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The problem with interacting with a charismatic person is that you often mix signals and see one thing while the person is projecting another thing entirely.
If you’re a charismatic person, you project a level of self comfort, amiability, social fortitude; you are, literally, the man of the hour, at any given hour. While the general society is out there with their Faces, you’re real, you’re in the scene, in the know, and you’re in touch with everything going on around you, utterly calm and in full posession of yourself, your knowledge, and your skills. You have an indomitable foundation that you operate from. You are seemingly unshakable in the face of adversity.

When you add a dominant, assertive personality on top of that, you are a leader. You take charge of any given situation, and people defer to you. You know when you take charge, and when to delegate. You know your strengths and limitations, and you know how to asess people’s stengths and limitations, and see beyond the boundaries that people have placed for themselves out of fear, and push them past their own boundaries. You, as a Dominant, instinctively know how much pressure it will take to push someone to the next level, or break them. You’re not afraid to admit weakness, or express feelings.

One common weakness is ambition. If your ambition gets out of hand, you will override the voice of reason and force yourself beyond your own true limitations, abandoning friends, family, true goals for some imagined goal that seems more satisfactory.

It’s more than difficult to overcome things like this. ironically, the things that hold us back ultimately make us stronger. maturing beyond personal fears, doubts, insecurities, and overwhelming ego and ambition is the true test of a man. Even in the face of adversity, we study, adapt, and eventually overcome through intelligence, maturity, and strong choices. The thought that we have a limitation is a crippling and useless thought. The only limitations we have are the limitations we place on ourselves.

Nestor Dissertation, Imported piece, Quick Post, Rant, Sociology

To immanentize the eschaton is to commit a basic error in self-understanding. It is to assume wrongly that human aspiration and destiny are coterminous with the natural world.
To immanentize something is to draw it in closely, to make it a part of one’s immediate, subjective consciousness and experience. The eschaton is our ultimate destination, the final end toward which our lives are ordinated. Affirming an insight that lies at the core of classical Greek philosophy as well as Judaism and Christianity (the three streams of what Voegelin terms “the Mediterranean tradition”), Voegelin views the yearning for transcendence, the restlessness for a world better and higher than this world, as a universal and empirically self-evident component of human personhood, nothing less than a fundamental part of who we are.
It is to assume wrongly that metaphysical questions, which are life’s core questions, either do not exist at all, or can be rationally investigated only through the methods of physics, which in practice tends to be another way of defining such questions as unanswerable and therefore irrelevant. In sum, to immanentize the eschaton is to assume wrongly that ultimate reality, of which God is the final measure, is instead some form of this-world reality, of which man is presumed to be the final measure.

Just thought you’d like to know. ^_^

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