It's a self-defeating premise. I couldn't answer either.

 

[dybmh]

Then allow me to address it more simply.


would you prefer a leader, a representative of your well being to be a service to self type, or service to all as self type?

I prefer a wise leader. One which knows when and how to be rigid or flexible on a case by case basis, moment to moment.

That is the most important quality for a good and capable leader.

 

[JustGeorge]

Taking whatever? I agree. But it's risky, imo.

Its not so much 'take whatever', but recognizing the potential to learn can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Not that I'd accept them as a guru, so to speak, but recognize a lesson when it comes.

Negative Role Models are everywhere. There are many more negative Role models in comparison to the positive ones, in my life experiences.

You can learn from negative role models, too. How not to be. What not to do.

Because of that, there is a wealth of teachers and guides surrounding me on all sides. I just need to be careful to properly recognize the valence, the vector of their trajectory, in relation to who I am, where I want to go, and what I want to do along the journey.

 

[Fool]

This imagery never worked for me.

Who would it be?

yes what type of person might this be? someone who is closer to the ideal of unconditional love? or someone who prefers tribalism? familialism?

 

[Fool]

I prefer a wise leader. One which knows when and how to be rigid or flexible on a case by case basis, moment to moment.

unconditional love doesn't allow for depraved indifference. dualism allows for hypocrisy

 

[JustGeorge]

yes what type of person might this be? someone who is closer to the ideal of unconditional love? or someone who prefers tribalism? familialism?

I was asking you, on a personal level. Who would yours be?

 

[Fool]

I was asking you, on a personal level. Who would yours be?

someone who could love me as if i were their own soul.

what you do unto the greatest/least of these you have done unto self

 

[JustGeorge]

someone who could love me as if i were their own soul.

Now that imagery makes me smile.

 

[Fool]

Now that imagery makes me smile.

there is one that i guard as my own soul

isaiah 9:6
matthew 11:25
luke 10:21


love forgive them for they do not know what they have done to self

 

[JustGeorge]

there is one that i guard as my own soul

isaiah 9:6
matthew 11:25
luke 10:21

Which one? I don't know Biblical passages, but am happy to read if you'll share it.

love forgive them for they do not know what they have done to self

Ah! Finally! A song we both like.

We have markedly different tastes in music.

 

[dybmh]

unconditional love doesn't allow for depraved indifference. dualism allows for hypocrisy

Agreed. Those are extremes. Rare.

From the non-dual perspective there are no leaders at all. There is no team. Your question is again, self defeating.